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Somatic Journeys
for Emotional Healing
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   Transform Emotional Patterns at Their Root
Your journey to lasting change begins here. Step into a private, guided experience. One that takes you beyond words and into deep, embodied transformation. Release long‑held tension, awaken your body’s wisdom, and return to clarity, calm & connection.
Begin with a personalized 85‑minute journey session via zoom—a powerful first step, before stepping into deeper work.
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Start with a Private Intro Journey
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Cultivate YOUR BreakThrough Moment
Hello, I’m James Mayfield-Smith. I'm a Somatic BreakThrough Facilitator.
I specialize in helping people work directly with emotional triggers, somatic blocks, and nervous-system overwhelm—right in the moment when they arise.
This isn’t therapy; it’s deep, body-based inner work. Using breath-led altered states, parts dialogue, and real-time somatic tracking, we follow the thread from surface trigger to the deeper wisdom stored in your body.
When we listen with attuned awareness, your system reveals what it’s ready to release. I can help you get unstuck fast—and teach you how to do it on your own.
This work blends neuroscience, shamanic practice, and structured facilitation. It’s trauma-informed without pathologizing, mystical and practical—and profoundly effective for those ready to meet themselves at depth.
This work has touched many lives. Many of our past clients continue to walk with us as cherished members of our BreakThrough Circle community. You can hear from a few of us in the 3 minute video below.Â
BreakThrough Circle 1-on-1, Group Programs & Retreats
My current focus is on my 1-on-1 facilitation work (hire me for your specific breakthrough), my faciliation mentorships (hire me to learn how to facilitate) & my legacy & patronage special projects (hire me to bring transformation to your group). I'm not offering public group programs at this time. To hire James for yourself, for your relationship, family or private group, virtually or at a private retreat, contact James' assistant at [email protected].
Experience the Shift
Whether you're navigating anxiety, burnout, old trauma, or a sense of disconnection from your purpose—you don't have to stay stuck.
Through Somatic Journey sessions, you'll learn to:
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Hear your body’s inner messages
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Find clarity around stuck emotional patterns
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Restore calm and alleviate anxiety
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Build a grounded sense of inner safety
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Ease physical tension through nervous system awareness
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Break free from people-pleasing and over-giving
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Strengthen your boundaries and confidence in relationships
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Reclaim your authentic personal power
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Gently heal old wounds without reliving the trauma
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Begin resolving the effects of childhood emotional pain
These are not just outcomes—they're invitations. This work can open the door to a new way of being.
Who are you beyond the Emotional Loops?
If you’re like many people, you’ve made real progress. You’ve done the mindset work. You’ve learned to show up with courage. You may even understand what needs to change.
And yet, there’s that one persistent pattern that keeps resurfacing. The one that makes you question your growth, dulls your energy, or blocks your deeper fulfillment. You've likely tried strategies that offered temporary relief, but somehow, the cycle continues. Some contrasting energies within you just can't seem to align with what's best for your well-being, leaving you feeling afraid that you may never reach your full potential.
This isn't a failure of willpower. It's a result of trying to think your way through what lives deeper...in your body, your breath, your nervous system.
That’s where this work begins.
Somatic-based modalities are uniquely capable of reaching the unconscious patterns stored in the body. When we combine somatic awareness with breath-induced altered states, parts dialogue, and skillful facilitation, we create optimal conditions for emotional release and deep inner healing—without relying on plant medicine or overwhelming interventions.
This is precise, attuned work. And it changes lives.
It's not our fault! Â
We can't resolve our core life wounds through willpower alone. We're dealing with unconscious forces that reside within our nervous system. We need to get below our conscious awareness to reach them.
This is where somatic-based modalities come into play. Body-based tools are able to reach these emotional issues that live within the body and nervous system. Â
When we combine a somatic approach with natural altered states journey work (we use breathwork to get there), we create an optimal environment for emotional healing. We can unlock benefits similar to those offered by plant medicines, without subjecting ourselves to their potentially adverse effects.
Add some highly effective shadow work processes, structured BreakThrough tools, a shamanic initiatory lens and some skillful facilitation magic to the inquiry...and we find ourselves starting to feel very different...fast.
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James is a seasoned Somatic BreakThrough Coach who has facilitated breakthroughs since 2006. His expertise lies in helping people FIND, FEEL & HEAL from a range of life struggles through somatic and emotional healing techniques.
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Curious? To learn more or to experience the magic firsthand, come check out what we're up to!
What Happens in a Somatic Journey Session?Â
Each session is a carefully held, collaborative process designed to meet your nervous system with respect, curiosity, and skill. Rather than forcing insight or catharsis, we work with what naturally emerges — allowing deeper layers of emotion, sensation, and meaning to become accessible and integrated. Sessions can take the form of:Â
- A focused 85-minute virtual session (Zoom or phone)
- A 6-hour personal retreat session (remote or in-person)Â
A Typical Journey Includes:
Orientation & Attunement
We begin by slowing down and listening. You share what’s present, where you feel stuck, and what you’re longing for. Together, we orient toward a clear, grounded intention for the session.
Guided Breath & Somatic Awareness
Through gentle breathwork and body awareness, we amplify your capacity to feel subtle internal signals. This often opens a natural altered state where inner work becomes easier and more fluid.
Somatic Tracking & Inner Dialogue
As sensations, emotions, and inner parts arise, we map and engage them directly. Tightness, heaviness, numbness, or heat become doorways to insight, release, and reorganization.
Integration & Reflection
We close by tracking what has shifted, clarifying meaning, and orienting what you discovered toward your life, relationships, and next steps — helping your system carry the change forward.Â
Safety &Â Personalized Adaptation
This work is never forced. Sessions are paced collaboratively and adapted to your history, capacity, and nervous system needs. Intensity and breathwork are adjusted to support safety, choice, and sustainable depth, to give you the level of intensity that you desire and are ready for.
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Integration of the Journey
We follow up with a discussion, allowing opportunity again to share experiences and insights.
- Explore impact of the work, immediate applications, and next steps.
- Discuss the work's impact and share how we can immediately incorporate it into your life.Â
- We end with closing the journey session container.
We heal at depth from the inside out. These sessions go profound & deep, while also keeping a spirit of playful fun & caring encouragement. If you're looking for a life-affirming facilitation and coaching for your journey, you've found it.
Schedule now for an exploration of self-discovery and growth!
Have you experienced the rapid results that are possible with somatic journey sessions?
Any stress & trauma held in your body takes up space and narrows the channel that allows your full expression to shine forth. Precise somatic facilitation gets to the root of these stresses, traumas and places where you tense up from life. Good facilitation engages these stress points in ways that cultivate deep healing. When you do this work, you leave feeling lighter, more free & more like the YOU that you know is possible.
✨ Start Your Journey Here ✨Â
Introductory 85 min Somatic BreakThrough Session: SPECIAL GATEWAY PRICE
$100
Money-Back Guarantee
YOUR DOORWAY INTO THE BREAKTHROUGH CIRCLE
Experience a full 85‑minute guided somatic journey to release tension, calm your nervous system, and reconnect with clarity and choice. This is a complete session offered at a reduced rate so you can directly feel the depth of this work before committing to a longer path.
After your Intro Journey, we can choose an Inner Work Path that's right for you
2-Day Private Retreat
$5,000
An Investment in Yourself
A LIFE CHANGING IMMERSION
Ideal for major transitions, decisions, or healing.
Two full days of guided journeys and emotional integration, tailored entirely to you (or you and your partner). In gorgeous Asheville or at your location. Travel and lodging separate.
Facilitator Training for Coaches
$7,500
Raise Your Prices
ADVANCED MENTORSHIP TO DEEPEN IMPACTÂ
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Learn to guide profound somatic and emotional transformation with real clients. Elevate the value and results of your current work. Designed for experienced coaches with active client bases.
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You can reach out to James for assistance making the best choice for you and your situation.Â
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James Mayfield Smith
Somatic BreakThrough Coach
Text:Â 816. 645. 2600
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Meet James
 James' extensive training, caring heart, curious mind, deep creativity, and playful spirit enable him to facilitate deep and lasting change in people's lives.
James' early life experiences of physical abuse, emotional neglect, social anxiety, experiences with bullies, teen pregnancy, and relational trauma...and his journey of healing...make him ideally suited for this work. An early mid-life crisis (17 years ago, in his early thirties) and a year of deep grief & healing required him to seek out support to go deep to resolve his unmet emotional needs. Somatic work changed him at depth. At 50, he's now living his purpose offering these tools to others seeking emotional healing so that they, too, can offer their gifts to the world in a way that's aligned to their inner wisdom.
Meet Elena
Elena is our social media strategist and community member. Elena has used somatic nervous system regulation tools for the past 2 1/2 years to transform her own nervous system regulation and attachment patterns. She's an MIT-grad turned Esalen-trained bodyworker who understands the heavy toll that stress takes on bodies and spirits. Encouraged by the success she's found with these tools, she is an advocate for this work. Elena offers massage, nervous system support & emotional replenishment for clients in the SF Bay area (and occasionally in Asheville & NYC). Learn more about Elena at www.elenalakebodywork.com
Meet Amy
Amy is our FB Platform Manager, community member & enthusiastic evangelist. Amy has used Somatic Breathwork Dialogue, Inner Child Work & other BreakThrough tools for the past 5 years. Her soul journey has led her to service as a life guide & coach, as a sound healer and facilitator of journeys & retreats, as the podcast co-host of Magical Mystical Journeys & most recently, as co-author of Find Your Wings, a book of inspirational stories to uncover your calling. live your purpose & share your light with the world.  Find her at communityasmedicine.comÂ
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Meet Song
 As an energy healing facilitator, healing vocalist, and voice activation guide, Song brings a grounded, radiant presence to her role as Creative Assistant to the team. She weaves Earth-based ritual, somatic voice healing, nervous system awareness, and energetic attunement into powerful pathways of reconnection with voice and the reclamation of pleasure and wholeness. Through one-on-one and group work in vocal activation, self-healing, sacred ritual, and communion, she serves the remembrance of our innate aliveness and the embodiment of the soul’s truth.
