About Sar

Somatic Therapist, Counsellor, Bodyworker and Artist

Sar Friedman is a Sydney-based somatic therapist, counsellor, bodyworker and artist. Her work explores the meeting place between psyche and soma, weaving together therapeutic bodywork, somatic psychotherapy and her own developing body of work, Mythopoetic Somatics™.

With over 16 years of experience, Sar has become known for her trauma-aware, interdisciplinary approach. Her work integrates touch, movement, psychotherapy, nervous system awareness, parts work, ritual and feminine wisdom.

The Path Into the Body

Sar’s path into somatic work began through a personal quest to fully inhabit her own body.

In her twenties, she realised she was living largely “from the neck up.” Early training in yoga, alongside a lifelong connection to creativity and emotional expression, shaped her understanding of the body as more than physical.

The body became a place of meaning. A gateway to spiritual authority, embodied knowing and transformation.

While Sar’s early career included time touring internationally as a musician and performer, her work now focuses primarily on therapeutic and community offerings. She continues to integrate creativity, voice and ritual into her practice, allowing space for the poetic and the primal to meet.

Training and Lineage of Teachers

Sar has trained extensively across bodywork, somatic integration and psychotherapy, including studies in Holistic Pelvic Care™, Process-oriented psychotherapy, somatic and parts-based approaches, Abdominal and womb-centred bodywork, Women's rites of passage and trauma-informed practice.

She pays deep respect and gratitude to the teachers who have shaped her path, including Jane Hardwicke Collings, Tami Kent, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Katherine Howard, David Bedrick and Andrea Lopez.

Alongside formal training, her work is shaped by years of clinical practice, ongoing study, lived experience and deep listening to women’s bodies, stories and nervous systems.

Mythopoetic Somatics™

Over time, Sar’s practice has naturally deepened alongside the hands-on therapy.

Mythopoetic Somatics™ is the name she gives to this evolving terrain: a way of listening to the body as a living story, where sensation, symptom, memory, image, myth and meaning can meet.

In practice, Sar weaves body-based therapies with depth-oriented enquiry. Her sessions are responsive and attuned, drawing on somatic dialogue, breath, movement, touch, relational awareness and mythopoetic reflection to support clients in deepening self-understanding, expanding capacity and reconnecting with the wisdom of the body.

Therapeutic massage, womb and belly work, fertility support, pregnancy massage, postnatal care and pelvic reconnection remain deeply at the heart of what she offers.

Relational, Ancestral and Cultural Patterns

Sar’s work is informed by the understanding that our patterns are not isolated.

They are shaped through relational, familial, ancestral and cultural systems.

She supports clients to explore these layers with curiosity and care, reconnecting to both personal and collective intelligence. Her work invites clients to soften habitual defences, listen beneath the surface and meet the parts of themselves that may have been exiled, silenced or over-managed.

Cocoon Bondi

Sar is the founder of Cocoon Bondi, a tranquil healing space in the heart of Bondi Beach created for clients and practitioners alike.

Cocoon is an extension of Sar’s values and vision: a community space for women’s health, integrative care, healing, connection and meaningful practice.

Through Cocoon, Sar continues to support not only her own clients, but a wider ecology of practitioners and community offerings.

Teaching, Groups and Community Work

Alongside her private practice, Sar is an educator and group facilitator, presenting workshops and therapeutic group work at festivals, conferences and community gatherings.

She has previously worked as a clinical group therapist at South Pacific Private, Australia’s leading treatment centre for addiction, trauma and mental health.

Her group work often explores women’s embodiment, myth, archetype, relational repair, nervous system awareness, emotional expression and the deeper intelligence of the body.

Inclusive Practice

Sar holds a deep commitment to inclusive practice.

Her work is rooted in feminine spirituality, and she welcomes all who identify as women, as well as non-binary and gender-diverse individuals who feel aligned with this approach.

Her spaces are grounded in consent, presence, safety, respect and deep listening.

Returning Home

Above all, Sar’s work is about returning home to the body.

Listening.

Feeling.

Remembering.

Reclaiming the intelligence that lives within.

She supports clients in breaking through limiting patterns, reconnecting with inner resources and embracing the possibility of living with greater presence, softness and joy.