Embodiment Coach
What is embodiment?
Embodiment is a felt sense of feeling at home and safe in our bodies. It can be a simple felt sense of ‘okay-ness’ with the ability to notice and track sensations both pleasant and challenging without being overwhelmed.
Why do we need it?
Embodiment enhances most experiences in life; food, music, movement, creativity, relationships, intimacy and sex.
Embodiment increases our self esteem, confidence, overall health, vitality and is the primary motivator for the healing of trauma.
The more we are in our body, the more opportunity there is for love, acceptance, ageing, gender identity, presence and pleasure.
When we are embodied we learn who is safe and who is not. What to move towards and what to move away from.
When we cultivate a felt sense of embodiment, we can discover greater acceptance of ourselves, full self expression without judgement, shame or fear.
Sessions
In my sessions we explore what you might like more of in your life. What that would look like and feel like.
Through gentle inquiry we explore how and what your system responds to through visuals, sound, smell, touch, self touch and movement. We explore where there may be areas that are numb, de-sensitised, over-active, othered or immobile, places within us that need time and space to come forward and thaw.
By bringing conscious awareness to these places we begin the reclaiming of parts of ourselves that may have been ignored, isolated and shamed.
We learn how we can access more pleasure through sensation and develop a more detailed and descriptive language to describe differences in sensations and experiences that will therefore broaden our capacity to experience ourselves and others in the world.
Sessions are usually done seated and with options to move, stand or lie down.
It is a slow and gentle process that requires patience and self-compassion. Embodiment happens over time. Once the body has found ways of being, the process can often accelerate as the body learns new pathways and reclaims its own agency to move, feel and therefore heal itself.
Group Embodiment Sessions
I work with a number of charities and organisations to run somatic embodiment sessions and longer form programmes.
For further information about these workshops please contact : davina@team-artists.co.uk
Bespoke Sessions
NYX Collective
I run workshops with NYX Collective, an all female, non binary drone choir. These restorative workshops aim to open the window into our practise of vocal embodiment, deep listening and self empowerment.
For further information about these NYX workshops please contact: hello@nyx-edc.com
