Two Decades of Somatic Leadership Practice
Meet Gitta.
In my mid-twenties, I was a physical therapist doing meaningful work. I was also in constant motion: acrobatics, piano, saxophone and flute, on top of kayak polo and working with horses… while working a full time job. Years of recurring illness were my body's way of trying to get my attention, yet my mind kept driving anyway.
It wasn't until some years later, in California on a scholarship for a yearlong Somatic Movement Therapy training, that things shifted. I learned that the body is not just something we carry around and use. It is an intelligence system, one that reads situations, people, and risk long before our analytical mind catches up. I learned to listen to my body, to notice the different states of my nervous system, and to let that awareness guide me in addition to my mind.
This was the beginning of inResonance™.
That same capacity to read the body’s signals is what allows exceptional leaders to read a room naturally, lead with empathy, and communicate with authentic leadership presence.
I have since developed the inResonance™ Approach, giving leaders access to this same whole body intelligence to lead exceptionally when navigating pivotal moments.
The Making of inResonance™
Gitta Sivander grew up between Germany and Sweden, the daughter of a physical therapist and a rocket engineer. The body was part of daily conversation from childhood. So was listening beyond words. Born with a significant hearing loss, she learned early to read body language, emotional nuance, and what lives underneath how people present themselves.
That fluency became her life's work.
She trained as a physical therapist, studied theatre and dance, and moved to Paris to join circus school. From there she relocated to San Francisco to study somatic movement and movement analysis, working with horses, training in structural bodywork, and teaching yoga along the way. Living and working across Germany, Sweden, Iceland, France, Italy, Australia, and the US, she kept returning to what she had understood intuitively since childhood, the body as an intelligence system…until it became the approach she now calls inResonance™.
The shift into leadership work in 2007 was a natural evolution. She could see immediately how much leaders were leaving on the table by ignoring the body’s intelligence in communication, presence, and decision-making.
That insight became inResonance™, an approach that integrates somatic intelligence, nervous system awareness, and neuroscience-based coaching to help leaders lead with clarity, self-trust and unshakable presence, as they navigate pivotal moments and new roles.
The Science Behind the Approach
inResonance™ is a leadership approach grounded in the biological understanding that far more information moves from the body to the brain than originally thought. For centuries we have been conditioned to lead from the neck up, and in doing so we have lost touch with the deeper intelligence
our body carries.
Bringing the mind and body back into their natural state of congruence… this psycho-physical alignment is how we reclaim access to whole intelligence. This connection becomes the foundation for self-trust, aligned decision-making, and confidence in uncertainty. This is your edge.
This is inResonance™.
Artwork by Gitta Sivander
Working with Gitta has helped me improve
my confidence, more skillfully approach conversations,
and ultimately become a better leader.
Megan CMO,
West Coast Startup
Certifications
Coaching Related
• CPCC - Certified Professional Co-Active Coach by CTI
• PCC - Professional Coach by ICF (International Coach Federation)
• CNTC - Certified Neurotransformational Coach by BeAbove Leadership
• NCTR - Certified Neuroscience and Relational Trauma Coach by BeAbove Leadership
• A Positive Vision Day - Methodology by Fiona Parashar
Somatics and Embodiment
• Physical Therapist, University of Göttingen, Germany
• CLMA - Certified Laban Movement Analyst
• SMTT - Somatic Movement Therapy Training and Certification
• RSMT/RSMT Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist with ISMETA International Somatic Movement Education and
Therapy Association (formerly)
• Certified Yoga Alliance Practitioner
• Dharma Yoga and Meditation Teacher
• Equine Natural Movement: Structural Integration with horses
• Certified Hippotherapist (DKThR)
Assessments
• Partner with Wiley
• Everything DiSC Certification, by Wiley
• Leadership Circle Profile Certification
• Hogan Assessments Certification
• MBTi certified: The Myers Briggs Company
Additional Tools
• Clifton Strength Finder
• Enneagram
• Positive Intelligence
• Byron Katie: The Work
• NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming
• Designing Your Life - Career Transitions