SomaSolidarity
Where body, soul, and presence become one
Somatic Bodywork, Coaching, Development, and Practice Groups
In-person and online offerings in the Portland Metro/Willamette Valley area
What if the key to unlocking energy, connection, possibility, and ease
is not in your mind, but in your soma?
Come home to yourself, your purpose, your power
and meet the moment
Like water, we are meant to flow.
Like jellyfish, we are carried by unseen currents.
Strength lives in softness, resilience in yielding.
SomaSolidarity is the feeling of being at home in your body, mind, and soul.
Open, connected, and alive.
It is moving with grace instead of force,
Trusting your body’s wisdom,
and remembering that healing ripples outward.
When we return to this flow, personal restoration becomes collective possibility.
Welcome, I’m Dana Brenner.
I am a somatic practitioner who guides and provides bodywork, coaching, healing, group development, and practice. The work I do is both skill-based and intuitive. It’s rooted in neuroscience, deep listening, and a depth and breadth of distinctive experience.
I support people to come home to themselves: to their purpose, their wisdom, their gifts, their communities. This happens through the body, through awakening and awareness, through re-forming and intentional practice.
Do you long to develop your capacity to embody what you care about, take centered and grounded action, feel resourced, resilient, and at ease? Maybe you’d like to develop deeper intimacy with yourself and others? You seek to make a difference in how you show up in the world. If so, you are in the right place.
The work I do
is at the intersections of somatics, bodywork, coaching, counseling, healing, leadership, teaching, community building, meditation, mindfulness, intuition, and spiritual practice.
The work we do together
is trauma-informed and transformational. It leads to living with greater purpose, agency, and aliveness. As we are shaped by context and experience, we wisely develop responsive and reactive strategies and patterns that both serve us and get in our way. These patterns live in our thinking, nervous systems, muscles, tissues, actions, and the words we use. Through somatics, we foster awareness and presence, invite openings, and build practices that create new patterns to enhance agency, create shift, and catalyze change.
We might work with breath and techniques for nervous system and energy regulation, use touch to shift tissues and muscles on a massage table to inviting release and opening, or engage in conversation and practices to connect somatics to your real-life challenges and goals. I bring over 30 years of broad, deep, distinctive, and unique experience and training. When people leave a session or workshop, they often say things like “that was good magic”.
Why You Might Come — What This Work Offers
Chances are, you’ve already tried other supportive practices—counseling or therapy, massage or holistic healthcare, yoga, meditation, spirituality, or other personal development work. You’ve likely found benefit in those places, and yet, you may still sense that there’s something more calling you.
You might come to this work because you want to:
Feel greater ease and relief from physical or emotional discomfort
Experience less tension and anxiety in your body and mind
Deepen intimacy and connection—with yourself and with others
Better understand what drives you, and what gets in your way
Clarify what you long for and let it guide your choices
Cultivate accountability to meet your goals and desires
Release habits that no longer serve you and build ones that do
chat with me and learn more
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“Somatic coaching and practice deepened my self-awareness and resilience by helping me embody change, rather than just understand it intellectually. I was able to recognize how stress shows up in my body and shift it real-time. It taught me to lead not just from my head, but from a grounded, authentic place that others can feel and trust.”
~ Amy, Regional Manager and mom of 3
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“Dana intuitively knows when to simply listen, what questions to ask, and when to guide me into deeper connection with my body’s wisdom. As someone who tends to live in my head, her calm and confident way of holding space made me feel both safe and challenged. Each session made me more clear on what truly matters to me in both life and business.”
~ Andrew, Real Estate Developer & Men’s Movement Leader
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“This is what I always needed, but I never knew was a “thing”. Talk therapy was the tip of the iceberg. The work I do with Dana allows me to go beneath the water to access the deeper parts of myself that exist outside of language. After just two sessions with Dana, I was able to do what years of counseling did not make possible.”
~ Jodessa, Registered Nurse
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“I highly recommend seeing Dana for somatics. She helped me understand that my body held my history and shaped me. I’ve been able to reconnect with my body, to slowly and safely release trauma, and to re-calibrate. I’m giving myself permission to take up space to be seen, and most of all-to have compassion for myself.”
~Joei
