Thirdspace Somatics is the project of Zoë April Poulette
I offer somatic bodywork, coaching, and group work for change-makers, queers, and anyone else who is interested in body-based healing and growth. My coaching and group work focuses on embodied transformation, relational skill-building, and trauma integration, mostly centered in the lineage of Strozzi Somatics and generative somatics.
The bodywork I offer addresses the full person - mind and body - to expand awareness, relieve tension, find alignment within the self, and extend towards connection.
I am interested in exploring how the social world shapes our bodies and beliefs, and how somatic awareness and practice can open up possibilities for us to shape it back, perhaps into configurations that are more in alignment with justice, desire, and liberation. As a trans person I see bodies as sites of change and potential. To me, healing and change-making are fused together, the personal and the political, the individual and the social, body and environment.
Training and Experience
(ongoing) Supervision // Jennifer Ianniello, Phillippe Citrine, MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo, and Dara Silverman + peer supervision
A commitment to yearly bodywork/coaching CE through Strozzi Institute, generative somatics, and/or Embodying Racial Justice
(2024-present) Ortho-Bionomy Phase 4 // Kalpesh Patel, Liz Olivas
(2022-present) Craniosacral // Upledger Institute
(2018) Trauma and Resilience // Strozzi Institute
(2018) Certified Somatic Coach // Strozzi Institute
(2017, 2019) Somatic Bodyworker Levels 1 and 2 // trained by generative somatics and Strozzi Institute
(2011) Licensed Massage Therapist // Florida School of Massage
(2019) M.A. in Embodiment Studies // Goddard College
(2017) B.A. in Health Arts and Sciences // Goddard College
Other Frameworks
and Training
Rosen Method Bodywork // Rosen Method
Developmental Somatics // Bodynamic Institute
Relational Somatics // Relational Uprising
Theater of the Oppressed
The Icarus Project / Peer Support Movement