Honouring the power of ‘No’
A somatic practice for boundaries and belonging
This is a note to all who’ve expressed a boundary and received the backlash they were fearing.
To anyone who doubted and questioned and stayed up at night, and still listened to the directive voice of the body.
To you, who tended to your body’s communication, even if that very act posed a threat to your sense of safety, belonging, and dignity.
A yes is active and ongoing. The option of a no makes our yes sacred (thank you Adrienne Maree Brown, always and forever). Most of us, especially women, have been taught to ignore our no so as to ensure that no feathers are ruffled. To keep the peace and remain liked.
Sometimes listening to our no ignites chaos. May the fact that you listened to and expressed your boundary be your solace in the storm.
May the energy of wild women, kind and loving and honest women, hold you when you feel alone in the making of big and bold decisions.
We all know what it feels like to acquiesce and then shame and blame ourselves for not being heard. Through somatic work, we learn how to embody, remember, and practice our boundaries, a practice that can revolutionize the lives of women, and all other marginalized or silenced communities. We can also learn to cultivate compassion so that we no longer blame ourselves for deeply embedded cultural wounds that perpetuate perpetration of our boundaries.
You deserve to feel what you feel, to express what you know, and to be received as kindly and compassionately as you give.
We see you.
Please enjoy this pendulation practice that supports you in resting, cultivating softness and comfort, and getting to know the messages your soma is offering you. It was recorded by one of our incredible former Brain Body Being students (and now co-facilitator!), Halie Devlin.
If you are ready to experience more of these somatic practices in your life AND learn how to masterfully facilitate them for others, there is more on Brain Body Being below!
Wellness is multifaceted, and so often we are confused and frustrated by the subject because folks purport just ONE aspect of so many. Rather than polarizing the many aspects, we must include, encompass, all.
How we tend to trauma in our bodies, our past and present environment, our relationships and our connection to the land must be included in conversations around shifting our mindset, our focus, our lifestyles.
~ When we hold the Self as a cosmology, spirit and physiology, body and mind, science and mysticism can coexist
You are so vast, and so is what we are capable of individually and together.
~ When we hold the web of our interconnectedness alongside the interconnected, multi-factorial aspects of ourSelf - the change we are seeking for our lives, our community, our world gain the momentum we have been longing for ~
In our Brain Body Being Clinical Somatic Educator Professional Certification Training, we hold all the facets of Self and the ecosystem in which we exist. In this way, a grounded transformation can occur whereby the alignment we are seeking is simply between what we long for and what we DO.
This alignment may seem simple, yet it is the greatest quest, challenge, and task of the human experience. It requires an awareness of our soma (our living bodies), and a reckoning of the many contradictory aspects of our existence.
It is a complex and deeply cellular journey.
Brain Body Being is a two year professional certification program, and includes a rare comprehensive curriculum. Upon completion you will be ready to facilitate somatic, transformational, healing care work in 1:1 and group contexts, as well as in the specific communities you are already in proximity to.
Your curriculum includes:
~ Psycho-physiology
~ Accessible somatic practices for healing trauma and creating a resilient nervous system
~ Paradigmatic and sociological exploration
~ A comprehensive study of quantum mechanics + spiritual law
~ The anatomical and kinaesthetic structures of the body
~ Functional movement for supportive somatic healing of chronic pain
~ Facilitation of touch for physical healing
~ The anatomy of illness and disease, the bio-psycho-social contexts of disease
~ The neuroscience of chronic pain and the corresponding neuro-exercises required to heal chronic tension
~ Facilitation of somatics in the contexts of children + youth, addiction, illness, depression, chronic pain, and more!
Mallorie Buoy
Mallorie is the founder and lead educator at Homebody School of Somatics. She currently practices as a Registered Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Clinical Somatic Therapist, as well as a psychedelic-assisted therapist. With over 15 years of studying mysticism, movement, and exploring the rich truth of cosmic law, alongside the science of it all, she now teaches others to become somatic educators and therapists without the stress or overwhelm of a traditional university setting.
Explore our 500-hour ISMETA Approved Somatic Educator and Therapist Training at homebodyhealing.org.