Working 1-1 with Dylan Newcomb

Nope. Come as you are! I enjoy working with people of all backgrounds and levels of embodiment experience. That said—I've found, over my 18 years of doing this work, that when someone has a basic working knowledge of the 9 core postures we work with, in UZAZU Embodied Intelligence, that it makes working together during the session more efficient & effective. We can spend less time during the session helping you learn them. That's why I started simply including the basic training in UZAZU (a 6-hour online recorded training) for free along with the coaching package. I generally recommend people to complete the first 2 hours before or very soon after our first session, and to complete the rest during our first 2-3 sessions. Of course, you can also choose to go through it all before we begin our sessions as well—either way works fine.

If you have little movement experience and/or a lower degree of body-awareness (an ability to feel the specific qualities of your bodily feelings, in movement and/or stillness) then this same basic UZAZU training is a really good support & training to help with that as well.

That's completely up to you. You can start immediately, or you can wait a few weeks to begin. If you plan to wait a bit before starting, kindly send me an email letting me know of your general intentions.

It’s your journey, so you set the rhythm. And yet—consistency does often tend to serve… I've learned over time that for most people, a weekly rhythm is ideal, and then every other week is very good when more space is desired to integrate and work on stuff in between. And it’s also fine to pause it for a few weeks sometime—because life, and vacations, etc. I have an online scheduler that I send you a link to, and you simply pick the times that work for you. I work Monday-Friday and generally have 2-3 slots available per day at USA & European time-zone friendly times. I make sure there's always space, and encourage you to book yourself out 2-3 weeks in advance—or more, if you prefer.

I'm glad you asked. Yes—I almost always give homework (except when it seems best not to.) And this typically consists of two things: 1-2 postures of 'Modes of Engagement' to keep working with (which we typically have already been working with during that session) and identifying 1-2 specific kinds of upcoming situations, or moments, where you'd like to experiment with intentionally activating and maintaining that kind of embodied state. Homework generally is generally about 10-20 minutes 2-3 times a week. More is fine too, but just 3x 10 minutes is actually already VERY helpful.

The UZAZU Embodied Intelligence Self-Assessment has been built (and rigorously tested) using the same underlying structure as the embodied modality of UZAZU. So when you take the assessment, it's implicitly answering the questions: How are these eight embodied Modes of Engagement playing out in my daily life? And to which degree am I experiencing balance and/or imbalances (or dysregulated states) in each of these ways of being & doing? Being able to look together at this results-map, gives us a very helpful shared understanding of what I like to call your 'ecology of embodied states.' And it helps us be very strategic in what kinds of re-patterning we want work on, and in which order. And you can then re-take the assessment after a few months, and track what has shifted. Taking this assessment before our first session is HIGHLY recommended!

The Embodied Clarity Session is a special, 2-hour session (as opposed to my normal 75-minute sessions) where we go through a conversational review of your current main life challenges & desires, and then explore them deeper by having you embody the main UZAZU Modes & States that seem most related to the core 'issues.' Much of this same kind of work tends to happen gradually, during the 'standard' 1-1 sessions, but this Embodied Clarity Session speeds up the cultivation of that overall clarity about your main limiting patterns. You can choose to do this session first and then start in with the 1-1 sessions, or add it in at any point during your sessions. Click here to learn more about the Embodied Clarity Session.