Slowing things down allows the time needed to become more familiar with the sensations of our internal landscape, the felt sense. New options and pathways have the possibility to wire together in the brain and travel throughout the body, and through the body and travel to the brain. The nervous system, given the right conditions can nurture greater resilience. We have the innate capacity to self regulate and co-regulate! This informative and somatically guided learning creates connectivity and collaboration within our organism. It is a constant development of our capacity to listen from within, and know what we feel, an on going alive process. Healing begins with feeling.

Listening and trusting oneself from the inside with kindness, self respect and compassion. We are building awareness of the natural internal activation and deactivation cycles within the nervous system. States of social engagement, fight and flight or dissociation and freeze will become clearer. In these classes we will explore grounding, orienting, settling and containement, the foundational principals of Somatic Experiencing along with pulsing, spirals, the wave, axis, spontaneous natural breath and, 'the great pause'. This is an invitation to movement in a Yogic environment with the gentle investigation of Movement Intelligence work through the lens of Somatic Experiencing. Exploring new options in ease, effortless grace, and spacious freedom in everyday life.    

Nirupa

"The experience of the felt sense gives us a backdrop for reconnecting with the animal in ourselves. Knowing, feeling and sensing focuses our attention where healing can begin. Nature has not forgotten us, we have forgotten it."

 "Rediscovering the felt sense will bring warmth and vitality to our experiences. This sense is also a gentle, non-threatening way of re-initiating the instinctual processing of energy that was interrupted when the trauma occurred."

"The key I found was being able to work in a gradual, gentle way with the powerful energies bound in the trauma symptoms."    

Peter Levine

"…energy is pure delight."  

William Blake