
M-Bodied® Somatic Coaching offers relational embodiment practices for nervous system healing & healthy relationships
M-Bodied Coaching is grounded in the principles and practices of Chi for Two®, a relational and developmental somatic method, also an ISMETA Approved Training Program. In-person Atlanta, Georgia. Virtually worldwide.
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Caroline Gebhardt
Caroline Gebhardt, M.S., is a Chi for Two® embodiment coach & trainer, Registered Yoga Teacher, Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist with ISMETA, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and creator of M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®. More…
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Nick Gebhardt
Nick Gebhardt, certified Chi for Two® embodiment coach, and Associate Somatic Movement Practitioner with ISMETA, is a long-time advertising creative and athlete who helps people move energy within their bodies in ways that improve their work and ultimately their lives. More…
Specialties
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Eating, Drinking, Exercise & Body Image
What if reconnecting with your body and its wisdom — rather than reaching outside of your body — is the way toward connection, nourishment and fulfillment? M-Bodied offers an invitational, non-diet and Healthy at Every Size approach as well as Intuitive Eating Counseling.
While habits of bingeing, dieting, restricting, purging and compulsive exercise might seem never-ending, M-Bodied Coaching helps clients to access their core hungers and feed them with steady, somatic support for sustainable growth and freedom from the food wars.
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Parent Coaching & Family Support
M-Bodied Coaching offers trauma-sensitive, neuroaffirming, body-based practices and cognitive approaches and psychoeducation to help provide co-regulation, meaning-making and reconnection that benefit the whole family.
M-Bodied Coaching invites parents and caregivers into somatic practices so they can experience their own “re-parenting”, moving through their own big feelings or sensations with support. This experiential shift of ideal somatic knowing helps parents to develop a greater capacity to stay present and steady through their children’s inevitable pushes and pulls.
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Somatic Practices for Trauma Healing & Life Enhancement
Maybe traditional talk therapy has helped, but you want more practical in-the-moment tools to decrease anxiety, increase motivation, enhance focus, manage reactivity, and discover how your unique brightness can take up more space in the world.
M-Bodied Coaching offers somatic movement practices that are not only relationally- and developmentally-informed but also grounded in nervous system science.
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Embodied Romance
While talking about cycles and patterns can help connect dots and offer repair and deeper connection, M-Bodied offers body-based practices to redirect, connect and support the energy, feelings, gestures and charges that often arise in romantic dances.
M-Bodied Coaching offers healing and growth that goes beyond words.
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Coaching for Creatives
M-Bodied Coaching offers individuals and businesses the science behind why moving your body moves your mind. With strengthened body awareness for self-support, the M-Bodied somatic practices helps spark creativity, a sustainable work flow, and a path toward setting fulfilling goals.
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Mindful Movement & Embodiment
Explore how developmentally-significant yoga poses as well as relational somatic movement practices can be possibilities for presence, preference, playfulness and empowerment.
All bodies welcome. No experience necessary. The practices support your unique you.
What is Embodiment?
Embodiment is an experience, an ongoing and mindful process of inhabiting your body and environment with the capacity to deepen relationship with your self and others.
While embodiment involves various types of awarenesses (interoceptive, exteroceptive, proprioceptive, neuroceptive) it’s also the experience of aliveness, your capacity to live consciously in your corporeal body when your physiological functioning allows. This affords you connection with your body’s wisdom, your chi, your life force, your core sense of self, to feel more equipped to ride the waves of life with more sustainability, nourishment and satisfaction.
The experience of embodiment includes a variety of movement expressions: steady, present, ready, solid, expressive, an aliveness that is not just calm or restorative. When we sense overwhelm, which happens because we are human beings who experience varying degrees of stressful times, our capacity to be present and engaged decreases as survival or defense mechanisms create physiological and psychological changes for survival.
We learn how okay it is to embody, to be present in an exploratory way, to have and express big feelings, to live with a variety of movement expressions, during our earliest experiences of life. The degree to which our early relational experiences and environments tended to our physiological and relational needs to connect and separate, as well as our multi-generational patterning, set a foundation for our nervous system patterning, movement expression, and relational dances.
However, no one gets what is ideal. Sometimes we need reparative experiences to reconnect with our core self in an effort for a more embodied and present journey through life along with healthier relational dances with others. A robust movement vocabulary, exploring a rich quality of embodiment based on developmental and relational patterns, helps us to be who we could be if we are loved no matter what.
M-Bodied Coaching offers attachment-based, reparative somatic movement practices that celebrate all feelings as well as all movement and energetic expressions. This body-mind-spirit approach helps clients to learn how their feelings and body wisdom serve as signals toward deep nourishment rather than symptoms to shut down.
M-Bodied Coaching is grounded in the principles and practices of the trauma healing and mindful embodiment method Chi for Two®, an ISMETA Approved Training Program.
Chi for Two (Chi meaning energy, Two meaning relational) is a synthesis of many trauma healing modalities and offers that “trauma” is less about what happened and more about the inhibited movement expression.
Chi for Two offers "trauma healing" as the awakening of the movements that have become inhibited over many, many generations, and the integrating of those movements into our movement vocabulary mobilized by the nervous system state Play/Dance. Therefore, trauma healing can become health-creating.
“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.”
—Marion Woodman
