“My session with Taylor was one of the most powerful experiences of my life. It was like ten years of therapy in a matter of hours. For months afterward, I felt an inner clarity and peace that I have not experienced before. It was the most effective tool I’ve used in my healing journey so far.” — Chelsea
“Working with Taylor has been an utterly life changing experience.” — Jahmaya
About Taylor, Somatic Channeling Founder
“Working with Taylor has been an utterly life changing experience.
Since beginning work with her 9 months ago, I have experienced a sustained wave of spiritual growth unlike any other period in my life.
Taylor is profoundly powerful, wise, professional, warm, and truly cares. She is the “real deal.”
-Jahmaya, Somatic Channeling Student, Somatic-Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Reiki Master
“Taylor is a wonderful teacher who personally embodies this path and I am profoundly inspired by her style of mysticism - down to earth, sweetly loving, and ferociously committed to the ongoing unfolding of human potential.
-Francesca Somatic Channeling Student, Somatic-Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Myofascial Release Practitioner
“Taylor is an incredibly gifted energy worker, guide, and teacher.
I am in owe of her, and feel truly blessed to have her in my life.
She is the perfect teacher, gently guiding people toward their highest selves through this sacred modality, both one-on-one and in group settings.
-Jenny, Somatic Channeling Student, Birth Coach & Doula
“Taylor has been a constant support, continually making space for growth around this practice and building containers for people where none existed before. She is a caring and tuned-in healer and guide.”
-Esther, Somatic Channeling Advanced Practitioner
Taylor’s story & the origin of Somatic Channeling
Taylor Bratches received, or awoke to, the sacred energy art Somatic Channeling in the mountains of Colorado in 2016.
She sat to meditate on a mountain outcropping in the middle of the night after hours of dancing on psychedelics at a forest rave, and “received” Somatic Channeling for the first time: her arms moving into yogic postures automatically, beyond her conscious control - resulting in a full energetic clearing. It felt like coming home.
This came after a Kundalini Awakening at the age of 21, an initiatory near-death experience in the desert at the age of 23, 15+ years of spiritual study and seeking in various traditions (Zen Buddhism, Krishna Consciousness, astrology, tarot, Chinese Medicine, Tantra and more), psychedelic exploration in traditional ceremonial and recreational spaces, a lifetime of dance training, and a complex history of depression, anxiety, CPTSD, and intergenerational family trauma rooted in sexual abuse, addiction and severe mental illness.
After this first Initiation with Somatic Channeling, she devoted herself to meditation for over a year before being able to receive the modality consciously and without plant medicine.
The first Somatic Channeling initiation where the modality was received/channeled sober came on Swami’s Beach in CA, outside of Yogananda’s Self-Realization Center in 2018.
Taylor then spent several years honing and developing the practice sober, synthesizing her experiences into a clear and structured modality, while maintaining the purity of the practice - channeled surrender.
In the process of devoted practice over years, she healed herself of depression, anxiety, CPTSD symptoms, excessive drug use and processed the death of her father, who passed of addiction. This process of healing occurred through the body and energy field, via Somatic Channeling.
Taylor was formally initiated into the Kriya Yoga tradition and became a certified Psychedelic Facilitator through SoundMind Institute, weaving conscious medicine use into her work - though the majority of her work and somatic/verbal channeling is done sober. She currently sits on a National Psychedelic Council of “Psychedelic Excellence” for psychedelic safety, and speaks at psychedelic conventions across the country.
Moreover, she runs a thriving energy work practice in Boulder, CO and sees clients regularly, offering Somatic Channeling energy work sessions and trainings to others, teaching dozens of practitioners locally and around the world.
She received her true soul name “Unjaara” from her Spirit Guides in a deep self-work Somatic Channeling session in 2024 - akin to receiving a name from a guru, revealing an even deeper calling to this work. She feels it is her sacred responsibility in this incarnation to not only share her gifts by being an energy worker and channel of the highest integrity, but by stewarding Somatic Channeling on earth by guiding and training practitioners who feel deeply connected to this modality.
Through Somatic Channeling, she woke up to verbal channeling (channeling Spirit Guides and other non-physical energies), mediumship, light language, and other mystical abilities. However, Somatic Channeling is her focus, as she believes it to be an incredibly profound healing modality that awakens the dormant Self beyond ego, active in every human body.
She credits Somatic Channeling for her own healing; her path has oriented around healing herself and helping others awaken to their own innate healing wisdom.