welcome home somatics
change you can feel and live from—for resilience, dignity, and connection
Embodied transformation for our lives
Are you an educator, cultural worker, or activist working for a more just world?
People doing the slow, relational work of justice through creativity, education, and movement-building often juggle intense mental, emotional, physical and relational demands. You may feel stretched, drained, or disconnected from your own vitality, even while pursuing meaningful work.
Filmmakers, artists, writers, K-12 educators, academics, grad students, activists and community organizers — somatic coaching offers tools to support you to:
- remain grounded and responsive under pressure
- preserve your creativity, clarity, and energy
- develop nervous-system awareness to navigate stress and conflict
- strengthen resilience without sacrificing your well-being
- engage fully in your work while honoring limits and boundaries
- gain new ways of working with inner critics and impostor syndrome
- find and express your authentic, unique voice
Are you living in a cranky body?
Many clients come to this work living with chronic pain, illness, or fatigue. You may have already explored ways to cope or improve your life, but the body often resists, and standard “fix-it” approaches can feel exhausting or ineffective.
Somatic coaching offers a gentle, body-centered approach: working with your sensations, energy, and nervous system, rather than against them. This can help you:
- relate to pain, fatigue, and fluctuating capacity with more compassion and less struggle
- notice early signs of overwhelm and respond skillfully
- pace yourself without guilt or self-blame
- build trust in your body’s intelligence and signals
- maintain engagement with meaningful activities without pushing past your limits
- cultivate a felt sense of inherent dignity not tied to your productivity
- develop centered boundaries
- express your access needs without feeling like a burden
- let go of internalized ableism
Ways to work together
Individual coaching
One-on-one sessions provide personalized support, paced around your body, energy, and goals. This is a space for reflection, experimentation, and embodied integration.
Small groups
Small group sessions provide shared practice, reflection, and mutual learning.
Both formats are trauma-aware, disability, trans, nonbinary and gender-expansive, and neuro -affirming, and adaptable to fluctuating energy levels.
What People Often Experience Through This Work
Clients commonly describe:
- Feeling more present and at home in their bodies
- Greater ease with asserting boundaries
- More self-compassion and less harsh self-criticism
- More clarity around their values, commitments and purpose
- Taking new, aligned actions in work, relationships, and daily life
- Deeper awareness of survival patterns and how past experiences shape the present
- Increased somatic awareness — learning to listen to the body as a source of wisdom and choice
- Less reactivity and more capacity to respond intentionally
- A deeper felt sense of dignity, safety, and belonging
- Self-care grounded in real capacity rather than pressure or burnout culture
- Feeling more connected — to themselves, to others, and to a sense of purpose
- Being supported in an inclusive, body-affirming space that honors diverse identities and lived experiences
LEARN MORE ABOUT MY OFFERS
SOMATIC SURVIVAL SKILLS GROUPS FOR:
Welcome!
I’m Regan Brashear (they/she), and this is the online home for my embodied transformation practice (aka somatic coaching).
Through one-on-one and group work, I support people in coming “home” —
home to the body, home to presence, home to a felt sense of aliveness, belonging, dignity, increasing access to our individual and collective power.
I bring to this work my background as a filmmaker, union organizer, and a white person committed to dismantling white supremacy and creating conditions for collective liberation.
As someone who identifies as queer, genderfluid/nonbinary, disabled/chronically ill/neurospicy, and fat/larger-bodied, I’m especially passionate about supporting people in these communities — as well as other creatives, filmmakers, educators, activists, and organizers doing the long-term work of justice and transformation.
If you long to feel at ease in your skin…
If you crave a world where everyone has what they need to thrive…
If you are building towards that world in your own way…
If you’re curious what somatics might open up for you…
You’re in the right place.
If you’d like to explore whether somatic coaching or one of my groups would be a good fit, let’s talk.
Why turn toward somatics when the world feels like it’s unraveling?
These practices help us remember our humanity when everything around us pulls us away from it. The Strozzi / generative somatics lineage offers us “somatic survival skills,” because they help us meet these perilous times and take action with presence, clarity, connection, vision and deep resilience.
What Is Somatics?
Somatics works with the body’s lived intelligence — sensation, emotion, internal narratives, and relational habits — to support meaningful, sustainable change. Rather than relying on insight alone, somatic coaching helps you integrate body, mind, and spirit so change becomes something you can live, not just understand.
Many people have experienced powerful moments of insight that fade days later. Sustainable transformation rarely happens through thinking alone. When we include the nervous system and the body’s patterns, new possibilities become more accessible and lasting.
At Welcome Home Somatics, I weave nervous system awareness, body-based practice, trauma-informed support, and anti-oppressive values to help you:
- Deepen a felt sense of dignity, belonging, and resilience
- Clarify your values and the life you want to live into
- Work with survival patterns that no longer serve you
- Build embodied capacity for courage, clarity, presence, and connection
- Create sustainable change — not just temporary insight
- Lead, love, create, and organize from a grounded and choiceful center
Testimonials
“This felt like spiritual massage!“
– A.M.
“Working with Regan has been critical to helping me actually create and uphold boundaries which is key to my self care and love. It has been wonderful working together to learn how to feel and respond to my own emotions in my body.” – C.L.
“Working with Regan is really increasing my ability to be present in my own life, with myself and those I care about. Their approach is very practical and focused on learning tools that I’ve been able to put to use right away. Regan is kind, funny, extremely knowledgeable, gentle, and a joy to work with.” – N.T.
“Regan has been an amazing coach, meeting me where I am with kindness, insight, and compassion, and helping me find practices and perspectives that support me to embody my values and grow in my own self-compassion. If you’re looking for a caring guide to personal transformation, check out Welcome Home Somatics!” – Jeanne Rewa
“Regan’s approach to Somatics has shown me how important the mind-body connection is when trying to heal from unresolved traumas. As a person with a physical disability, I constantly struggle with my relationship to the world around me. Regan’s understanding of how our bodies can both confine and reveal our experiences and emotions has set me on a path of awareness and discovery long hidden by my own shadow. Her coaching, body-centered techniques, and guided practices have cultivated a new found image, love, and respect for the body that dances with my spirit.” – M.A.
“Regan’s somatic coaching made flowers bloom amidst my challenges and anxieties. Her inner joy and guidance towards body-knowing gave me a lasting gift of self-awareness and inner strength.” – M.M.
“Somatic Survival Skills has helped me tap back into this great big life. I’ve been needing to come back into my body, to learn its lessons, and have been trying to will it without guidance. This course carried me gently back home, and cheered me on to make the change I truly believe in. . .”
– Adrian
“Regan created a brave and loving space for our vulnerability that allowed us to explore edges and listen deeply to ourselves and each other, making our group more bonded and aligned. My own “shape” has been profoundly changed by this experience, and I now have practices in my toolbox to make space, to pause before responding, to create boundaries as needed, and to be guided by my true nature and the place I am to fill in this life.” – Jill Susskind
“I recommend this group to anyone who wants to better understand their nervous system and survival patterns…and wants to do so with a coach who leads with compassion rather than pressure. Regan created a safe space that encouraged honesty and supported the individual journey of each participant.” – L.F.
“I highly recommend this group to anyone who is interested in learning more about somatics, particularly with a disability justice lens. I greatly appreciate how Regan creates such a welcoming community of care and support as we learn together how we have been shaped and how to move toward embodied dignity, safety, and belonging as we strive for collective liberation.” – L.S.
“Regan shaped a warm space to explore my own embodiment and deepen my connection to myself and others. It’s just what I needed in these perilous times — embodiment and connection are key to creating the world we deserve.” – Cynthia
“I appreciate your flexibility, humility, and, above all, the deep compassion. I feel truly honored and held in a way that makes it feel okay to do this very vulnerable work. ” – J.R.
Welcome Home Somatics Community
Why community spaces matter
We live in a culture shaped by white supremacy and late-stage racial capitalism that relentlessly promotes individualism—the idea that we should be able to “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.” This mindset fuels isolation, inequality, and a deep sense of disconnection from our bodies, one another, and the earth.
As humans—pack animals that we are—authentic connection is not a luxury. Being seen, held, and supported in community is one of the essential survival skills for cultivating real resilience and well-being.
Welcome Home Somatics is rooted in the belief that healing and transformation happen most sustainably in relationship. Alongside individual coaching, I offer somatics-based group spaces where we can learn, practice, and grow together—supported by shared intention, collective care, and a commitment to justice.