Navigate change with your center intact.

Change is inevitable. Losing yourself is not.

The Inner Compass Toolkit is a mind, body, and spirit framework to help you navigate change.

We never know the specifics of change. We only know that change is inherent, inevitable, guaranteed. Children grow older; careers begin and end; bodies shift in ability and need; relationships evolve; priorities dissolve and emerge. Some change we seek out, some change we wish we could skip.

Welcome or not, change challenges us. It throws us off balance. Our center of gravity is disrupted; the ground beneath us shifts; what we think we know about ourselves and our life doesn’t seem as clear anymore.

The Inner Compass Toolkit is here to help.



The Toolkit Framework

Embodiment practices

Our videos expertly lead you toward greater connection with your body through breath, self-massage, mindfulness, and movement. You become more able to feel what you feel and know what you know.

Guided self-study

Our innovative worksheets help you wipe the dirt off the windshield of self-knowledge. You see your values, needs, and desires more clearly, and become more skillful at making decisions big and small that align with your core self.

Integrating external wisdom

Our resources provide you with wisdom to consider, and our discussion groups and community help make it your own. You become more adept at learning from others while finding your own answers from within.

We believe that the personal is political and the political is personal. We view embodiment and centering as tools that are necessary to the larger projects of dismantling systems of oppression, including but not limited to white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, as well as to the healing of both lived and inherited trauma. We seek to work in a way that contributes, bit by tiny bit, to the repair of the world.

Meet the Team

  • Rachel Taylor

    The Inner Compass Toolkit founder Rachel Taylor has spent her adult life teaching and learning. After a first career teaching middle and high school history, Rachel dove deep into embodiment, completing teacher trainings in Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Yoga Tune-Up®, The Roll Model Method®, and breath and nervous system regulation practices with Laurel Beversdorf and Jill Miller, whose work she continues to study. Rachel is the founder of The Parents’ Place in Hartford, CT, where she teaches small-group and private-client sessions designed to help people feel more joy, ease, and peace in their bodies. She and her husband live in Hartford with their three young sons, giant dog, and noisy cat. Rachel holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University.