Embodiment is something that has always intrigued me. Dropping deeper into my own skin, feeling more, more subtle sensations and experiencing the wisdom of this amazing temple I am resting in. In fact most of the work I offer is based on embodiment. When I hold workshops I often introduce the “felt sense”. It is a powerful tool. By bringing awareness inside of our body we become aware of the felt sense. It is the experience of one’s ever-changing sensory, energetic, felt inner landscape. It moves our focus from actions and things happening outside of us towards qualities of our present, internal experience. While experiencing, tracking and describing it, the felt sense deepens our internal experience of the present moment. This is valuable in resource-oriented healing work. A resource is a pleasant memory, a hobby, a person, animals, nature or skills that strengthen us in times of difficulties. It can also just be the quality of the present moment when we rest in it without wanting to change anything. The more resourced and rested in ourselves we are the easier it is to contain and deal with issues and challenging times. Traumas and wounds of the past have shaped our brain by creating neural pathways in the brain that can stay active throughout our life and constantly recreate the same experience on a physical, energetic, emotional and mental level. In order to allow a deep healing and change the “program”, it is supportive to create new and healthy neural pathways. This is fostered by resourcing ourselves and connecting on a sensory level through the felt sense to that resource.
This roots the healthy, good and positive experience in our body and creates new neural pathways. Every time a new healthy pathway is growing the old ones are becoming weaker. If we are
alert, engaged and motivated in our resourcing the brain releases neuro-chemicals that enable brain change. Many mysterious illnesses like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, allergies and many more as well as anxiety and depression can be rooted in an impairment of the brain and today we have possibilities of improving those circumstances. We have hundreds of trillions of connections in our brain, that’s more neuron connections in our brain than stars in the milky way galaxy. We all have a galaxy in our head and it can be rewired in a simple way by resourcing and deepening our felt sense, by slowing down, taking a moment and orienting towards health in our life, towards that which is already good. And that “good” might be rare, small or short but the very embodying and internalising of that experience opens new possibilities in our brain towards more goodness, relaxation and health.
The techniques and modalities I have explored, studied, and recommend in this field are:
Somatic experiencing, (traumahealing.com), continuum movement (continuumteachers.com), dynamic neural retraining system (retrainingthebrain.com) craniosacral therapy, focusing, Tao Yoga and Tantra.
