Creative Coaching

I reignite your creative spark and help you step out of spiralling blocks, so you can expand and express your authentic self into the world.

I hold a warm sanctuary for deep self-enquiry, where powerful conversations lead to transformation.

Clay & Cotton

  • 6 x 60 minutes, bi-weekly sessions via Zoom

  • Recorded video and audio of our sessions

Care package

  • Written notes and reflections to travel back to

  • Somatic body patterns and rhythms

  • Key themes explored during the session

  • Sources of inspiration

  • Reading and listening materials

  • Home practice invitations to support your integration

Chai & Gold

  • 13 x 60 minutes, bi-weekly coaching sessions via Zoom

  • 12 x 30 min check in calls via Zoom

  • Recorded video and audio of our sessions

  • Email support in-between sessions

Care package

  • Written notes and reflections to travel back to

  • Somatic body patterns and rhythms

  • Key themes explored during the session

  • Sources of inspiration

  • Reading and listening materials

  • Home practice invitations to support your integration

Let’s work together

Sand & Shell

  • 6 x 60 minutes, bi-weekly sessions via Zoom

  • 5 x 30 min check in calls via Zoom

  • Recorded video and audio of our sessions

  • Email support in-between sessions

Care package

  • Written notes and reflections to travel back to

  • Somatic body patterns and rhythms

  • Key themes explored during the session

  • Sources of inspiration

  • Reading and listening materials

  • Home practice invitations to support your integration

Book a call to see if you feel the vibe in working together

Our sessions will feel like a:

 

Slow soak

Flows into silence and stillness to observe what is happening within your body. We follow the process to feel what is emerging within us. Notice your experience and speak your truth.

 

Vibrant playground

We invite a spirit of curiosity to explore and play with improv tools like “Yes and” to ignite our imaginations and experience a new shape of embodiment.

Gentle breeze

Through intentional rituals we gather and attune to the sacred longing of our hearts and the wisdom that resides within us. We offer light, incense and prayers to The Divine.

 

Safe sanctuary

Get comfy and gather yourself with ease. Bring a blanket, candles and a cuppa. Tune into soothing words, silence and the rhythm of your breath. Rest into the support that is here for you.

Warm welcome

Open your heart and discover the ease within. Find pleasure in the moment when it organically arises.

 

Rich tapestry

Explore your experience through shape, rhythm, play and movement. Allow it to guide you to take shape by sitting, standing, or moving around in your space.

Beyond the surface

Why should you work with me

 
 

Lived Experience

I am a certified embodiment coach having trained with The Somatic School which is accredited by the Intentional Coaching Federation (ICF). I am continuing my professional development and training for my ACC credentials with the ICF.

I call upon my Ancestors, my Sikh faith, Akal Purakh, and Shakti to guide my work. I weave together somatic practices, art therapy, constellation frameworks, emergent strategy and Dharmic wisdom.

I offer warmth, sincerity, compassion, integrity and honesty to my clients. I bring my whole humanness into the sacred space I hold.

Body of Culture

My roots flow deep into Nairobi, Kenya and Amritsar, Panjab to my Ancestors and our Gurus. As a Sikh-Panjabi woman living in South-East London.

I have experienced my body shrink, I have felt unsafe and not enough in environments which have erased, judged or not heard me.

I want you to feel safe and secure, in your body and in the world. I want you to celebrate your roots and feel proud of culture.

I want you to understand your body and cultivate processes that ground you and increase your capacity for wholesome, non-addictive pleasure.

Wholeness

I have experienced racism, prejudices and cultural bypassing.  I have waded through storms of anxiety, panic attacks and depression.

Shrinking in my body is a familiar experience. I have code-switched, erased parts of myself to fit in and have crumbled to bits. That is where I found out that fitting in isn’t the same as belonging. I leaned into the discomfort and unknowing. I released it and went through it, shifted and healed.

I am more than my thoughts, more than my suffering and more than my achievements. I know what I am made of and what I have been held by.

I am whole exactly as I am - and so are you.

What my clients say:

“The coaching session I had with Poonam was felt like a spiritual practice looking deeper inwards into myself.  She added in a meditation which was tremendously beneficial as it allowed me to dig deeper, have lightbulb moments and find the answers I was looking for by myself, leaving the session confident and energised.

If you are looking for a safe space to heal, dig a little deeper into something you are working on or are just looking for some guidance then I would absolutely recommend booking a session with Poonam as I guarantee you will leave the session feeling totally refreshed and transformed. ”

“Poonam’s coaching session was the most wholesome and unique experience I’ve had. She held space for me with so much care, while guiding me to stay fully present to absorb the answers that were coming through.

It’s been almost two weeks since our session, and I can say that my mind and body’s relationship has changed from a disconnected one to a more harmonious and balanced state. 

I sleep better, my hair stopped shredding madly, my appetite is back and if I have to describe my current being as a sound, it will be a Ludovico Einaudi melody -  deep and emotional but harmonious.”

“The unconditional support from Poonam throughout last year has been incredibly pivotal for me in my personal growth, having a space to process what's coming up for me has been amazing because I feel seen, I feel heard, I feel understood.

Processing my emotions and feelings through drawing, writing, painting and object play helped me connect deeper. The creative mapping session was magical.

You never gave me solutions. You helped me connect with my gut, my intuition, to myself on such a deeper level. You helped me gain control, and feel my emotions, and learn what they were telling me.

Poonam holds a safe cocoon to connect with yourself, let go and explore what's coming up for you in a place with no judgment and process how you're feeling. It’s deep, beautiful, amazing, safe space to feel yourself.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being that unconditional support, you are amazing at what you do- it comes from such a pure, deep place that I am so grateful for. You’re a beam of light."

“I was struggling to find a sense of direction, feeling creatively block and my self-esteem.

Our work allowed to trust my voice and gut feeling; I see that as inscribed in my process of decolonising myself. I was able to settle muddy waters and give power to a sense of self. I feel it was part of me regaining access to my consciousness.

We worked on growing roots between the various parts of the body and all the way to the soil - which is the others, community, and connection to the world.

I would say that Poonam's capacity to hold what is and value it and see it for its richness is healing to experience in itself.

She has a sun-like energy. And a deep sense of being seen and validated in my existence. Being seen as a poet and an artist without needing to justify anything, too.

During sessions, I was always surprised of how vivid and clear the images and worlds that came to me were. not feeling any need or pressure to act or perform. being supported for what simply is. connecting over sensitivity to the more-than-material world

After working with Poonam, life is calmer and a lot more grounded. I'm not half as harsh on myself as I used to be before the sessions. It's as though I have a center to come back to -- and this centre is right in the middle of my gut.”

FAQs

  • Psychotherapy deals with how your present life is influenced by your past, whereas coaching focuses on your present and how you can create your future. The purpose of coaching is to gain clarity of understanding,  that leads to conscious movement. Coaching is advice free, judgement free, solution focused, future focused, client centred, based on an equal partnership between coach and client and is strength based. 

  • ‘Coaching is a future focused conversation between two people in partnership in service of thinking of one of them.’ - Claire Pedrick

    If you’re feeling stuck in life or you need space to think about new beginnings or move towards closing. You want to work cultivating a healthier relationship with yourself or your loved ones.

    You might not have one particular reason, you might just need space to be seen and held. I got you M8!

  • Soma is the lived experience - the felt sense - of being in a conscious body. The term “Somatics” comes from the Greek word “somatikos” which signifies the living aware, bodily person. It is neither the body nor mind separate from the other; both being part of a living process called the soma. Our neurology, psychology and biology are intertwined like the weave of a fabric and cannot be separated out.

    Somatics is a practice of the mind-body connection as a whole. Our body becomes the shape of our experience. It reflects our longing, our wounds, and our healing. Somatic practices teaches us to centre, find a place within ourselves that we can return to the wisdom that resides deep within us. Through somatics we embody transformation, individually and collectively. It helps us widen our capacity to feel ourselves, each other and our interconnectedness to life around us.

    • You want to feel more connected to your body

    • You want to cut the BS, uncover limiting beliefs

    • You want to find your voice and take up space

    • You want to be less self critical or self judgemental

    • You want to say YSM8 to yourself and start saying no to others

    • You want to see the value in yourself and love your whole self

    • You want to connect deeper to yourself, discover your purpose, desires and live in alignment to your values

    • You are yearning for a warm, supportive, calming space for self-discovery

    • You want to tune into your flow and explore your creativity

    • You want to listen to yourself and trust what you are hearing

    • You want to (re)connect to your spirituality deeper

    • You want to build resilience and resourcefulness

  • We will connect over a Zoom call to get to know each other better and I will share how the sessions will unfold, and how many sessions would be beneficial for you. This is also a space to ask me any questions.

    If you resonate and want to work with me, I will send you a form and agreement to fill in. Then we will move forward together with our sessions.

    There is no pressure to work with me if you don’t resonate with the texture.