Be In Flow

23/10/2024

The art of LIFE - https://mailchi.mp/aa71dd913de5/the-art-of-life

17/09/2023

05/07/2023

I don’t think it’s insignificant that trauma, the word and the lived experience of trauma is everywhere we turn. I don’t think it’s insignificant that somatic therapy, embodiment practices and it all of its tentacles is also everywhere you turn.

I think that it is LIFE showing us, and that we are finally being able to SEE that the world we have been living in has been a world where we have be taught to suppressed our pain.

Deep inside our bodies
in our tissue
in our waters
in our cellular biology

and that the way in which we integrate it, we befriend it, we come to know it, and see its wisdom, and see the wisdom of how we can move beyond, into a new timeline, a new experience is through these embodiment practices, is by reclaiming connection to our body and into the inquiry of something that is beyond our mental story.

Welcoming ourselves home through curiosity rather than judgement.

Embracing our soul through deep listening, but also through connection; so not just through deep listening that we might be able to do on our own, which is amazing, super beneficial and supportive, but the support of another nervous system that is safe, someone who is gently guiding you beneath the layers, that helps to separate slightly, to extract the wisdom, become curious, titrate the experience so that it doesn’t become a cathartic overwhelm experience, that doesn’t get integrated.

Our pain gets stuck when there is no safety to integrate it and our pain then becomes the pain in the world.

06/02/2023

Hello lovely human's, I thought I would drop in to share a real lived experience and some key steps in the process of embodied enquiry and why it can be helpful.

This morning I woke up to the very real shock of someone having broken into my van overnight. Luckily I wasn't in it!!

Of course there were then a list of things I needed to do, ring the police, ring insurers etc but before any of that began to happen I could feel my body internally shaking, it felt like all of my insides were vibrating, my mind was racing, my legs felt a bit weak and so THAT became my priority... to just listen to my body.

So I sat myself down and let my body feel the support of the chair and my feet on the ground (coming into awareness and presence through my body).

I could feel my heart racing and I just put my hand on my heart (noticing what I needed (the support of my hand, letting my body curl forward, feeling support underneath me, not rushing into m head and "what I have to do").

After some time the tears came and I just let them come ... I noticed some internal judgement around where I had parked my car and so I just went under that (like going underneath a layer) and connected to the vulnerability and overwhelm that was in my system and I let myself stay with that.

I also had support around me to give me comforting words and supportive hugs and squeezes.

As I stayed with myself, not moving, just allowing, I got to notice my heart slowing down, I began to be able to focus outside ( this is also bringing myself back to presence or externally orienting) noticing that I was safe, inquiring into myself to see if anything else was needed, and what around me was okay.

I then began to feel myself becoming ready and willing with the next steps (call the cops, do the things).

The other important thing I did was send a message to my most loved friends and told them, because there was a part of me that wanted to be held in the embrace of love. I needed my friends to see I had been hurt (not physically) and that I was in shock, and when there messages of love. support and permission came in, that helped REPAIR some of the shock, vulnerability and overwhelm.
And even though its taken a lot of words to write this, this process probably lasted 10 to 15 mins.

Why does this help us?

Giving ourselves space to FEEL what is happening helps us process the experience or shock in the present moment.

It allows the nervous system to go through its full cycle, (shock, freeze, release through shaking and tears and being able to return to presence) to integrate and digest our experience, so it doesn't get stuck in our systems and come out in other ways, or add to the collective overwhelm.

Which means we are less likely to utilize other ways of coping i.e unconscious eating, s*x, creating fights as ways of soothing or releasing stuck energy.

Because I have learnt this over the last 2 years and because I recognize it IS a practice, I am running a free online Embodied Enquiry Practice this Wednesday eve at 7pm NZDT. If you would like a little taste of coming into relationship with the body, with our sensations and feelings go to the link below. (just scroll down a little bit)
https://www.beinflownow.com/workshops-retreats-and-courses
With so much love
Jody

31/01/2023

My intention is to bring presence and connection to being in your body and connection to your inner wisdom. I am a somatic therapy mentor and teach in a trauma aware manor wit an emphasis on nervous system regualtion.

10/01/2023

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