Inquiry with Judith

03/05/2025

Revealing Presence - Embodied Awakening with Judith

"Our body (child within) needs to tell its story and express itself in its own way. This liberates our body to let us live our awakening." ~ Judith

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Hi everyone,

After a long break from group meetings, I am happy to announce that Chris has invited me to hold a presence circle at HealthNuts in Stroud on :

Sunday, 11th May from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

We will be resting in Silence, exploring a guided meditation and practicing some gentle awareness and body-based inquiry. Body-based inquiry encourages us to gently meet layers of conditioning held within our bodies. This gentle unfolding allows to reveal a deeper ground of presence and connection inside. This circle will include some gentle inquiry. Deeper trauma work and 3D emotional repression inquiry will be reserved for 1-1 work only as this needs a stronger container and ongoing support.

Everyone is welcome.

I have taken a break from group work to give myself time to go more deeply to the root of my own trauma and complete further training in trauma work. I have completed IFS (Internal Family Systems) Training and have been in training with the 'Kiloby Emotional Repression Inquiries' for over 3 1/2 years now. As I am writing this, I am crying in gratitude. This is the only modality (and I have tried so many!) that has been able to transmute and dissolve very stuck and physically painful body contractions in my belly. I am still trying to find ways to describe my current experience. It feels like over the last three years, I have been growing a new body. My belly feels so light and spacious. I can breathe deeply now. I had no idea how much buried rage I had been carrying in that area. I feel such deep peace. Rage has brought me peace! I am immensely grateful to Dan and Scott who have developed these inquiries.

I am looking forward to exploring with you.
Please book and pay via Healthnuts.
- https://www.healthnuts.co.uk/event-details/revealing-presence-embodied-awakening-with-judith

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Embodied Awakening at Healthnuts, Stroud


Date: Sunday, 11th May 2025, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Please arrive a bit earlier for a prompt start.

Location: Stroud, 26 Kendrick St, Stroud GL5 1AQ, UK

Cost: £15

Much love

Judith

Judith will be holding a presence circle where we will rest in Silence, explore a guided meditation and practice some gentle awareness and body-based inquiry. Everyone is welcome.

28/06/2023

Soul Sanctuary in Thrupp, Stroud

I warmly invite you to join me for our final Soul Sanctuary - Somatic Inquiry Circle in Thrupp on:

Sunday 2nd July from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

After this session, I will take a break from group offerings until September. I will continue offering 1-1 sessions throughout the summer apart from when I am away on holidays.

During a recent somatic inquiry, I explored my fear of expressing my power and rage. My system will let me feel my rage but won't easily let me express it towards other people. There are times when expressing anger would be a healthy response. However, this channel of expression is much less available within my system. The greatest fear held within my body is that my anger and rage will harm others and might even lead them to taking their own life. The threat of su***de is the greatest bind. The voice of the survival pattern says:

"I can't express my anger and rage. I have to protect them. I have to protect myself."

On the inner planes, several ancestors who have committed su***de formed a circle around me. When I asked them what they were here for, they responded: "We want you to show us how angry you are. We want your rage." I could feel their love beaming at me. My system was still holding back some rage but the voice of: 'I can't." was becoming more and more faint. Then they invited me again: "Holding back our emotions destroyed us. Not being able to fully feel and express all that we are caused us harm. We want your rage." Their second permission allowed me to melt through my repression barrier and the energy of rage and power started to pour out of my solar plexus. It truly feels like learning to healthily express my anger and rage is healing my family field and my own relational dynamics. Maybe anger can also be a powerful healer? Thank you for being part of this journey of embodied awakening.

I am looking forward to exploring with you.

Sunday Circles in Thrupp, Stroud

Date: Sunday, 2nd July 2023, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Location: Judith & Francis Home, Thrupp Lane, Stroud. Please note that two friendly cats live at this address. Please contact me for directions.

Cost: £12

If you would like to book a place, please email me judith@oasisofbeing.com

With love

Judith

12/06/2023

Soul Sanctuary - The Flow of Your Essence
Day Retreat in Stroud on Sunday 18th June 10am - 5pm

"In the heart of our emotions, we can find the golden flow of our essence." ~ Judith

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Beloved friends,

I warmly invite you to join me for a day-long retreat in Thrupp on Sunday 18th June from 10:00 - 5:00 pm.

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Over the last few weeks, I have been deepening my own inquiry into shame. My system doesn't want me to be fully seen and wants me to hide. It is not only a hiding from other people but a hiding of my shame, my anger, my hatred, my fear, my hurt and also my happiness and joy! My safety program is telling me that if I fully show myself, I will stand out. If I stand out, I will be a target. I will be attacked. I was bullied in school from when I was about ten years old. I reached puberty very early and felt ashamed of my 'womanly' shapes, my period, my spotty skin and my tallness. I did stand out! I looked a few years older than my classmates. I never cried. I never got angry. I never felt my shame. I pushed it all down and suffered quietly on my own until the repressed emotions caught up with me much later in life, showing up as background anxiety and giving me the occasional panic (shame) attack. The repressed emotions also created a hardened belly area. As I am slowly allowing myself to feel the hurt, the anger, the hatred and the shame that I had buried, I am also reconnecting with my golden essence, my natural sexual energy and life force. I had no idea that feeling my shame can also feel so very sensual and delicious! Thank you, shame for returning me to my natural flow.

I hope some of you will be able to join me for a day-long retreat where we can dive more deeply into the heart of our emotions so life can flow more freely through us.

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Sunday Day Retreat in Thrupp, Stroud

Date: Sunday, 18th June 2023, 10:00am - 5:00pm

Location: Judith & Francis Home, Thrupp Lane, Stroud
Please note that two friendly cats live at this address. I will email you detailed directions when you book a place.

Cost: £35

If you would like to book a place, please email me judith@oasisofbeing.com. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan dish to share for lunch.

With love

Judith

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30/05/2023

Soul Sanctuary - Somatic Inquiry in Stroud

"We enter the wild river of our life force through the transmutation of frozen emotions." ~ Judith

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Beloved friends,

I warmly invite you to join me for our next Soul Sanctuary - Somatic Inquiry in:

Stroud, Thrupp on Sunday 4th June from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

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My journey has always had a strong emphasis on embodiment and emotional healing due to having been so aware of intense emotional suffering (trauma) within my own system. This suffering fueled a restless search and led me on a spiritual path. I was looking for relief which I eventually found by noticing the wide open field of presence both within and around my body. Whilst this provided some deep peace and even bliss at times, some of my suffering continued as my body was still carrying unprocessed emotions and trauma. In order for my body to release some of the frozeness (core contractions), I needed so much more than simply resting in Being and witnessing what arises here. I had to and am still having to use somatic inquiry to support the transmutation of repressed and frozen emotions into freely flowing life force. The more I am able to gently enter these core contractions, hear the key messages and feel the feelings that are held there, the more space becomes available within my body for the Self to enter and lead this life.

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Date: Sunday, 4th June 2023, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Location: Judith & Francis Home, Thrupp Lane, Stroud
Please note that two friendly cats live at this address. Please contact me for full address and directions.

Cost: £12

If you would like to book a place, please email me: judith@oasisofbeing.com

I am looking forward to exploring with you.

With love
Judith
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20/05/2023

I have been encountering deep layers of shame in one of my core body contractions over the last few days. As I felt into the energy, I heard it say: ‘I hate myself’. I allowed myself to slip into it, fully become (embody) it and speak on its behalf. Gosh, it had a lot to say! For the first time in months, this very stubborn body contraction opened and gave me access to so much more space in that area of my body. Here I am, ready to be seen with my new friend called Shame. I have been avoiding you most of my life. I am so very sorry.

15/05/2023

Soul Sanctuary - Satsang Circle in Bristol
Sunday, 21st May 3-6pm

"Oppositional forces can only emerge together as one.
We are that which unites them." ~ Judith

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Beloved friends,

I warmly invite you to join me for Satsang in Bristol on Sunday 21st May from 3:00 - 6:00 pm. Vicki has offered her beautiful living room again. Deep gratitude to her.

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After a month-long break from group work, I am pleased to be able to offer healing spaces for groups again. I have truly missed group work and I needed this time to complete further training in somatic trauma healing. The learning and deepening has been very rich and fruitful. I am feeling very inspired to be able to offer both Satsang (awakening work) in combination with deep somatic and emotional healing work. I have needed both equally to be able to express and embody all that I am more fully. The recognition of awareness has given me the resource to be able to explore my own trauma more deeply, whilst the meeting of any remaining trauma within my system has given me greater access to awareness. It has been and continues to be a very humbling dance.

I have also needed some time to explore my own anger repression more deeply. It has been both a very rewarding and at times immensely challenging journey! Underneath the buried anger, there were deep layers of frozen fear and grief. The core contraction within my solar plexus only started to soften and open when the oppositional forces (expression versus repression) started to befriend and find safety with each other. Very tenderly, they softened and flowed into each other, combining their energy and emerging together as one. This process is still unfolding...

I am looking forward to exploring and deepening with you.

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Date: Sunday, 21st May 2023, 3:00 - 6:00pm (incl. a short tea break)

Location: Vicki's Home, Knoll Hill, Bristol
I will send directions and information on parking to those who have booked a place. If you would like to join me from Stroud, I can offer a lift to up to 3 people.

Cost: £15

Please let me know if you would like to book a place - judith@oasisofbeing.com

Further dates In Stroud:
Sunday, 4th June 2023, 6-8pm
Sunday Day Retreat, 18th June 2023, 10am-5pm

Much love and care

Judith
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17/03/2023

The peace maker is finally falling apart in me. Thick and dense layers of ancient frozen fear and hatred are breaking up like tectonic plates inside of my body. The hatred is oozing out of my body as warm dark golden liquid. This is at times terrifying and also extremely blissful. There is so much space and lightness opening up in various parts of my body. My body wants its freedom and be returned to the Mother.

15/03/2023

Soul Sanctuary - Satsang Circle in Thrupp

"Our life force is animated by luminous darkness.
She arises out of the Mother and is made up of the Mother.
She is my true safety and freedom." ~ Judith

Beloved friends,

I warmly invite you to join me for Satsang in Stroud on Mother's Day, Sunday 19th March from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

From my continued exploration into the heart of body contraction, I am finding two main movements within it. One movement is toward safety and connection. This part wants to burrow itself deeply underground and return to the safety and holding of the earth, the womb, the Mother. It believes that it has to repress and withhold life force in order to stay connected to my caregivers.

The other movement is towards freedom. This part wants to push away and break through any restriction and limitation. It actually rejects the repression and conditioning passed down the generations! It is a big 'No' to that. Deep down this is also a movement towards safety as this part fears the repressive forces.

In supporting both movements equally and allowing myself to feel the fear and the anger within them, I am re-connecting with the essential nature of my life force, the energy of Mother, pure luminous darkness. Slowly and gently my body is cellularly experiencing my life force as both safety and freedom. Everything is made up of Ma!

I no longer have to cut off from the energy of Mother in order to connect with Mother. By connecting with my own life force, I am reconnecting with the safety and freedom of the ultimate Mother.

Happy Mother's Day!

Sunday Circles in Thrupp, Stroud

Date: Sunday, 19th March 2023, 6:00 - 8:00pm.

Location: Judith & Francis Home, Thrupp Lane, Stroud. Please contact me for full address and directions.

Cost: £12

Please contact me - judith@oasisofbeing.com if you would like to book a place.

I am looking forward to exploring with you.

Much love
Judith

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07/03/2023

Soul Sanctuary - Satsang Circles in Bristol

"Meeting undigested emotions inside of our bodies allows us to reunite with our Soul energy." ~ Judith

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Beloved friends,

I warmly invite you to join me for Satsang in Bristol on Sunday 12th March from 3:30 - 6:30 pm.

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Healing trauma held within our bodies can be very slow and sometimes frustrating. It will only heal at its own pace. Our body invites us to meet it where it is at, rather than where we want it to be at. Our bodies invite us into the here and now. 'Meet me as I am now.', it whispers to me.

Shaking. Trembling. Freezing. Not wanting to feel. Running. Hiding. Curling. Fighting. Growling. Howling. Sobbing. Laughing. Resting. Sighing. Expanding. Contracting. Withdrawing. Opening.

This process can be very humbling. A wise friend said to me recently that good trauma healing needs God. Without presence, we don't have access to a wider context, to support us, to guide us, to give us the courage to explore the deeper layers within our bodies. Sometimes, we only have very limited access to presence due to the resurfacing of trauma and we might rely on the presence of a friend during those times. We can all take turns in supporting each other. We don't have to do this on our own.

I have been deeply humbled by my own body recently. For about 6 months, I have been working with my own anger repression. My solar plexus is slowly beginning to soften. However, one day, I moved too fast in my own exploration. I had an agenda of wanting to lift the repression quickly. The layer of repression did open momentarily and exposed large amounts of undigested shame and fear from when I was severely bullied as a child. My body begged me to cover it all up again so I can function! It was too big a step in one go. I could see that the repression has allowed me to function all these years (although in limited ways) and I felt deep gratitude for that. My repressor looks and feels like an ancient crocodile and stretches across my entire diaphragm. Like a scab, it willingly covered the old wound again. We have become good friends and I always ask for permission from him before doing any deeper inner work now. My repressor teaches me how to titrate and move slowly and gently. There is deep intelligence within all our parts!

For me, embodied trauma healing and awakening work go hand in hand. Presence can provide us with the much needed resource for deeper exploration whilst the deeper exploration opens up more of the Holy inside of our bodies.

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Sunday Circles in Bristol

Date: Sunday, 12th March 2023, 3:30 - 6:30pm (incl. a short tea break)

Location: Knoll Hill Bristol
I will send directions and information on parking to those who have booked a place.

Cost: £15

Please book - judith@oasisofbeing.com and make a payment in advance as group sizes will be kept small.

Much love and care

Judith

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Further dates In Stroud:
Sunday, 19th March 2023, 6-8pm

28/02/2023

Soul Sanctuary - Satsang Circles in Thrupp

"Our body contractions are our guides.
They let us know where to direct our inquiry.
They reconnect us with our Authentic Self." ~ Judith

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I warmly invite you to join me for Satsang in Stroud on Sunday 5th March from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

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Beloved friends,

We can easily get discouraged when sitting with persistent body contractions. It can feel like being with a block of cement or an unmovable iceberg, some kind of barrier we don't seem to be able to get through. Inside of these body contractions, we can hear the voices and messages from our inner protectors designed to keep us safe, designed to keep us from feeling and expressing certain emotions, designed to keep us from fully being ourselves. They were the very messages we told ourselves as children in order to survive our childhoods. Some of the messages I have uncovered in my own explorations are: "Hold back anger. Don't speak. Be nice. Smile."

Regularly, we can also encounter guards who don't even want us to inquire into the contraction. They might tell us that it's way too scary, that we need to get rid of it, that we can't do it or they might make us all sleepy and foggy. They might not want us to heal or awaken because through their eyes, freedom means a loss of safety. These are all very natural responses to trauma and when you hear the voices of resistance, it is actually progress! You are making the unconscious conscious!

In my experience, it takes a lot of regular practice to make these movements conscious and to unfreeze the life force within the hardened places in our bodies. It is so worth the time and commitment though as a softened body gets naturally flooded with connection and ultimate safety.

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Sunday Circles in Thrupp, Stroud

Date: Sunday, 5th March 2023, 6:00 - 8:00pm (NEW START TIME AGAIN!)

Location: Judith & Francis Home, Thrupp Lane, Stroud. Please note that two friendly cats live at this address. Please contact me for directions.

Cost: £12

Please book - judith@oasisofbeing.com and make a payment in advance as group sizes will be kept small.

Further dates In Stroud:

Sunday, 19th March 2023, 6-8pm

Dates In Bristol:

Sunday, 12th March 2023, 3:30-6:30pm

Much love and care

Judith

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14/02/2023

Soul Sanctuary - Satsang Circles in Stroud, Thrupp

"Uncontaining our exiled emotions allows for Self energy to flow more freely. This can bring deep peace and relaxation to our bodies." ~ Judith

Beloved friends,

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I warmly invite you to join me for Satsang in Stroud on Sunday 19th February from 5:00 - 7:00 pm.

Most of us had to repress core emotions and aspects of ourselves in order to feel safe and receive the care we needed as children. Even after many years, including post awakening, the bodymind can still be holding back certain emotions and expressions in order to stay safe. This repression can manifest itself as tension and contraction in our bodies. When our bodymind holds back core emotions, it also holds back Self energy and authenticity. As a result, we can end up feeling not good enough because we cannot express who we truly are. This feels extremely painful, like we are cut off from our own roots. Through awareness based somatic inquiry, I kept on honouring the layers of repression within my own body and listened to its greatest concerns and fears. It took a little while before it allowed me to feel the fear and anger buried inside. Eventually, it did not feel like an emotion any longer but the flow of dark, thick, juicy life force. I experienced this like an ancient dragon rising inside of my body and spreading its wings. This has brought deep peace and safety to my body. The repression itself guided me to reconnect to my ancient roots, the living and breathing ground of Being. May it be our Valentine! Let's offer it some flowers.

Sunday Circles in Thrupp, Stroud

Date: Sunday, 19th February 2023, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Location: Judith & Francis Home, Thrupp Lane, Stroud

Cost: £12

If you would like to join, please contact me judith@oasisofbeing.com and I will email you directions and payment details.

I am looking forward to exploring and deepening with you.

Much love and care
Judith

01/02/2023

Soul Sanctuary - Satsang Circles in Thrupp

"Inferiority acted as a security blanket for my inner child.
It felt too dangerous to live as my natural authority and power." ~ Judith

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Beloved friends,

I warmly invite you to join me for Satsang in Stroud on Sunday 5th February from 5:00 - 7:00 pm.

As I am exploring my own parts more deeply, I have been curious about the various protective parts that arise in relation to expressing anger. At a young age, my system learned that expressing anger was dangerous and could lead to abandonment and separation. As a result, my system developed an inferior, people pleasing and easy going personality. As I am allowing myself to re-connect with the repressed rage underneath the protective layer of inferiority and inadequacy, I am also re-connecting with my authentic roots and a natural authority and power. It is also interesting to note that anxiety levels have dropped tremendously as a result of allowing myself to feel the rage stored inside of my body. Slowly, slowly, my system is learning that expressing healthy anger can deepen connection and love. I am truly in awe of this journey of embodied awakening. Let's wake up and roar!

Sunday Circles in Thrupp, Stroud

Date: Sunday, 5th February 2023, 5:00 - 7:00pm (NEW START TIME)

Please arrive a bit earlier for a prompt start.

Location: Judith & Francis Home, Thrupp Lane, Stroud. Please contact me for directions.

Cost: £12

If you would like to book a place, please contact me - judith@oasisofbeing.com.

I am looking forward to exploring and deepening with you.

With love
Judith
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