The Key to Unlocking Client Transformation
Maya Gayatri Andersson 4-27-2025
In this session, we will uncover how to actively transfer the understanding of somatic principles into everyday life in order to better navigate stress, trauma, and to ultimately optimize self-healing. You will discover tools to effectively coach clients to access deeper levels of self-connection and to create a platform for lasting transformation.
You will also explore how to use embodiment, awareness, and somatic micro-movements to grow the capacity for resilience, inner resourcefulness, and self-regulation. By being the internal reference for the locus of somatic transformation, a gateway is created for the client to access.
The session will include a presentation, group discussion, and a short somatic movement exploration. The keys shared in this presentation can be applied for self-use as well as for working practically with clients.
In this session you will learn how to:
Apply nuanced somatic explorations, including how to connect with the intelligence of the back body, as well as accessing internal and external support.
Upskill your work with effective tools for somatic coaching.
Embody the field and frequency you are guiding your client to access.
Prioritize the next step in your client’s somatic learning, in order for them to maintain nervous system regulation, and to remain in a state of self-connection.
Create lasting transformation for your clients with tools that leave them feeling resourced and empowered.
Maya Gayatri Andersson (Schriefer), MSME, CHSE, BScEd, is a board member of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) and a registered Master Somatic Movement Educator (MSME). She is a certified Clinical Hanna Somatic Educator (CHSE) and an Equine Hanna Somatic Educator. Maya is a graduate of The Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training and has had the privilege of being mentored by Eleanor Criswell Hanna for over 20 years. Additionally, Maya holds a bachelor’s degree in Education (BScED) with a focus on health promotion, education and kinesthetic learning. She is the co-founder of Living Somatics, and has brought Hanna Somatics to Sweden. Together with Brian Siddhartha Ingle, she has introduced the work to the Russian-speaking countries. Maya is passionate about making Somatic disciplines available to the world, and to connect and grow the global somatic community. As part of this mission she co-hosted and co-curated the virtual Somatic Movement Summits from 2020 to 2023.
Based in Sweden, Maya consults with clients and leads practitioner trainings and workshops internationally, both in-person and online. In addition, she co-facilitates women’s self-leadership programs with her sister Jahanavi Schriefer. Over the course of her adult life Maya has traveled the world studying somatic movement and spiritual methods, including Hanna Somatics, Equine Somatics, the Feldenkrais Method®, Watsu, Body Mind Centering®, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Qi-gong, martial arts, several styles of yoga, dance, meditation, energy healing work, and Native American tracking. Maya’s mission is to offer pathways to greater self-connection, transformation and elevation in the somatic lived experience. She is a firm believer that each person is self-responsible, self-regulating and self-healing. Through her facilitations Maya creates a field of embodied wholeness for you to align yourself with the life you love to live.
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