Episode # 133: Creating Community & Connecting back to the Body through Somatic Therapy with Rachel Friedman

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In today's episode I sit down with Rachel Friedman, MSW, ERYT 500, YACEP, founded the Somatic Coach School, Beyond The Yoga Mat, and Soma Power Yoga where she helps people learn how to elevate their lives through the power of yoga and somatics. She also supports yoga facilitators, therapists, coaches, and healers to integrate somatic skills into their practice and build a conscious-based business to provide life-changing results for their clients.

Together we discuss:

  • Rachel's personal story from traditional therapist into somatic therapy

  • Owning a Yoga studio three times and what she has learned

  • What to look for in a business partnership and the importance of highlighting your own strengths, weaknesses and work ethic

  • Benefit of learning basic business skills for owning a yoga studio 

  • Rachel’s number one tool for creating a profitable yoga studio is community 

  • Transition into somatic work and how it is different from traditional therapy

  • Understanding why we are so disconnected from our bodies

  • Learning to process emotions and orient oneself

  • Importance of pausing and having reflection

  • Untapped Power of our Sensitivity 


Rachel believes our bodies hold the wisdom and medicine we need to heal and live an incredible human experience — one where we learn to feel all emotions.  You can find her on instagram @rachelbfriedman.

Amanda Strojny