Knows the Way
An embodied approach to coaching in times of collective uncertainty and stress
A FREE LIVE Masterclass
January 22nd, 2026 – 10am PST / 19:00 CET
With Staci Haines
Unlock the wisdom of the body and turn distress into a doorway to transformation.
These are demanding times for the human nervous system. Constant change, collective stress, and global complexity are stretching people beyond their capacity. As coaches, we’re meeting clients who are anxious, reactive, or simply exhausted — trying to stay steady while so much feels unpredictable.
You’ve probably heard it in your sessions:
“I just don’t know what to do.”
Under pressure, the body takes over.
Our biology does what it has learned to do — over millions of years of evolution — to protect us. Tightening, over-focusing, withdrawing, going numb, even trying to calm down…these are all ways the body is trying to manage fear and stress. And while the body tightens, the mind fragments.
One part wants to push forward, another wants to hide — all in service of staying safe, staying connected. The trouble is, these habits of the body-mind — while well-intentioned — actually keep your clients stuck. In order to move through the stress, we must return to the body — not to control it, but to listen to it.
Because the same biology that reacts in fear also carries the intelligence to restore connection, safety, and purpose — if we know how to access it.
Learn from world-renowned Somatic Coach
Staci Haines
A FREE LIVE Masterclass
January 22nd, 2026 – 10am PST / 19:00 CET
Unlock the wisdom of the body so you can help your clients transform reactivity into resilience — and cultivate the grounded presence required to meet the challenges they’re facing.
Understand the body’s predictable responses to pressure and fear
why your clients withdraw, over-focus, and appear to contradict themselves.
Discover why “calming down” isn’t enough
and what actually allows stress and fear to be metabolized and cleared rather than simply managed.
Learn somatic practices that help clients restore wholeness
moving from reactivity to resilience and fragmentation to coherence.
Witness Somatic Coaching in action
as Staci works with a participant live — revealing how this approach can transform a real issue in real time.
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Staci Haines
Staci Haines is an international leader and coach in the field of Somatics, and a co-designer of the embodied methodology at Strozzi Institute for Somatics. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice and Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma. For 30 years, Staci has been using her wisdom of embodied approaches to champion both personal and social transformation in the world. We are honored to have her as the lead teacher in our upcoming training The Power of Embodied Transformation.