Thirdspace Somatics is the project of Zoë April Poulette
I offer coaching, counseling, and somatic bodywork for queers, change-makers, and anyone else who is interested in body-based healing and growth. My client work focuses on embodied transformation, relational skill-building, and trauma integration., mostly centered in the lineage of Strozzi Somatics and generative somatics.
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 and CE through generative somatics
(2018) Certified Somatic Coach // Strozzi Institute
(2017) Somatic Bodyworker // 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
(Currently enrolled) MFA of the Americas // Stetson University
Other Frameworks
and Training
CranioSacral Therapy
Orthobionomy Bodywork
Deep Listening (Pauline Oliveros)
Developmental Somatics // Bodynamic Institute
Relational Somatics // Relational Uprising
Rosen Method Bodywork // Rosen Method
Theater of the Oppressed
The Icarus Project / Psychiatric Survivors Movement