Somatic Coach · Author · Guide
My personal and professional mission is to help raise our collective consciousness through personal growth. That's why I have my coaching practice, and it's why I birthed the Handbook for Human Potential into the world.
I'm a small-town girl who went searching the world for the feeling of home within my own bones. I grew up in the Sierra foothills, and in my early twenties I set out to travel, chasing that sense of home inside my body, my heart, my being.
That search became my life's work. I'm wired to hold big, hard emotions with compassion and acceptance, and I've spent thousands of hours in therapy, in retreats and workshops, and in my own healing, learning to stay steady through the roller coaster of personal and collective transformation. It's what lets me zoom out, see the pattern beneath the struggle, and ask the honest, open questions that lead you home to your own inner wisdom and body-knowing.
My searching led me here, to the work I love most: helping people heal, grow, and transform.
I'm most complimented for my parenting. And… I'm far from perfect. I have plenty of my own struggles that I'm still healing and growing through.
I believe we are at a pivotal moment in human consciousness. Every one of us who can help move the needle, for our own growth and for our collective evolution, matters now more than ever. That is the difference I am here to make.
Awareness is the first step. Love is the next.
Meet what you find in yourself with compassion instead of shame, and change from there, because change made with love is the kind that lasts.
My home for working together: somatic coaching, the Mood Before Food method, and parenting support for those ready to move from patterns to presence. The Zen Odyssey Studio, my recorded coaching program, is now the way to work with me, at your own pace, from home. Opening early 2027.
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I'm the Book Momma, the compiler and editor, and the author of two chapters. Foreword by Jeffrey J. Kripal, with 18 healers, doctors, and guides gathered into one accessible map for personal growth.
Visit the HandbookMy recipes, gathered into print, to hold in your hands while you cook in your kitchen.
The journals my clients use, transformative on their own, even if we never work together.
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Chandra Zas is a somatic coach, author, and the Book Momma of the Handbook for Human Potential. She helps people heal, grow, and transform, moving from inherited patterns to presence through somatic coaching, the Mood Before Food method, and nervous-system work. Based in Reno, Nevada, she works with clients through Zen Odyssey.
A somatic coach helps you work with the body, not only the mind. Rather than trying to think your way out of stress, cravings, or reactive patterns, somatic coaching helps you regulate your nervous system and listen to your body's signals, so lasting change becomes possible.
The Zen Odyssey Studio, Chandra's recorded coaching program, is now the way to work with her, and Studio members can also book 1:1 sessions with her. The Studio opens early 2027. Join her newsletter to hear the moment it opens. You can also read her work in the Handbook for Human Potential.
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