Sensuality, Resilience and the Experience of Simple Pleasures
Sensuality, resilience and the experience of simple pleasures help you live life with courage, openness and health. Yet, we often deny ourselves the sensual. Too commonly, we think of sensuality as sexual, decadent or even other worldly. So we shy away from it. Yet, all pleasure is a sensual experience. How you know something is pleasurable is through sound, touch,...
3 Ways Embodiment Helps Navigate Loss
Loss is quite present on many of our lives. So, how do we navigate this turbulent terrain? This article offers 3 ways Embodiment helps navigate loss. Please understand, there are no hard and fast answers. However, embodiment can be a powerful aid in navigating an uncertain landscape that fills you with pain , uncertainly or dread. What is embodiment and...
5 Somatic Movement Practices for a Healthy Pelvic Floor
Pelvic Floor Healing begins when you understand that pelvic floor problems are not restricted to this one part of your body. Because of that, these 5 Somatic Movement practices can gently and successfully alleviate general body tension, emotional stress, gait or alignment problems that can all prevent you from having a healthy pelvic floor. Really, you are a whole person...
Somatics Helps Disappointment Overload
Right now, I need to apply somatic help for disappointment overload in my own life! You see, my husband and I have been house hunting. We make really good offers and yet - no house! Obviously, buying a house takes a lot of stamina and, increasingly, an ability to weather disappointment. Also, it takes being able to weather losing out. I have...
Somatic Practices for Healthy Posture
You can create healthy posture by using the somatic practices I share below. But first, please realize that healthy posture is NOT a consequence of forcing your body sit, stand or walk "tall", "upright" or even "aligned". Somatic practices for healthy posture are easy to do. You can feel and sense your body from the inside out. It's subjective as...
Calm your nervous system with somatics
Try and calm your nervous system with somatics. It's quite effective. Somatics is calming and centering for your nervous system because it lets your body lead you into ease and recovery from the inside out. Many of us do good things for our bodies - we eat well, we exercise and think good thoughts - but we miss out on...
Grief and Beauty
One of my favorite books on grieving is full of the recognition that grief and beauty can be experienced together. It has been amazing to me how in moments my grief turns to a kind of exquisite beauty and awe of life. Honestly, it is this experience that helps me continue to love life amid its agonies. Perhaps, beauty can...
Stop Stomping As You Walk
You can stop stomping as you walk. And, the good news with that as your feet, ankles, knees and back will gain in strength, flexibility and pain relief. You will also walk quietly, delighting family and neighbors, Stomping as you walk inhibits your body's ability to absorb force. Think about it. When your foot lands heavily it can't but function...
Guided Imagery Meditation
Guided Imagery meditation can let us bring calm and a newfound appreciation for life after a loss or disappointment. We all know what it is like to lose something near and dear to us. It's often shocking and deeply discouraging. The world can become very colorless and narrow from loss. We can lose vitality. . It can give us a...
