Rites of Passage · Six Months · By Application

You Hold the Business.Let It Hold You

A six-month private mentorship for women ready to bring how they lead, earn, and build into alignment with who they are. Somatic work and business strategy belong in the same conversation here, so the decisions you make can support both your work and the woman doing it.

Body-led. Strategy-backed. Spirit-guided.

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Six months · $12,000 · By application · Payment plans available

“Her ability to meet me where I was (messy and unclear) and guide me through building the business foundations that align with my own nervous system doesn’t even begin to explain the value I received from this container.”

Brittany Walls · Founder & Coach, Author, Unpack Your SASS

The Season

The Season That Brought You Here

Your business can be working and still be asking too much of you. People trust you. Your work matters. But the way you are delivering it may no longer fit the woman you are becoming.

Perhaps your offers have grown around what people ask of you rather than what you want to build. Perhaps your pricing does not account for the depth you bring. Perhaps you are ready to lead differently, but your calendar, team, and habits still belong to an earlier season.

Or you have years of experience behind you and are bringing that experience into a business of your own. You want to build from what is true now, rather than carry every expectation of your previous career into something new.

This is not always burnout. Sometimes it is a beginning, a decision you can no longer postpone, or the recognition that the next version of your business needs a different way of being in it.

You do not need another framework to perform. You need room to hear yourself, support to work through what you find, and a way to translate it into decisions your business can actually run on.

What It Asks

What a Crossing Requires

Rites of Passage brings the inner work and the business work together. We make room for what is happening in your body, the beliefs shaping your choices, and the practical questions asking for an answer.

That might mean a conversation about capacity becoming a change to your offers. A boundary becoming a different way of working with your team. A clearer sense of what matters becoming a decision about pricing, pay, or where your attention belongs.

The work is grounded in the Somaxis™ Operating System: five facets of being — Physical, Mental, Emotional, Energetic, and Spiritual — read in the person and in the business at once. You and your business are the same system. They co-regulate, or they co-collapse.

The purpose is not simply to understand yourself more deeply. It is to let that understanding change how you build.

Years Holding Space

1:1 Clients Guided

$5M+

In Client Revenue

Points of Recognition

Who This Work Meets

You may recognize yourself in more than one of these. They are points of recognition, not requirements to fit a type.

The Visionary

The go-to person for the company, the family, the board — burning out quietly behind an impressive life. Here is where you recalibrate what achievement alone was never going to give you.

The Oracle

Deeply gifted, spiritually rich, and tired of being told her gifts and her abundance can’t coexist. Here is where spirituality and strategy begin to move together instead of against each other.

The Alchemist

The caretaker who transmutes everyone else’s pain — and has quietly disappeared inside her own giving. Here is where the attention turns inward, with strength and with gentleness.

The Luminary

A woman of many lights, exhausted from explaining herself to a world that insists she choose one identity. Here is where your multiplicity becomes coherence instead of confusion.

Not sure which one is yours? Your body knows.

Take the Spaceholder Archetype Quiz

The Journey

What You Are Actually Crossing

We begin with a private, four-hour Somatic Attunement Immersion, in person or virtually. Guided somatic breathwork, curated music, and space for integration mark the beginning of the work. The purpose is not to force a breakthrough, but to make room for what thinking alone may not resolve.

From there, seven private, 90-minute sessions carry the work across six months. We generally begin by meeting monthly, allowing space to reflect and integrate. As we move into the practical business work, we meet more frequently to support decisions and implementation. We agree on the schedule together.

We move through three phases, shaped around your circumstances rather than a prescribed version of who you should become.

Phase One

Separation

We distinguish what is yours from what you have learned to carry. The expectations, inherited beliefs, and ways of working that once helped you move forward may no longer belong in the business you are building.

This is where the noise begins to loosen and the real questions become clearer.

“These early sessions required deep, often uncomfortable excavation of the outdated roles, beliefs, and patterns I had accumulated over decades. Emefa created a safe container where I could honestly confront how these were still impacting me. Though painful at times, this foundational work was essential for everything that followed.”

Jenna Reed Walker · Founder, Reed Walker Design Collective

Phase Two

Liminality

The old ways are loosening, but the new ones are not yet familiar. We work with that uncertainty rather than rushing past it, making space to question, practice, and make decisions without immediately returning to what you know.

You have support while you find a way of leading that you can trust.

“We combined strategic planning with breathwork and intuitive practices that allowed me to access deeper states of connectedness… Emefa helped me discover possibilities and make connections I hadn’t imagined on my own.”

Both modes moved in one hour:

“One moment crafting concrete business strategies, the next transitioning into profound breathwork that unlocked creative insights I couldn’t access through thinking alone.”

Jenna Reed Walker · Founder, Reed Walker Design Collective

Phase Three

Re-Integration

We translate what you have learned into how the business works. Depending on your season, that may involve your offers, pricing, pay, boundaries, team relationships, or the way you use your time.

The insight has somewhere to live beyond the session. It becomes something you can practice in the business and life you return to.

“I’ve also been realistic about what revenue we actually need. I’m not chasing seven figures with a two-person intentional team. I know what we need to provide fair pay, support life, maintain flexibility, and avoid burnout. You can build a business that does all of that and still has healthy revenue.”

The firm closes for a summer reset — rest written into the operating model, not borrowed from it.

Jenna Reed Walker · Founder, Reed Walker Design Collective

The Infrastructure

What Holds the Work Between Sessions

The work continues between our conversations. You have space to return to what surfaced, practice something different, and bring the real decisions back into our work together.

Direct Access to Me

Text and email support during agreed working hours throughout the six months.

Your Human Design

Read as a leadership manual rather than a personality quiz.

Your Somaxis™ Operating System

Configured for your business, including where decisions get made, where energy is spent, and what belongs to someone else.

Written Session Reflections

A way to return to the themes, decisions, and questions emerging in our work.

Your Private Podcast

Session themes returned to you in audio, so you can listen and revisit them in your own time.

Your Living Portal

The reflections, resources, and material we build together, gathered in one place throughout the engagement.

Your Closing Dashboard & Companion Intelligence

Your own material brought together into a resource you can return to and ask questions of as you continue applying the work.

Access to the Inhabit Yourself App

Meditations and somatic practices you can continue using after the six months close.

I work with a limited number of women at a time, so there is room to know you, hold the depth of the work, and stay attentive to what unfolds between sessions.

What Women Actually Bring into This Container

Every rite shapes itself to the woman entering it. Some of what has genuinely been crossed in these rooms:

Leaving a career that looked right from the outside and cost everything on the inside
Starting a business over in a new city, where no one knows your name yet
Naming an ending nobody else has noticed — a partnership, a role, a version of yourself
Writing yourself back into the budget: your pay, your rest, your future
Untangling inherited money stories from your actual financial reality
Crossing a visibility threshold — becoming the face of the thing you built
Learning to trust a capable team when your body still expects betrayal
Reading your Human Design as a leadership manual instead of a personality quiz
Brokering peace between the driver and the tired one
Interrupting the burnout pattern before the crash, instead of rebuilding after it
Becoming a mother, or deciding not to, and letting the business reorganize around it
Reclaiming intuition as a business instrument rather than a private hobby

Your circumstances shape the work. We do not need to force them into someone else’s version of success.

How the Work Is Held

A Personal Relationship, Professionally Held

The work is warm, personal, and deeply held. It is also a professional relationship, with boundaries that protect both of us and keep the work focused on you.

You will know what we are working on and why. We agree on working hours, communication, confidentiality, and practical arrangements before we begin. Between-session support is not an on-call or emergency service. The closeness of the work is in service of your growth, not a replacement for friendship.

After the Closing

The Thirty Days That Follow

Our final session is a closing, not the disappearance of everything we have built. Your digital resources remain available to you in your dashboard in perpetuity. The reflections, recordings, and materials we create together are yours to return to after our six months close.

A check-in email arrives thirty days after we finish. An optional integration conversation gives us room to notice what is landing, what still needs attention, and what a supported completion looks like for you.

Rites of Passage itself is a six-month engagement; the check-in is part of how we hold its ending. Continued access to your resources does not include ongoing personal mentoring or messaging support.

The Crossings

Who Has Made This Crossing

Every Rites of Passage is shaped to the woman entering it. Brittany and Jenna offer two different views of what that work can look like.

From Messy and Uncertain to Grounded and Clearly Defined Coaching Offers

Brittany Walls · Founder, Unpack Your SASS

A swirling document became a named ideal client, a priced offer suite, and an audience that answers.

Read Brittany’s Case Study

How a Twenty-Year Design Career Became a Thriving Practice in Year One

Jenna Reed Walker · Founder, Reed Walker Design Collective

A filled first-year schedule, and a firm that still closes for a summer reset.

Read Jenna’s Case Study

“The Five Facets were a new way of looking at my way of being — not unfamiliar, but a new lens with which to look at myself. Having the space to reconnect to my body from many different angles allowed me to see where I was not taking care of it, and where I could focus more of my attention.”

Ashley Fahey · Founder, Tomorrow Is Human

“The experience exceeded my expectations, providing not just healing but also wisdom, support, and love. It was a powerful reminder of the journey I’m on and the healing I seek — leaving me vibrant and more aligned with my true self days after.”

Bethany Hilton · Director of Corporate Affairs, Improving

“Her guidance has fundamentally changed me, influencing how I lead and live. Emefa’s approach to healing and connecting with my inner child has been central to my journey, making me the woman I am today.”

Nikisha Patton Handy · Founder, Favor Flow Restorative

Fit

Is This Your Season?

An established business is one way into this work. An experienced woman bringing her gifts, leadership, or professional knowledge into a new business is another. What matters is the threshold you are crossing and your willingness to participate in the work, not whether the new business has already earned its first revenue.

This Is for You If

You are carrying something real: A business, a practice, a leadership role, or years of experience that you are ready to bring into a new form.
You are crossing a meaningful threshold: A beginning, an ending, a change in how you lead, or a version of yourself you can no longer keep performing.
You want your business and well-being in the same conversation: You are willing to look at the practical decisions and the personal patterns influencing them.
You are open to being met, not simply managed: You want thoughtful guidance and honest questions, while remaining responsible for your decisions.
You are willing to practice between sessions: To reflect, try something different, and bring what happens back into the work.
You can protect the time and consider the investment: Six months needs room in your life as well as a considered financial commitment.

This May Not Be the Right Fit If

You want strategy without the personal work: This is not a strategy-only consulting engagement.
You are seeking therapy or clinical treatment: Coaching and advisory do not replace mental health care.
You want someone to build or run the business for you: We work together on your choices and direction; this is not a done-for-you service.
You want a fixed program to complete: There is structure, but the work responds to your circumstances rather than asking every woman to follow the same script.
You cannot make room for participation right now: A different season or a more focused engagement may serve you better.
You are in acute crisis: Your immediate safety and appropriate support come first. This container can wait.

Certifications & Training

Certified Transformational Embodiment Coach
Certified Life & Business Coach
Breathwork Facilitator
EFT Practitioner
NLP Practitioner
Certified Human Design Practitioner
Psychedelic Assisted Therapies Practitioner, Psychedelics Today
Soma Nervous System Business Growth Certification
Trauma Informed Guide
Somatic Practitioner
Creator of the Somaxis™ Operating System — my proprietary framework and intellectual property

Your Investment

$12,000

Six months

Payment plans are available. Your proposal sets out the specifics of our work together after we speak, so you know what you are agreeing to before you begin.

This is a considered commitment, and you are welcome to bring your questions. The application begins a conversation about fit, what you are crossing, and whether this is the right support for this season.

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You apply, we speak, and both of us listen to our knowing.

Before You Apply

How is this different from your other containers?

The Intensive and the Immersion meet a focused moment. Rites of Passage gives us six months to work with a change that needs time, practice, and support as it unfolds.

What does “by application” mean?

It is a conversation, not a gauntlet. You reach out, we talk about what you are navigating, and we decide whether the fit is right for both of us.

Do I need to know exactly what I want to work on?

No. Bring what you can name and what you cannot quite articulate yet. We begin with where you are, rather than asking you to arrive with the answer.

Can this be right for me if my business is new?

Yes. You may be bringing years of professional, creative, or leadership experience into a new business. You do not need to have earned revenue from that business already. We will talk about what you are building, what support you need, and whether this depth of work fits your circumstances.

What if I need to pause?

Life happens. If you need to pause, we talk about it and agree on how to proceed. The practical arrangements belong in our agreement, so there is clarity as well as care.

Do I need breathwork experience?

No. Any breathwork is guided, consent-based, and discussed with you before you participate.

Is this therapy?

This is coaching and advisory, not therapy. I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. When something belongs in a therapeutic setting, I will say so.

Are payment plans available?

Yes. We discuss the options plainly before you commit, and the agreed terms are set out in your proposal.

Is the work confidential?

This is a private, professionally boundaried relationship. We discuss confidentiality and its limits in our agreement so you understand how the work is held.

Hi — If We Haven’t Met, I’m Emefa.

I Have Walked This Crossing, and I Have Walked Others Through It

I’m Emefa Boamah, a Somatic Business Strategist and Advisor and the creator of the Somaxis™ Operating System. My work is rooted in my own crossings and in the wisdom of my ancestors, a lineage of Medicine Women and Priestesses from the Ewe Tribe of Ghana.

I bring that foundation into a practice that holds your body, your business, and your own discernment in the same conversation. You do not need to share my spiritual background to be met here; we make room for what is meaningful to you.

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