About

NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Shandra

...a somatic healing coach, educator, and founder of Embodied Healing Center. My work was born from my own journey through the kind of pain that didn't just live in my mind — it lived in the body and hid the light of my soul. The experiences that once silenced me became the reason I devoted my life to understanding how we heal, integrate, and rise as sensitive souls in a loud world.

I don’t just teach from theory. I teach from embodiment — from walking through the fire and learning how to breathe again.
Whether I’m coaching one-on-one, leading The Embodied Leader, or training future practitioners through my Somatic Coaching Certification, my work is rooted in one truth: healing doesn’t mean hardening. It means using your story as a gateway to your strength. It means coming home to yourself — softer, stronger, and finally free.

My Story

For more than twenty years, I’ve studied the nervous system, neurolinguistic programming, human behavior, and the subtle languages of the body. Through that blend of science, soul and strategy, I created The Somatic Healing Codes — a grounded framework that's the backbone of my healing and coaching sessions. 

Your body has always been the narrator of your life — long before your mind learned how to make sense of anything.
The tightening in your chest. The flutter behind your ribs. The instinct to fold inward or reach outward.

These aren’t random sensations.
They’re intelligence. They’re the stored echoes of moments your mind learned to survive and your heart learned to stay quiet.

I work by helping you hear these signals again — gently, safely, and without judgment.
Together, we create space for your nervous system to unwind the bracing it’s held for years… maybe decades.
And in that space, something remarkable happens:
your body becomes an ally instead of a battlefield.

Why I Do It

I learned early what it means to rebuild a life from ashes (quite literally, our house burned down when I was 4!)— to grow up fast, navigate chaos, carry more than any young heart should, and still find a way to stay soft and trust. Those years taught me that survival shapes the body, but so does resilience. This work is my way of helping others rise the way I had to: from the inside out, with sensitivity as strength, self-trust as the way forward and leading with love.