What, and who, is your life here about?
We live our lives in our bodies, and we long to discover our souls.
Unless we are learning to die to our old selves, and to be compassionate, and committed to curiosity and learning - that ‘soul’ lies undiscovered, in wait.
Either we fall asleep, allowing the tides of mediocrity to wash over us, and continue to suppress our despair; or, we take a stand against injustice, ignorance and abuse of power, and creatively live out the lives we were born for.
There is a choice to make.
Learn to live in your body with more ease and aliveness. I’ll help you take grounded actions under pressure, lead yourself and others with compassion, dignify challenging feelings, and move towards what matters with clarity, aliveness and authenticity.
I’m a certified somatic coach, experienced teacher, artist and musician. I have a wide background in education, performance and theatre. I work with people who care deeply about what they do and why they are doing it.
What is a somatic approach to coaching?
We carry our history in our bodies. This history has shaped us.
Somatic coaching is a transformational and therapeutic process of learning and healing. The journey will help you develop a more conscious awareness of your historical, conditioned tendencies, and to grow awareness of how these patterns may still be running your life. A somatic approach encourages you to access the inherent wisdom in your body, and gives you a pragmatic and sensory framework through which you’ll learn to observe and deepen awareness. This in turn opens us to be able to move in new creative directions and with behaviours that were not available to us before.
Either we are skilful authors of our new self, or we live the unconscious reactions of our old.
People are not problems to be fixed.
I’ll support you, skilfully and compassionately, to dignify challenging emotions, settle circling anxieties, and begin to cultivate compassion towards the habitual behaviours that get in your way. You will begin to lead your life with more commitment and courage. I’ll help you focus you on what you care about and why, and help you to live in a more skilful and resilient ‘shape’ of you.
50 min sessions are £85. A 6-session arc is £495 This includes either in-person (Twickenham UK) or online calls and voice-note check-ins.
“I’m not just surviving fatherhood, I’m thriving. I’m showing up fully for my daughter in ways I never thought possible. I’m more present, more patient, and more confident in my ability to handle whatever comes our way. He helped me see that asking for help wasn’t a sign of weakness, it was the strongest thing I could do for my family.”
What you say, matters. That’s why you are highly effective at what you do. When you are speaking to people, you leave an essence of yourself in the room. But you don’t leave behind the presentation skills you’ve learned, or tricks that worked, it’s your vulnerability, and the passion for what you take a stand for, is how you’ll be remembered.
I’ll help you to cultivate presence, create impact with what matters and connect meaningfully with your audience.
The Cave of Dreams
Beginning August 2026
A research project exploring the ancestural myths and stories that humans have told beneath the stars since our ancestors first inscribed on the walls of caves 50,000 years ago.
If you’re a committed performer, musician, artist, writer etc who cares deeply about the future of our world, are curious about how we have lost our way, and yet acknowledge that at our backs are universal wisdoms held in these stories, I’d love to hear from you.
Working in Duncan’s room is like swimming in warm water. He gives you tremendous space for exploration while at the same time holding you and the room with an effortless care. He judges perfectly how and when to introduce a little turbulence and excitement or to provoke a dive of exploration into some hidden depth, before facilitating a safe return to the calm surface just before your breath runs out.
Roland Reynolds, Writer & Director
ARTWORK
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