• Are you struggling with finding solutions to feel better in your body?

• Do you feel like you can’t quite get to the bottom of some structural pain or inhibition in your movement, your alignment or your engagement with the world?

• Would you like ways that make room for you to be more authentically you and find true, reliable ways of being grounded and alive with others?

• What would happen if you could have an ongoing and alive sense of support and inner stability that helps you ride the waves of challenges which often “throw you off your feet?”

As a culture, most of us have lost touch with our whole selves. We’re fractured beings. We’re stuck behind desks or in cars far too much, and it’s heavily taxing our bodies, how we feel and how we are.

It ages us because we lose the value of important messages that come to us through our posture, movements, sensations and expressions. If we fall deep down the hole, we get irritable, cut off and even aggressive, making it even harder to cope.

This is happening because dominant culture absorbs our time, resources and attention, and it feeds on the belief that what we feel should not be trusted or listened to. It’s a convenient way to keep us consuming with a belief in scarcity and not wanting to fall out of line from being orderly and good workers and dependent consumers. The results are that we may enjoy some security from going along, but we stopped listening to ourselves and even worse, stopped trusting ourselves.

Cultivating Resilience by Returning to Somatic Embodiment

Through an increased demand for somatics that is growing in our culture, many of us are finally learning that the body has the key to feeling whole and supported. By tuning into our living process, we can be aware of what we feel and we can heal, with an increased sense of belonging.

We can slow down our aging process and have the chance to enjoy the things we love to do long into our lives; things like going to yoga class or riding a bike or traveling to distant places.

We can afford to give ourselves another chance. We need our vitality intact to appreciate the joy of living.

There is healing by tuning into what you are sensing feeling and doing.

What Are the Benefits of Somatic Body Movement?

• Here are some of the ways somatic body work helps you connect to yourself:

• Attuning to a sense of trust and safety in the world

• Connecting to the notion of self-care

• Releasing internalized oppression

• Becoming more empowered

• Releasing physical pain

• Feeling more connected and clearer about how to move the body for better ease, efficiency, longevity, and aliveness

• Handling stress

• Creating meaningful connections

• Enjoying life’s dance with perception

• Discovering your own way

• Moving conscientiously in any space

How does Somatic Embodiment occur?

Let me draw it out a bit:

We need to be oriented to get to where we want to go.

How do we orient?

We ground ourselves by sensing into the earth, a downward direction. Without doing that, we’ve got nothing to move from.

And opposite to that, we scan out into our environment before we enter it. Without doing that, we’d have nothing to entice us to explore, grow, find, or enjoy.

Posture isn’t a fixed, static position. It’s an elongation in opposition through space!

What does that give you?

A sense of ground and sky. A sense of rootedness and expansiveness.

Room to be alive and engaging.

When you can really appreciate that, you begin to know more about your midline. The felt sense of opposition between ground and sky gives you a whole lot of room for you to literally be in.

Be in your body!

Your body can heal what ails you, because you can resolve tension and discover that you don’t have to be stuck with posturing an attitude that’s been “weighing you down” or causing you to “hit the roof.”

When supported by ground and sky, you find your connection to that which supports you is available whenever, and however you are, always.

Simply put, you’re connected to weight and space, and that gives you support to be more expansive and free.