MODERN SOMATICS
Something inside you already knows.
And it's been calling you home. You've done the therapy. Read the books. Listened to the podcasts. You can name your patterns, trace them back to where they started, explain them to anyone who asks — and you're still braced before your feet hit the floor in the morning. Here's why. Insight lives in the mind. The pattern lives in the body — in the tissue, in the bracing you've held for years, in the quiet signals you learned to override before you were old enough to choose. No amount of understanding reaches it there. That's where we work.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Braced before your feet hit the floor
You wake up already tense — jaw set, shoulders up, a lump in your throat — and you couldn't tell anyone why. Nothing's wrong. Nothing happened. Your body just never came down from something. If you're nodding along, this is for you.
You've done the inner work
The therapy. You've read the books. You've listened to the podcasts. You even Googled 'somatic' at 2am.
You journaled until you could name the pattern, its origin, and its favorite disguises.
You are trying — even harder than anyone knows.
And still something unseen is holding you back. Is it really, truly supposed to be this hard!?
You journaled until you could name the pattern, its origin, and its favorite disguises.
You are trying — even harder than anyone knows.
And still something unseen is holding you back. Is it really, truly supposed to be this hard!?
Everybody's rock. No soft place to land.
You hold the family, the team, the friend in crisis. You're so practiced at managing everyone else's feelings that you've lost the thread of your own — and even if you found it, who would you hand it to? There's no one whose shoulders you get to fall apart on.
Successful on paper. Unconvinced underneath.
People marvel at what you've built. Yet, you doubt your skills, your impact, your right to any of it — and chase the next certification, the next system, the next 'new' thing that will maybe, hopefully, finally quiet the unease. It never does. Because the unease isn't an information problem. It's a safety switch.
THE REAL COST
Understanding it hasn't changed it. That's not failure — it's the wrong address.
Your body remembers every moment you had to perform to be loved. Every time you ignored your 'no' to keep the peace. Every instance you pushed through pain to prove your worth. Every year that taught you rest equals weakness. And until your nervous system feels safe enough to release those protective patterns, nothing changes. Not because you're not trying hard enough. Because the pattern was never stored where you've been looking for it. Meanwhile it keeps collecting interest — your sleep, your patience, your people, your joy.
Burnout that keeps coming back
You rest, you recover, you swear it'll be different this time — and four months later you're flat on your back again wondering what happened. The productivity hacks didn't hold. The boundaries didn't hold. Because you were managing the symptom, not the system underneath it.
The freeze when it matters most
You blank out in the exact moment you needed to speak. Then spend the drive home replaying it, rehearsing what you should have said, wondering why your body betrayed you again. It didn't betray you. It protected you the only way it learned how.
The people you love, paying for it
You're calm on paper and wired underneath, and the people closest to you feel the difference even when they can't name it. You snap at the small thing. You go quiet at the big one. You know you're safe — your chest just never got the memo.
THE MODERN SOMATICS APPROACH
Your body already knows the way back. We just clear the path.
This isn't about managing your stress better. It's about teaching your nervous system that you're finally safe enough to stop surviving and start living. No fixing. No forcing. No spiritual bypassing. I meet you in the mess, the activation, the raw truth of what your body is holding — and I stay with you until it shifts.
FOUNDATION
Learn your body's actual language
Sensation before story. We find where the pattern actually lives — the tightening in your chest, the flutter behind your ribs, the instinct to fold inward. These aren't random. They're intelligence, and you've been overriding them for years. You'll learn to read your own signals in real time, and to know the difference between fight, flight, freeze and fawn as they're happening — not three days later.
WALL OF LOVE
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Susan S.THE METHODs
Science with a pulse. Soul with a spine.
Somatic awareness, nervous system science, advanced NLP, Logosynthesis, Wholeness Work, strategic intervention, subconscious repatterning — woven together, not stacked. This isn't a modality menu. It's 20+ years of knowing which thread to pull, and when.
Mapping Your Nervous System
Identify your specific patterns of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and where they show up in your daily life and work.
Building Your Regulation Toolkit
Learn breath, movement, and touch-based practices that shift your state in real time, no meditation cushion required.
Somatic Trauma Processing
Gently work with stored survival responses at the pace your body sets, without retelling the story over and over.
Sustainable Integration
Anchor your new baseline into work, relationships, and high-stress moments so regulation becomes automatic.
Mapping Your Nervous System
Identify your specific patterns of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and where they show up in your daily life and work.
Building Your Regulation Toolkit
Learn breath, movement, and touch-based practices that shift your state in real time, no meditation cushion required.
Somatic Trauma Processing
Gently work with stored survival responses at the pace your body sets, without retelling the story over and over.
Sustainable Integration
Anchor your new baseline into work, relationships, and high-stress moments so regulation becomes automatic.
Mapping Your Nervous System
Identify your specific patterns of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and where they show up in your daily life and work.
Building Your Regulation Toolkit
Learn breath, movement, and touch-based practices that shift your state in real time, no meditation cushion required.
Somatic Trauma Processing
Gently work with stored survival responses at the pace your body sets, without retelling the story over and over.
Sustainable Integration
Anchor your new baseline into work, relationships, and high-stress moments so regulation becomes automatic.
Mapping Your Nervous System
Identify your specific patterns of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and where they show up in your daily life and work.
Building Your Regulation Toolkit
Learn breath, movement, and touch-based practices that shift your state in real time, no meditation cushion required.
Somatic Trauma Processing
Gently work with stored survival responses at the pace your body sets, without retelling the story over and over.
Sustainable Integration
Anchor your new baseline into work, relationships, and high-stress moments so regulation becomes automatic.
Mapping Your Nervous System
Identify your specific patterns of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and where they show up in your daily life and work.
Building Your Regulation Toolkit
Learn breath, movement, and touch-based practices that shift your state in real time, no meditation cushion required.
Somatic Trauma Processing
Gently work with stored survival responses at the pace your body sets, without retelling the story over and over.
Sustainable Integration
Anchor your new baseline into work, relationships, and high-stress moments so regulation becomes automatic.
I work where words stop working.
Meet Shandra
I'm a somatic healing coach, educator, and founder of Modern Somatics & Embodied Healing Center. My work didn't come from a textbook — it came from my own messy, necessary journey through trauma and my work helping others overcome theirs. I didn't just study trauma. I lived it just like most people, at least one of these elements will touch your life. Poverty. Abuse. Domestic violence. Drug/alcohol abuse. Family tragedies.The kind of pain that doesn't leave when you change your address or your mindset — the kind that stays in your nervous system until you learn how to meet it there. Those years taught me something I've spent over twenty years proving out with real people: survival lives in the body. But so does the sense of safety, empowerment and resilience. So does every unprocessed moment we've been too busy, too scared, or too alone to feel. So I don't just help you understand your patterns. I help you metabolize them. That's a different thing entirely — and it's why the change holds. I don't do cookie-cutter programs, forced breakthroughs, or spiritual bypassing. I meet you exactly where you are, without flinching, without fixing, without pretense.
Master's in Transpersonal Counseling
20+ years in the healing arts
30+ certifications in NLP and somatic modalities
Certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist
Conscious Breathwork Practitioner
International author — 5-star rating across 259 reviews
this is just ONE STORY
Meet our 2-time Dr. Phil guest
success story
Vanessa
"I was on Dr. Phil twice. But nothing changed… until I worked with Shandra."
Shandra has been a literal godsend. After 2 years of extreme physical illness (I actually vomited every single day for over a year!), 1 year of extreme mental illness, 9 months in intense trauma therapy, multiple counselors, psychiatrists and meds due to childhood sexual abuse… I knew I needed 'something' else. After many recommendations and a nervous system nearing shut-down- I began working with Shandra. The first session I stopped shaking. I didn't throw up in the week after my session. Over time, she greatly opened up my confidence, creativity, emotions and understanding of myself in just 4 sessions. She is truly a healer!
4
Sessions
To feel the shift
9 mos
Of trauma therapy first
Before we met
THREE WAYS IN
Here's how we'll work together
Prices are listed upfront because your nervous system shouldn't have to brace for a sales pitch. You get to decide what feels aligned before we even speak.
THE RETURN
$1,111
You want the whole journey home, walked alongside other women doing the same work. The Return is a 10-week trauma-informed somatic experience for people ready to stop getting trapped in old stories and live from what's real.
Includes:
- 10 weeks, held
- Weekly live somatic coaching call
- Daily integration practices
- Guided somatic exercises
- Private messaging between you and me
- Private vision board, notes & journal
- Get feedback on demand
One-time payment
MOST PERSONAL
By application
You want it built entirely around you. Private somatic coaching at the pace your nervous system sets — no protocol, no cohort, no cookie-cutter anything. We begin with a free Connection Call to see if we're a fit.
Includes everything in first tier, plus:
- Live 1:1 somatic sessions
- Your own nervous system map
- Between-session voice support
- Private vision board, notes & journal
- Advanced NLP and subconscious repatterning
- Priority scheduling
One-time payment
NO ZOOM REQUIRED
From $250/mo
You want support without another Zoom. No camera, no calendar, no showing up 'on.' Send a voice or text message when it hits — 3am, lunch, the quiet hour after the house goes down — and get real somatic guidance back.
Includes everything in first tier, plus:
- SomAsync Lite — $250/month, gentle support
- SomAsync — $500/month, ongoing access
- SomAsync Experience — $850, six days unlimited
- Text, audio and video messaging
- Private vision board, notes & journal
- Runs in my private coaching app. Cancel anytime.
One-time payment
BEFORE YOU BOOK
The questions you're already asking
No fine print, no confusion — just honest answers about what's included and how it all works.
Talk therapy works with your story. Meditation works with your mind. Both are valuable, and neither one reaches a pattern stored in your tissue. 'Just think positive' won't rewire a nervous system stuck in survival mode. 'Set better boundaries' won't work when your body believes saying no means danger. 'Practice more self-care' won't touch trauma living in your tissues. That's not a failure of effort — it's an address problem. Somatic work goes to the actual address.
No chanting required. This is nervous system science — polyvagal theory, trauma research, advanced NLP, subconscious repatterning, conscious breathwork and somatic awareness. Science with a pulse, soul with a spine. Skeptics tend to do well here, actually. You'll be tracking your own sensation and evidence the whole way. Nothing asks you to believe me or blindly take my word for it. I will always ask you to just experience it.
We move at the pace your nervous system sets, not the pace of a curriculum. I don't force breakthroughs and I don't need you to retell the story over and over to get somewhere. Safety and titration come first, always. And I stay with you — in the mess, in the activation — until it shifts. You won't be left holding something open.
Most people notice something in the first two or three sessions — usually in how they recover from a trigger rather than whether they get triggered at all. Vanessa felt real change in four. Deeper repatterning takes longer, and it should. We're not installing a coping strategy, we're changing a baseline.
No. Many of the people I work with are functioning beautifully on the outside — successful, capable, the one everyone else leans on — and quietly wired-tired underneath. You don't have to fall apart first to deserve support.
Then don't. Asynchronous coaching exists for exactly this — no camera, no calendar, no showing up 'on.' You send a voice or text message when it hits, I respond with real somatic guidance during business hours. Many people report deeper breakthroughs this way than on live calls, because there's time to process between exchanges.
Book a free Connection Call and we'll figure it out together. No pressure, no pitch — an honest conversation about what you're experiencing, what you've already tried, and whether this is even the right path for you. If it isn't, I'll tell you.
COME HOME
Something inside you already knows.
It's been calling you home. Book the call it's been asking for. Either way, you'll never be the same.