Soma Heart

30/07/2024

Hello beautiful people of this page - please know this page is now inactive. Please follow my new page Soma With Max where I will keep you up to date on all things trauma sensitive, yoga, embodiment, education, life, musings of my heart, online and in-person classes for survivors of trauma. Hope to see you there 💛

13/06/2024

"Calming your nervous system" is not the goal, yet "calm" has been inaccurately associated with nervous system regulation.
Instead, when we focus on feeling safe, comfortable, and secure we are able to experience the entire spectrum of emotions while still maintaining a sense of regulation and connection. This is the ultimate goal for the human experience.

13/06/2024

"Our injuries do not occur in a vacuum, so our healing cannot occur in one either.
Our hurts and losses need to be repaired interpersonally. We cannot heal alone."
-Arielle Schwartz, PhD, psychologist, internationally renowned teacher, yoga instructor, and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma.

Dr. Schwartz is one of our featured speakers at Polyvagal Theory and the Modern Family: Finding Safety and Connection", June 14-16 live in Potsdam Germany.

Join the polyvagal community for our lineup of 10 internationally acclaimed speakers sharing on topics including childhood trauma, parenting, child and adolescent mental health, transgenerational trauma and more. CEs will be available!

In-person and virtual tickets available now with special Early Bird Pricing!
Onsite accommodations and seats are limited, so make your plans today and head to our site to register at polyvagal.org/potsdam2024

13/06/2024

13/06/2024

Center for Trauma and Embodiment roundtable discussion - The Prevalence of Trauma: A Challenge to Global Philanthropy.

23/05/2024

.with.max is an invitation to discover and rediscover what’s real, through embodied practice, in the heart of Plettenberg Bay and beyond.

Really taking my time with this. It’s been my baby and I have to nurture it into existence - website almost there. Calendar will be open soon.

❤️💛💚
Soma Heart

29/01/2024

14/06/2023

Over the years I have noticed that as I spend more time discovering my resources and practicing (embodying) them regularly, like yoga, movement, sensory play, fostering meaningful friendships, chanting, dancing, walking, being in the body, etc. the more i happen to find myself in the here and now where there is no real threat, and where spontaneity is the essence.

Once a painful experience(or ongoing) has passed, and the body continues to react in daily life as if that painful experience is happening again and again, it is usually our physiological systems protection mechanism born out of that trauma-genic moment in an attempt to survive the situation. And as a result, what we are reliving today is usually a perceived threat rather than an actual threat - which understandably pulls us right out of the here and now where harmony lives.

What resources bring you back into the here and now? Like or share this post if you feel someone needs to hear this today.

06/03/2023

Reclaiming your body is one of the hallmarks of overcoming trauma. Yog(a) and the 4 paths, can be an integrative support along the way to reclamation.

Bessel van der Kolk, clinical psychiatrist and best-selling author of The Body Keeps the Score, shares how yoga can help you get “unstuck” from the imprints ...

04/12/2018

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01/12/2018

Do you express yourself fully and deeply?

“The Maiden Wound doesn’t trust intuition, and leans back into The Father Archetype’s rational logic. From the imbalanced shadow side of The Maiden Archetype arises the core limiting belief:

“It is not safe to express myself fully.”

Full article here: https://www.google.co.za/amp/s/mysterialwoman.com/blog/healing-the-maiden-wound-in-women%3fformat=amp

Art by: Shiloh Sophia Mccloud

18/10/2018

Divine mother, thank you for the gift of life.
I bask in the depths of your cosmic womb as your grace washes over me and all is formless as I am held in the divine womb of existence.

🎨 artist - Sophia Shiloh McCloud