Satori Clarke

10/16/2024

First retreat in Australia!

Please share if you know anyone in the Sydney area who might love this!

𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄
A 2-day breathwork & equine immersion
ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴍɪss ᴛʜɪs ᴏɴᴇ﹗

Meet Satori Clarke , an experienced international facilitator and embodiment educator who is passionate about how our nervous system functions, emotional regulation, stress reactivity, trauma and childhood wounding.

Satori is joining me for a 2-day immersion into Breathwork & Horses. Can you imagine anything more powerful to help you regulate, release, heal and find peace?

Due to the nature of this 'work', we are restricting intake to only FIVE participants, to ensure personal support for all involved.

This weekend is for you if you are longing for a better way to live, to discover a life with more ease, clarity and resilience. It's perfect for anyone seeking greater emotional stability, mental clarity, and who wishes to feel more resourced to handle life's challenges (𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴!!)

MORE INFO & BOOKINGS: https://highlandscentreforhealing.com.au/event/embracing-balance/

07/13/2022

Healthy emotional regulation is space between your first reactive impulse, and what you actually do or say.

When creating this space, it helps to become comfortable with (aka. practice) letting go.

Letting go of control (which is at best an illusion anyway)
Letting go of tension
of gripping
of how we thought it would or should unfold.

Renegotiating our relationship with life, re-establishing trust.

A process that starts with small shifts in the physical body, which becomes reflected in the mind, emotions and soul.

Eventually we see it ripple out and change the way we experience life.

Change your breath
Change nervous system function
Change your life.

It's an ongoing practice.
So

Keep breathing.
Stay Nerdy.
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02/01/2022

Reconnecting to ourselves⁠
our power⁠
our capacity ⁠
our ability to create ease in our system⁠
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Returning to nervous system regulation⁠
to finding safety after intensity and stress⁠
to how we can resource ourselves when we are IN intensity⁠
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This is a tried and true tool⁠
which has been used for centuries⁠
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In the hurry and excitement of⁠
industrialized technology, new discoveries and⁠ capitalistic pursuits, we disconnected from ourselves, our health, our wellbeing and we just... forgot.⁠
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Here's to remembering our breath⁠
as a collective⁠
as individuals⁠
every day⁠
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Practice consciously using it as a tool⁠
to reconnect with your self and your health⁠
Train this tool so that it can be more readily available⁠
In those times when you REALLY need it.⁠
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Stay nerdy.⁠
Keep breathing.⁠
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DM or check link in my bio to book your 1:1 package with me in Canggu.⁠

12/12/2021

One of the most powerful ways I know to create deep transformation is through breath...

10/05/2021

Neuro 101 Hype

The coming Neuro 101 thread will not be details and minutia about the way nerve cells work (axons, dendritic, soma, sodium or electric gates), what action potentials and synaptic clefts are, or post-synaptic inhibition vs excitation…

What you will get from following this thread is why and how to remind your nervous system of its regulating capacity / capabilities. It will be more about the relationship between stimuli from our environment and how our body system responds, at the cellular level.

The more we understand how we function, the more empowered we are to make choices to create the life experience that we desire and dream of. Because that IS possible.
You literally have the wiring inside of you to create more ease, calm, energy and bliss in your body/mind.

I will continue to refer to the body/mind because there currently is no single term that encompases this concept. All too often the body and mind are considered separate. And, particularly when looking at it through a neuro-nerd lens 🤓 , we see they are the SAME. Interconnected and inseparable.

Nervous system regulation is about healing and wholeness from the inside out / bottom up. May this thread support your connection to your own body and empower your lived experience with awareness of why your body/mind reacts in all the glorious ways it does, and how to use those to your advantage!

By the end of this thread the significance of generating a sense of safety in the body so it can move through a stress response and complete the cycle will be clear.

For now:

👐Place your hands on either side of your lower abdomen, just below your navel.
🤰Press gently into your body.
👃Breath deep, sending your breath and magnificent belly into your hands.
🌱Keep inhaling.
🫁… until the sides & top of your lungs are also expanding.
🧘Exhale and let something go.

Repeat 5x

Let’s get nerdy.

📷 with human design pro embodying full expansion

09/14/2021

To understand WHY nervous system regulation matters and HOW we can apply it to our own experiences of:⁠
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fear⁠
disappointment⁠
anxiety⁠
worry⁠
grief⁠
stress⁠
anger⁠
frustration⁠
irritability⁠
overwhelm⁠
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... we need a foundational understanding of the nervous system.⁠
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It keeps coming back to good ol' NSR - Nervous System Regulation.⁠
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Understanding what this is, and the power you can tap into that lays directly under (or I suppose also inside) your nose has changed the way I relate to my body, my life experience and the adverse impacts of my experience of diagnoses of anxiety and depression.⁠
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I keep finding myself in conversations, almost abashedly because I say it SO often, that it comes back to nervous system regulation.⁠
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I don't get tired of saying it, in fact it is becoming more of a world view for me at this point. A lens through which I observe my experiences and the experiences of others.⁠
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08/10/2021

Want a moment of calm?

When we breathe deeply, our bellies extend outwards, and the parasympathetic branch of our autonomic nervous systems is given a cue to get into action.

Turning on rest, digest, restore and repair activities throughout the whole body. AKA the chill-out / relax features hardwired in your body.

Focus on sending breath down into your hips, whisper adoration to your belly and body as it expands. Let the exhale feel luxurious, slow and easy.

Ideal to do a few of these
🌿 as you wind down for sleep
🌿 in the middle of a high-effort or high-stress day
🌿 before, during and after a meal
🌿 when frustration rises in conversations
🌿 feeling psyched out on the crux (or any move really) of a climb
🌿 arriving home from work / outings / activity
🌿 whenever you want to connect inward and to your body

The more we practice this deep breathing consciously, the more easily it will happen subconsciously.

Consciously turn on the parasympathetic (r&r branch of the nervous system), return to this state more easily and often without conscious effort.

Go get your calm on!

08/07/2021

The only way is through.

Until we can hold a safe, kind, grace-filled and loving space for ourselves to be exactly as we are, it is wise to engage with this process in the presence of a skilled and trusted guide / support / mentor / counsellor / ...

While I dig deep into the biopsychology of stress and self-regulation, and have relative mastery of a few tools, I continue to feel things deeply. I continue to be in a human experience.

As many clients as I have guided into these spaces of safety to be fully in and a witness to whatever arises, and as much mastery as I have achieved so far intellectually and in an embodied way, I have not 'mastered' my emotions in the sense that I override them and don't need to feel them fully.

That is part of the magic of this whole human life thing. We must "feel it to heal it".

The more peace I make with that, the easier it is for me to experience inner unimaginable-turmoil. To see it as a path toward greater mastery of this human experience, to healing, to greater capacity for space holding, to wisdom and new understanding.

The more we practice making space (rather than resisting our inner reality), the more we can allow all our experiences to be transformative and healing; elevating our quality of life.

Breathe in deeply.
And exhale into the magic of your own human experience.

08/04/2021

Lean into it.
..but not too far.

I am in a rather uncomfortable state of limbo. I naturally tend to lean into the discomfort, which has been to my detriment in the past. This time I make space to be with myself through this and also seek out bliss and joy amidst it to maintain vitality (and sanity!).

This looks like:
Breathwork every day.
Meditations.
Strength and mobility training.
Multi-day backcountry hikes.
Climbing rocks with ropes and friends.
Prioritizing time for valued relationships.
Geeking out on rad netflix shows.
Seek out supportive company where I can I am going through, and be heard.
And I break-thef*ck-down': letting myself feel fully rather than only carrying on, staying strong or keeping a (bu****it) positive-only-attitude. So I shout, sob, or lay in a daze of 'is this really happening I may as well lay still because there is so much out of my control' as long as I feel like it.

If I don't allow the break down, I don't complete the stress cycle in my body (a physiological response to what is currently happening) and then it builds up and comes out in the ways I relate to myself and those close to me.

This forest session gloriously captured by shows a practice I use with clients at the start of working together, before getting into active breathwork.

We lean into our yin/feminine, yang/masculine, future projections and past narratives/experience/worries/nostalgias; always returning to the centre. We lean into these four directions, drawing those energies back with us to where we are (literally and metaphorically) now.

Acknowledging the directional pulls and balancing it all in the centre.

Thank you for that one! ^^

So lean in, but not so far that you fall over, and return to your centre. Whatever it is that helps you feel centred and grounded in yourself - do that.

Create time for it every. dang. day.

The quality of your life experience depends on it.

05/19/2021

Join me live tomorrow May 19 at 6pm PST for my first podcast interview!! I will be sharing all things mental health, neuroscience and breath on The Wellness Hub !!!

You can tune in through the link .

I'm all about empowering you to awaken to your capacity to heal and FEEL well in your body, down to your bones.

Bound to be a few quality nuggets🤞😉 in the conversation with co-founder and CEO Drew Munro.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ1P18iWuU1di6W_whwO5Qw

04/16/2021

When our nervous system is regulated ~ operating the way it was designed to ~ we influence which pieces of our genetic code are used.

A regulated nervous system requires releasing stress and repressed emotion held in the body(1-3) and changing our stress response pattern (1-3): reminding our system to return to parasympathetic activity / rest / restore with greater ease after engaging with stress.

Stress is not bad, in fact the stress (sympathetic activity) response is critical for our livelihood and health! It's when we stay there that sh*t becomes tense, feels excessively hard and damages the ways we relate to the world around us.

This hard experience is related to how our genetic code is used in the body.

Yes, we can change how our body functions from the inside out, at the cellular and genetic level through daily practices.

Prioritize your wellbeing and health, because who doesn't want life to feel easier???

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(1) Van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma.
(2) Levine, Peter A. (2005). Healing Trauma: a Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body.
(3)Maté, Gabor. (2003). When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress.

04/05/2021

Here is to your expansion.⁠
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Adding new layers of awareness and understanding of who you are in your essence.
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Your incredible capacity to engage fully with life.
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Your worth and value.
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A great place to start is to practice drawing your attention to physical sensations as emotions arise.⁠
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For more support in your process⁠
visit www.satoriclarke.com or message me here.
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