Hey lovely soul, glad to have you here.
I’m Maxine, an Embodiment Coach for women who are wanting a more compassionate and nurturing relationship with themselves.
My coaching practice blends of somatic processes, self-reflective inquiry, and nature connection. Our goal in working together is bringing you in coherence with your truth, and tending to the needs and desires that support your thriving.
Offering my services as a coach has come about through a long, ripening road of teaching yoga, training in Somatic Experiencing, caregiving, and offering nature inspired experiences. You can read more about my journey here – it’s a story likely a lot like yours — full of “what am I even doing and why?” moments and returning to the golden thread of vision and heart over and over, and over.
3 Ways to Work Together to Enrich Your Embodiment Journey:
The outer ring:
WILDERNEST MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
The Wildernest is Maxine’s monthly membership hosted on Mighty Networks. Your subscription includes monthly live embodiment workshops and access to all previous replays, along with Maxine’s full guided practice library and a space for self-expression in our group forum. Subscription is $54/CAN per month with no minimum commitment for how long you stay. To read more and to join click below.
The inner circle:
TEND, GROUP COACHING MEMBERSHIP
Tend is a 7 month coaching container for tending to the conditions that nourish your vitality. Your Vitality being the expression of your embodiment when life is moving through you in a self-nurturing, self-honouring way. We practice stripping away layers and getting down to the foundation of your desires, needs and values, and nourishing your body and spirit with somatic work, visioning, and coaching. Tend includes access our Wildernest monthly workshops.
The Nurture Your Nature Mentorship
oooh this one. This option is for you if you’re seeking 6 months of steady, transformational, and compassionate mentorship. NYN is Embodiment Coaching to listen to your needs, desires and values. This is for alignment and devotion to your thriving. The women who have signed up for this have listened to inner callings and navigated deep shifts. Learn more here.
I love to hangout in the space between your animal body and your meaning-making spirit;
The place where your body’s intuitive responses meet how you make meaning about your life and the world around you.
I truly feel there is so much choice here, in this space between, if only we can slow down just a little bit more to feel into it.
If you knew it was safe and there was plenty of time:
What you create?
What would you explore?
How would you express?
What is Embodiment Coaching?
Embodiment Coaching helps you connect to your life as a body and engage with your life through the presence of your whole self. Those sensations in your belly, the buzzing in your throat, the peacefulness when surrounded by what nourishes you, all of this is information. Wise information from an intuitive place. Through Embodiment Coaching you learn techniques for connecting mind and body.
My approach is geared specifically to help women embody self nurturing through a combination of somatic, mindset, and nature connection practices, with a trauma informed and nervous system education background. In our Western culture, many of us feel disconnected from our bodies and from the power of the feminine: the flow of creative impulses and our innate cyclic rhythms. This disconnection can actually be a technique we develop to feel safer amidst distressing inner sensations. We push away vulnerability. We push away desire. Because at one time, these weren’t safe to feel. Instead of focusing on our own bodies and person, we have overactive minds, or we place all our attention on orbiting around the needs of others. We lose the ability to articulate our needs and desires and feel misaligned.
With my approach, I understand that connecting your body may feel like a not-so-cozy place sometimes. And yet, if we stay numb we miss out on harnessing all of the wisdom the body offers, using this wisdom to help transform our obstacles into fuel for growth. We lose out on intuition, creativity and the possibility to experience joy and beauty as a body. We also miss a sense of belonging. We are more stressed, irritated, and less fulfilled. This is why I offer a combination of focusing in and out, using mind, body and nature connection practices, to develop skills for embodied living. Embodiment Coaching supports you experiencing life in fullness so that you can offer your empowered caring to this world with confidence and self-sustainability.
Self Nurturing does not just mean resourcing on your own. Everyone needs support. The most nurturing version of you stands with yourself in your times of need, helps you ask, and helps you receive.