Why be embodied? In our fast-paced, head-driven culture, many of us live from the neck up — thinking more than sensing, striving instead of resting, reacting instead of attuning. These ways bring about tension, exhaustion and disconnection from our bodies, each other, and the living world. They make us vulnerable to illness and unhealthy relationships….
Embodiment Unlimited Women’s Trauma Event Day 3 20th September 2022https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/wPQONCsgx2kDNf_CtnwJ7qmpxhOPPdvdraV_1b8hahjp1TiVQ2cnenGrCfEzFAMXpLm0LyYXhrEfWze2.z-k21BtjZt-Tc82k?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=4tN0WHplR8W9pRiUCVVKEg.1664278635636.0d2844c467f386c1b8863b0e101d9f01&_x_zm_rhtaid=697
The messy energies of conflict are fertile soils in which nurture, light and love can transform resistances and troubled behaviours into flow. I shall offer embodied practices that allow us to meet ourselves tenderly and empathically in this very impossible place, to wholly and warmly acknowledge our reactions and create right here in the messiness, the softening that transforms, creating resilience.
Featured in Embodied Yoga Principles I spoke on The Wisdom of Pain and Sensitivity on Embodied Pain Day to help promote The Embodiment Conference 2020. We explored comfort, compassion, healing, support, time, ease and unravelling pain. Do have a listen and sign up for The Embodiment Conference, thousands of talks with speakers from across the world.
The pains we experience and hold inside us, show up in behaviours which tend to stimulate pain in ourselves and people around us. Conflict can be the tension between the self who’s trying to protect from the pain and the same self who’s longing to stay in connection, valued, appreciated and loved.
Through the groundedness and spaciousness of our embodied awareness, using the language of Nonviolent Communication, we can truly soften into self-compassion for the needs we long to meet. We shall embrace grief for our unmet needs and gratitude for the body that opens to receive the world’s resources.