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HELLO

I'm Rachel

Somanaut and Trauma Trained Somatic Coach, Breathwork Therapist, Doula of Discomfort, Seeker of Truth, Eternal Learner

I'm the somatic coach who takes you deeper into the subconscious realms of energetics, emotion, and mysticism to land in the grounding of your feet and the centre of your heart. Together, we go beyond 'tools' and talking (because I know you're sick of talking about it) and into the wisdom that's vibrating in every cell of you so you can finally relax your mind, quit second guessing your every move, dissolve the shame spirals, and feel safe to express who you really are -- because you TRUST your body, and therefore you trust yourself.

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YOU ARE NOT YOUR BODY BUT YOUR BODY IS YOU

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THE INVITATION

 

You’re here because you already know there’s more to your body than muscles, posture, or nervous system regulation.


You’ve felt the intelligence under your skin, the way emotion lives in your tissues, the whisper that your body might be the missing link between everything you know and everything you still can’t feel.

I’m here to guide you into that knowing and into the initiatory, self affirming, mystical clarity on the other side.


I guide self-aware humans like you — the ones who’ve read all the books, done all the work, understand Polyvagal Theory, and have spent years in therapy but still feel stuck, to reconnect with the raw aliveness of their body so that the knowledge and insight you already have becomes transformation.

Why I do this work

I'm not in this field of work because I find being in a body effortless. The opposite is true, in fact. I arrived at 'somatics' through the disorientating darkness and merciless teachers of shame, high functioning anxiety, chronic fatigue syndrome, exercise addiction, chronic pain from the age of 11, an eating disorder, fibromyalgia, and most recently, Crohn's Disease. The only one of these conditions that remains is Crohn's (I still have some things to learn from this one!). Each of these, I now know, was an intelligent redirection from illusion and a means through which to refind my body. And through finding my body, I refound myself. Because each of these conditions WAS ME! Each was an aspect of me that wasn't being fully expressed.

I am a thinker, an analyser, and an intellectual, a human, a child of the 90s (IYKYK). All day, every day, I have opportunities to abandon my body and sometimes I still do. But I'm mostly in, and co-creating with, my body now because I felt, faced, healed, shed, moved, expressed, inquired, let go, released, and found grace and relationship with my body over and over again to make sure I am. Not because I never left it in the first place. I find being in a body hard and heavy and confusing and it hurts and my body is my absolute greatest, most patient and wise teacher, companion, and conduit through life. It's the reason I can taste chocolate and enjoy sweat beads running down my back, and love, and feel the salty sea on my skin!

So, this is why I'm dedicated in my life and work to caring for, enjoying, and fully experiencing what it is to fully occupy my body and savour the experience of having a body while I'm fortunate enough to have one during my time on earth. All of these are reasons I continue to come back to my body over and over again. and why, through coaching, content, programmes, events, retreats, ceremonies, and experiences, I want to support YOU towards the same for yourself. Not because it's easy but because it isn't.

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I'm not a somatic coach because I  find it effortless to be in my body...In fact, the opposite is true.
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MY PHILOSOPHY

 

If you’re here, it’s to ride the wave with me  of obsession with your bodily self as the way in to everything you’ve been looking for everywhere else.


(My conscious Sun in Gate 46 and Virgo stellium are at our helm 👋🏽).

My greatest intention in this work is to guide you toward the cosmic possibility that opens up when you stop pathologising and making your body wrong. To help you remember that your body isn’t something to fix, it’s your most intelligent teacher, your most intimate dance partner, your most direct line to life itself.

Forget 'loving' your body. What about being fascinated by the universe within it? What about awe for what your exhale can tell you about letting go, or curiosity for what your eye sockets reveal about how you perceive the world? What about discovering the ancestors in your voice and the highest truth resting in your tailbone?

 

Your body shows you where you got stuck, where you’re hiding, and how you’ve been organising yourself around life. It holds three billion years of embodied knowledge — survival, adaptation, intuition, mystery — waiting to be awakened.

And it’s incredible, isn’t it? That changing how you move changes how you feel and reveals how and who you are. That your posture can show you how you relate to the world. That feeling deeply isn’t a liability; it’s the key to becoming more fully alive.

 

This is the world we’re co-creating:


A world where our sensing, feeling selves get to thrive through feeling instead of being crippled by it.


Where we can sit in the discomfort of our bodily, emotional, mental, and spiritual experiences — without making any of it wrong — because we understand why.

When we can do this, everything transforms.


Conflict becomes connection instead of war. Anger becomes resolution instead of violence. Emotion becomes expression — art, music, relationship — instead of disease. And what was once pathologised becomes a portal into evolution.

 

You’re here because you can feel that possibility pulsing beneath your skin.


Let’s explore it — through your body, breath, and the wild intelligence that’s been waiting for you all along!

Ways I Work With You and Your Body

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Online Containers

1-1 Somatic Coaching

The Expansion Online Movement and Breathwork Ceremony (back soon!)

The Charge | Anxiety Alchemy Mini Course

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In Person Ceremony

Monthly Breathwork Ceremonies in Hastings and St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex

03

Retreats

I co-host transformational somatic retreats in the UK and across Europe and Asia. It's one of my most favourite ways to work because of the depths we get to go to when we have extended time to stretch out in beautiful locations. And it satiates my ferocious love for and need to travel!

Ready to unlock the wisdom of your body?

HEAR FROM OTHERS WHO'VE BEEN ON THE JOURNEY

Testimonials

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LITTLE THINGS

About Me

My favourites

I have a Virgo stellium, conscious sun in gate 46, and my life card is the 2 of ♧. So coaching, teaching, and working with and through the body is definitely programmed into me for this lifetime.

One way I've learnt to blend my intellectualism with embodiment is through writing. I love to write, and I share a lot of it over on my Substack, Somanautery, where I write about my explorations through my body.

Astrology

My surname can be a mouthful but it's actually just pronounced how it's spelled: Bed - Nar - Ski :) It's from my Grandad, who was Polish. I absolutely hated it growing up but have learnt to appreciate it more since being on my 'healing' and self recovery journey.

In 2023, I moved with my partner and two girls from London (my soul home) back to the South Coast of England. I grew up being able to see the sea from my bedroom and it called me back. We now live a 7 minute walk from the shore in St Leonards on Sea and even though London will always have a massive piece of my heart, it was absolutely the best move for us all. I used to dream about the ocean (being in it or sailing on it) almost every night and those dreams have stopped since being here.

My Surname

The Sea, The Sea

EDUCATION

My formal qualifications

I’ve studied with teachers including Cyndi Lee, Dan Brule, Bessel Van der Kolk, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Richard Strozzi Heckler to cultivate my approach based on a combination of energetics, psychotherapy, spirituality and yoga, the nervous system, soul and inner child work, trauma integration, and somatic coaching. I'm now an ambassador for The Embody Lab and highly recommend their courses and programmes for training in somatics.

 

Certifications:

Trauma Informed Coach

Embodied Transformation Coach

Oxygen Advantage Functional Breathing Practitioner

Myofascial Energetic Release Practitioner in Training

250 hour Breathwork Teacher 

100 hour Pranayama Teacher

60 hour Mindfulness Meditation Teacher

60 hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy 

100 hour Somatic Stress Release

150 hour Yoga Psychology

200 hour Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher

Level 2 Reiki Healer

Gym Instructor

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