True Intimacy
Fully connected to yourself and to others, at the same time. A guided return to honest, embodied, alive relating.
[ start your journey ] · $895 Launch pricing for this first cohort. Regularly $1,675.Most people have learned they can either tell the truth or keep connection.
This work teaches you how to do both. Real connection means living the truth already within you. The practice is learning to feel it, trust it, and stay with it, even when it's uncomfortable, even when it seems to risk connection. Learn to reconnect, listen, and keep contact with what's true in a way that gives life, creates clarity, and moves you into alignment through intentional relationship with yourself and others. True Intimacy is what happens when you're fully connected to yourself and to another at the same time, revealing what's real without losing yourself in the process. It's less a feeling than a practice: sensing what's true, honoring the pace it takes to get there, and taking full ownership of your own experience along the way.
- Reveal yourself authentically: without collapsing, and without losing your center in someone else's.
- State your needs, don't hide them: clearly, lovingly, with an open palm, and notice who actually meets them.
- Sense the shades between black and white: contextual boundaries instead of all-or-nothing thinking.
- Take full responsibility for your own experience: get support through self-awareness, self-trust, and self-expression, not by controlling others.
- Let honesty do the work: it's the only real path to loving well.
- Pace vulnerability, don't force it: grounded, present, and open, one layer at a time.
You might recognize yourself here
This is for you if
- You want to understand how to open up with a partner
- You love relationships but find they tend to get dramatic
- You've been "calling in" a partner and are starting to feel lost
- You're working to resolve anxious and/or avoidant attachment patterns
- You want to awaken and grow through relationship, not despite it
This isn't for you if
- You're looking for couples therapy with your partner in the room. This is individual, though it will change how you relate
- You want a purely intellectual framework with no embodiment or felt-sense practice
- You're just beginning to find safety in relationship and would benefit from more individual support first. That's okay, reach out about 1:1 work
- You're not able to attend live sessions most weeks (recordings help, but the group container is part of the work)
- You're in an active crisis or safety concern. Please reach out to a licensed therapist or crisis line first
Six weeks, fully held
1:1 Clarity Call (before we begin)
A private call with Stephanie to define your own relational curriculum before the cohort starts.
Six weekly live calls, with Q&A
2 hours together each week: teaching, practical exercises, and real-time space for your questions.
1:1 Integration Call (after the final week)
Reflect on your journey with Stephanie and map out what continued relational thriving looks like for you.
Lifetime access
Course materials and call recordings are yours to keep, plus discounts on future workshops.
Bonus Q&A call
An additional group call devoted entirely to your questions.
Your relating will transform. Or we keep working.
Attend at least five of the six sessions live, complete all the homework, and if you don't feel a massive shift in your relationships, Stephanie will meet with you to address any challenges and get you to a place of relational thriving.
Week by week
Regulation
The body in relating
You're responsible for your own nervous system. Once you know how to tend it, you can support others without losing yourself.
Connection
The texture of relating
The layers of connection, how boundaries actually create closeness, and self-awareness practices for sensing the temperature and aliveness of your own relationships.
Commitment
The ground of relating
Honoring and understanding the many layers of commitment, and getting honest with yourself and others about what you're actually willing to commit to.
Needs
The color in relating
What a relationship is actually made of. Self-discovery, personal responsibility, and clear invitations.
Harmony
The balance in relating
Pulling it all together: finding your own balance between openness and boundaries.
True Intimacy
The depth in relating
Vulnerability as a practice, and what it takes to relate meaningfully for life.
About Stephanie
Stephanie Soma, Relating Coach & Somatic PractitionerStephanie is devoted to guiding the return home to embodied aliveness. She believes one is not home until we're all home. With 17 years of embodiment practice and 8 years focused specifically on relating, she's immersed herself in movement meditations, Somatic Experiencing, tantra, and conscious relating. Along the way, she's facilitated hundreds of people: through weekly groups over two and a half years, dozens of larger containers, and workshops across five states, plus 100+ individual clients and couples one-on-one.
Before opening her practice in Austin in 2020, Stephanie spent eight years in tech startups as a product manager in NYC, while side-hustling as a Thai massage therapist. Her aim now is simple: to teach skills and frames that ripple into deeper, more honest, more loving relating, for all.
How I got here
Over a decade of living this work, inside and out.
I grew up in Houston in a Christian household, homeschooled until high school, with a somewhat just-outside-of feeling growing up. Medical trauma in childhood led me into dissociation, where connection (to self, to God, to others) became my lifeline through physical pain. It also made being alone feel scary, which opened its own journey into learning to love solitude.
Learning to reinhabit my body set me on an adventure of healing and coming home to myself, reclaiming my aliveness, and deepening in my relationships in every direction. Learning how to stay anchored in myself, while deeply open to others.
I often hear, "I feel so safe with you," or "I trust that I can fully be myself with you." That's come from finding safety in myself first, so I can open to deep relating with others, and it happens through consciously relating. Relating gives real-time feedback; it's a beautiful mirror of discovery and awareness. That "kind presence" comes from having dug deep enough to recognize the innocence in humanity.
Over the years, I've built many curriculums around connection and relating. This program is the culmination of that work, brought online and woven together with my own life practice.
I've lived this work inside both karmically challenging and deeply nourishing relationships of my own. I know firsthand what breaks connection, and what repairs it. In this six-week cohort, you'll practice courageous, body-based truth-telling in real time, learning how to stay connected to yourself while staying in connection with others.
From past students of Stephanie's relational work
"Working with Stephanie helped me feel the difference between my armor and my Self again. I felt that I could not be real with anyone — and this work changed that."
LAUREN, Musician and mother
"I'm joining this cohort for the 3rd time in a row. One of the deepest, most intriguing presence practices I have ever encountered."
KAT, Practitioner and teacher
"It's the inter-individual transformation over the entire multi-month process that makes the investment worth it. Mind-blowing thing you've created, Stephanie."
MAX, Engineer
"Returning to each session felt like coming home to myself. I show up with more love and kindness for myself and others."
BRIANA, Facilitator and teacher
"Stephanie offers an awesome balance of deeply welcoming presence, supportive challenge (when necessary), and thoughtful frameworks. She often intuitively understands confusing patterns that I encounter and helps me see how they're connected to broader spiritual, relational, and artistic themes in a way I find beautiful. Working with her has helped me build a stronger sense of centeredness and see my value more clearly. I'm extremely grateful for the work we've done together."
JAMES, Founder & CEO
The investment
Only 11 spots, so the group can stay intimate. Includes two private 1:1 calls with Stephanie plus six live weekly sessions, starting Oct 26.
Reserve your spotBefore you enroll
What if I miss a live session?
You'll have access to the recorded teaching and main presentation from each week. Q&A portions aren't recorded, to protect the privacy of what other participants share live. You'll always get more from being there in person, but you won't miss the core teaching if life gets in the way.
Why this format?
A group coaching and workshop hybrid allows for deep learning and real practice. Each week we go through tangible content, models, and practices, with time set aside for your questions on integrating them into your own relationships, and other relational topics.
Do I need any prior experience with somatic work?
Having some experience in one of these areas (movement and embodiment, intentional relating, or self-awareness) will support you well. That said, we start with a private 1:1 kickoff call so I can meet you where you are and see if there's any prep to get you ready for the container. That call can be scheduled right away.
Is this for people who experience anxious or avoidant attachment?
Yes. As someone who identifies as a "switch-hitter" myself (aka, disorganized attachment), I've found that learning to stay centered in yourself while opening to another is the same practice that supports every attachment style.
What's the cancellation / refund policy?
Full refund if requested up to one week before we begin, October 19th. After that, your payment can be applied as credit toward a future cohort.
How much time should I set aside outside of live calls?
None, beyond what you're already living. The real practice happens in your existing relationships: a friend, a co-worker, a date, your kids, wherever you're already relating.
Is this a replacement for therapy?
This is coaching, not licensed therapy. If you're navigating a mental health crisis, please seek support from a licensed professional first.
Come home to how you relate.
11 spots. One cohort. Starting October 26th.
[ start your journey ] · $895