Somatic Bliss, 8600, Lagos (2026)

02/04/2026

Trade the noise of Friday in the city for something quieter.

Fridays in Movement is your space to arrive exactly as you are. No steps to learn, nothing to prove - just the joy of listening to your inner rhythm and following what feels good in your body. This isn't a dance class, it's a place for reconnecting with yourself after a busy week.
No previous experience or dance skills required.

📍Location: Panta Rei, Palermo
🕖Time: Fridays 19:00-20:30
🌐Language: English

UPCOMING SESSIONS:

17 April
MOVING WITH THE BREATH
WITH KATKA

In this session, we use the breath as a guide - letting it initiate movement from within, rather than from music or instruction. A gentle, meditative exploration of what wants to move from the inside out.

24 April
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT
WITH JURGA BLISS

In Authentic Movement, you close your eyes and follow whatever is present in you. Guided by your body's natural impulses to move or rest in a safe, non-judgmental space you get to freely be who you are and how you are in the moment.

ABOUT THE HOSTS:

KATERINA DI MARCO
Katerina is a certified Embodiment Coach and Expressive Arts facilitator. She believes that in our fast-paced world the solution to most problems isn't to keep running. It's to pause.

JURGA BLISS
Jurga Bliss is an ISMETA-registered somatic movement therapist and educator, passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies and find ease from within. Her work is rooted in the integrative bodywork and movement therapy approach.

📧 Book your spot by joining Palermo Gatherings community on WhatsApp. DM Katerina or Jurga for booking & more information.

19/03/2026

How did keeping the peace become your full-time job?

Fawning is what your nervous system learned when conflict felt dangerous and belonging felt conditional.

It worked as a survival strategy. But there's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being someone who constantly adjusts. And you might be struggling to get out of being the "yes" person even if you don't want that anymore.

In the upcoming session we will look at how this pattern lives in the body — and what it feels like to stop managing everyone else and start centering in your core, recognising your needs and embodying boundaries.

Join this workshop on Palermo:
What: Befriend Your Nervous System: Reclaim Your Boundaries & Stop People Pleasing
When: 24th March, 2026
How: Join the Palermo Gatherings WhatsApp channel or DM me to book your spot.

If you'd like a more individualised approach or are not in Palermo - book an individual session online.

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Warmly,

Jurga Bliss RSME/T, dipIBMT # #

05/03/2026

Befriend Your Nervous System: From Self-Abandonment to Self-leadership
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If you've been running on people pleasing, stuck in cycles of self-criticism and shame, or understanding yourself deeply but still not feeling different - this series is going straight to the source of these patterns-the nervous system.

During 3 monthly meetings in spring, we will explore how to stop abandoning ourselves to keep others comfortable, get out of shame loops, and what it takes to actually feel different in our own body — not just think differently.

24 March — Reclaim Your Boundaries & Stop People Pleasing
21 April — Freeing Yourself From the Shame Triangle
26 May — From Knowing to Doing: A Somatic Toolkit

You can participate in the whole series or pick a session that is most relevant to you: each session stands alone & together form a coherent journey.

All meetings happen on Tuesdays from 19:00 to 20:30.

More information and booking: join the WhatsApp channel: Befriend your Nervous System. DM for the link.

09/02/2026

We’re living through genuinely overwhelming, frightening, enraging times.

If you feel rage, fear, grief, panic, exhaustion, or all of it at once - it is adequate. The news about the unimaginable abuse of the vulnerable, the wars, the growing discrimination, the democratic states turning authoritarian - your nervous system is responding appropriately to what’s happening in the world! And it can feel a tad ridiculous to talk about nervous system regulation under these circumstances. Some even question, whether it is a "morally right" thing to do, or do we rather *need* to stay dysregulated in order to protest and implement change.

I hear these voices and these questions. However, let’s be clear about something: regulation is not numbing, not complacency nor indifference.
It’s not pretending things are fine.
It’s not bypassing, dissociating, or gaslighting yourself into “good vibes only.”
And it’s definitely not living in a delusional bubble where injustice and horror don’t exist.

Regulation is the capacity to stay connected - to reality, to your values, to your emotions - without being completely hijacked & overwhelmed by sensations in your body & the meanings your mind ascribes to them.

You can be outraged & regulated.
You can feel deep grief & be grounded.
You can hold anger without letting it burn you alive from the inside.

A regulated nervous system doesn’t erase your rage, it helps you carry it without collapsing or exploding. It allows your anger to be informative and be the fuel for what needs to be done. It makes space for action, boundaries, care & discernment. Being consumed by rage or fear doesn’t create conditions for deliberation & choice.

Dysregulation isn’t proof that you care more & being calm isn’t proof that you don’t care at all. Emotions & grounding can coexist. And right now, that coexistence is actually necessary if we, as a society, want to make steps that create positive change, rather than just unrest.

Be gentle with yourself. Your reactions make sense. And you can also offer yourself support. 💟

If doing this alone feels not enough - reach out. I am here to offer somatic guidance and tools.

Warmly,
Jurga

28/01/2026

When more challenging material comes up, in therapy or in close relationships, resistance can follow.

It can look like blanking out, tracking the room instead of the conversation, an urge to joke, analyse... Heaviness, tension, sleepiness are also common.

These responses don’t automatically mean something has gone wrong. They usually appear when attention moves closer to a lived experience that asks more from the nervous system than it can hold at once.

From a somatic perspective, resistance is protective. It signals a need to slow down and be met with care rather than pressure. I don’t believe in healing through force. The body has intelligent ways of defending itself, and those responses deserve respect.

When resistance shows up, it becomes part of the work. We get curious about how it’s organising itself, what it’s guarding, and what’s needed to stay present.

You don’t need to get rid of resistance to begin somatic therapy. You can bring it with you — and we work from there.

Warmly,
Jurga Bliss

26/01/2026

Befriend your nervous system course
🕖 3 FEB 19:00 - 20:30
📍 Studio Panta Rei, Palermo
🌐 English
Registration necessary with

Open into social engagement, connection, and inner safety.

Whether you often feel stressed, stuck, numb, or disconnected, this workshop offers a supportive space to reconnect with your body's natural capacity to regulate and feel safer and more comfortable relating with other people.

Facilitator: Jurga Bliss, an ISMETA-Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies and find ease from within.

For over seven years, she has been guiding Somatic Movement, nervous system regulation, and Authentic Movement workshops, as well as offering one-on-one Polyvagal Theory-informed somatic therapy sessions online.

Her work is rooted in the Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) approach - weaving together body awareness, mindful movement, and gentle exploration to support greater connection, safety, and self-regulation.

18/01/2026

Today I had the opportunity to participate in another Authentic Movement workshop
in Palermo, Italy.

Authentic Movement is, for me, a pathway to myself. It is a space where the body speaks louder than the mind, and movement arises from what is alive in the present moment. Without a plan, without “shoulds,” without trying to make anything aesthetic or harmonious. The body does what it wants to do, in the way it wants to do it.
This is being in truth.

As a somatic movement therapist, Authentic Movement is especially important to me because through it I continuously learn how to witness - both another person and myself.

To witness does not mean to figure something out or to fix it. It means to stay present and aware, allowing the experience to be exactly as it is. Be with presence in the body, in the breath, in stillness, in movement.

In therapy, clients often come with a desire to change something within themselves, and alongside this very natural impulse to change, it feels essential to me not to lose sight of being with what is here - now.

Practicing Authentic Movement teaches me this kind of presence.
Being with whatever arises in the moment: vulnerability, strength, a pause, or the impulse to move. Without judgment, without rushing to understand. Simply being, moving, seeing. Consciously sensing what this awakens within me.

And sometimes, it is precisely within this simple act of being present that the deepest self-knowledge unfolds.
Do you long to be seen and witnessed just the way you are?

Book a free 20 min discovery call via DM or email info@somaticbliss.eu and start your somatic journey with me online

Your body is your greatest teacher. Let`s discover it together.

Warmly,
Jurga Bliss

13/01/2026

Overthinking is a protective nervous system strategy, yet it can often be unhelpful.

When sensation starts to exceed our capacity to hold it, the mind steps in to manage what we feel the body can’t sustain. Thinking, rationalising, intellectualising becomes containment and a way to create distance. This is especially true for neurodivergent and overreactive nervous systems, where emotional activation is often more intense, more sensory, and thus more overwhelming.

Overthinking or rumination is often a developed adaptation to high internal pressure. However, it can itself create feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, stuckness, procrastination and more. But it's nit so easy to stop it.

You can’t think your way out of overthinking. What you can do is widen the body’s tolerance for sensation. That doesn’t mean plunging into feeling. The thought that it is, is scary, because we fear it will overwhelm (as it has before). The tolerance for sensation builds up as we learn to support ourselves through being with the feeling: through gournding, movement, breathing, refocusing towards cues of safety, etc.

As sensation becomes legible and survivable, as we feel safer to feel, thinking loosens on its own because it is no longer needed as an urgent survival mechanism.

To quiet the mind, teach the body it can feel without flooding.

02/01/2026

Next week's class!
Move out of Freeze-Shutdown state
🕖 6 Jan 19:00
📍 Studio Panta Rei, Palermo
🌐 English

If you’re sometimes feeling heavy, stuck, unmotivated, isolated, helpless and more.. this class is for you.

When you understand what’s happening in your nervous system in Freeze/Shutdown state you stop being at the mercy of it and get empowered to help your body and mind back into more aliveness.

You’ll learn:
• The physical cues, emotional signals, and even thought patterns that reveal you’re in freeze/shutdown
• Why your body reacts this way (from a Polyvagal lens)
• What your system needs to be able to move out of it

You’ll do:
• Simple somatic practices that gently brings energy back into your body
• Techniques to shift your internal state & thoughts
• Grounding movements that help your system return to more aliveness

This class is part of the winter course "Befriend your nervous system", which will take us through different states and ways to support ourselves through simple yet efficient body based practices.

Facilitator: Jurga Bliss, somatic therapist

REGISTRATION necessary, PM for details.
Event organised by

27/12/2025

Somatics for Nervous-System Relief

The holidays feel stressful not just in your head: your nervous system remembers patterns, old dynamics, and expectations before your mind does.

You might notice things like:
• feeling on edge even when nothing “bad” is happening
• restlessness in your body
• tension in shoulders, jaw, tummy
• wanting quiet but feeling stuck in overwhelm
Sound familiar? You’re not alone.

Here are 3 somatic resets that might help:
1️⃣ Orient Your Senses
Slowly let your eyes track the room — colors, light, textures — to signal safety to your nervous system.

2️⃣ Micro-Pause Regulation:
• soften your jaw
• feel your feet firmly on the ground
• put a hand over your heart
These tiny moments send a “safe” signal to your body.

3️⃣ Exhale Longer than You Inhale
A 4-in / 6-8-out pattern engages the relaxation response — even in just a minute.
Boundaries begin in the body — noticing where it tightens tells you when to step back, step out, or take a breath.

This holiday, don’t just push through.
Notice. Regulate. Choose.
Your body already knows how — it just needs your attention.

If you’re thinking of trying something new to support your inner processes next year - try somatic approach with me. Now making new appointments for January. DM me for an intro call.

19/12/2025

Why do we fall into soothing habits — especially during the festive season?

Research shows that how we try to manage emotions isn’t random — it’s rooted in real biology and psychology.

Scientists studying everyday emotion regulation have found that as environmental demands change (like shorter days, colder weather, altered routines), typical ways of handling emotions can shift too, and not always in helpful directions. For example, people tend to ruminate more and accept their emotions less in the cold season, which can make negative moods hang around longer.

That matters because comfort-seeking behaviours - whether it’s extra scrolling, overeating, shopping, or zoning out - aren’t just bad habits; they are responses to how our nervous system is trying to manage stress and emotion. From a neuroscientific perspective, activities that feel soothing often activate overlapping reward circuits in the brain that also respond to social connection and safety - which is why a lack of connection can drive stronger cravings for food or distraction.

Emotional eating specifically has been shown to bridge perceived stress and eating habits - meaning the stress itself doesn’t drive the behavior directly; the emotional coping mechanisms do.

Moreover, early experiences shape how we regulate stress later in life. Emotional regulation difficulties (like leaning heavily on soothing behaviors) are linked with past emotional dysregulation and self-esteem patterns, not just momentary cravings.

So what can we do — especially in December — without just “trying harder”? See the slides for tips!

Would you like more support? DM me to arrange a free 20min discovery call and let's start your somatic journey in the new year.

03/12/2025

Next week's class!
Move with Fight-or-Flight
🕖 9 Dec 19:00
📍 Studio Panta Rei, Palermo
🌐 English

If you’re done feeling hijacked by stress and ready to feel more like yourself, this class is for you.

When you understand what’s happening in your nervous system, you stop being at the mercy of it.

You’ll learn:
• The physical cues, emotional signals, and even thought patterns that reveal you’re in fight-or-flight
• Why your body reacts this way (from a Polyvagal lens)
• What keeps you stuck in reactivity without you noticing

You’ll do:
• Simple somatic practices that interrupt the stress loop
• Techniques to shift your internal state & thoughts
• Grounding movements that help your system return to clarity and choice

This class is part of the winter course "Befriend your nervous system", which will take us through different states and ways to support ourselves through simple yet efficient body based practices.

Facilitator: Jurga Bliss, somatic therapist

REGISTRATION necessary, PM for details.
Event organised by Palermo Gatherings.

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