Your body holds wisdom and resources for powerful transformation! Do you want to know what your body has to say? We know this to be true through the work of professionals like Dr. Peter Levine (creator of Somatic Experiencing®) and Bessel van der Kolk (author of "Your Body Keeps the Score"). Yet many of us "live in our heads," overthink constantly, and obsess over worries, anticipated grief, and anything in life that feels "wrong." We put so much pressure on our minds.

 

Embodiment connects your busy mind to your wise body through guided movement, awareness of sensations, breathwork, sound, and self-reflection questions. When your mind and body synchronize, you enter into a state of freedom, harmony, and flow. Magic happens!

 

When the mind and body unite, your nervous system may come out of a prolonged state of fight/flight and into resting/healing where many things can happen including physical sensations, emotional releases (not just sadness or anger, but also joy and peace), memories resurfacing, and awareness of empowering beliefs.

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(Although emotions can arise, Embodiment is not counseling. You can learn more about this under the tab titled "Embodiment vs. Counseling.")

 

Movement, breath, and body-awareness together form an anchor for releasing stored survival responses, which can feel liberating, like you're finally free of the emotional weight you've been holding onto for so long, like you can finally move through life with joy, security, and peace.

 

When you go through difficult emotional experiences, a portion of the intensity of the moment gets locked into your nervous system (unless you felt 100% safe and supported afterwards). After the moment has passed, you're supposed to drop into your body to release the stuck survival response comfortably, but in our Western culture, we simply aren't taught how to do this.

 

We were never meant to live in a prolonged survival state. A nervous system flooded with a backlog of stored survival hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) will manifest as chronic and complex physical conditions and mental health struggles.