1:1 EMBODIED CREATIVE COACHING 

You've spent years building something real.
This is about finally doing it for yourself.

There's more of you waiting to be seen and heard.

1:1 embodied coaching for deeply skilled people — practitioners, creatives, artists, and space-holders — who are ready to reconnect with themselves
and lead, express and create with more clarity and presence

Outwardly Successful. Quietly Flat.

You are highly capable. You hold space for others — or you produce work that carries real skill and intention — but something has gone quiet inside.

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Somewhere along the way, you have lost your inner spark.

• You may be holding a quiet inner tension because you know you're not fully showing up — not in your work, not in your creative life, not in how you actually feel day to day.

• There's a gap between the person you present to the world and the person you are privately. And the irony of your situation isn't lost on you: you help others close exactly this gap, or you have built a career from creative expression — and yet here you are.

• Perhaps you set aside your own raw, unfiltered creative expression somewhere in the years of becoming skilled — whether that meant adapting to client briefs, building a professional identity, or simply putting your own needs last for long enough that it became habit. You don't remember when the work last felt genuinely alive. You remember that it did.

• You give a great deal — to clients, to collaborators, to the work itself. And somewhere in the middle of all that giving, you stopped receiving. The low-level depletion has become the background hum of your days. You are good at what you do. That is not in question. What is in question is whether you still feel it.

You’ve hit an edge. An invisible wall. You’ve become the person who does the work, not the person the work comes from.

And you are ready to move through it.

This Is For You If You Are:

Someone who has built something real — a practice, a body of work, a career — and who is aware of the growing gap between the person they present professionally and the person they actually are. You are skilled, credible, and quietly wondering where the aliveness went.

A practitioner, facilitator, or space-holder — a therapist, coach, somatic practitioner, or healer who gives deeply to others and who has quietly lost touch with the part of themselves the work originally came from. You long to be held, to receive, to be a participant rather than always the one who holds the container.

A creative professional or artist — a writer, musician, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, or creative entrepreneur — who feels the slow dimming of the spark that made your work feel like yours. Perhaps commercial constraints, the pressure to be consistent and marketable, or simply the weight of years have dulled something essential. You want it back.

Why Visionary Somatics?

If you could think your way out of this, you already would have. You are smart enough.

Insight alone doesn’t create action. It becomes real when it’s embodied.
For those who work with the body professionally, or who have spent years in creative practice, this can feel particularly disorienting — you understand the territory deeply, and yet something in your own system remains contracted.

This work meets you at exactly where you are.
There's a subtle contraction that happens when we're not fully honouring ourselves.

When we’re grounded in ourselves
our presence deepens
clarity sharpens
and courage becomes natural.

This work supports you to remain grounded and responsive —
 so that what you feel can become something you can work with, express and act from.

This is not surface level coaching.
It’s embodied leadership for those ready to feel fully alive in how they lead.
 Not about becoming more.  
About standing your ground — and no longer holding yourself back.

The Journey: A Three-Part Framework

Each 1:1 journey is entirely bespoke, but guided by this core arc:

Embody
Reconnecting with your body as a source of clarity, stability and inner authority. 

Alchemise
Transforming patterns held in the body that affect how you relate, create and lead.

Express
Developing your voice, presence and creative expression so you can lead and communicate with depth and integrity.

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What Specifically Shifts in This 1:1 Container?

When you commit to this level of personal support, the changes are profound and felt immediately in your daily leadership:

The river returns. Ideas move more freely. Your voice lands with clarity. Decisions feel cleaner. You will have increased confidence expressing ideas and leading conversations.

You tend your fire. You reconnect with the authentic, passionate aliveness that made you want to do this work in the first place — before the training, the certifying, the client lists, the commercial briefs, the holding-it-together. You will have a deeper connection to your creative direction and to the person you were before you became the one who delivers.

Your heart opens. You stop softening your truth to maintain harmony. You learn to hold the creative tension of real connection — with compassion for yourself and others.

You come home to your body. You regain a stronger sense of grounded presence in work and relationships — a feeling of being fully, unapologetically here.

The 1:1 Container Structure

This is a deep, held, and powerful 1:1 container, tailored entirely to your specific challenges, context, and nervous system.

Beneath our conversations, we work with breath and nervous system regulation, with the aliveness of the endocrine system, and with the natural rhythm of expansion and contraction — restoring creative flow through embodied practice.

Not ready to commit to a full journey yet?

The Visionary Somatic Insight Session:
A single 90-minute 1:1 session designed as a genuine entry point into this work.  

In this session, we use somatic movement, breath, and reflective dialogue to identify the specific pattern, contraction, or creative block that is most alive for you right now.
You will leave with a clearer sense of what is actually in the way — and what your body already knows about how to move through it.  

This is particularly suited to those who want to experience the work before committing to a longer container — and who want to arrive at that decision from their body's knowing, not just their mind's analysis. Whether you are a practitioner, a creative, or simply someone who has been thinking about this for a while.

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Visionary Somatic Insight Session £247
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A 3 or 6 month Journey:   Offered from £3000
How We Work Together:

 Deep Personalisation: Sessions are held online via Zoom, adapted to suit your schedule (weekly or bi-weekly).

Accelerated Integration: Personalised somatic and movement practices provided between sessions.

Real-Time Support: Ongoing support via message to explore both creative and leadership edges as they happen.

 Whole-Body Intelligence: Each session integrates movement, somatic practice, creative exploration, and reflective dialogue.

Is 1:1 Bespoke Right For You? (Versus Reclaim You)

While my signature program Reclaim You offers a powerful hybrid group or guided experience moving through a set 12-week curriculum, this 1:1 container is for you if you require a program that is uniquely designed to meet you where you are at, and what you need - your body, personal history, creative blocks and goals. This also means I may use a wider range of techniques or set you specific tasks in between sessions.

This is for a leader in any sense of the word — of a team, a movement, a creative practice, or simply your own becoming.

Choose 1:1 if:
• You are navigating a specific, immediate leadership edge or creative threshold that requires dedicated focus.
• You need the privacy and safety of a closed container to explore deep somatic blocks.
• You want the flexibility to adapt the pacing and focus of every single session to exactly what your body and business need that week.
• You are ready for the highest level of personal accountability and integration.

A Note From Helene

I have spent five decades studying the body as a map of the soul — in movement studios, in sacred spaces, in the wild, and in the quiet of my own practice.

This work is rooted in a rich lineage: yoga, person centred counselling, somatic movement education, dance movement therapy, body-mind centering, the Halprin Life Art Process, and nature-based and ecstatic dance traditions.

Ancient in origin, infused with neuroscience, immediately practical in application. I have spent years in both roles — as the practitioner holding the container, and as the creative producing the work. I know what it costs to be the one who gives. And I know what it feels like to finally give yourself permission to receive.

What I know, more than anything, is that the body reveals what the mind edits.

It holds the stories we have forgotten, the truths we have been afraid to speak, and the aliveness ready to return.

This work is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering who you already are — and giving that person the space, the permission, and the movement to fully arrive.

Ready to Step Out of the Wings?

This work is for creatives, founders, and changemakers who are ready to stop waiting and lead from the fullness of their being.

If something in you recognises this — consider this your permission. I am ready to support you. Book a complimentary chemistry call below, and let's see if we are a good fit.

What clients say

 I love your way of working with me. You have got such wisdom, humbleness and congruence about you that I feel very honoured to have these sessions with you...this is coming from my heart!'

Satu 

Esalen Therapist

Helene gave me four one-on-one sessions using somatic explorations and exercises.

The first three sessions were characterised by a feeling of being stuck or trapped and wanting to open out. The final one was more like a release into something new.

Susan Brown

Yoga Teacher

 I now feel more in touch with my body and what it needs and will start experimenting with moving in different ways.

Thanks Helene for your wisdom and insight. You've definitely opened up possibilities to me that I'd been wanting to move towards but didn't know how to!

Josie Cowgill

Nutritionist

I really love the way in which you ran each class, giving us pointers and guidance, it gave the whole experience so much more depth than just dancing freely or 5 rhythms.

Zoe Maughan

Publisher

  
I was lucky to find Helene. She encouraged me to feel my way to accessing movement in my locked elbow..  I felt not only increased mobility, but a freedom to be in touch with my wildness and aliveness. Thank you, Helene. 

Annaliza Thomson

Holistic Therapist and Sleep Coach

 
Helene holds a really safe space. Her solidity based on her own life wisdom and willingness to dance into the unknown helped me to gain real insight....I learnt to move my body in new ways which opened me up to different places to move into in life.

Katie Rowan

Gardener and Space Holder

Frequently Asked Questions about Somatic & Creative Leadership Mentoring

This isn’t mindset-only coaching.
Visionary Somatics works at the level where leadership actually lives — in your body.  
We use movement, voice, breath and embodied awareness to work beneath overthinking and hesitation, so that you can find your presence, clarity and expression.
The shifts are not conceptual but energetically felt and become visible in how you speak, decide, and relate.

No.
This work isn’t about technique or performance.
It’s about developing a more intelligent, responsive relationship with your body so that you can find your natural expression and way of being.
You simply need to be willing to move, explore, and listen in to your body's inner intelligence.  Sessions are invitational and tailored to you.

This work is for you if you sense there’s more available in your leadership and creative expression than is currently showing up.
If you notice yourself overthinking, holding back, or playing smaller than your vision — and you’re ready for embodied refinement rather than surface-level strategy — this space will meet you there.  
It’s also for you as leadership can feel isolating, and you’re ready to feel more internally supported and connected as you grow.

While every journey is unique, clients often experience:
 
Clearer decision-making without overprocessing  
A voice that lands with steadiness and conviction  
Creative work that feels aligned with their true vision  
A stronger sense of inner support and self-trust  
Greater connection — with themselves and in their relationships  
The ability to soften protective patterns without losing strength or presence  

This work integrates at the level of the body — so the changes aren’t conceptual, but a felt reality.

All practices are invitational rather than forced, and you’ll learn tools to self-regulate, set healthy boundaries, and feel safe in your body. It is designed to meet you where you are and honour your nervous system. Having said that, this is coaching, not a replacement for clinical trauma therapy. Whilst we have all suffered trauma to varying degrees, if you have specific or severe trauma related symptoms, then please inform me, so that I can refer you to trusted clinical therapy support if appropriate. 

Zoom sessions mean that you are in the comfort and privacy of your own home, which may enable you to relax and have a deeper experience. Breath, voice, gentle movement and somatic awareness are felt experiences, and I hold the space for you. I have even given Reiki through zoom, which clients have reported as powerful experiences. The shifts happen within you, regardless of how the guidance is transmitted.

Let your leadership match your vision