Embodied Wellsprings
The body is often first to call out for our attention, for support, and for our kindness.
The human body is movement, movement composed of millions of years of earthen and cosmic moving intelligence—a thread, a continuum, of potency that is encoded within us, and in the elemental world around us. We are both nested amidst and made of a vast wellspring of resources readily available to us. We simply learn to listen, recognize, and perceive this wellspring pulsing in and through us—the medicine of movement.
About the Embodied Wellsprings Session
The ways in which we have been conditioned to move, to think, to feel, and relate to others is constrained by cultural and social constructs, childhood development, and trauma. Our way of perceiving our world is marked by the patterns of our conditioning. These patterns are maintained throughout the networks and pathways of the human body: from muscle, to bone, to fascia, nerves, organs, and throughout the subtle energetic networks that cohere our sense of who we are.
Chronic physical pain, habitual emotional and psychological distress, complex trauma, the trauma of everyday life, physical injury, the loss of ancestral memory, the knowledge that someday our body will die—all feed on, and resound, a loop of hope and fear the body negotiates and expresses through physical pain, illness, and all types of often inexplicable physical phenomena, and sensation.
To find freedom, and experience pleasure, is first and foremost a process of cultivating a relationship with the body as it is. Even in the face of suffering and pain, we learn to relate to our body in a way that is not wholly determined by our suffering and pain.
Ultimately, these sessions guide the client in developing a way of perceiving and relating to the body in such a way that wholeness, presence, and pleasure become palpable moving realities that can be returned to ongoingly as a source of support and healing.
What To Expect
This 60-75 minute session includes:
15-20 mins of conversation: Conversation and dialogue between healer and client about what is going on in the body—what curiosities and struggles the client is seeking to address.
40-55 mins of guided movement, somatic meditation, and ongoing dialogue: A guided journey through the body that addresses and works with the client's struggles and concerns, employing a wealth of somatic modalities, including:
Modern somatics, functional anatomy, and kinesiology;
Continuum, modern postural yoga and pranayama, exoteric breathing techniques from the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition;
The tools of Nondual Movement including Seed Songs, Breathing Threads, and Spheres Practice;
Guided meditation through sound; cultivating the experience of fluid presence and open awareness.
Clear guided practices to nurture the experience of your body as moving medicine, in-between sessions.
Benefits
new ways of relating to chronic pain and physical struggles, that promote healing;
the body as grounding support and resource for your creative, professional, and spiritual path;
the nourishment of true pleasure and joy through the five physical senses;
the natural healing movement of meeting the body as it is, in present time.
Experience:
a relationship with the body that promotes the feeling of safety and grounding in the physical body;
a sense of empowerment in the self-healing capacity of the physical body;
the ability to sense, perceive, and listen to the body with confidence and understanding.
