Embodiment is a journey of fully experiencing From within
The depth of who we are is a wholeness that has never been hurt or wounded. Your physical and spiritual nature is a unified whole. Only in the mind are these separate concepts. Embodiment is a process of discovering this wholeness within and being that in the world.
“Embodiment: an ongoing experience of living within the internal space of our body
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Undivided Wholeness
From a biodynamic craniosacral perspective, your health is an aspect of this wholeness that is always here, no matter what has happened to you. Your health created you, and it maintains you now – including your physical body. It is always available when we become deeply present to “the Now”.
The healing journey is about becoming more and more whole. Reconnecting with your health is a powerful way to support this process. There is really no ‘end’. Rather there is an endless unfolding, which becomes more and more magical. Your body is a vital portal into wholeness.
Embodiment is a living felt-sense knowing of this undivided nature. Embodiment is an ongoing development of wholeness that I experience as an Inner Body Freedom.
Given the opportunity, our body always seeks greater optimal health and harmony.
Fragmentation and Disconnection
We all grow up slowly (and sometimes suddenly) disconnecting from our felt-sense knowing of wholeness.
To say ‘all’ is really to emphasise that this is especially true for people living in an industrialised, technological, modern society with an emphasis on the importance of being a useful separate individual.
Felt-sense wholeness isn’t a topic taught at school. When you were growing up your parents probably didn’t know what felt-sense wholeness was either and so were unable to support that within you. And it’s not normal to ask your friends and family about what’s happening inside, what your felt-sense experience in the moment.
The disconnection you experience is not only due to any trauma you’ve experienced in your life, but is also a result of a merging with a much wider disconnect within families and society.
In practice that looks like identifying with your own and others’ thoughts - not being able to feel a distinction between who you are and ideas. You can lose your felt-sense knowing of yourself. Your body can feel like something separate from who we you. And when you speak, move, or think these actions can all seem to be coming from different parts of yourself.
If we have or are doing any kind of self-reflective practice or talk therapy, you will also be aware that you have many different voices or parts inside, each with their differing views, needs, and desires.
This fragmentation and disconnection is really normal and is to be welcomed, explored, understood and (most of all) felt.
You cannot be mindful without being present, and to be fully present is to be embodied.
HOW EMBODIED DO YOU FEEL?
When you mediate, do thoughts hook your attention more than you would like?
When you relate to others, do you lose an inner felt-sense contact with your body?
Do you think felt-sensations within your body are valuable?
What’s your concept of your ‘body’?
Coming Back Into Wholeness
The healing journey is a process of coming more and more into your wholeness. Personal practice is important (e.g. mindfulness, inquiry, sensing, and mediation), as is working with people who can guide and facilitate this process.
Transformation happens through felt-sense experience. Somatic therapy that is body-led offers a unique support to embodiment processes. The work I offer directly works with your body so that it can tell its’ story, process the past and come much more fully into the present.
Sonia has a wonderful ability to reach into the present moment and connect with you- Inner Body Freedom client
