About Me — so glad we’ve crossed paths

I’m a somatic practitioner, psychosynthesis coach, and meditation teacher based in New York City, completing an MS in Applied Neuroscience. My background is rooted in contemplative perspectives, and somatic work became a natural evolution because they are, at their core, the same work: building the capacity for presence.

Over time my work has narrowed to what I find most meaningful and most misunderstood in the somatic field. The nervous system is where body, feeling, language, and mind meet, and to truly embody change is to capture it wholly across your awareness and sense of self. This is especially true for developmental wounding or arrested growth, where the self never fully formed but organized instead around protection, and whose patterns live implicitly right here in the present. The work is about building that capacity, to be with our own experience and inner world, so something truer can finally emerge.

This work is deeply personal for me. I know firsthand the experiences of disconnection and chronic pain, and I meet each person with the presence and care I once needed myself.

Accompanying people and families through the dying process as an end-of-life companion or doula and hospice volunteer is where I have refined and learned the most about what this work actually asks. Our mortality is where presence, letting go, and transformation are most demanded of us, and it has shaped everything about my approach.

I hold a deep respect for the complexity and potential of what it means to be human, and I love supporting others through depth-based coaching and development in building the capacity for presence, inhabiting themselves fully, and living from the inside out.

I'm glad you're here.

—Susan Reis