About
Rachel Hardy
Somatic Coach, Educator, and Creator of Nervous System Alchemy
Rachel Hardy is a Somatic Coach and Educator who helps people regulate their nervous systems, reclaim clarity, and reconnect with their inner power.
Training & Lineage
For over thirty years I’ve been immersed in healing, consciousness, and the relationship between body, mind, and spirit.
My work draws from somatic trauma training, neuroscience, bodywork, astrology, and spiritual study.
Here is some of the training and lived experience that shaped it.
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Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) Dr. Peter Levine’s three-year body-based trauma training.
I completed the full three-year Somatic Experiencing training. It’s a core foundation of how I work: helping the body release stored survival stress and find its way back to regulation.
Somatic EMDR Certificate, The Embody Lab A body-based integration of EMDR and somatic trauma work.
Through The Embody Lab, I trained in Somatic EMDR, which brings EMDR together with body awareness and nervous system regulation. It lets me work with trauma and stored stress through the body, not only the mind.
20+ Years of Bodywork Two decades of hands-on work with the body, specializing in myofascial release.
Before nervous system work became my focus, I spent over twenty years working hands-on with the body, with myofascial release and chronic pain. It’s where I first saw how the body holds stress, and why healing through the body tends to last.
Neuroscience-Informed Coaching Ongoing study of the science behind nervous system change.
Neuroscience-informed coaching through Holistico: how the brain and nervous system shape our patterns, and how lasting change actually happens.
Human Potential Training with Dr. Jean Houston A year-long immersion in human potential and consciousness.
In 2009 I spent a year studying with Dr. Jean Houston, a pioneer of the Human Potential movement. It opened up how I think about creativity, consciousness, and what’s actually possible for a person. One of the most formative years of my life.
Teaching & Coaching (2018 to Present) Creating and teaching body-based regulation work.
Since 2018 I’ve built and taught courses in nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, and self-myofascial work. I’ve supported hundreds of people in learning to work with their own nervous systems in ways that actually hold.
Akashic Records Training & Practice Trained in the Akashic Records with several respected teachers.
I’ve trained extensively in the Akashic Records, studying with Helen Vonderheide, Josephine Hardman, Louisa Havers, and Baljit Rayat. My own approach to this work draws heavily on the writing of Ervin Laszlo and on quantum physics.
Astrology, 30+ Years A lifelong practice, with formal training over the last decade.
I found astrology as a teenager and never put it down. I’m mostly self-taught, but over the past decade I’ve also trained formally with Dr. Michael Lennox and Astrology University. I use it as a language for the deeper patterns and cycles of a life.
BFA in Theatre Performance A background in performance, presence, and creative expression.
I hold a BFA in Theatre Performance from Chapman University. The performing arts taught me presence and how to fully inhabit the body, which turns out to be central to how healing actually happens.
My Own Healing Journey The lived experience underneath everything I teach.
Most of what I teach, I lived first. Nervous system regulation was the cornerstone of my own healing long before it was my work. That lived experience isn’t separate from my credentials. In many ways it’s the most important one.
My story
I wrote a book about the journey that shaped my work: healing, self-discovery, and the unexpected road back to myself. The Shape of Happiness.
Read it here