The work at Atelier 108 is a practice of refinement — a way of learning to move, sense, and relate to your body with greater intelligence and care.
It blends physical training, biomechanics, breath, and embodied practices to build strength, skill, and clarity, while also supporting the deeper patterns that shape how you move and feel.
The Approach
An Integrative Foundation
The work at Atelier 108 is grounded in an integrative understanding of how body, mind, and internal experience are interconnected. Rather than separating movement from cognition or physical training from awareness, sessions are shaped by the recognition that change unfolds across multiple layers at once. This foundation allows the work to remain responsive and nuanced, meeting each individual as a whole rather than addressing isolated symptoms or goals.
One-to-One Practice
Atelier 108 works exclusively one-to-one. This is not simply a format, but a central part of the approach. Working individually allows sessions to remain responsive, relational, and precise, adapting moment by moment to what is present rather than following a predetermined structure. Attention can move fluidly between movement, conversation, observation, and reflection, supporting integration across physical, cognitive, and experiential levels. The one-to-one setting creates the conditions for depth, continuity, and trust, allowing the work to unfold in a way that is both personal and sustainable.
Practice Self
Practice Self is an evolving framework that reflects the layered nature of the work at Atelier 108. It recognises that change happens across physical, cognitive, and energetic levels, and that each layer informs the others. As the work continues to develop, Practice Self grows into a living methodology and library of teachings — bringing these layers into one coherent way of working.The studio sessions both inform and support this process, equipping you with a personalised set of tools to build a self-practice that can evolve with you over time.
Movement as a Foundation
Movement is the primary entry point for the work at Atelier 108. Sessions are grounded in physical practice, drawing from a range of movement and mind–body disciplines including Pilates, biomechanical and functional movement, yoga-based practices, breathwork, and contemporary approaches informed by neuroscience and embodied awareness. This work supports strength, coordination, adaptability, and a more responsive relationship with the body.
For many clients, the work begins — and remains — with movement.
Physical practice on its own offers a complete and meaningful way to work here, with other elements introduced only when they feel relevant and supportive.
Working with Patterns
As the work deepens, attention may extend to patterns that influence how a person relates to movement, challenge, and change. This can include noticing habitual responses, internal dynamics, or ways of thinking that shape physical experience and decision-making.
When appropriate, sessions may draw on established frameworks that support pattern awareness and reflective inquiry. Rachel is trained in Internal Family Systems–informed coaching and Enneagram-based pattern awareness, which can offer a shared language for understanding internal responses, motivations, and relational dynamics as they arise through movement and one-to-one work.
These approaches are used as tools for insight rather than interpretation, introduced selectively and collaboratively, always in service of the individual’s goals and the integrity of the one-to-one process.
A Developmental Perspective
The work at Atelier 108 is approached as developmental rather than prescriptive, with change understood as something that unfolds through continuity, reflection, and practice over time. This supports a long-term relationship to movement and learning, offering structure without rigidity and depth without fixed outcomes.