Theory

❁ Slowing things down allows time to become more familiar with the sensations of our internal landscape, the felt sense. 

❁ A possibility for new resilient pathways are created in the brain-body connection. The nervous system, given the right conditions can nurture greater adaptability.

❁ We have the innate capacity to self-regulate and co-regulate.  

❁ This informative and somatically guided learning, creates connectivity and collaboration within our organism.

❁ Developing the capacity to listen from within and to recognize what we are feeling, is an ongoing living process. Healing begins with feeling.

❁ Listen and trust yourself from the inside with kindness, self-respect and compassion.

❁ We are building awareness of the natural internal activation and deactivation cycles within the nervous system.

❁ States of social engagement, fight, flight, and dissociative states of functional freeze and freeze will become clearer.

❁ In these sessions we will explore grounding, orienting, settling and containment, the foundational principles of Somatic Experiencing.

❁ We will also explore pulsing, spirals, the wave, axis, spontaneous natural breath and, 'the great pause'. 

❁ This is an invitation to meditative movement in a Yogic environment, with the gentle investigation of Movement Intelligence, working through the lens of Somatic Experiencing. 

❁ Explore new opportunities to move with greater ease, effortless grace, and spacious freedom in your everyday life.     

"The experience of the felt sense gives us a backdrop for reconnecting with the animal in ourselves. Knowing, feeling and sensing focuses our attention where healing can begin. Nature has not forgotten us, we have forgotten it."

 "Rediscovering the felt sense will bring warmth and vitality to our experiences. This sense is also a gentle, non-threatening way of re-initiating the instinctual processing of energy that was interrupted when the trauma occurred."

"The key I found was being able to work in a gradual, gentle way with the powerful energies bound in the trauma symptoms."    

-Peter Levine 

“Energy is pure delight."  

-William Blake