My name is Chandler Stevens.

 
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I’m best known for my work in “movement culture” as the founder of The Ecosomatics Institute, where I train coaches, therapists, and physios on how to leverage the connections between body, mind, and environment. Early in my career I developed a reputation for connecting the dots between disciplines to help my clients make sense of — and make friends with — their bodies. Over the years I’ve found myself speaking at international conferences alongside world leaders in movement, mobility, and all things body-related.

However, these days I feel most at home with psychotherapists and philosophers.

I have a seemingly incurable need to understand things and a lifelong fascination with mythology, ecology, and what it means to be human in a more-than-human world. I’ve trained as a body worker and end-of-life doula, in systems thinking and somatic education. I’m currently a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, developing a “bottom up” approach to psychological development through movement and embodied awareness.

The common thread I’ve pulled is the question of how to move well, die wise, and work meaningfully along the way.

As you can imagine, all of this makes it tricky to know what to put on a business card.

Like you, I’m not very fond the convenient, predefined boxes.

My clients feel the same way, including:

  • A data scientist who struggled with chronic pain and digestive issues before leaving Silicon Valley to pursue a new career in nuclear activism and restorative agriculture.

  • An opera singer plagued by anxiety who left the stage to fulfill her dream of starting a family.

  • An experimental test pilot who recovered from the damage of two plane crashes and created a “health village” in the mountains of Switzerland.

  • A documentary filmmaker who grappled with ongoing stress and self-doubt before going on to introduce a niche form of yoga to an entire continent.

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