Through the gates, past the scaffolding, anticipating at every step my favourite cafe and the pleasure of meeting a friend. No lights though and on the door a pitiful sign expressing regret about its closure. I know in the scheme of things, perhaps especially at this...

Recalling my teacher Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s sentiment from my somatic coach training, he said something like poetry is balm for the senses, although I haven't got that quite right. He usually started and ended our sessions with a poem, and this is really when I...

I’ve been to three funerals in as many months. Every time I am struck by how little I knew about someone until hearing their eulogy - it’s less about the dramatic and more about the everyday things like being the most amazing grandparent, or enduring endless loss...

New clients are often surprised at my request to meet weekly for the first four or five coaching sessions. Some traditional coaches start this way but will more likely, see their clients once a month or even once a quarter. Somatic coaching is different, we are paying...

Caminante no hay Camino Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más; Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace el camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante no hay camino sino estelas en...

Sometimes I wonder if my clients get sick of me saying “let’s pause, let’s take a breath” because I know I say it a lot. A Lot. Neuroscientists can tell us all about the benefit of settling the autonomic nervous system, calming the arousal in the sympathetic to the...

“Oh” she said, “you’re the Clare who wrote that book!” Yep, that’s my heart-and-soul served up between the covers. It’s always a weird moment when relative strangers suddenly “know” so much about me, someone who’s generally introvert and definitely doesn’t blow their...

I was on retreat last weekend, spending many happy hours contemplating one bluebell dell after another as far as the eye could see. I basked in nature’s wonders where nothing is asked of me. I could body-feel deep interconnectedness - the trees absorb my out-breath,...

My lovely husband phoned to say there was something on BBC Radio 4 “about the body and coaching” (bless him, he knows those words are synonymous with ‘Clare’). I tuned in. I heard Patsy Rodenberg talking about her craft and for the first time considered that I could...