Coming back home to the body.
TED Speaker. Somatic Intelligence Coach. Award-Winning Social Entrepreneur. Best-Selling Author. Professional Dancer.
The Power of Somatic Intelligence came to life out of a quest I started at the age of 20 to find my true self. I was buried under a lot of layers of expectations and broken from the childhood I grew up in, next to a mentally ill mom.
Each part of this journey gave me unique tools and insights which I incorporated into the Power of Somatic Intelligence. The most impactful tools on my soma (body), on my mental health, and ultimately on my performance and success, were the somatic practices I gained.
While traditional talk therapy can effectively address many emotional and mental challenges, trauma is held both in the mind and in the body. We need to heal both. Somatic work can quickly address deep emotional issues and trauma not revealed through talk therapy, simply by developing somatic awareness - paying attention to the communication of the body and working with it.
The 5 elements of Somatic Intelligence allow us to bring back what we’ve lost due to our current daily stressful lifestyle and show us what changes we need to make in our embodiment so we can live to our fullest potential.
For the longest time, I felt like I have stumbled upon an incredible human treasure. That if I could just have people around the world experience these powerful changes, they would not want to live in any other way. We could all live much happier, more connected, balanced, and fulfilled lives, while being part of a strong community that gives us powerful belonging.
The Power of Somatic Intelligence is my way of sharing this gift with all of you and rooting for this to become our new status quo.
- Chen Lizra
CHEN’S BIO
Chen Lizra, one of the foremost somatic healing experts in the world, has honed her skills and practices in the genre of body healing for over two decades. Chen has studied natural healing and bodywork around the globe with world-renowned masters of their craft. From spending nearly two decades intensively training with Cuba’s top professional dancers, learning Cuban embodiment practices, training for over two years in transformational coaching on how to heal trauma and generational trauma naturally from the body through somatic practices, to studying Zen meditation practices and Buddhist living in Japan under the guidance of Gudo Nishijima, Chen’s expansive life experiences have supplied her with transformational wisdom on how to heal and grow through embodiment. She’s taken that embodied wisdom and developed the 5 Elements of Somatic Intelligence, an innovative treatment to heal, through bodywork and through being deeply felt, the traumas trapped in the body.
Chen’s passion for somatic healing was born from her personal story. When she was a young child, her mother became mentally ill which in turn affected Chen’s own emotional foundation and spurred her dedication and research over two and a half decades into the effects of trauma on the body and how to heal it. In the process, Chen gained incredible and unique wisdom that she now practices with clients around the world causing profound shifts in 3-6 months.
Through Somatic Intelligence, her personally developed method of embodied wisdom, Chen has worked to coach and heal hundreds of clients, in particular successful women, suffering from deeply rooted traumas such as emotional abandonment, rejection, abuse, and neglect. It is estimated that 70% of adults have suffered trauma in their lives which can result in feelings of insecurity, fear and in feelings of being blocked or stuck. Chen’s methods offer an alternative to mainstream talk therapy through somatic coaching, freeing those traumas that are trapped within the physical body and releasing what is blocked.
