I hold 1:1 and group coaching spaces rooted in somatic abolition, collective care, and restorative practice. These are slow, spacious sessions for those moving through complexity, leadership, or change—and who want to come home to their body as part of their liberation.

Alongside my work as a writer and the former Executive Director of a global feminist fund, I’ve spent years holding space in teams, movements, and communities navigating grief, power, race, conflict, and deep care. I bring a somatic abolitionist, and trauma-informed lens to this work—shaped by my South Asian lineage, anti-racist practice, and a refusal to separate the personal from the political.

These sessions are not about fixing or optimizing. They are about remembering, softening, and reclaiming what was always yours.

What This Work Is

This is not performance coaching.
This is not about doing more, achieving more, or being more resilient.

This is about making room - to notice, feel, unwind, and come back to yourself in real time.
Together, we explore:

  • How power, trauma, and culture live in the body

  • How rest, rage, and reconnection can be reclaimed

  • How it feels to soften performance and be in your truth

  • What liberation might feel like in your nervous system

We breathe, name, stretch, and hold. We move slowly. We honour discomfort. We practice staying.

What’s Landed for Those Held Here

“Uma’s sessions are like a cup of warm tea on a cold day.”

- Anonymous Client

“I feel like I know what my body needs. I make decisions with clarity I didn’t have before.”

- Team Member, Nonprofit Sector

“She sees you in ways you didn’t know you needed to be seen.”

- Coaching Client

“Working with Uma helped me soften the harshness I gave myself. Now I lead with more patience, clarity, and care.”

- Anonymous

Somatic Coaching & Chat Spaces

Rooted Return: 1:1 Somatic Coaching for Liberatory Reconnection

A soft space to land. A grounded place to return.

What This Work Is

This space may be for you if:

  • You are navigating burnout, grief, leadership, or transition

  • You long to reconnect with your body, rest, or voice

  • You’re holding complexity—personally, ancestrally, politically

  • You’re tired of “thinking through it” and want to feel through it

  • You’re ready to be gently held, but also lovingly challenged

What a Session Might Look Like

Each session is shaped by your body, pace, and present needs. Together, we might:

  • Begin with breath, grounding, or orientation

  • Explore where tension or emotion lives in the body

  • Follow threads of voice, silence, anger, tenderness

  • Reflect, pause, listen, and name what’s rising

  • Build small practices of return that you can take with you

This is your space. I hold the container—you guide the depth.

Interested? Let’s Connect

I’m not actively seeking new clients, but I’m open to being in conversation with you or your team. If something here resonates, you’re warmly invited to reach out.

  • 📬 Email me with a short note or question.
    📝 Or explore my writing on Substack for more reflections on this work.
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