ORA Center
What is Somatic Coaching?
Somatic Coaching is a gentle, body‑centered approach to understanding your patterns, building capacity, and creating meaningful change. Instead of working only with thoughts or stories, we include the body — sensations, breath, posture, impulses, and the subtle ways your system organizes around stress, protection, and possibility.
This work is grounded in:
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Presence‑based coaching
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Hakomi‑informed principles
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Nervous system awareness
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Trauma‑sensitive, non‑pathologizing support
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Deep listening and attunement
It’s not about fixing you. It’s about helping you come h
What a Session Looks Like
Each session is spacious, attuned, and guided by what your system is ready for.
A session may include:
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Grounding and orienting
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Somatic tracking (sensations, breath, impulses)
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Gentle movement or posture awareness
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Parts‑work through a somatic lens
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Mindful inquiry
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Resourcing and capacity‑building
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Integration and reflection
You remain fully clothed and seated or lying down — this is not massage. It is a collaborative, experiential process that unfolds moment by moment.
What Somatic Coaching Helps With
Somatic Coaching can support you if you’re navigating:
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Overwhelm, stress, or burnout
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Old patterns that feel hard to shift
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Emotional blocks or shutdown
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Relationship patterns
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Boundaries and self‑trust
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Life transitions
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Spiritual or awakening experiences
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A desire for deeper embodiment and clarity
Why Somatic Coaching Works
Because the body holds:
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memory
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protection
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patterning
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resilience
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possibility
When we include the body, change becomes:
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deeper
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safer
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more sustainable
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more integrated
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This is the heart of ORA — now, light, threshold, aliveness.
Who This Work Is For
Somatic Coaching is a good fit if you want:
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a gentle, non‑clinical approach
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support that honors your pace
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a space to explore without pressure
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to understand your patterns with compassion
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to feel more grounded, clear, and connected
It’s especially supportive for people who are sensitive, intuitive, or carrying long histories of being the “strong one.”
What You Can Expect Over Time
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More clarity
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More capacity
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More choice
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More ease
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More connection to yourself
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More alignment with what matters
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This work is not about perfection. It’s about becoming more you.
About Madia
Madia Swicord, B.S., E-RYT 500, LMT
MADIA'S HEALING ARTS, OWNER
CHATTANOOGA YOGA SCHOOL,
CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
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Certified Presence-based Coach
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Hakomi Graduate
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Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher
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Certified Vinyasa Yoga Teacher
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Yoga Teacher Trainer
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Licensed Massage Therapist
Madia loves exploring and encouraging the adventure of "the edge" of what awakens you. Guiding you inward towards an intuitive, deep yoga practice that challenges your physical and mental stamina balanced with nurturing spacious openings of your body/mind is the essence of what can be felt in all her classes and her private body/mind sessions.
Madia Swicord is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga Teacher and Yoga Teacher Trainer. She has an extensive background in supporting people with physical and emotional pain relief. Her passion is to assist someone on their journey to self-discovery and awakening to more energy and joy via a variety of ancient and modern mind/body techniques. She has advanced training in Yoga Psychology and is a Graduate of the Professional Hakomi Mindfulness Training of “assisted self-study” that is threaded into her yoga classes and her private sessions. She is also a Certified Presence-Based Coach and is utilizing these techniques in all that she offers. She is dedicated to sharing timeless wisdom techniques for mind-body health, deeper life fulfillment and emotional healing.
*Working alongside physicians in the fields of psychiatry and psychology for a decade to support and assist with patients on their path to healing trauma has been an incredible honor.
Madia has over 20+ years of professional experience in this holistic field of mind-body healing.