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Dwelling in Coherence

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Your home is a living system - one that influences your emotions, nervous system and overall well-being.

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Your Home as an Ecosystem

There is a dialogue between your body, psyche and dwelling occurring at all times. By exploring the patterns held in your internal and external architecture, and listening to their ongoing conversation, your space and self can synchronize.

Home is where you have the most agency—not only over how things look, but how you cultivate your life in small, precious moments. True luxury is owning those moments; that’s where the power lies. Your home is where you lay the groundwork for how you live and move in the world. By designing your environment and daily rhythms with care, you rewire your neural network and create a new template of living.

Your home holds more than furniture and objects—it holds meaning, memory, story and the shape of your daily life. Through a blend of nervous system education, holistic coaching and intentional space design, you uncover how your home environment, and how you interact with it, affects every facet of your life and how it can guide you toward dwelling in coherence.

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Begin

Dear ones, come.

We await your arrival.

Can you see the silken ribbons laid bright in the trees to guide your way?

Can you smell the air laced with honeysuckle and rose?

. . . . .

Pour yourself a cup of warm tea, close your eyes, and let us guide you on a journey back to home.

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What We Do

The Somatic Home is a deeply personal, experiential approach that highlights the impactful relationship of your inner world and living space. Through guided coaching style sessions, we explore how your nervous system and your environment affect each other, shaping your sense of safety, presence and vitality. We tend to the deep currents of your life- revealing how space reflects and reinforces the stories, patterns and states within you. And we discern how you can influence and arrange your space to reflect who you truly are—not who you’ve been by default.

The process is relational, body-based and rooted in lived experience. Each session weaves somatic practices with space inquiry, nervous system regulation and values-based reflection. This work bridges the seen and unseen—body and space, matter and meaning. It’s not just about design, and it’s not just about somatics. It’s about what happens when the two meet. We call it The Body-Mind-Environment connection.

We follow a carefully considered framework, but the process itself is organic and intuitive—arising from your rhythms, your needs and the story of your home. In a session, you may find yourself decluttering what has grown stagnant, refining your personal aesthetic, focusing on nervous system regulation or rekindling connection with the natural world around your home. Over time, this work strengthens your capacity to notice, to choose and to make changes that are both subtle and profound. The work is not only cognitive; it's felt, anchored and practiced in real time.

The Somatic Home is not about trends, fixing or perfection. It’s about coherence—between self and space, values and arrangement, inner and outer life. It invites you to slow down, to listen, and to move from habit into intentionality. You create a home that reflects your spirit, supports your nervous system and holds you and your family with beauty. This is a devotional practice—a reclamation of agency through the ordinary magic of your daily life. It’s about building capacity, fluency and resilience in both your environment and your body and creating a home that fosters true and lasting well-being.

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Why It Works

Your nervous system is always listening. It scans your surroundings for subtle cues of safety or threat, shaping your internal state moment by moment, usually without conscious awareness. This is called neuroception, and it plays a powerful role in how safe, supported or overwhelmed you feel.

This ancient system was excellent at keeping our ancestors alive—tracking threats on the wind, leaping into action when the shadows stirred. But in our modern world, where the dangers are diffuse and relentless, the nervous system often gets caught in a loop of vigilance, unable to return to the hearth of rest and repair.

In the larger world, you have little control over the constant stream of stimulation and information entering your internal sphere. But at home, it’s a different story. This is your domain—your place of influence. Your home is your external nervous system. By harnessing its potential through simple practices and thoughtful design, your environment can support a resilient and flourishing life. When you begin to notice the unconscious cues your body is responding to, you can tend to your space with intention and create signals of safety and inspiration.

These signals don’t just soothe—they re-pattern. Over time, this fosters neuroplasticity—your brain and body’s natural ability to rewire in response to consistent, supportive environmental cues. We are not seeking to only calm the system, but to build its capacity and flexibility.

When your home and nervous system are synchronized, lasting change becomes possible—felt in your body, reflected in your space and sustained through your daily life.

Within every human heart is a homing device with a gravitational pull to the intact blueprint of home.

Our Offerings

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Begin: Discovery Call

Our complimentary 30 minute Discovery Call is a relaxed, no-pressure conversation to explore your space, your needs, and the shifts you’re craving. We’ll introduce our unique approach—blending somatics, intentional design, and lifestyle support—and walk you through what working together could look like.

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Initial Consultation

After the discovery call, we will meet for an initial consultation.

This is a thoughtful, exploratory session where we get to know you, your space, and your nervous system. We’ll guide you through a holistic assessment to surface what’s working, what’s not, and what your space is asking for. You’ll leave with clarity, a suggested somatic practice, and a proposal for how we might continue working together which can be through either an A La Carte Session or a Package.

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A La Carte Sessions

These sessions can be booked anytime and are where we deepen the work, focusing on the areas of your life and home that need the most support. Each session includes grounding, focused coaching, and hands-on exploration of your space through somatic and design-based practices. You’ll leave with clear next steps, personalized practices, and a growing sense of coherence between your inner and outer world.

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Packages

Our discounted packages offer a deeper, more sustained journey into creating a somatic home. Whether you’re building a foundation of regulation and support, or ready to design a space that fully reflects your values and aesthetic, these packages give us time to go further—unearthing patterns, aligning your environment with your inner world, and creating a home that truly holds you.

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Get a Taste for What We Offer with Our Free Gift:

Spinning Straw Into Gold

Everyday Rituals to Bring Magic, Meaning, and Presence into Your Home.

Discover simple, sensory-rich practices that reframe routine tasks into soulful rituals.

This gift offers a gentle shift in perspective—inviting you to remember your home as a place of nourishment, beauty, and creative connection.

Step inside and begin weaving the sacred into the everyday.

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Classes

Our classes offer a gentle entry point into the work—an invitation to slow down, come home to yourself, and begin reshaping your inner and outer space with intention.

Free Intro Sessions

These one-hour gatherings, offered online and in person, are an open door. You’ll get a feel for the work, meet us, and learn foundational tools to begin your journey. Come as you are, and sense what’s possible.

3-Hour Experiential Class

A deeper dive into somatic and nervous system awareness, this immersive session explores the connection between your body and your environment. Through guided practices and creative inquiry, you’ll leave with tangible tools and a clearer sense of how your space can support your well-being.

6-Week Group Course

This live, small-group journey mirrors our 1:1 work in a more accessible and collective container. You’ll explore nervous system regulation, embodiment, and home as a mirror—supported by weekly classes, meditations, creative prompts, and between-session practices. It’s not about fixing—it’s about remembering, realigning, and creating space that reflects who you truly are.

We’re Glad You’re Here

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We are Nicteha and Jessica, co-creators of Salt + Gold: The Somatic Home — a practice rooted in the belief that true restoration begins by coming home to the body and the spaces we dwell in. Our work lives at the intersection of somatics, design, ritual, and the everyday rhythms that nourish a sense of belonging.

With backgrounds in bodywork, coaching, design, and herbal medicine, our paths have been shaped by deep initiations—illness, loss, motherhood, and the long search for rootedness. Through years of study and lived experience, we've come to see “home” not just as a place, but as a living practice. Together, we support others in creating environments—both internal and external—where they can truly dwell, restore and come alive.

When home becomes the core of our lives again, is laid out and adorned with intention and consciously cared for, it becomes a source of deep safety and an accurate mirror of our true nature.

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Beauty is Your Birthright. Home Belongs to Everyone.

Beauty and home are fundamental to being human, not luxuries for the few.

We do not speak of curated surface beauty found in glossy magazines, but the kind that hums beneath everyday life—

the flicker of candlelight,

the first spring blossoms,

a curtain stirred by the summer breeze,

the whispering hush of dusk.

This beauty lives all around you, waiting for your senses to turn toward it. It can be found everywhere and is freely given to those who choose to perceive and tend it.

This is not another self-improvement project: this is a call to remember your original home in the smallest of gestures.

Folding a blanket,

washing a bowl,

sweeping the floor

— these can all become quiet luxuries, rituals of belonging.

Beauty and home are not distant ideals to be earned, they are already here, always available

Wherever and however you live —whether in a house, a van, a teepee, or something in between, your space matters and can become a vessel of everyday enchantment.  This process is for everyone, and anyone, hoping to remember how to make a dwelling truly feel like home.

The Call Home

The Somatic Home Origins

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This is not a project built from borrowed theories or institutional blueprints. It was shaped in the raw, unfiltered crucible of lived experience, where true wisdom is earned, not given. Its roots grow deep—through loss, transformation, and the long walk back to the body. Its teachers have not been found in lecture halls, but in the quiet initiations of grief, relationship, and the wild intelligence of the nervous system.

This is not a top-down endeavor. It is knowledge grown from the roots up—through presence, through practice, through learning how to stay. It’s an offering grounded in the body, in the language beneath language, in the sacred work of returning.

Those who carry this kind of knowing may not speak every industry word, but they can read the silent scripts of the heart. They decipher what is unsaid. They draw out—like a black salve—what is ready to be released, and what is aching to be realized. They are code readers. Resonance discerners. Nurses of the human heart.

What they offer is not performance, but presence—not instruction, but deep invitation.

This coaching space is for those ready to come home to themselves—through the body, through truth, and into coherence.

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To make true impact in the larger world, we must start with where and how we dwell. The Somatic Home offers a map to guide you home!

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  • "I continue to feel profoundly affected after our session and look forward to continued integration and further support in the future. Nicteha and Jessica created an immensely safe, clear, yet expansive container to explore my relationship with the home I am building and the land I live on. Our session touched upon many layers - helping me tune in deeply to myself and my home, as well as providing very tangible support that helped me feel "un-stuck" in my design process. I felt very heard and seen, and also had a lot of fun exploring myself and my relationship with my home. It was so valuable to work wtih them!” -Angela M.

  • “Nicteha and Jessica helped me find magic in my home again. They both asked questions that hit straight to the core of my soul's longings. They helped me make surprising changes to my space: One change was transforming a built-in counter into a "poet reading nook" overlooking rooftops in my neighborhood! I absolutely love this spot, which feels like a bold expression of my deeper self which was looking for an outlet. Another particularly fresh aspect of their approach was going back in time to the history of my building, and being in a two-way relationship with my apartment. They coached me to interact with my space in a way that would meet my goal of addressing some blocks to intimacy I have... It may not be a coincidence that I was invited on two dates shortly after :) Truly, shifts in your home can help bring your deepest desires into life, and your desires can become alive in the objects of your home. They will help you connect with who you are. If you have an opportunity to work with these two women, I say jump on the opportunity! They are talented and intuitive; you may be surprised at the ripple effects small changes in your home can make.” -Anna G.

  • "Before working with Salt + Gold, I primarily blamed myself for not being able to address the mess in my home. It was so different when working with Nicteha and Jessica! From our first meeting, my nervous system felt joined by theirs. I felt seen, validated, and understood. Instead of becoming lost in dysregulation, and becoming too overwhelmed to make decisions, they helped me connect with a felt experience of support, with my values, and with my own agency. It was even fun! This is powerful and healing work.  As a therapist, I appreciated how this is a form of somatic therapy blended with my space.  It's grounded in my home, not just my head or body . My unexamined assumption that I needed to do this alone was wrong. I’m so glad I realized that. Thank you Salt + Gold!" - Lisa K.