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Coaching Market Surpasses $7.3B; Active Embodiment Training Offers Coaches a Distinct Competitive Edge
Dr. Martha Eddy unveils a 15-week certification teaching coaches body language & somatic literacy that drive client trust, retention, and business growth.
4 November 2025, New York City, USA: As the global coaching industry surges past $7.3 billion and 167,300 active professionals (International Coaching Federation Global Coaching Study 2025), competition for clients is fiercer than ever. In a market crowded with verbal-based approaches, research reveals that between 70–93% of emotional impact comes through body language, facial expression, and nervous system cues skills often overlooked in traditional coach training (Mehrabian, “Silent Messages”; Polyvagal Theory, Stephen Porges).
Dr. Martha Eddy, creator of Dynamic Embodiment® and author of Mindful Movement (University of Chicago Press), is a neurodevelopmental expert, launching “Active Embodiment for Coaches” 15-week certification. This industry-first program empowers coaches, mentors, and therapists to stand out not through theory alone, but embodied skills. Participants develop the practical, physiological tools needed to regulate their own nervous systems, read subtle embodied signals, and create the magnetic presence that wins consultations and retains clients.
“When I led the movement session before Bessel van der Kolk’s keynote at Yale’s Embodied Cognition Conference, I learned something crucial: brilliant research means nothing if people receive it only intellectually. They needed to feel the principles in their own bodies first. That’s exactly what’s happening in coaching, coaches are reading about polyvagal theory and body language, but aren’t developing the embodied capacity to use these insights. In a market of hundreds of thousands of practitioners, theory won’t differentiate you, embodied awareness and movement range will.” says Dr. Eddy.
Program participants will gain the fundamental requirements for high-impact strategies to “match, modulate, and magnetize,” drawing on movement science, trauma sensitivity, and four decades of clinical expertise in applied physiology, neuroscience, and movement analysis. Learn to pay attention within and the movement skills to step forward with confidence. Dr. Eddy was on a research panel with Deb Dana, lead educator of the Polyvagal Theory, who shared, “Martha you know much more about the movement involved in nervous system regulation.” Core tools include:
Regulating nervous system reactivity and stress under pressure
Reading micro-expressions and embodied signals in client relationships
Creating trust and engagement through nonverbal presence
Translating the latest research into everyday business advantage
Hailed by business icons like her beloved client Evelyn Lauder, Dr. Eddy’s approach has received awards for its city-wide impact throughout greater NY (Susan G. Komen Community Impact Award) and for non-profit business development (The John Mack Arthur Founders Award). She also led the development of trauma-recovery programming through her innovating Moving For Life using somatic fitness for breast cancer recovery. Her work at Ground Zero with the NYC Department of Education, as well as with the Red Cross during 9/11, led to years of training coaches and therapists in trauma-sensitive care. Her method transforms best practices into sustainable, competitive distinction giving coaches the tools to elevate their practice, conversion rates, and long-term client loyalty.
Enrollment is open now for Active Embodiment for Coaches with access to a free guidebook or a replay of Develop Your Magnetism with Clients. The 3-hours a week course of study is available for professional coaches, therapists, mentors and business leaders seeking to experience embodied skill development firsthand from one of the world’s leading somatic experts. Learn more and get started at activeembodimentforcoaches.com or DynamicEmbodiment.org.
About Dr. Martha Eddy
Dr. Martha Eddy, creator of Dynamic Embodiment® and author of Mindful Movement (University of Chicago Press), is an expert in translating neuroscience into embodied practice. With four decades of experience, she empowers professionals with somatic skills in nervous system regulation and embodied presence for today’s competitive coaching industry. Join her in Embodying Success.
Media Contact: officeofMarthaEddy@gmail.com or info@MovingForLife.org
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I graduated with an engineering degree — a moment that felt like the start of a limitless future.
But when I decided to get married, my husband-to-be, who’d also started his corporate career in computing, said he wasn’t going to follow me around the country if I pursued engineering.
“It’s not a practical job when you become a mother,” he said.
And like so many women before me, I agreed.
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It made sense — shorter hours, school holidays, decent pay… or so I thought. (How many teachers have bought into that lie?)
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So I chose to be a stay-at-home mum at first. My husband had a successful career in the City of London, and we had a glittering future ahead. Complete with large Victorian home and 100ft garden.
Until everything changed.
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When I was 28, with two children under two, my husband was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumour. Our second child was only three months old.
Overnight, my world collapsed. He went through four major surgeries. I faced the terrifying reality of becoming a widow — with no job, no income, and two babies to raise.
He miraculously survived, but my illusion of security didn’t. I had to return to work — not because I wanted to, but because I had no choice.
That’s when I learned the hard truth: The so-called “biblical division of labour” doesn’t exist when life falls apart.
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For the next twenty years, I held onto a third lie: 👉 That a good mother sacrifices her dreams so her children can live theirs.
That's love.
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They bought their own homes, were financially secure, and I was proud… job well done I thought - but felt quietly empty.
My own success shelved for theirs. But that was love. That’s a mother’s purpose – isn’t it?
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When my adult children left, I didn't have Empty Nest Syndrome, but many of my friends did - a cruel result for a life of dedication.
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I on the other hand had, had my third child — the catalyst - the-turn-my-life-upside-downer.
She was born thirteen years after my second and became my greatest teacher.
A school refuser, she needed to be home-schooled. At first, I saw this as another sacrifice. But she was my greatest education.
She taught me that my beliefs were the problem — not motherhood. She redefined what education meant. And she showed me that when I chased my own dreams, I gave her permission to chase hers.
I gave her a strong educational foundation to grow from, and when I championed my dreams, I gave her wings and a window into an education that money couldn't buy.
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💬 If you’ve ever been told you have to choose between your dreams and your family, this is your reminder: you don’t.
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