What is Somatics?
Why does it matter?
Our Body is a living library of every experience that we have ever encountered, including those which we no longer remember. Every moment of joy, sadness, hurt, grief, jealousy; every moment of wonder, curiosity, fulfillment, heartbreak, this Body remembers.
When we go through an experience that feels far beyond our capacity to be with; the feelings too big to feel; or we don’t feel that we have the time to go down to the depths of our emotions, the energies from these experiences remain in the body.
Emotions = Energy in Motion
When these energies aren’t given an outlet to mobilize, to move, to be felt and released, they stagnate. over time, as the quantity of unprocessed emotions accumulate as stagnant energies, that’s when we begin to experience disruptions in our daily lives. These are messengers.
The fatigue we feel may be the Body wanting for us to slow down the pace of our lives.
The short-tempered, hot-headedness we sometimes shock ourselves with may be anger wanting for us to meet and know it.
The shortness of breath may be grief being held in our lungs, wanting us to be with a heartache from decades ago.
The perpetual worry and anxious thoughts we catch ourselves ruminating over may be from a moment of terror in our childhood years that we have long forgotten.
Our bodies are always trying to communicate to us, in ways that they know how.
Through emotions, sensations, feelings, memories, fantasies, and also our dreams!
Except we may not know how to hear them,
so we don’t listen…
No one taught us how.
We carry on – with our lives, our jobs, our roles, our routines.
Until the Body can no longer hold the immensity of unprocessed emotions that has built up over the years.
That’s when these symptoms begin to cause a disruption that makes it intolerable to carry on with our regular day.
Here, we have no choice but to listen.
Being forced to listen,
being forced to learn how to.
Somatics is exactly this – the process of learning the language of our Body.
How to communicate and speak to our Body.
How to develop a loving relationship with ourselves, through our Body.
Ultimately, so that we feel safe to be with all that our Body has been holding, and we have to courage to create transformation, so that we live the life that has been calling out for us.
An expansive life.
A joyful life.
A meaningful life.
A fully-lived life.
A life that we are excited about, that we love, that we are deeply enjoy.
A life that we are proud of.
If this sounds like something you have felt to call to explore the possibility of, for quite some time now, I would be honored and privileged to be your guide through this process of growth and transformation.
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