I help people who are feeling stuck navigating challenging life events to reconnect with their body so they can experience more self trust, increased capacity and a renewed sense of possibility.

Imagine with me for a moment,

That sense you have in your body when you’ve got your own back.

A feeling of steadiness and support from deep within.

Maybe it arrives with the sensation of weight or groundedness in your belly and feet, the felt sense of gravity.

You’re in touch with your innate strength, yet you remain flexible and resilient, connected to your aliveness.

You’re anchored in the knowledge that whatever life throws your way, you won’t abandon yourself when the seas get rough.

Going through life's difficult times can feel like being tumbled around in stormy seas

Perhaps you’re frustrated by the neverending symptoms of chronic illness, deeply fatigued and longing for more capacity.

Maybe the 3am wakings are becoming a nightly occurrence, you feel jumpy and tense and the hum of anxiety is ever-present.

Perhaps you’re constantly triggered, flooded with big big feelings that don’t feel like ‘you’ - it’s exhausting and you long to have more energy for life and the things you love.

You’re losing yourself in overthinking and living from your head. You want to stop overriding your needs and feeling disconnected from your body.

You know there’s ‘more’ to life, an impulse that’s pulling you to expand and evolve, but it feels achingly out of reach.

“This work is gentle and accessible, yet so powerful. The knowledge I’ve gained has given me huge insight into my nervous system responses, helping me understand the nuances of what I need when under stress. It’s self-care at it’s most foundational level: somatic awareness, self-worth, boundaries, ability to build capacity for the full spectrum of human emotions.”

— Esther Webb

Hi, I’m Sara. I’m a somatic coach and I’m pretty obsessed with exploring how we feel at home in our bodies and make space for our messy humanness - in all its shapes and colours.

I’m here to help you navigate the sticky moments when steady ground feels far away. The times when you need to reconnect to life’s sense of possibility and aliveness.

In these moments (and all moments) your body can be a powerful ally, a well of resources, a soft place to land and your anchor to be here now.

I can walk alongside you as you traverse the things that feel hard to hold alone, helping you understand your body’s unique language as you get to know your system’s needs so you can confidently get to where you want to go, trusting the way forward.

Your body is a voice worth listening to

What it feels like to work with me

The gritty parts of life can be a lonely place to be. We often convince ourselves that putting our heads down and pushing through, will get us to the other side and that no one needs to be burdened by our problems or what we find hard.

But that’s not true. We can’t force or fix our way past the hard bits by just muscling through, and we aren’t meant to do this on our own.

Healing and change move at a gentler pace, like coral growing unseen beneath the waves - slow, steady and almost imperceptible. And we heal together - through attuned relationship, support and kindness.

Working with me feels like having someone fiercely in your corner, reminding you to come home to yourself when remembering feels far away, below is a testimonial from Christina Zeoni, Brand Therapist and Website Creator who at the time of working together was navigating a big change in her life alongside the ongoing pain of witnessing the continued genocide in Palestine.

"If there’s one thing our personal and collective healing requires, I’d say it’s expanding our capacity to feel. With the heartbreak of world events, and a huge life transition on the horizon, I knew I’d need help with this! Leaning into pain is like facing a towering wave just before it breaks. The instinct is to turn around and leg-it back to shore. To not look, not feel, not speak up. Through our sessions, Sara swam out into the water with me. In the gentlest of ways, she showed me how to stay in the water, how to be with the intensity, how to ride the wave. Sara expanded my capacity to feel, and in doing so, expanded my humanity."

Our time together will help you build a healthy relationship & communication between body and mind:

  • Move out of survival mode, learn your nervous system needs and discover skills for regulation and resourcing 

  • Build more capacity - for navigating the sticky challenging moments, daily stressors and everything inbetween

  • Identify & explore unconscious patterns that subtly shape your choices, relationships and how you show up in the world

  • Process and integrate past experiences, so you can find more freedom and authenticity in all aspects of your life.

  • Break cycles of intensity and crash and create safety around rest so you can access more ease and relaxation

  • Establish healthier and more connected relationships

  • “For a long time I felt mired, stuck... something needed to change but no amount of pushing or prodding was working. Coaching with Sara changed everything... but not in the way I expected. It was in fact gentleness, the opposite of pushing, that started to shift things. Sara deeply, truly embodies her work. The whole process felt like being deeply held. We don't get this much in our modern, fast-paced world but I think we all need it. I know I certainly did and working with Sara has made all the difference. The future now looks filled with possibility and I trust myself to handle what comes.”

    - KIM -

  • I highly recommend working with Sara if you struggle with anxiety or experience strong physical reactions to certain situations. I knew I wanted support to listen to what my body is trying to tell me, but also to learn ways to cope with what comes up. Sara is a beautiful human being and a fantastic coach, holding space for you to listen to your own body and making gentle suggestions of things to try to understand it further. I have ended this 4-month relationship with a range of techniques that I can use moving forward, and many of them have already become part of my day to day. Thank you for everything, Sara!

    ~ SUSIE JACKSON ~

  • I really enjoyed my 3 months working with Sara. I went to her after 3yrs of psychotherapy to try and navigate a confusing time of transition combined with burn out. I wanted to be able to tune into my body and it's wisdom better. I had a lot of unprocessed trauma and was overworking myself to avoid it. Sara really helped me to get clear on how to slow down, scale back and also what I wanted to do going forward. I start retraining in November as a trauma informed somatic counsellor and have scaled my photography business back to much more sustainable and happier place. I feel so much better compared to when we earlier in the year. Thank you so much for your help.

    ~ AMI ROBERTSON ~

  • Sara is a constant, supportive and steadying presence and a gifted coach who creates space for you to work at your own pace. I always looked forward to sessions, knowing that she would meet me where I was (in terms of energy or intentions) on that particular day. I also appreciated the in-between support via Voxer and knowing that I had the resources (workshops, meditations, workbooks etc) to refer back to in the long term. In our time together she's given me many new tools that I'm weaving into my daily life, plus more confidence in the power of my intuition and embodiment.

    ~ SOPHY DALE ~

Coaching with me

Healing can’t take place when there’s urgency and pressure and establishing a space that allows you to access safety through attuned relationship, support and kindness and the ability to move at your own pace is my priority. You are always in choice with how our session looks and feels and any support or practices offered are with your consent.

Our sessions are 60 minutes long and held on Zoom. Our time together is responsive and you-led. I’m here to offer guidance, reflection and any supportive psycho-education or somatic practices that might support your integration.

All sessions include:

  • Weekly email or Voxer check-ins between sessions - me in your back pocket for ongoing support

  • Access to a library of somatic practices- workbooks and tools & the encouragement you need to integrate them into your daily life.

  • Free access to any movement classes or workshops I offer throughout our time together.

Solidarity rate sessions

I’m happy to offer a limited number of solidarity rate sessions each month (6 in total) at the rate of £30 per session. You are free to book as many of these sessions within a month as you like as long as there is space.

You’re invited to use the solidarity rate if you’re unpaid, lowly paid, in financial difficulty, or otherwise unable to afford the standard price without causing financial distress. Capitalist norms train us to try and extract as much as we can from one another. I want to be fair to you and I trust you to be fair to me.

If the solidarity rate is outside of your capacity but you feel you’d benefit from this work please always reach out, I endeavour to make this modality as accessible as possible to those in need.

I am always open to conversation about how this work can fit with your life and am committed to staying as flexible as possible around how this can look for you. If your need doesn’t fit into the packages below please feel free to book a call and discuss what can support you.

To book these sessions you can send me an email at sara@saraduigou.co.uk or if you’d like to chat first just click the button below

“This 'work' has been transformative because it brings a deeper knowing of what is going in my body and marries it with the complexities of life. Sara has an exceptional breadth of expertise that helped me navigate more than I could ever have imagined possible by supporting both my body and my head!

I would absolutely recommend somatic coaching. In fact, I think this approach is so foundational to life that we all should be taught it in school. Sara provides such well pitched detail on how the nervous system works, you get a real sense of what the body is doing and why. We have become separated from this. as we increasingly think our way through life, losing touch of what our body can tell us.”

— Clare Baker

FAQ

  • Our sessions last approximately 60 minutes. Most clients find it helpful to allocate an additional 30-60 minutes a week to allow themselves to explore suggested resources and actions that may arise as a result of our sessions.

  • My coaching days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday day times (9-5UK time) I do not offer evening sessions.

    I can occasionally offer earlier morning sessions dependent on availability.

  • The nature of our time together means that each session will hopefully result in you moving towards embodied change. At the end of each session you’ll be invited to choose one or two intentions or actions you want to implement before the next session to support your process.

    Where appropriate, I’ll l offer suggestions of practices, experiments and resources/worksheets to explore between sessions.

  • Coaching is a process that takes place in partnership with clients to help guide them towards their inner wisdom and possibility. A coach does not tell you what to do but instead supports the client towards internal change or transformation. It is generative and future-focused. Coaching works on the premise that clients are “creative, resourceful and whole” and do not need fixing or healing.

    A true coaching conversation will feel different to a conversation that you might have with a friend, colleague or even a mentor. It is not a coaches’ role to give opinions, answers or solutions, but instead to guide the client through their own process.

    In contrast, counselling and therapy focus on healing difficulty, trauma and upset within an individual’s past or present.

    You might want to work with a therapist or counsellor alongside coaching.

    If you need to choose between therapy and coaching, start with therapy and come to coaching when you’re ready.

  • I’m often asked how long this work might take and unfortunately I can’t offer an answer that is concrete.  We work at the pace of the body. This isn’t about fixing, hacking or correcting but instead about encouraging your system to rediscover supportive rhythms & responses and find ways to navigate towards embodied change that is you-paced. 

    I suggest minimum of 6 sessions is a good place to begin. This gives us time to create an arc of care that feels coherent. Your nervous system can remember the ways in which it feels easeful and supported and you get to work on the pieces of psycho-education that mean you can move forward from a place of support.