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Eleanor Forder

Somatic Coach & Yoga Teacher

I’m Eleanor. I’ve been exploring, studying and practicing in the worlds of healing, wellness and self-development since 2016. My path has taken me in many directions, from physical development to emotional healing, and everything I teach is based on my own sincere journey towards wholeness.

Nowadays my personal practice includes somatics for my embodiment and presence, psychotherapy for my trauma healing and self-discovery, Brazilian jiu jitsu to develop my discipline and resilience, and strength & conditioning to help awaken my embodied sense of power. Each of these practices continues to be potent medicine, and I use insights from each in how I facilitate.

A magic ingredient in all of my avenues of growth has been the power of community, and this is something I want to create in my work. In building community around a paths of mastery, I believe we have the opportunity to raise each other to our highest potential, individually and collectively.

I’m passionate about helping people step into their fullest potential by releasing conditioned patterns and awakening to what truly moves them. I’m fascinated by what high performance means for diverse individuals, and the unique vehicles to cultivate personal growth.

What’s Next?

I’m very excited to be embarking on my training in psychotherapy, which is bringing together all the diverse modalities that I have studied and practiced. By 2025 I will be launching my integrative psychotherapy practice, in which I intend to guide my clients through embodied healing and growth.

My History

I began my career in the wellness industry because of my own struggle with my mental, physical and spiritual health. I had started a busy corporate career after university, which brought my crippling anxiety and disordered eating to the surface. I eventually got the message from my body that my life was completely out of alignment and I had to make some drastic changes.

After leaving that career with no clue what I would do, I somehow found my way to a yoga teacher training and realised that I was being guided towards a life of healing myself and others.

As I began my new life as a yoga teacher, I became obsessed with attaining a strong physical practice. I was also compulsive with diets and remedies, so my disordered eating and body dysmorphia continued. My low self-esteem meant I struggled to build this new career, as I felt like a fraud teaching others to be in their bodies when I was so disgusted by my own. 

As hopeless as I often felt, I never gave up my quest to find freedom from my suffering. I began studying all kinds of healing modalities, spent every penny I had on therapies and courses — all with the hope that I would find the magic bullet to ‘fix’ me. 

I never did find that one thing. But what I have gathered over the years are subtle and profound insights into what makes up our human experience, and the underlining secret is that it’s all happening within our body. What I now realise is that what I truly needed over these years of searching was a guide to help me navigate my own path — a benevolent voice to keep redirecting me to the wisdom that exists in my own body. Not a prescription or a ‘healing’, but someone to hold space for me as I learned about who I really was beneath all the armouring I had built up over a lifetime of trying to keep myself safe.

Because my coaching maps my own ongoing self-development journey, I’m so very passionate about passing on these tools to others who feel in some way that they have untapped potential and want to release old patterns that are keeping them from anything but their most realised self. 

BACKGROUND

On my journey of learning and growing I have studied: psychotherapy, yoga therapy, hypnotherapy, meditation, breathwork, holistic lifestyle coaching, corrective exercise, remedial therapy, massage therapy, personal training, emotional processing, Eastern & Native American spiritual practices, inner child work, and sports development.

Want to see how these practices may help you?


Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do... It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson