A grounded, neuroscience-based way to build more awareness and choice in how you live, work, relate, and decide. Designed for lasting change in a demanding life.
Awareness – notice your signals and patterns (what your system is already doing)
Choice – experiment safely (breath, posture, voice, pauses, movement)
Integration – integration in real life (small practices that hold under pressure)
Clarity — what you actually want (beneath the “shoulds”)
Boundaries — a clean yes/no (without over-explaining, despite guilt)
Centeredness (resiliance + equanimity)— staying present in intensity
Aliveness — from functioning to living (joy, pleasure, play, desire, creativity)
Embodied approach — change is learned through lived, in-the-body practice, not just talk
Neuroscience informed — we practice new responses until they become your default
When I first came across the embodiment coaching approach, I was honestly very sceptical. It was completely new to me, and as someone who is deeply logical, rational, and used to trusting my brain above everything else, I wasn’t really convinced.
Still, something in me was curious enough to give it a chance.
I’m incredibly glad I did.
From the very first session, I was positively surprised — and even moved — by the experience. That’s why I felt a strong need to share this feedback with Anja.
What struck me the most was the quality of Anja’s presence. She listened deeply, without judgement, and asked questions that gently but powerfully pushed my thinking further. And then something unexpected happened: the reflection didn’t stay in my head. It reached my body.
Anja noticed things I was completely unaware of — my posture, my movements, the subtle signals my body was giving while I was talking. I had been ignoring all of that for years. Through her attention and guidance, I slowly realised that my body was expressing things my mind hadn’t even articulated yet.
This was a real turning point for me. By the end of the very first session, I felt a deep sense of trust — not only in Anja, but also in the embodiment coaching approach itself. I felt safe, understood, and genuinely supported in a way I hadn’t experienced before.
This coaching helped me reconnect with something essential: our bodies hold an incredible amount of wisdom. They often know far more about us than what we think, analyse, or rationalise. Learning to listen to them is powerful — and Anja has a remarkable way of guiding you there.
F. X., France, Operational Excellence Lead
Most of us have been trained to live in our heads: to think, analyze, understand, and be efficient. Embodiment coaching brings back into the process what has been there all along — your breath, posture, tension patterns, impulses, inner signals, and nervous system.
The main purpose of a session isn’t only to talk about what’s happening in your life — it’s to explore how it lives in your body.
You’re not only developing new insights — you’re developing new habits.
From a neuroscience perspective, this is the gradual rewriting of old, automatic neural pathways with new ones that are more supportive. The right embodied practice — chosen with care, calibrated to you, and done in a safe space — allows your nervous system to learn a different response to the same life situations.
My approach draws on years of training with embodiment coach Mark Walsh (Embodiment Unlimited), and is quietly shaped by the philosophy of Shaolin kung fu, qigong, and Zen — wisdom my teacher, Shifu Shi Heng Dao, has been passing on since 2008.
I work with the whole person. When I say “the whole person,” I mean exactly that: together, we meet the mind, the body, and the heart — the rational, the emotional, and the deeper sense of what is true and what is right.
In practical terms, we work with attention, nervous system patterns, and real-life choices — so you can remain effective without losing the natural joy of being alive.
We work in a way that’s practical, confidential, and deeply human. Each session meets what’s real for you. And the process itself is consistent — guided by four principles below.
From living in your head → to feeling what’s true in real time.
We slow down so you can actually notice where you are, how you are, what you want, and what you need.
We create a space where you don’t have to “be okay” – you get to come as you are.
From “I should” → to clean decisions you can stand behind.
Instead of following your old habits, you start to feel more clearly around what the next little aligned step is – and learn at your own pace that it’s ok to take that step.
From pushing through → to calm capacity under pressure.
We work with small, doable steps – often, noticeable change comes from just 5–10 minutes of embodied practice a day.
It’s understandable to doubt this at first — yet most people find the process more practical and effective than they expected.
From insight without change → to a life that actually shifts.
Our work together is about visible, lasting change — not just a temporary lift in how you feel, or inspiring insights that slowly fade into a nice memory. When you work with me, you commit to bringing the practices into your leadership, relationships, health, and the way you make decisions — and witness how old habits reshape into something that truly supports you.
These aren’t “tips.” They’re conditions that gradually rewrite old neural pathways into more supportive ones — slowly changing what feels possible for you day to day.
What it changes: you stop living by “shoulds” and start sensing what you actually want — and what you actually need.
In practice: we slow down just enough to hear the quieter signals (body, emotion, values), then translate them into real-world decisions.
You’ll recognize progress when: “What do I even want?” becomes answerable — and your choices start feeling simpler, cleaner, and more yours.
What it changes: your “yes” becomes true — because your “no” becomes available.
In practice: we identify where you override yourself, work with the shame/fear/tension that comes with changing patterns, and practice clear boundary language you can actually use.
You’ll recognize progress when: you say no without collapsing into guilt, you stop over-explaining, and your time/energy begins to come back.
What it changes: life stops feeling like a performance — you start feeling yourself again: emotion, desire, meaning, and genuine enjoyment.
In practice: we gently rebuild access to feeling and wanting (without forcing), widen your capacity for pleasure and rest, and bring more connection, playfulness, creativity, and ease into real week-to-week life.
You’ll recognize progress when: you feel more spark and appetite for life, desire and creativity return, and everyday moments hold more warmth, connection, and joy.
There’s an ongoing conversation between the brain and the body. Roughly 20% of information travels from the brain to the body — and around 80% from the body to the brain. Embodied coaching helps us start noticing that conversation, understand it, and use it in a way that supports you.
If you’re tired of living from the neck up, let’s make this practical — privately, at your pace.
Prefer writing first? Start here.
Stand up.
Raise your hands above your head. Breath in through nose, a full chest breath.
Let your hands drop down. Quick exhale through the mouth (shorter than inhale). Sound acompaning exhale is great.
Repeat three times, or as desired.
Make three deep breaths, with emphasizing longer (but not forceful) exhale.
Feel your feet on the ground. What shape do they make?
Let your spine rise and lengthen to the tallest version of yourself.
Relax your jaw and belly, to the level it feels natural for you.
Soften your gaze. Think of someone that makes you smile.
These are not tricks — they’re ways of speaking to the nervous system through the body.
When I came to Anja, I was in a period of life that felt like a lot for a long time. From the outside, I was managing. I was doing what needed to be done, carrying a lot, functioning. But inside, it felt very different. There was a lot of anxiety, overthinking, pressure, and a sense that I had somehow lost contact with myself.
What drew me to this work was that it felt both grounded and deep. I didn’t need more ideas or more analysing. I needed something that could actually help me come back to myself in a real way.
Working with Anja helped me see not only what was happening in my life, but also how deeply it was living in my body. Bit by bit, I started recognising stress earlier, noticing what I was feeling before it completely took over, and staying with difficult emotions in a different way. Not perfectly, of course — but with more awareness, more steadiness, and more compassion for myself.
One of the biggest shifts for me was around sensitivity and intensity. For a long time, those parts of me felt like too much. Too much feeling, too much depth, too much intensity. Through this work, that slowly started to change. I began to experience those parts not as a problem, but as something valuable — even strong.
My life didn’t suddenly become free of pressure or fear. But something in the way I meet those things is different now. I have more trust in myself, more presence, and more inner space. I feel more like myself again.
O. I., Slovenia, Biochemistry researcher
If this speaks to you, the next step is a private clarity call to see whether this work is the right fit.
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