Embodiment: a Journey
From Dissociation and Numbness to Presence and Feeling
In a fast paced world full of distractions, we are chronically pulled out of connection and into a swirling storm of fast moving media and quick-fix-clicks. Slowing down and listening to our bodies instead of the noise around us, offers a path back to ourselves.
Tuning in to the Messages of the Body
Most of us live our lives from the neck up, processing our existence through an endless stream of thoughts while disconnected from our bodies. The more disconnected we become, the less we notice the subtle hints and cues from our body, the sensations, the messages it is trying to deliver to us. This disconnection comes at a cost: anxiety, chronic tension, decreased pleasure, and a subtle sense of being lost in the sea of our own lives.
Your body holds a wisdom deeper than thoughts, a presence and visceral knowing more reliable than any cycle of overthinking. Learning to access this wisdom is transformative. The transformation is not in just how you feel, but how you live.
Foundational Embodiment: Creating Safety
Foundational embodiment is the feeling of fully inhabiting your body and having the feeling that your body is a safe home. At its core, embodiment begins with the simple yet profound practice of creating safety within your body, your fleshy home. This foundation includes:
Learning to feel and track bodily sensations
Developing a deeper breath connection
Understanding your nervous system's patterns
Recognizing and releasing held tension
Sensual Embodiment: Awakening to Pleasure
Once we know our body is a safe home, we can begin to fully register pleasure as a pathway in our life.
Sensual embodiment—the capacity to experience and enjoy pleasure in its many forms. The delicious and delightful shivers down your spine as a lover brushes their fingers across your neck, the sensuous warmth of the sun soothing your skin, the soft safety of being wrapped up in your favorite robe. Sensual embodiment is a way of expanding your body's natural capacity for pleasure, joy, and delight. When we bring our awareness to this type of embodiment, we can increase our sensitivity and heighten our access to pleasurable sensations.
Awakening the senses through pleasure mapping
Understanding pleasure as a birthright
Developing sensitivity to subtle sensations
Creating safety with embodied boundaries
Expanding the capacity to experience, give, and receive pleasure
Erotic Embodiment: Pleasure as a Pathway
Erotic embodiment connects us to our vital life force energy, the energy of creation. Embodiment doesn’t stop at the waist. Erotic embodiment expands our sensual embodiment into our sex organs, sacral center, and sexual pleasure. Our sexuality is the power that generates all of life and it is also the fire that fuels the creativity that makes life so beautiful. Conscious erotic embodiment is a pathway to gaining a firm understanding of not only your desires but also your boundaries.
Understanding and connecting to your sexual energy
Connecting desires, boundaries, and sexuality
Exploring sacred sexuality, core desires, and sexual expression
Accessing and expanding your capacity for intimacy
The Power of Coaching
As a somatic practitioner and tantra instructor, I use experiential and at times touch based somatic and tantric practices to guide you back to your body and to expand your capacity. In the work we do, the intersection of touch, healing, science, and spirituality combine to form a powerful foundation of embodiment in your life. As the work progresses we will explore the three essential gateways of embodiment—foundational, sensual, and erotic—each offering its own gifts and possibilities. The work is always done at your pace and every session is tailored to each unique individual.
Together we will help you develop a new foundation of embodiment, we will explore your core desires, expand your capacity for pleasure, and help you build a sustainable personal practice to add to your resiliency basket and bring to your everyday life.
Walking the path to Embodied Living
Whether you're seeking relief from stress, craving a deeper capacity for pleasure, or looking to connect with your vital life force, embodiment practices offer a path forward. Through our work together, you'll discover:
Greater presence in your daily life
Enhanced capacity for pleasure and joy
Deeper connection in relationships
Improved physical and emotional well-being
Access to your body's natural wisdom
Are you ready to begin this journey back to your body's inner compass? To discover what becomes possible when you fully inhabit your body? To explore the depths of sensation, pleasure, and creative energy that await?
I offer experience, a shame free environment, and a deep and patient presence and understanding. Here, mutual vulnerability is the foundation for transformation to unfold naturally and safely. Together, we'll explore your embodied experience, awakening the truth that already lives within you.
Your body is a luscious tool that holds the beautiful and unique magic that is you. Slowing down in our fast paced society and moving instead at the speed of your truth, listening to the messages of your body, and then embodying that truth is how you live out that beautiful and unique magic.
