Somatics offers a practice and paradigm to traverse the space between and discover a resilient nervous system, a lived embodiment of our true longings and values, and an experience of wellness, whatever that means to you.

A reflection on opening our pathways of perception while staying grounded (plus a somatic contradictions practice)

We are more than this human body - this I know. Mystics, sages, teachers throughout time and space immemorial have told us that there’s more to this experience than our five senses allow us to perceive. Our bodies are miraculous, and what we can see, hear, feel, taste, and touch is pretty incredible — and yet, there’s even more.

Turning Towards Life Amid Global and Personal Challenges.

While we are in the daily study and inquiry of healing, experiencing an embodied life, and what lives in the realms of the mystic and mysterious, I often reflect on the pace of information swirling amongst us. I am so grateful for the myriad of ways we can stay informed on what is happening in the world; yet, I often wonder about how to truly honour it all without always needing to add our own two cents.

This week, I want to slow down.

There are two schools of thought currently taking hold regarding mental health and wellness — one being the self-help, ‘change your thinking change your life’ school, and the second being a new surge of learning about trauma and what we have experienced, and learning to accept and be present with our current mental and physical health experience.

And the reality is that both are true (just like any actual truth — the answer we seek is held within both sides of a seeming polarity).

Reclaiming your life in the midst of information overload…

We exist in a time of inundation. Whether positive or negative, healthy, helpful or harmful, we can peruse the details of hundreds, even thousands, of people’s lives, opinions, creativity, and projections. This can feel inspiring to your own creative process and life journey, and it can dull our life force or exacerbate our pain.

Somatic practices for authentic manifestation.

This work of Somatic Transformation and grounded materialization is the work of looking at how we live our lives, moment-by-moment, day-by-day. That which I practice (or how I live) in moments, days, years, becomes my life. So if I desire change in my life, or change for the world, I must look at what I am practicing daily.

Daily practice includes beliefs, thoughts, expectations, emotions, decisions/choices, and actions.

If you’ve ever tried to “change your mindset” only to fall back into the same patterns, you’re not alone. Change isn’t just mental, it lives in the cells of our bodies. Our worldview isn’t an abstract idea; it’s alive within the nervous system and the psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology (PNEI) system. This is why transformation can feel elusive: our physiology is looping our current paradigm. 

It is from somatic practices that emergent and regenerative change becomes possible.

About four months ago, I was guided on the back of a being with wings on a journey through the true frequency of our world.

Not in a dream, but in a deep meditative (theta) state my pineal gland revealed to me a place of absolute trust, a complete knowing that we are always held in the vast expanse of All That IS (yes, even when it seems that we are alone on a burning planet, we are loved beyond measure).

In an extremely polarizing world, it is a natural human inclination to resist that which we do not agree with, that which we hope to change. In the context of the collective, groups resist each other through policy and protest, through verbal and written diatribes that are birthed from the perpetual discomfort in our minds and bodies due to that which we perceive as wrong.

And this response makes sense.

For the last few years, my personal hope and healing has been found in the contemplations of ‘what is possible?’ and ‘how do we access possibility?’ I dove headfirst into the teachings of the mystics and scientists who were telling us that we were missing a primary aspect of reality. Their message was repeated time and time again, so I decided to experiment with applying this knowledge of reality and possibility, with profoundly life-altering results. I would like to share what I discovered with you.

You might think it’s a bit ‘out there’, but stick with me!

There are so many spiritual teachings that might feel true and sacred, or maybe interesting and possible; yet are so often confused in their application. This confusion can lead to going around in circles, and can even lead to harmful bypassing. So, how do we make sense of spirituality?!

After 15 years in practice and prayer, studying the spiritual truths of this world, I know that we are so much more than we think we are. That our five senses give us but an inkling of the miracle of our existence, and that the realization of this miracle occurs within.

You’ve likely been swimming in the words ‘somatics’, ‘embodiment’ and ‘transformation’. But what do they mean?

Somatics is a paradigm, a practice, a process.

As paradigm is assumes that our experience of life occurs within the soma, the body. That our lives occur not just outside and around us, but primarily within our felt experience.

We live in a culture obsessed with fixing, controlling, and in many ways, sabotaging our way to transformation. But what if the very mindset that created the chaos can’t be the one that heals it? This is the paradox of change, and is also the place where Brain Body Being begins.