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Somatic Personal Practice

Every personal decision we make is based on emotion, even when we deliberatelymake rational, cognitive choices.

Most of the emotional material that our decisions are based on is invisible, hidden from us in our unconscious.

Somatic inquiry and somatic practices can gradually reveal – and shift – our hidden emotional reality.

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Thursday, November 21, 4:00 – 5:30 PM EST

Tuesday, December 3, 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST

Monday, December 16, 7:00 – 8:30 PM EST

Friday, January 3, 10:00 – 11:30 AM EST

The meetings will include brief lectures, sharing, Q&A, guided work for the whole group, breakout groups, and demonstrations. When you go to the scheduling page, you have three price point options: free, $10, or $20. All three options offer the same dates and times. And when you provide your time zone, you can see the correct dates and times for where you are located.

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Thursday, November 21, 4:00 – 5:30 PM EST

Tuesday, December 3, 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST

Monday, December 16, 7:00 – 8:30 PM EST

Friday, January 3, 10:00 – 11:30 AM EST

The meetings will include brief lectures, sharing, Q&A, guided work for the whole group, breakout groups, and demonstrations. When you go to the scheduling page, you have three price point options: free, $10, or $20. All three options offer the same dates and times. And when you provide your time zone, you can see the correct dates and times for where you are located.

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Somatic Personal Practice

Somatic Personal Practice

Neutral or Pleasant

In this moment and throughout your day, notice something that is pleasant or neutral and pause with it for just a moment.

Let your body experience neutral or pleasant.

This could be the sound of a bird

or the touch of your hand against your own skin

or the smell of food cooking

or the memory or image of a satisfying event.

Anything that is small and that is not unpleasant.

The idea is to add this practice in little moments, slowing down briefly, maybe even shorter than 5 seconds.

We are inviting our bodies to learn that neutral is possible, that pleasant is possible. A gentle nudging away from escalating distress and toward “It’s OK”.

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Somatic Personal Practice

I don’t want to walk around acting like nothing bad is happening. But I don’t want to walk around consumed with fear and dread about the bad things that are happening.

That is the dilemma we faced as young children when we were not safe or our needs were not met: the choice of either denial or chronic distress.

For many of us, we had no choice but to minimize the trauma and hide from ourselves the impacts of the bad stuff.

This time I want a different way. Not minimizing and not paralyzed either. Persistently alive, connected, and breathing, even in the thick of it.

My body is willing to learn how to do this. I breathe, I feel, I choose life, I choose trust, I accept not knowing, I accept the feelings of fear and overwhelm. I allow space for hope. I am here.

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Somatic Personal Practice

Give it to the Earth

Shock. Fear. Grief. Anger. 

Even as we don’t yet know how to navigate the very real threats and challenges, both in our individual lives and in our world, still the Earth can hold and digest our shock, fear, grief and anger.

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Somatic Personal Practice

Try physically opening and closing

Pause and sense your body.

Lower your head, pull your shoulders forward, generally move toward a more curled up posture. Feel what happens in your emotional and physical body.

Now lift your head, open your chest, feel your spine lengthen, let your shoulders pull back and gently drop into place. Feel what happens in your emotional and physical body.

Try repeating this a couple of times slowly with small incremental movements.

Thank you for the work you are doing on yourself and with yourself.

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Somatic Personal Practice

Somatic Personal Practice

Be a dragon

Feel for the pushy currents in your body or energy.

“Play act” at being a fierce dragon who gets what you want.

Curl your hands into claws

Breathe heavily or hiss, an audible and forceful out breath that does not include your vocal cords, so you can expel a lot of air making a small but intense noise.

Stand up on your toes if you can keep your balance.

Lift your arms overhead or to the side, still with claws.

Whisper or hiss: “Me!” “Alive!” “Want!”

Continue for half a minute, moving up and down on your toes, moving your arms and body however they want to move, and continuing to hiss these words.

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Somatic Personal Practice

Feel your back.

At your back, feel the hands of ancestors, guides, supporters, and your own love and courage.

Let yourself sense the energetic reality of support at your back.

You are supported.

Let your body feel that.

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Somatic Personal Practice

“I can do things!”

“I can do things!”, the intersection of agency, competence, confidence, self-identity and self worth, can be significantly impacted by developmental trauma.

Even at things we do well, we can feel like we are always at risk of failing or that we are constantly being watched and judged.

And when learning new things, it can feel like an impossible uphill climb, as if the body ‘knows’ “I can’t possibly do this.”

This is not simple to solve, there is much hidden inside us including grief, pain, contradictions and struggles for power.

But here are some places to start:

“I’m taking a breath and remembering I’m supported.”

“It’s ok that what I’m doing feels awkward and uncomfortable.”

“It’s ok to move at my pace (even if I think I should be faster.)”

“I forgive myself for not being able to do more, faster, or better.”

“I remember that I am a blessing and it’s ok to be me.”

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Focusing

Focusing, as taught and advocated by Eugene Gendlin, could be described as the process of:

being gently curious about our subtle inner experience (our “felt sense”),

pausing and noticing details about our inner experience that we would not be aware of without paying conscious attention,

not needing to understand, control or even clearly perceive our inner experience, yet remaining present and curious anyway,

then observing what evolves and what happens in that inner experience as we become aware of each element (noticing “felt shifts”).

As we are able to engage in this exploration, we are able to more quickly come to personal insights and shifts in the direction of healing and being fully alive.

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