Feel at Home in Your Body Again
1:1 somatic sessions for chronic tension, stress patterns, and the feeling of being stuck in your head.
Sometimes the body feels too loud.
Chronic tension is calling for attention.
Other times, the body feels entirely out of reach.
You feel yourself mostly in your head, disconnected from the body.
This space is for both.
Through subtle movement, deep presence, and attuned nervous system support, we begin rebuilding contact with your body at a pace your system can trust. The work is gentle and concrete: noticing where you hold, brace, rush, or disconnect, and finding small new choices inside those patterns.
Why You Might Be Here
People usually find their way here when the body’s signals can no longer be ignored or pushed aside.
You might recognize this as:
- Chronic physical tension settling into your neck, jaw, shoulders, back, or pelvis.
- Living mostly in your head: thinking, analyzing, planning, functioning — while your body feels distant, muted, or hard to access.
- Exhaustion from pushing through, and feeling unsure of how to truly restwithout turning “relaxation” into just another task on your to-do list.
- Reacting before you have time to choose: tightening before you speak, holding your breath when something matters, losing your ground around others, or saying yes before checking what is actually true for you.
We start exactly where you are.
What Begins to Change
The goal is not to become completely relaxed all the time. That isn’t real life.
The aim is to have more choice. And choice is freedom. Not the abstract kind, but the practical freedom to pause, to sense, to respond from yourself rather than being pulled through your days by old patterns, beliefs, and conditions you never consciously agreed to.
- Choice in how you breathe.
- Choice in how you move.
- Choice in how you respond when life asks something of you.
- Choice in the exact moments your body usually tightens, rushes, collapses, holds back, or runs on autopilot.
Change happens quietly here. You feel the ground under your feet during a difficult conversation. You pause before answering. Your shoulders soften just a fraction. You recognize when you are carrying weight that isn’t yours to hold.
What Happens in a Session
Our time together begins with what is alive in the present moment. A physical sensation. A recurring pattern. A moment from your week where an old reaction took over.
From there, we slow it down.
- Physical: The mechanics of how your jaw, spine, pelvis, shoulders, or feet organize movement and support. This work is precise and often surprising in what it reveals.
- Emotional: Making gentle space for what emerges when a tight muscle finally lets go and something deeper becomes visible: an emotion, a memory, a held breath finally released.
- Meditative: Slowing down enough to feel the ground, the chair, the weight of your own body, and letting the nervous system settle without agenda.
My role is to track the small signals with you: where your body braces, where support is missing, where something new begins to appear.
Your body already knows the way back. I am here to help you listen.
Format & Pricing
- Sessions are 60 minutes on Zoom.
- You can begin with a single session after our free intro call to get a felt sense of the work.
- If ongoing support feels right, we can enter a three-month coaching container. This includes weekly or biweekly sessions, simple somatic practices and explorations between our calls, and direct support as the work unfolds between sessions.
- Investment: €75-125 per session, sliding scale.
Choose what works for your situation, no explanation needed.
Yes, This Works Online
Your nervous system does not know it is on Zoom. Your jaw still braces when something feels unsafe. Your breath still shortens before a difficult sentence. Your shoulders still carry what they have always carried.
We work with exactly that. In real time. Wherever you are sitting right now.
This Is For You If:
- Tension, stress, disconnection, rushing, or over-responsibility have become your default way of moving through the day.
- You want to feel more at ease in your body and are willing to engage with small, practical steps to get there.
- You are curious about how movement, breath, emotion, and nervous system patterns connect in your lived experience.
- You are drawn to slow, gentle, presence-based work rather than pushing harder or fixing faster.
- You are ready to stop overriding your body and start actually listening to it.
This may not be the right fit if you are looking for a quick fix, intense exercise, medical diagnosis, or crisis support. This is a somatic education and coaching process. It can support body awareness, nervous system regulation, and self-contact, but it does not replace medical or psychological care.
Common Starting Points
When the jaw is tight: We explore its quiet relationship with your tongue, neck, and breath. We track when it braces in your daily life.
When shoulders carry too much: We look at how they take on over-responsibility. Together, we invite your ribs, spine, pelvis, and feet to offer real foundational support, so your shoulders no longer have to carry the world.
When there is back pain or stiffness: We observe how the pelvis, spine, and breath organize support while you are simply sitting or standing, discovering where you feel you have to physically hold yourself up just to get through the day.
When rushing or stress takes over: We map the very first, subtle body signs that appear right before you speed up. We practice finding enough inner contact to pause before autopilot takes over.
When resting feels unsafe: We explore what your body does when there is absolutely nothing to achieve. We work with physical support, the floor, the breath, and the parts of you that do not yet fully trust stopping.
About Nikola
I am a somatic practitioner, a certified Feldenkrais Method teacher, and the founder of Native State.
I work with your body as a living, intelligent process.
In practice this means I listen deeply to how your system organizes itself. We do not chase symptoms or treat your body as a problem to correct. Instead, I observe how you move, breathe, protect, find support, and repeat old responses. Together we discover where new possibilities can begin to emerge.
My work draws on the Feldenkrais Method, NeuroAffective Touch, craniosacral biodynamics, Aletheia Coaching, parts work, and presence-based inquiry.
How to Begin
Please fill out this form and I will reply with available times for a free 20-minute intro call.
The call is a chance for us to meet, speak about what you are looking for, and sense whether working together feels right.
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