Our Founders
Nicteha Cohen
Nicteha Cohen is a designer, artist, and somatic bodyworker whose life has been shaped by her devotion to beauty, her connection to the natural world, and her quest to find Home.
Raised in the ’70s by free-thinking Bohemians, she rarely had a stable home life. Her gypsy upbringing may sound romantic, but in truth, it was profoundly destabilizing. A sense of safety and belonging eluded her, and she spent hours alone, disappearing into high desert aspen groves or tropical jungles—wherever her parents happened to land. As a child, she often organized junk drawers or arranged her toys as a way to soothe and ground herself. Little did she know, these early “space experiments” would eventually evolve into a brand-new modality—The Somatic Home.
She carried the rhythm of her early life into adulthood, rarely staying in one place for more than a year. Passionate and curious to the bone, she explored a wide range of professions and studies, eventually becoming a tour guide—traveling the world and finding solace in adventure. Yet beneath it all, there was always a quiet longing for a place to root.
Her path took a sharp turn in 2007 when she contracted Lyme disease. Forced to quit her job, she was homebound with debilitating symptoms for nearly a decade. It was the longest she had ever stayed in one place, and roots inevitably began to grow.
Her small studio—sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison—became the crucible from which her life’s work began to emerge. Her years of study in interior design, Feng Shui, and art intertwined with decades of meditation, therapy, and somatic work, revealing a deep connection between space, the nervous system, and the psyche. This tiny home became her first solo design project: 400 square feet transformed into an altar, where she slept, wept, created and continuously played with her surroundings like a living canvas.
Nicteha has honed her craft for over 35 years and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies and Ecopsychology from Naropa University, along with certifications in Interior Design, Feng Shui, Herbal Medicine Making, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and Culinary Arts. As co-creator of Salt + Gold: The Somatic Home, she continues to explore the intersection of space, body, and beauty—supporting clients to feel deeply connected to the earth, their home and themselves.
Jessica Forman
Jessica’s life and work have been molded by an ongoing dance between the forest and the village. At 19, she felt the magnetic pull of the wider world and set off to travel alone—only to hear, years later, the quiet singing of home calling her back. She was then ushered into the world of ceremony and deep nature connection, learning directly from the land and its more-than-human inhabitants. Eventually, she was asked to slow down, to root, to land fully in the mountains and begin again. This movement between the foreign-wild and the holy-home has been the central rhythm of her life—as if the untamed and the intimate were being slowly stitched together in her soul.
Along the way, she came to understand that her mind—keenly attuned to stimulus, pattern, and subtlety—often moved differently than most. Through much struggle, she came to realize how deeply her surroundings influenced her ability to think clearly and feel at ease. It was as if excess or misalignment in her space echoed loudly inside her. She found that her home and how she related with it could become a reliable anchor for her nonlinear way of thinking and being. The home, she learned, could either fragment or restore.
Jessica offers a grounded, poetic presence, helping others translate the subtle signals of their bodies and environments into meaningful reorientations. She finds rhythm and regulation in daily rituals of care: sweeping floors, brewing tea, nourishing her family. For her, the kitchen is sacred ground—a place where tending becomes prayer.
As a storyteller, Jessica believes that words are living things—emerging not just to communicate, but to reveal. She moves through the world as a collector of wild-harvested poems, gathering them from the steam rising off a pot of tea, the hush of dusk settling over the home, or the subtle gestures of the body in remembering itself.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Natural Health and trained with The Coaches Training Institute. With nearly 20 years of experience in herbalism, lifestyle medicine, and a rich fluency in the language of the heart, she brings a multidimensional lens to her work. She also completed a two-year apprenticeship in energetic medicine and serves as a rites of passage facilitator for youth.
The Call Home
The Somatic Home Origins
This is not a project built from borrowed theories or institutional blueprints. It was shaped in the raw, unfiltered crucible of lived experience, where true wisdom is earned, not given. Its roots grow deep—through loss, transformation, and the long walk back to the body. Its teachers have not been found in lecture halls, but in the quiet initiations of grief, relationship, and the wild intelligence of the nervous system.
This is not a top-down endeavor. It is knowledge grown from the roots up—through presence, through practice, through learning how to stay. It’s an offering grounded in the body, in the language beneath language, in the sacred work of returning.
Those who carry this kind of knowing may not speak every industry word, but they can read the silent scripts of the heart. They decipher what is unsaid. They draw out—like a black salve—what is ready to be released, and what is aching to be realized. They are code readers. Resonance discerners. Nurses of the human heart.
What they offer is not performance, but presence—not instruction, but deep invitation.
This coaching space is for those ready to come home to themselves—through the body, through truth, and into coherence.