Saadya Notik • The Work

Presence. Attunement. Intimacy. Truth.

Deep coaching, relational healing, polarity work, group containers, private retreats, and medicine-informed integration for people ready to stop circling the same patterns and begin living from something more honest, embodied, and alive.

This page gathers the work through the voices of the people who have experienced it: individuals, couples, therapists, founders, rabbis, coaches, men, women, retreat participants, and clients who came for something real.

What this is

This is where insight becomes embodiment.

The work is not about collecting more language. It is about becoming more present, more honest, more emotionally clean, more connected to the body, and more capable of intimacy.

For some people, that means reclaiming self-trust. For others, it means repairing a marriage, transforming sex and polarity, healing a lifetime of pain, moving through a medicine journey, or finally being held deeply enough to tell the truth.

“Saadya has proven to be an exceptional coach.”
— Mental Health Professional, Chicago

1:1 Coaching

Radical responsibility, presence, inner-child work, masculine/feminine integration, nervous-system awareness, and deep personal transformation.

Couples Work

Repair, polarity, intimacy, sex, truth, emotional safety, attunement, and learning how to actually meet each other again.

GROUP + Retreats

Live containers, brotherhood, sisterhood, private retreats, somatic work, sacred sexuality, medicine-informed preparation and integration.

Couples + polarity

For couples who are done circling the same pain.

“Grateful for the Masculine and Feminine in relationship course we took with Saadya Notik that made more of an impact on us than years of talk therapy had.”

Rachel & Mo Safer

“Thank you so much for our sessions thus far. I have not found traditional couples therapy helpful for me but this form of counseling with you has helped me in ways I can’t even begin to explain, to feel understood and give me much perspective.”

Architect, Los Angeles

“I wanted to write to you that the sessions we had literally SAVED our marriage ❤️”

Couples Client

“[Saadya] has a deep understanding of what most couples don’t even know they’re struggling with — particularly male/female dynamics, codependency, and what it is that kills the polarity in a relationship.”

Entrepreneur, Los Angeles
Sex + intimacy

Sex is not separate from the rest of your life.

It is often the most honest mirror of safety, shame, trust, self-protection, desire, polarity, and truth.

“We just had the most incredible sex. I had such ease telling her exactly what I wanted when I wanted and she was so happy to follow me. It really made my growth felt. I’ve never experienced sex like this before.”

COO, Los Angeles

“The sex we’ve had [since the retreat] was absolutely amazing, and there was a degree of honesty and freedom that was never there. I’m so grateful that you brought [sex] up because it’s one of the things that I hadn’t thought of improving, but it’s definitely improved.”

Private Couples Retreat Participant
Private couples retreat

Where couples slow down enough to see each other again.

“This experience was so huge. It felt so important, and open. It felt tremendously significant and important to my life and to my relationship going both backward and forward.”

Private Couples Retreat Participant

“Very hospitable. The accommodations were perfect. Such a cute little cabin.”

Private Couples Retreat Participant

“The format was great. We each felt heard, you respected our boundaries and used information from each of us to help the ‘us’ grow. I loved the experience, I think everything was perfect!”

Private Couples Retreat Participant

“The gift you’ve given us, and by extension our kids, is one of the most meaningful gifts anyone has ever given me.”

Private Couples Retreat Participant

“Amazing experience, exactly what we needed, and exactly WHEN we needed it.”

Private Couples Retreat Participant

“This was a thought-provoking, bonding experience.”

Private Couples Retreat Participant

“I so desperately wanted to create a baseline of seeing each other for who we truly are, and to be able to see through the noise at any time, to be able to look at each other and see each other’s souls. This experience helped create that pathway.”

Private Couples Retreat Participant
1:1 coaching + personal transformation

People come back to themselves.

“I love you. I have till this day not met someone who holds space the way you do. Honestly you’ve ruined my experience with any other coach or therapist because I’m like they’re not like Saadya ❤️”

Private Client
Medicine work + healing journeys

Depth requires the right container.

“Probably the greatest gift of my lifetime was my journey with you in your place. How you were so present for me and held space in such a beautiful way. I’m so grateful for you brother ❤️. That’s what you gift people. The safety to let go of their pain and connect to self and see their own beautiful light.”

Rabbi, Los Angeles

“Saadya exudes a caring warmth and deep presence that facilitated my healing process. He shows up in mind, body and spirit in a rare way that I have not seen from other therapists. I am grateful to him and for the work we did together.”

Therapist, New York City

“I haven’t felt this relaxed my entire life. I might even be able to stop taking my blood pressure medication.

Most of my anxiety is completely gone. And when it starts coming back I can very, very easily reach back to what happened during that trip and keep it at bay. And whatever I learned during that trip is still guiding me till today: it’s at the forefront of my mind and guiding my every step.

So that was an absolutely life changing experience. It changed everything. And I’m going forward based on what I learned during the journey. I am eternally grateful to you for what happened that night.”

Psychiatrist, New York City
GROUP: masculine + feminine

The work becomes exponential in a real container.

“I found it empowering and healing in a way that I could not access through one-on-one classical therapy.”

GROUP Member

“Coming into the women’s GROUP, I felt desperate for the choppy pieces of my puzzles to finally be sorted... Instead, I received permission to authentically fall apart, to fall and feel truly and deeply into my feelings, and to roar through my lioness lungs.”

GROUP Member

“I learned that my power is in feeling a lack and leaning into what I actually desire—not controlling what the outcome should be... That my messy and loud is actually art and music... I don’t ever want to be quiet again.”

GROUP Member

“This was a unique experience for me... I never experienced being a part of a group of women who are open and ready to hold space for each other. I found comfort and security in this group that I did not expect, and now I want more.”

GROUP Member

“I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be part of this women’s group... Being led by a man who so fully embodies a healthy masculine presence—demonstrating what it means to honor and hold space for the feminine—was, in itself, one of the most powerful aspects of the experience.”

GROUP Member
Long-term transformation

The work touches the whole life.

Final note

The work is not about becoming more polished.

It is about becoming more real. More present. More honest. More embodied. More capable of love, conflict, repair, desire, surrender, leadership, and truth.

That is the work.


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