Iman Nacer Boundaoui
Somatic Trauma Coach; Somatic Bodyworker
Services Provided
About
Iman Boundaoui is an Algerian-American somatics practitioner with a five-year tail in trauma healing work. After practicing as a civil litigator for five years, Iman turned to the healing-arts for answers to a question she had been asking throughout her life and legal career: how do people come back into their wholeness after oppression and injustice? Bringing her experience working with traumatized people and groups as an attorney, Iman began to explore how healing and coming back into wholeness were the only true recompense after experiences of physical, emotional and psychological traumas– whether interpersonal or collective, direct or intergenerational.
Since that time, Iman has served a wide variety of people, both as a teacher of somatics, and a practitioner and facilitator of somatic trauma-healing, working with both individuals and groups through days-to-years long healing processes that are aimed at: transmuting trauma contractions in the body; freeing up life-force energy that gets trapped behind survival strategies; integrating traumatic experiences; cultivating post-trauma growth and resilience; re-building a felt sense of safety where it has been lost; envisioning new futures; re-engaging the relational space with more agency, consent, and new boundary-making and boundary-dissolving skills. Iman employs a wide range of practices, exercises, and touch-based bodywork techniques in working towards these aims, including breathwork, vipassana meditation, qi-gong exercises, aikido-based practices, and somatic elicitation and experiencing.
Iman’s professional training as a healer intersects and integrates *Co-Active Life Coaching, *Strozzi Institute’s Embodied Transformation and Somatic Bodywork Methodology, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Healing, which she weaves together to help clients generate insight, wisdom and change at all levels-- the mind, the body and the spirit. As a result, the transformation and healing process for each individual is unique, and the approaches used are designed as a living curriculum to reflect the unique and present-time needs of each client.
Iman’s integrated approach is practical in helping clients generate new skills, practices and competencies, and is transformative by helping clients embody more aliveness, new behaviors and choices, and a greater range of emotions and moods, which in turn create long-lasting shifts in a client’s way of being, relating, and thinking. As a result, clients naturally continue to move towards greater change, healing and desired life outcomes long after the healing engagement completes.
Throughout her work, Iman grounds in spiritual praxis, bringing her own spiritual growth and cultivation to bear on the healing she offers others. With deep ground, and a spirited center, Iman calls on her own life-force to bear on the energetic healing field she creates for every patient/client/friend to step into.
Endlessly concerned with her own growth, Iman is a committed student of life, constantly working on her own healing and development of greater consciousness in order to serve creation. With every passing year, she adds new tools and techniques to her healing repertoire, learning from the wisdom teachers and healers that she comes across in all parts of the world she travels to, on her life-long journey of seeking, and sharing, knowledge.