Encinitas Somatic Therapy and Coaching

Returning to the body to remember the deep well of inner resources, guidance, and knowing that resides within us.

Reclaim Your Wholeness

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The essence of Soma Wisdom stirs in us the ancient remembering of the Truth that all that we have been seeking outside of ourselves can be found in connecting with the wholeness of our being, our Soma. There awaits within us a deep well of inner resources, guidance, and knowing. 

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Encinitas Somatic Therapy & Coaching:

Transforming Mind-Body Wellness in Southern California

In the coastal town of Encinitas, California, individuals seeking holistic healing that addresses the whole being – mind, body, spirit – can experience transformation through somatic therapy and coaching. Unlike traditional talk therapy or mindset oriented coaching, somatic healing is rooted in the understanding that the mind and body are not separate, rather they are intrinsically connected. Somatic therapy and coaching supports individuals in healing and integrating unresolved trauma, childhood wounding, and patterns of protection that are no longer serving them. 

 

At the heart of Soma Wisdom, is the knowing that when people come home to their bodies, profound healing and transformation occurs. Through cultivating somatic literacy and processing and integrating unresolved trauma, individuals shift out of experiences of chronic stress, emotional and physical pain, and disconnection and move towards reclaiming their birthright to feel alive, vibrant, and whole. 

 

 

 

What is Somatic Healing?

Somatic healing is a body-centered therapeutic approach that holds the understanding that the mind and body are one. Through cultivating somatic awareness, allowing the body to move through thwarted protective responses, and reconnecting with the body’s innate capacity for nervous system regulation, clients can move out of chronic states of overwhelm and stuckness. 

 

At Soma Wisdom, healing leads to the deepening of intimacy with our body, ourselves, others and life itself, greater capacity for receiving what we desire, and reclamation of our innate power.

 

 

 

The Science Behind Somatic Healing

Modern neuroscience has revealed that trauma is a physiological experience, not only a psychological and emotional experience. It lives in the body, stored in the tissue, fascia, and nervous system patterns, causing individuals to suffer long after an experience has ended. Somatic healing addresses the body’s natural stress response mechanism and the way in which the system can get stuck in chronic hyperarousal (sympathetic response) or hypoarousal (dorsal vagal response).

 

Through the practices of cultivating somatic awareness and literacy, allowing the completion of instinctive protective responses, and building the capacity to experience a felt sense of safety in the body, clients learn to meet their inner experience which allows unprocessed survival energy to discharge, returning them to their natural state of regulation, ease, and balance.

 

  

 

Who Can Benefit from Encinitas Somatic Healing?

Somatic therapy and coaching is for the person seeking a more holistic and integrative healing experience and desiring to:

 

  • Reclaim your birthright to feel vibrant, alive, and in your power
  • Deepen your intimacy with your body, soul, and Life itself
  • Experience deeply connected and fulfilling relationships
  • Feel safe and at home in your body
  • Feel adept at navigating the full range of human emotional experience
  • Cultivate the life you desire
  • Source your knowing from within
 

Encinitas residents who live active lifestyles—whether surfers, yogis, or wellness seekers—often find somatic therapy to be a valuable complement to their personal and spiritual growth.

 

 

Somatic Healing Services at Soma Wisdom

At Soma Wisdom, you will find a weaving of the following therapeutic approaches and modalities to support your healing and evolution:

Trauma-informed neuroscience, somatic healing including Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal Theory, developmental psychology and human growth, depth psychology, parts work and shadow work, Inner Child healing/reparenting, masculine-feminine polarity teachings and the Wild Woman archetype.

 

1. Somatic Therapy & Coaching

Individual somatic therapy and coaching is for the person who has been on a healing journey and is ready to deepen into their healing through turning towards the body and cultivating intimacy with their inner terrain. This offering is provided as 60-minute sessions at a frequency that fits your needs (weekly, biweekly, etc.).

 

2. Private Mentorship

Private mentorship is an immersive and intimate, high touch container for the woman who is fiercely devoted to her liberation, the reclamation of her wild feminine spirit and remembering her innate wholeness. 3 month and 6 month containers are available and include 90 minute sessions per week and unlimited voice messaging through Voxer to support with integration between sessions.

 

 

 

Why Choose Soma Wisdom for Encinitas Somatic Healing?

Encinitas is known for its wellness-conscious community, and I am proud to serve as a trusted resource for those seeking deep healing. Here’s why clients choose to work together:

 

  • Personalized Care: Each session is tailored to your specific needs and where you are at on your journey
  • Trauma-Informed Approach: I am a trauma trained therapist through the Somatic Experiencing certification program.
  • Holistic Healing Modalities: I integrate several healing modalities including, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, developmental psychology and human growth, depth psychology, parts work (internal family systems) and shadow work, Inner Child healing/reparenting, masculine-feminine polarity teachings and the Wild Woman archetype.
  • Experienced Practitioner: With over ten years of experience and a commitment to my own evolutionary path, I seek to embody the work that I guide my clients through.
  • A Safe & Nurturing Environment: With an understanding of the importance of connection and the power of co-regulation, you will experience a safe relational container where you can move towards the deepest parts of yourself.
 
 

How to Get Started with Somatic Healing in Encinitas

If you are ready to choose yourself and step deeper into your healing and evolution you can get started by booking a consultation call. It is important to me that you get a felt sense of what it would be like to work together so please reach out via phone or email to schedule some time for us to connect.

 

Visit Soma Wisdom in Encinitas

Located in the heart of Encinitas, Soma Wisdom is accessible to those in Carlsbad, Solana Beach, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, and the greater San Diego area. Whether you’re new to somatic healing or looking for deeper therapeutic support, come experience the power of body-based healing.

 

Ready to experience sustainable healing and transformation?

 

Schedule your first session today and take the first step toward embodied healing.

 

 

 

Michelle beautifully weaves together the wisdom of ancient practices with a deep, experienced understanding of somatic therapy and neuroscience, creating a safe space for profound self-discovery and healing.

Monica

I finally have come home to myself through working with Michelle. I have a deep trust in life now because she has helped guide me to meet myself in each moment and be with everything that arises.

Lauren

I have learned how to trust myself, listen to my nervous system and look at myself with compassion instead of judgment.

Emily

Contact Michelle Montejano

To explore the offering that is most aligned with you, please fill out the contact form or reach out via phone or email.

Somatic Therapy is offered in California and Somatic Coaching is offered worldwide.

Phone: 858.353.1972  •  Email: hello@somawisdomhealing.com

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The Meaning

The word “Soma” comes from ancient Greek and though it is often translated today as “the body,” the ancient Greeks didn’t differentiate between the body, mind, and soul. As such, soma was defined as “the living body in its wholeness.” Soma is the integration of our whole being. It points us to the truth that there is no separation between body, mind, and soul; they are one. 

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Breathing God

From Breathing as Spiritual Practice


By: Will Johnson

to merge with god
is to merge with everything
but instead, we feel isolated
alone in the world
separated
even from our own body
whose sensations
we forget to feel

for most of us
most of the time
so tied up in thought as we are
the totality of our world
consists of the few cubic inches inside
our cranium

but god includes everything

to become one with god
is to expand into the felt wholeness
the holiness

to feel whole in yourself
is to feel the whole of your body
as a unified field
of tactile presence

to stay estranged from
god is to stay trapped inside
the claustrophobic confines of your head

if the felt body is the doorway
to the vastness of god
the discrepancy of scale
between living in your head or in your
body
is immense

i stay lost in thought
and I stay isolated
separate from everything

i bring the feeling presence of my body
alive
and god enters me

Our Patterns are Intelligent Adaptations

What the conventional mental health paradigm calls “disorders” or what people label as “dysfunction” are in fact expressions of intelligent adaptations that often develop when we are young, vulnerable and dependent in an attempt to keep us safe and ultimately to keep us alive. Our patterns are always rooted in the biological impulse to survive. There is a profound shift that occurs when we move from relating to our ways of being – thoughts, feelings, behaviors – as a “problem” or “dysfunctional” to wise, protective responses. When we move from shaming to acceptance and ultimately gratitude and love, we allow these protective responses or protector parts to be integrated. Though our culture tells us that healing comes through suppression or annihilation, true healing happens through integration.

The Body is a Portal for Healing, Transformation, and Awakening

As a collective we have lost connection with the body, thus the modern human is disconnected from our deepest source of Truth. We have forgotten that there is an alchemical process that transpires when we turn toward our internal landscape and bring conscious awareness to our somatic experience in the present moment. When we attend to that which has been unattended to, the energy that was previously stored in our tissue, muscles, and organs gets to move through and discharge. When we return to our natural rhythm of fluidity and coherence, we find a deep well of aliveness and vitality, our inner source of guidance and wisdom. In reclaiming the connection with our body, we rediscover the inner Knowing that cultural conditioning has taught us to source outside of ourselves.

We are Wired for Connection

When we are born, we do not come in with a fully developed nervous system. We are entirely dependent on our attachment figures to soothe us in times of distress, as we do not yet have the biological capacity to move through a stress response alone. Through co-regulation, our parents lend us their nervous system so that we can move through distressing emotions and sensations and return to a settled, regulated state. When coregulation is not available to a child, a child’s system will remain “stuck on” in a sympathetic response or will collapse and remain “stuck off.” When our attachment figures are unable to meet our needs, a secure attachment is not developed. Our earliest experiences with our attachment figures lays the blueprint for our attachment patterns, thus affecting the way we respond in later relationships, particularly romantic partnerships.

We Are Nature

As cyclical beings, we are meant to traverse the full range of our natural rhythms: death and decay, regression, stillness, rebirth, renewal and growth. In a culture that valorizes the ascent and almost exclusively reveres progress and growth in a linear trajectory, we have understandably lost connection to the descent and the medicine and gifts within it. Nature knows that we cannot have Summer without Winter, we cannot have growth without rest, we cannot have renewal without disintegration. In reclaiming our place among the grass and the wildflowers, the moss and the reeds, the bears and the butterflies, the mountains and the seas, we find a deep reverence for ourselves and reclaim our vital life force. In remembering that we are not separate from Nature and in choosing to align ourselves with our inherent cycles, we become connected and see ourselves as part of the greater whole.