Our body-mind systems experience gaps in communication due to trauma, beliefs, ancestral patterning, undigested memories and cultural conditioning. Our entire network of functioning; physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, culturally and ecologically is founded on the efficient working of this neural network and communication web. Body-centred therapies spark the nervous system’s ability to reconnect that which has become separated or fragmented.
We can cultivate fluency with the language of the body to support our capacity to listen to the subtle cues offered by our innate genius. Encouraging this articulation requires gentleness, patience and a willingness to befriend our dormant potential and neglected aspects.
The inevitable traumas of life and culture have left most of us frequently traveling on thought out of our bodies in excessive over-thinking. We experience this when we are driving and don’t remember how we got to a location. Thanks to the reptilian brain and our diligent survival mechanisms we can drive and be literally “lost in thought”. What do you notice about your own thought travel?
This invitation to return home to our embodied true nature can feel vague at times and hard to put a finger on, though once experienced provides a palpable impression of arrival. The choir of unprocessed emotions held in our cells can make the experience of returning home to the body quite uncomfortable at times and thus instigates the rampant pattern of addiction in our culture, this understandably strong desire to escape.
From over 20 years of experience inviting people home to their bodies, I trust that anchoring with presence towards the body & breath is a courageous and worthwhile path though not without challenge. The cultivation of embodied presence is a continual daily practice.
I provide a space for my clients through offerings of massage therapy, energy work or embodied rewilding dance journeys that all come down to the same intent; reconnection to body wisdom and the innate creative spark which allows time for the somatic genius to be deeply nourished.
I offer in-person sessions with COVID protocols at the Starlight Studio, Zoom sessions and an online Rewilding Chakra Dance Journey. Stay tuned in the year ahead for ‘Plants & Dance • In the Wild’ and Expressive Arts Therapy Counselling in one-on-one and group sessions to nurture the creative nature within you. Follow the Dance Temple Cowichan group on FB to be updated about the amazing west coast dance facilitators offering in-person (with protocols) and livestreamed online events.
*Written for the local Valley Voice magazine.
by Christy