An embodied coaching approach to learning and organization, based in Los Angeles.

Who I Work With

My clients are bright students, with creative intelligence and high IQ’s who need additional scaffolding to find their way to success. Through collaborative and metacognitive means, students learn to leverage their strengths and address their weaknesses in order to grow confident and capable. Studies show that Executive Function skills are not only better determining factors of a students performance in school, but also in life, and the good news is they can be developed with practice.

• Students who struggle with perfectionism, avoidance patterns or test anxiety

• Students who are challenged by organization or have trouble planning long term

• Students who feel overwhelmed or paralyzed with task initiation

• Students who are over-scheduled that require strategies to work efficiently and prioritize

• Students who need support in problem solving, building resilience and developing growth mindset

• Students who desire to employ self-advocacy yet struggle to communicate

• Students who have weak impulse control, cope with hyperactivity or lack of focus

Methodology

Our methodology is grounded in a shame-free learning environment, honest self-reflection, and trusting relationships. Research shows that connection impacts education, as much as teaching strategy. When a student feels supported, they are willing to look at where they need to grow and where they already shine. With such self awareness, students can become confident in their abilities and resilient in the face challenges. Rather than a “one size fits all” attitude, we celebrate neurodiversity for its gifts and obstacles. Through radical acceptance students find harmony between their authentic selves and the demands of any endeavor, so they can thrive and adapt in many situations. As we team, we work together dynamically to discover who each student is, what inspires them, and how to overcome challenges along the way.

Planning and Execution: Commonly called Executive Function, this skill set includes scheduling, attention, project initiation through completion, goal setting, and time management

Growth Mindset: Shifting the way students think about learning, so that it emphasizes progress over perfection. This includes celebrating not just success, but the courage to try. Such attitudes build more resilience.

Strategy-based learning and the cycle of problem solving: Empowers students with a direction on how to take action and respond to failure, so they revisit their process of development. This skill set encourages self-advocacy.

Reduced Anxiety and Increased Wellbeing: Mindfully working on being present to one’s own process, students discover an inner calm during stressful times, the importance of self-care and a means for self-regulating.

Appreciation for and understanding of how you work best: In order to be able to ‘work smart,’ students use metacognition and reflection. This skill set includes learning how you learn best and overcoming roadblocks.

Increased Cognitive Function and Balanced Energy: By supporting a “lifestyle” approach to learning because we do not assume that one size fits all. Different students need to emphasize different phases of learning.

Meet Galia

Galia is a Los Angeles native and a Harvard-Westlake School alumna. During high school, she struggled to find balance between responsibilities and well-being. While pursuing a Comparative Literature degree at University of California- Berkeley, she found a new understanding of wellness and self-care when she joined a local yoga studio. There she experienced a transformation in her approach to living, looking inward.

Afterwards, Galia continued to explore embodied and shamanic practices, including: Kundalini Yoga, Holotropic Breathwork, Five Rhythms Dance, Contact Improvisation, and Aikido. She particularly gravitated towards mindfulness, sitting in ten day silent meditation retreats and becoming a certified Vinyasa Yoga Teacher.

Over the years, she found that organizational rituals can provide a person with the structure to grow and that by cultivating a proper mindset one can find joy and peace in many different processes. Through balancing tactical steps and long term vision, Galia believes learning is a lifelong development process to be nurtured with patience, kindness, and reverence.

Galia has created a thriving coaching practice with a heart centered methodology based on the intersection of mind and body. She continues teaching movement, performing educational research, and working with collaborators on writing and community projects.

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