One-to-One Sessions online

I love holding space for us to return to our bodies as trustworthy landscapes...

where the mystical, the poetic, the cosmic, the ancestral live & breathe.

Trio of arched images purple flowers close up of moss, the sea

I especially love being in one-to-one practice with kin who identify as queer or Black or BIPOC. My approach centers community-tenders, practitioners, facilitators and change-makers who want to be held & celebrated as you hold space for others, and want to welcome in deep rest & play as you embody your vision for collective healing.

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The Short & Sweet Version

  • Embodiment coaching for adults over 18, living anywhere in the world
  • Each session lasts 1 hour, and is online on Zoom
  • My timezone is GMT/BST (I'm based in Scotland)
  • Choose from weekly / fortnightly / 3-weekly / monthly / 6-weekly sessions
  • Payment is on a sliding scale, from £65 - £145 per session (approx. $87 - $195 USD /  75 - 165 Euros)

 

 

An Invitation to become the ancestors we long to be

I'd love to partner with you one-to-one if you:

 

I'd love to coach you if you want to skip the small talk and go deep, and enjoy the queering of things and being with what might be beyond + image of lush green leaves with sunlight dappling through
text: "value courage, rest, play & delight, are committed to anti-racism as an embodied way of being, have a desire to expand your capacity to notice what your bodymind know" + images of a Black transmasc person resting, pink flowers and vivid pink variagated leaves
text: tread in the margins and know that there's magic here, feel committed to rooting into community as you tend to your healing, have a spirit that wants to play" + images of a close-up of a white-bodied person holding moss in their hands, two BIPOC people mid-laugh sharing food together, a double-exposed photograph of a person dancing against a pink swirly background

Embodiment practice is a non-linear process of returning to an embodied way of being that is attuned to, welcomes & honours all that is here: our felt sense, energetic awareness, physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, ancestral wisdom, and everything else that is present... so that we can respond choicefully from our whole knowing.

In one-to-one coaching, I have the honour of keeping you company in this emergent process of aliveness, spirals, unfurls & magic, and witnessing the ripple effects as you move in the world.


I'll support you to:

  • honour the truth of your lived realities of marginalisation - the harm, the systemic oppression, the grief of it all - while also aligning with people & places & practices that feel like freedom & beauty
  • sense into what integrity, belonging & connection mean to you, and connect to choice
  • befriend & cultivate the ancestral wisdom that's alive in your body - in expansive and queer ways - through relationship with beings, spirit, place, art, music, movement...
  • develop embodiment practices that emerge from your unique heritage and lineages
  • welcome in more rest and play
  • return to ways of sensing & knowing that transcend the bounds of social conditioning
  • feel in integrity in your relationships, work and offerings to the world, as you change
  • feel part of a nourishing ecosystem and flow of relationship, including friendship, land, peer support, energetic awareness, purpose & aligned community
  • be in courageous relational practice, to plant seeds that will grow far beyond our time together


What might be possible if you feel held, aligned, playful & connected to beyonds as you embody your vision for the collective?

Let's sense into it together.

 

Contact Everyday Writes - book your call or send me a message

 

 

About Our Sessions

We have a life-force drive towards connection, delight & curiosity. This is a place to remember & breathe life into different ways of being. There's space here, in our time together, for whatever you want to welcome in.

Each session is unique.

Everything is always an invitation. 

 

 

What you can bring to a session

Everything is welcome. All topics. All sensations. All emotions.

The beauty of embodiment practice is that there is space for anything that's here for you in the moment. Everything you share will be held with care and confidentiality.

 

How a session feels

 

Presence, Play, Invitation: 3 images showing dia sitting in long grass, dancing with headphones on, and holding their hands open.

Sessions are all about presence, experimentation, play & invitation.

Each session will be unique, arising from whatever is alive for you within our space during that time. Together, we trust that, when we seek to stay in partnership and presence in the moment, what wants to emerge will emerge.

My approach is non-directive. We will always move at the pace of your embodied yes or no or maybe, with spaciousness to sense into that. There's no expectation that just because we tried a certain somatic practice in a previous session, it would also be welcome in this session.

Through professional learning and lived experience of trauma, I understand the need to respect and celebrate our body's edges and limits. My approach is centred around invitations for you to check in with your capacity and make choices based on what you sense you need. We move slowly in partnership together, paying attention to the signals your bodymind is giving you - slowing down, changing route, pausing and stopping as needed.

 

Sessions follow a general structure:

Session structure: Opening, Flow, Integration

Opening

  • You may arrive with an issue that you want to explore. Or, you may have nothing specific and just want to feel into what's calling your attention

 

Flow

  • In somatic coaching, we "dance" between conceptual self awareness (processing logically through our thoughts, and making meaning with words) and embodied self awareness (using our senses to feel from within our bodies, connect to felt sense signals, and allow insight and shifts to emerge).
  • Much of the time, we will talk or be in silence, as in any conversation. Throughout a session, I will reflect your words back to you, pull out certain phrases, and ask curious questions. Some sessions may be spent completely in this way, and may stay within conceptual self awareness.
  • When it is welcome, you may want to explore sensations within your body. Any invitations from me for you to explore through embodied self awareness will be exactly that: invitations or offerings of practice or processes that you can choose to say yes or no to within each session.
  • Examples of somatic processes that I may offer to guide you through include: Resourcing, felt sensing, somatic boundary explorations, Focusing, PIE sensory awareness (Proprioception, Interoception, Exteroception), Constellations, verbal experiments, dance, visualisation, Centering.

 

Integration & Close

  • We spend time at the end of each session integrating and making sense of what has emerged, and partner together to ensure that you leave feeling resourced.

  

Welcoming our identities

Embodiment practice is about partnering with all that is here, including the ways we've been shaped by culture. 

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When we meet in relationship, we each bring our lineage (ancestral, spiritual, beliefs, learnings), including perhaps lineages of racial harm. Our identities, our embodied memories, our collective survival shapes - both known and unknown, supportive and uncomfortable - are already present in the room.

If you choose me as your companion in embodiment, we are co-creating a multi-racial partnership. I'm committed to naming and working with my mixed racialised identity as a Black person of English~Sudanese~Syrian~Scottish heritage (along with ancestry that I do not know). If whiteness is also part of your heritage, it's important that you, too, are able to name, be with and be curious about whiteness as a cultural and racialised identity which informs how you show up in the world... so that we can partner together in a heartful way, understand our conditioned embodied tendencies and our edges, and meet explorations in a way that feels choiceful, curious, and responsive.

 

 

Sliding Scale Pricing

For each session, you can choose to pay any price between £65 and £145. Please choose the amount that feels like an aligned way to honour your circumstances, support my livelihood, and practice embodied collective care within this ecosystem.

For clients who benefit from relative socio-economic ease, racial ease and/or generational wealth, I invite a practice of "gifting it forward" where possible, as an embodied practice of care towards those with marginalised identities and/or less financial resource within our community. The true price of a session is £110. By choosing to pay any amount above £110, you are gifting it forward, so that someone can access coaching at the lower price point.

If £65 is not accessible for you, and you feel really aligned with what I offer, let's have a conversation and explore alternative pay-what-you-can prices or exchange - send me an email.


 

Booking Process

What to expect, from your initial enquiry to your first session

 

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1. Get in touch

I offer a free 20-30 minute Connection Call on Zoom to meet and explore coaching together. Head over to Calendly to book your call. You'll find some optional questions there. Short or long answers are welcome!

Or, if you'd prefer, send me a message instead and I can book in your call via email.

 

2. We'll have our Connection Call on Zoom

This is an informal chat to feel into where you are in your journey, what you'd hope for from coaching, and whether we're a good fit for what you need right now. If the energy feels good and it's a Yes for both of us, we'll set the date for your first session! And if it feels like a No, I may be able to suggest other coaches who might be a good fit, or direct you to other resources.

 

3. You'll book in your first session via Calendly and I'll set up payment

Each session lasts 1 hour and takes place on Zoom. Once you've booked, I'll send you a payment link. Payment is due (by bank transfer or card) by 48 hours before your session. 


4. You'll receive your Coaching Agreement 

Clear and straightforward, so you know exactly what to expect from our time together. Read the agreement, ask any questions, and sign and return it via email.


5. During each session

No two sessions are the same, but I'll always show up for you in the same way.

  • I will listen, ask curious questions and reflect your words back to you
  • I may make invitations into embodied self-awareness
  • I will be non-directive
  • I'll bring my calm, playful energy and meet you in whatever capacity and energy you bring to the session



I'll support you to root into the collective soil as you tend to yourself, and to let feeling guide how you move in the world.

Here's what clients have experienced during our one-to-one time together...

 


Testimonial with portrait image of dia (light skinned Black person with short dark hair and brown eyes, standing holding a cup of tea): "I knew no matter what unfolded in the conversations, I had your love and compassion there just holding that space for me."
A photo of pink hibiscus flowers, with the text: "dia’s approach is person centred, direct, practical and full of care. I am letting myself fall back into life more, softening into the challenges and feeling out that which I have avoided before.”
An image of a person holding a fern in their palms, with the words: "I now have tools to break away from difficult cyclical behaviour... I can pause, stand my ground and not be as affected."
Photo of the Lake District hills, with the text: "dia's approach is person centred, direct, practical and full of care. They allow you to show up as who you are in the moment with not only zero judgement, but with deep acceptance of who you are and what you are bringing. I am letting myself fall back into life more, softening into the challenges and feeling out that which I have avoided before. With dia you will find yourself cared for and celebrated and that will change the game in ways you didn't know were available to you. You will be so happy you met them."Close-up photo of a monstera leaf. Text reads “In a society that tells you what to want and what to value, dia’s openness and honouring of uniqueness, difference and personal truth is a much needed light.""I think dia is an utter dream of a coach, the person I want in my corner... fair, brave, enthusiastic, loving, committed, caring and dedicated." with an image of dia on the right, wering a grey jumper and smiling widely

You don't have to go it alone anymore.

 

Book your free Connection Call or send me a message, let's skip the small talk, with a portrait of dia standing holding a cup of tea and looking out of the window