Polina Anderson

Aliveness, care, embodied presence

Somatic Bodywork and Psychosomatic Coaching
Berlin & online | 1:1 sessions

Polina Anderson - Somatic Bodywork Berlin | Transformative Bodywork

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My name is Polina and I offer space and guidance for deep embodied processes, supporting you in your transformation journey.This work invites you back into contact with yourself - not as an idea, but as a lived experience in the body.

Through touch, awareness, and attentive presence, we work with what is held beneath the surface: tension, protection, overwhelm, and old patterns that no longer need to shape your life.Over time, space opens for something more true and alive to emerge - clarity, ease, and a more natural way of being.

Together we explore how you can

Say YES to Life

There is a natural intelligence in the body that mirrors the intelligence of nature itself — responsive, relational, always in movement.When we reconnect to it, we don’t need to force change. We begin to listen, and something in us knows how to shift, soften, stand up for ourselves, and find our way forward.This is the ground my work comes from.

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Somatic Coaching

Transfor mative Bodywork

Psychosomatic process that helps you understand your limiting patterns and how to gradually become free from them.

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Regulation & Reset

Nervous System Regulation

A deep dive into the well of energy and regulation your body naturally accesses when feeling safe, held and attuned to.No psychosomatic process or long talking - only support in the moment and extended care that you need.

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Polina
Anderson

Polina Anderson

Transformative Bodywork
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Somatic Coaching

Transformative Bodywork

My work begins with the body, breath, and attention.Together, we explore what is present right now — physical sensations, emotional responses, recurring patterns, or areas where life feels stuck, overwhelming, or disconnected. Rather than trying to fix or force change, we start by becoming more aware of what is already happening.As awareness grows, habitual ways of holding, protecting, or limiting ourselves often become easier to recognize. Through touch, breath, conversation, and embodied attention, these patterns can begin to soften and make space for new experiences.People come to this work for many reasons: physical tension, emotional overwhelm, relationship challenges, life transitions, lack of clarity, or simply a desire to feel more connected to themselves.The process is collaborative. Together we learn through your direct experience, exploring what supports greater presence, vitality, freedom, and alignment in your life.Over time, what once felt automatic can become conscious. What felt stuck can begin to move. And more of your energy becomes available for what truly matters to you.

Aim of the process

At the core, I help you to learn meeting challenges with greater body awareness, self-confidence, energy, and a heightened sense of attention and connection to the situation.Here are some possible areas of focus:

Developing greater body awareness and having more energy in daily life
Finding relief from tension, pain, and chronic ailments
Using the body to break free from (un)conscious repetitive patterns regarding oneself and one's relationships
Lovingly integrating old, unresolved feelings and needs
Gaining greater clarity
Quieting the mind, improving concentration, and resting more deeply
Opening up to new possibilities
Better recognizing and communicating one’s own needs and boundaries
Making decisions more easily through a stronger connection with oneself
Connecting more deeply with one’s own capacity for love
Processing heartbreak
Connecting more easily with others
Allowing emotions in order to process the past and better sense current needs
Daring to embrace pleasure in life again
Developing a physical connection to creativity
Feeling one’s own motivation and zest for life
Cultivating grounding, trust, and presence
Improving sleep quality

Intention & Focus

In our first session, we will explore your intention and define a focus for the process. This may evolve over time as new insights emerge.Your intention is usually connected to something that already matters to you: a challenge you are facing, a quality you would like to cultivate, or an area of life where you wish to experience more freedom, vitality, or fulfillment.If you feel stuck in recurring situations or patterns, we can orient the work toward understanding and transforming them. These patterns often appear as physical tension, numbness, emotional stagnation, recurring fears, self-doubt, or repetitive thoughts and behaviors.By becoming more aware of these patterns and learning to relate to them differently, space can open for new experiences, greater wellbeing, self-trust, and possibilities that may have previously felt out of reach.

Before the Session

Please let me know about any changes in your physical or emotional condition so I can adapt the session accordingly.• Avoid large meals for 1–2 hours before the session.
• Wear comfortable clothing and, if possible, allow some time afterwards for rest and integration.
• Come with curiosity. Whatever your goal, the process tends to work best when approached as an opportunity to learn and grow, rather than simply fix a problem.

During the Session

Through touch and conversation, you learn to heighten your awareness and increase your energy levels. This involves breathing more freely, relaxing, and quieting the mind.You learn to perceive your unconscious patterns of protection and stagnation through your body and consciously release them. In this way, past experiences can be processed, and the energy that is freed up can be used for your recovery—or simply provide you with more energy and clarity for your life goals.Upon request, I can also teach you exercises to practice at home.

The Process

The number of sessions varies depending on your goals, the nature of your challenge, and your active participation in the process.Many people notice meaningful changes within the first few weeks of regular sessions. We will periodically reflect together on whether the work is supporting your intentions and how to continue.As with any collaborative process, the fit matters. You are free to end the process at any time, and I may also suggest alternative support if I feel your needs are outside my current scope of practice.

Cancellations

If you wish to cancel your appointment, please do so at least 48 hours in advance on a business day so that I can easily offer the slot to someone else. Otherwise, I will have to charge a cancellation fee.Exceptions are, of course, illness and emergencies.

Prices

Single Session - 50€.
From Spetember 2026 - 65€Packages available - contact me directly.Urban Sports Club members L, XL receive a 15€ check-in discount.

Notice

Any somatic process I offer is not a substitute for necessary medical or psychiatric treatment.Any intake of medication during the process—including any changes—should be carried out in accordance with medical instructions.All written records are treated confidentially.

Polina Anderson

Polina Anderson

Transformative Bodywork
About me

Work with me

My Story

My name is Polina and for the past decade I’ve been studying human potential through bodywork, touch, presence, movement, art and improvisation. With a varied background focused on attention, perception, touch, listening and psychology, I’m offering a holistic approach to somatic work.I support you - in expanding into your joy and love for life, in going to subtle places where self-abandonment happens, and moving together in sustainable ways through difficult and loaded places - thus allowing them to transform.My main modality is Transformative Bodywork, where I interweave subtle sensing, various forms of touch, verbal interaction and guided space for a psychosomatic process. My work is based on meeting you where you are, with care and connection - so your aliveness and true vitality can flow freely.I work in English, Russian and German.

My Path

Exploring & Meeting Life

I came to this work through years of exploring, experimenting, traveling and meeting various aspects of Life. I’ve been working as a designer in corporate world, travelled nomadically around Europe, Russia and Asia, dared experimenting radically with my lifestyles and paths.In this rich time, I’ve completed various trainings and learned from great teachers:

Intuitive Thai Meridian Massage - Somatische Akademie, Berlin 2019-2020
ITM - Thai Massage Therapist Level 1-4, 2020
Following life radically on a hermitic travel journey thus strengthening my intuition and trust in its flow (Nomadic journey 2023-2025)
Iyengar yoga training in Dharamshala (Sharat Arora center, 2023)
Meditative retreats for weeks / months - both self-organised and in Vipassana centres
Living and collaborating in numerous permaculture farms and retreat centres, practicing circular-economy principles and sustainable lifecycle designs
Since 2022 practicing Contact Improvisation and attention through movement
Participated in various art-redicencies and deep-dive workshops (with Kirstie Simson, Dolores Dewhurst-Marks, Sasha Dodo, Anjelika Donyi and many other amazing teachers).
Studied with movement artisans in Berlin, to understand axis syllabus principles of moving a body as a dancer in an effective and safe way (June 2024)
Taught and offered spaces for contact improvisation, attention research in movement, and eco somatic work
For 5 years learned surfing and the intricate ways of being with the Atlantic Ocean - listening to my body and the intensely powerful environment around me
Currently in a Transformatve Bodywork Professional Training 2025-2027