Heal Your Relationship
with Your Body
somatic coaching to help you reconnect with your body,
understand your nervous system,
and cultivate greater self-trust, choice and freedom
Many of us have spent a lifetime learning to override, control or criticize our bodies.
We’ve been taught to:
Push through exhaustion
Ignore discomfort
Distrust our hunger
Suppress our emotions
Make ourselves smaller.
Prioritize other people’s needs.
Judge our bodies worth by how they look
Over time, we can become very good at functioning
while becoming increasingly disconnected from ourselves.
Somatic work offers another way.
Rather than treating your body as something that needs to be fix, we begin listening to it with curiousity.
We learn to recognize sensations, emotions, protective responses and patterns that may have once helped us survive, but may no longer be serving us.
And slowly, we build a healthy relationship with our body…a relationship built on respect rather than force.
This is the foundation for naturally releasing the protective/survival mechanisms that keep you stuck in stubborn patterns.
“The way you relate to your body
impacts how you navigate stress,
how you experience your relationships,
how deeply you trust yourself,
and ultimately, how you experience your life.”
— Anna Vickroy
A Body-Centered Approach to Personal Growth
My approach draws from:
Somatic Experiencing® and body-based awareness
nervous system education and regulation practices
body-based hypnotherapy and subconscious exploration
embodied practices for building capacity, boundaries and self-trust
liberation-centered exploration of the cultural beliefs we carry about ourselves and our bodies
my own lived experience and ongoing journey of healing and embodiment
This isn’t about always being calm.
It’s about developing the capacity to be with yourself when life happens, with more awareness, compassion and choice.
spend a lot of time in your head
experience anxiety, overwhelm or numbness
feel disconnected from your body
easily triggered or have emotional outbursts you later regret
obsess over food or exercise and what your body looks like
always busy and find it hard to be with yourself
tried talk therapy, yoga, meditation and still feel stuck
find yourself coping and numbing and know there’s something more
Select An Experience
My unique Somatic Coaching approach focuses on nervous system regulation, unlearning oppressive conditioning, healing trauma and reprograming with liberating beliefs so you can feel good being yourself again.
From mini Day Retreats to Hawaiian getaways, retreats are an opportunity for you to focus on yourself. Give yourself the gift of time & space to immerse yourself in a healing energy to reconnect to your authentic self.
Check out the opportunities to learn and heal at your own pace with online courses and my podcast.
What becomes possible when you reconnect with your body?
Recognize your body’s signals before overwhelm
Notice your patterns without judging yourself for having them
Experience emotions without needing to suppress, escape or be consumed by them
Stop being controlled by your triggers
Discern between an automatic protective response and a choice aligned with who you are now
Care for your body from a place of curiousity rather than punishment or control
Respond rather than react to stressful situations
Develop greater trust in your intuition
Stay connected to yourself when someone else is disappointment, upset or uncomfortable
Communicate your needs and boundaries with greater clarity
Feel more compassion for yourself & others
And perhaps most importantly, experience your body as a place you belong.
I’m Anna Vickroy
I was a high-achieving, people pleaser with a temper. I was judgmental and constantly striving to prove my worth. I was stuck in a roller coaster of chasing the next achievement until I burnt out again.
I thought this was normal with having a successful engineering career, custom built home, husband and kids, and traveling the world etc.
I was tired of the hustle and feeling empty. When my health started to decline. I knew I had to do something differently. My life changed began when I started healing my relationship with my body.
As someone with an engineering mind, profound experiences weren’t enough for me. I wanted to understand why these practices affected me so deeply.
I began studying neuroscience, nervous-system regulation, Somatic Experiencing®, hypnotherapy meditation, breathwork, embodiment, and anti-oppression while continuing to do my own inner work.
Today, I bring together my training, lived experience and deep curiousity about the relationship between body, mind and culture to support others in developing a more connected relationship with themselves.
I hold certificates in life coaching, Somatic Experiencing, Mind-Body Therapy, hypnotherapy, yin-yoga and Body Positive Facilitation.
My work is not about telling you what your body should be. It’s about helping you become curious enough to hear what it has been trying to tell you.