by Clare Myatt | Dec 20, 2024 | Thoughts
As the year draws to a close I’ve decided to summarise the key themes from my blogs this year. 1. Embracing the Pause and Making Space Several excerpts highlight the importance of pausing and creating space for introspection and personal growth. This pause allows for...
by Clare Myatt | Dec 1, 2024 | Thoughts
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...
by Clare Myatt | Nov 1, 2024 | Thoughts
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...
by Clare Myatt | Oct 1, 2024 | Thoughts
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...
by Clare Myatt | Sep 1, 2024 | Thoughts
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...
by Clare Myatt | Aug 1, 2024 | Thoughts
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...
by Clare Myatt | Jul 1, 2024 | Thoughts
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...
by Clare Myatt | Jun 1, 2024 | Thoughts
“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...
by Clare Myatt | May 1, 2024 | Thoughts
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...
by Clare Myatt | Apr 1, 2024 | Thoughts
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...
