Brandt Miller on a golden hillside above the fog

I’m Brandt Miller, a Somatic Experiencing® practitioner and facilitator.

I help people explore and change the patterns that shape how they relate to themselves, others, and the world. We work with what lives in the body and in the deeper layers of personal and ancestral experience, at a pace that honors your whole system.

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One-on-one sessions online, with in-person intensives by arrangement. Groups and retreats in person.

Somatic Experiencing® Three-year somatic therapy training
Breathwork Advanced breathwork facilitator
Facilitation Five years with Thomas Hübl

You can’t bypass the body

I love story. But much of what we carry lives beneath it, in the body and the nervous system. That’s where I begin, from the ground up. You don’t need to know the whole story for something to heal.

Over time, we expand the nervous system’s capacity to hold more of life’s intensity and to move through hard states without getting stuck in them. Alongside that grows a sense of safety, joy, and aliveness.

This work is relational. So much of who we are has been shaped through our relationships, and it’s through relationship that new possibilities for healing, connection, and belonging can emerge.

Three ways to work with me

Brandt Miller sitting cross-legged under a large tree, one hand on his chest

One-on-one sessions

For exploring your own patterns, or for support through grief and life transitions.

One-on-one Somatic Experiencing sessions

Brandt Miller sitting cross-legged with eyes closed in a breathing circle with a group.

Groups and leaders

For anyone bringing a group together, from leadership programs and founders to private gatherings.

Facilitation for groups and leaders

Brandt Miller playing a frame drum as a group rests on mats during a session.

Retreats and journeys

For anyone who wants to join a retreat, a workshop or a Steppe & Soul pilgrimage in wild and sacred landscapes.

See retreats and journeys

Brandt Miller sitting cross-legged on a mat in a studio, smiling

Vast lands and inner landscapes

For years, I made documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery, Smithsonian, and others, listening to people’s stories and spending long stretches in remote places. A Fulbright brought me to Mongolia, a place that has shaped my life and work for nearly two decades. I later founded Steppe & Soul, offering transformational pilgrimages at the threshold between the domesticated and the wild.

Over time, my curiosity about the stories we tell turned toward what lives beneath them. My own healing journey became part of that inquiry and drew me to somatic work.

More about my path and training

From people I’ve worked with

I’ve worked with different therapists over the years of my life and have never felt the comfort and ease I feel working with Brandt.

I started working with Brandt a couple of weeks after losing my husband to shockingly fast-growing cancer. I was in a state of trauma and shock. We started peeling away the layers of immediate trauma and working deeper to old wounds and the stories containing them. I’ve worked with different therapists over the years of my life and have never felt the comfort and ease I feel working with Brandt. His present, compassionate guidance has helped me immensely as I move through the grief of loss and into a place where I can find room for a new life on my own. I look forward to sessions with Brandt and feel that anyone could benefit from the work that he does as so many of us have locked up emotions that are holding us back from our optimal lives.

Zoe, Bordeaux, France

He is naturally intuitive and has the ability to achieve an extraordinary level of depth during sessions.

I, along with several family members, have thoroughly enjoyed working with Brandt over the past year and gratefully endorse him. He is naturally intuitive and has the ability to achieve an extraordinary level of depth during sessions. After my first one hour session with him, I had complete admiration and respect for his knowledge and the unique gift he is able to share by his work. Brandt is amazing and I am grateful to have been referred to him.

Victoria, Mill Valley, CA

In an extremely safe and supportive environment, I’ve been able to move beyond certain patterns and experiences.

I first met and worked with Brandt during a breath workshop at The Portal in Mill Valley. He was so adept at navigating a large group with very different exposure to the practice and although I was very new to it, I immediately felt comfortable and found something very interesting and moving in the experience.
Working with him using somatic therapy has been truly transformative and life-changing. In an extremely safe and supportive environment, I’ve been able to move beyond certain patterns and experiences, integrating childhood and familial reactions to learn new emotional and physical responses. I feel utterly elevated and energized by Brandt’s support, knowledge and empathetic approach. I’m eternally grateful for his role in my path to healing and evolving.

Kimberly, San Rafael, CA

Coming up

All upcoming retreats and workshops

A frozen lake of clear, cracked blue ice stretching to a line of snow-capped mountains under a blue sky.

Steppe & Soul journey

February 11–24, 2027

Winter Leadership Pilgrimage

Mongolia · Hosted by Steppe & Soul

Broughton Hall, a pale stone country house with a columned front and a clock tower, in parkland among tall trees at golden hour.

Retreat

April 5–11, 2027

Listening to the Land: A Pilgrimage into Self and Nature

Broughton Sanctuary, Skipton, Yorkshire

Benoit Denizet-Lewis and Brandt Miller in two round portraits over a cypress tree and a person with raised arms at a railing above the Big Sur coast.

Workshop

May 10–14, 2027

Becoming: Story, Body, and the Possibility of Change

Esalen, Big Sur, California

Start with a conversation

If something here resonates, I’d love to hear from you. Maybe you’re in a transition, or sensing that something in your life is ready to shift. Tell me a little about it, for yourself or for a group, and I’ll reply myself.

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