Chen Lizra

Chen Lizra, one of the foremost somatic healing experts in the world, has honed her skills and practices in the genre of body healing for over two decades. Chen has studied natural healing and bodywork around the globe with world-renowned masters of their craft. From spending nearly two decades intensively training with Cuba’s top professional dancers, learning Cuban embodiment practices, training for over two years in transformational coaching on how to heal trauma and generational trauma naturally from the body through somatic practices, to studying Zen meditation practices and Buddhist living in Japan under the guidance of Gudo Nishijima, Chen’s expansive life experiences have supplied her with transformational wisdom on how to heal and grow through embodiment. She’s taken that embodied wisdom and developed the 5 Elements of Somatic Intelligence, an innovative treatment to heal, through bodywork and through being deeply felt, the traumas trapped in the body.

Chen’s passion for somatic healing was born from her personal story. When she was a young child, her mother became mentally ill which in turn affected Chen’s own emotional foundation and spurred her dedication and research over two and a half decades into the effects of trauma on the body and how to heal it. In the process, Chen gained incredible and unique wisdom that she now practices with clients around the world causing profound shifts in 3-6 months.

Through Somatic Intelligence, her personally developed method of embodied wisdom, Chen has worked to coach and heal hundreds of clients, in particular successful women, suffering from deeply rooted traumas such as emotional abandonment, rejection, abuse, and neglect. It is estimated that 70% of adults have suffered trauma in their lives which can result in feelings of insecurity, fear and in feelings of being blocked or stuck. Chen’s methods offer an alternative to mainstream talk therapy through somatic coaching, freeing those traumas that are trapped within the physical body and releasing what is blocked.