Movement & Embodiment
Coaching

“The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body.”
-Gabrielle Roth 

Are you suffering from compassion fatigue, chronic illness, repetitive patterns, emotional upset?

Are you finding it challenging to be a human in this life?

Do you long for a deeper connection to yourself, to others, to the divine? 

You are not alone.

Connect - Allow - Integrate

We are creatures that constantly and automatically recalibrate towards balance. This is, I believe, one of our most powerful abilities, and yet most of us either release any active participation or are so disconnected from our physical selves that we are completely unaware that we possess such potent magic.

A lifetime of repetitive action coupled with intergenerational and collective experiences leaves us with layers of compensatory patterns within our system. We are unable to move fluidly, find connection, and integrate our stress responses fully. We find ourselves repeating patterns, both internally and externally, in often painful ways.

Returning to intrinsic movement allows our bodies and our brains to restore and rewrite healthier pathways, pointing us towards a more unified expression of moving and being.

If you’ve ever spent time with a young child, you’ve probably noticed the development of their motor skills. We gauge childhood development by a number of factors, one of them being movement. These actions are meant to show up at certain times and progress in a manner that builds one skill before adding another, ensuring dexterity and bodily competence.

This competence is generally lost as we reach adulthood, having spent the majority of our waking hours seated, often working with technology in a relatively static environment. This leads to a loss of our vocabulary, as it were, as we are no longer investigating our space in a fully dimensional way. This has a ripple effect on the functioning of our nervous system in a generally undesirable way- fortunately, the plastic nature of our brains allows us to have a direct and potent effect on our overall health and well being, simply by exploring movement in a way we have forgotten and allowing our breath and our voice to play a part.

Connect with your breath

Take some deep inhales through the noise, and exhale through your mouth. Now, release your control and let your lungs do what they are doing, riding the tides of breath in and out, keeping the lips gently parted and the jaw soft. This creates a shift into a more metabolic breath, meaning the body can process what it needs.

Take another deep breath in. Now exhale, and make some noise.

Sounding activates and tonifies the vagus nerve, which is responsible for deactivating our stress response and promoting healing throughout the body. Giving voice to emotion, sensation, body systems, forgotten parts, and moments in our lives grants acknowledgement and witness to our most tender parts. These things belong to us- permitting, experiencing and expressing them are the first steps towards integrating them and being able to fully receive the gifts they have to offer. These gifts will naturally lead you into more fully inhabiting your body and your life.

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