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My work pivots around supporting individuals in their journey home to self. So that they come to know the truth of who they are. Not just spiritually but also as emotional human beings.
In Latin the word emotion is ‘emotere’, which literally means energy in motion. Emotions are waves of energy which carry feelings such as joy, sorrow, sadness, anger, frustration. These waves are invisible to the naked eye and travel faster than thought.
Emotions and feelings help us to make life meaningful, transforming our world from a sequence of events, data and facts to a living and breathing experience. Quite often we experience discomfort due to our emotions as they can be painful to feel or bring up memories of a difficult or challenging time in our life.
Mary O’Malley writes, ‘what is in the way, is the way’. You may also have heard of the saying, ‘we have to feel it to heal it.’ While true, this in itself can be overwhelming. I know from personal experience having had emotions so big that I imagined there was no end to the pain they could deliver. That the intensity of the pain I was feeling if I fell into it, would swallow me up and I would die.
In my work with explorers (a much truer name for my clients) experiencing grief through loss of a beloved, child, health, identity or way of life, there is shared experience in how grief feels. ‘It never stops, a wave that never stops coming’, shared on explorer. ‘A tsunami one moment and trickle the next’, shared another. Some explorers have felt deeply stuck in their grief with no knowing of how to be in relationship to this intensity of mind/body pain.
There is no one way to experience intense and difficult emotions such as sorrow or anger, there is only your way. Yet we can embrace a mind/body/spirit approach which compassionately allows these emotions to move through our system. In other words, move the energy (e=motion, energy in motion) through our system. Which our system was designed to do, and once experienced becomes evident how natural this is.
Let me explain. With self-awareness practices we become more attuned to our body/mind/energy system and the emotions within our system. We come to know our self as a fluid generative, ever changing, ever flowing and moving system. Not the fixed body/mind that many of us believe.
I wanted you to be the first to know about this course I'm offering. A beautiful accumulation of techniques and exercises I've been taught and drawing on what's worked for me in my own life.
Combing ancient practices with movement, breath, sound and meditation helps to release struggle, allowing space for new insights, harmony, appreciation, love and forgiveness – transformative healing.
Join me and other explorers in a safely held space as we flow through the Cycle of Compassionate Transformation.
The cycle includes the five steps of Awareness, Expression, Connection, Surrender and Evolution. Each step extending a unique invitation of engagement with our feeling body, physical and energetic body in a whole-of-system way. I’ve explained each step a little more deeply in the following:
Awareness: come home to the body and develop a sense of safety. Come to know where you are holding stuck emotion in the body, learn to listen as your body is always speaking to you. From personal experience, for years my body just didn’t feel like a safe place to be. From birth through childhood right up until my thirties I never knew just how good being present and at home in the body could feel. I do now. To feel blissfully safe, held and supported by my magnificent body is a gift that keeps on giving. I want you to feel this too.
Expression: explore ways to use movement, breath and sound to use the pain as fuel for healing. Expression is important because it’s about moving the pain through. Stuck pain creates bitterness, loneliness, separation and resentment. We may not always have the words to express this – and expression through movement doesn’t need to have the words but uses this powerful mind-body to allow pain to move through.
Connection: so very important because coming from grief, trauma and loss we are coming from separation. I am loving the four pillars approach as a way to create a fulfilling and happy life. They are connection: connection to self, connection to others, and to country (belonging) and cosmos (spirit). Consisting of flowing meditation that will embody love, grace, gratitude, and even forgiveness, connect with others and witness, maybe mirror back other people’s grief. It is about finding a deeper space of connection to heal using flowing meditation to soften the pain.
Surrender: includes postures and meditations that help to get still and let go – not letting go of the love, but of the hurt and the pain. It helps you to stop clutching at your grief. It’s about keeping closeness but surrendering the pain to connect to love. It’s about tapping into trust – like to a power greater to yourself, slowing down, relaxing and letting go. Surrender is not about weakness but is coming from a place of strength. We are letting go to connect to something greater.
Evolution: important because grieving a loss may feel like it is the end. But in truth, you are moving towards a new chapter. How you can honour those who have passed, and yourself, by living a life of happiness and purpose. We focus on perseverance, play and purpose. How you can recognise that even though I have experienced such devastation that I am still alive and that there is a possibility of creating something beautiful from the devastation, pain and hurt. We focus on techniques and exercises that empower, create space for more joy, courage, empowerment and hope.
Join me for the upcoming five-week dip into: Embodied Wisdom& Healing.
Starting March. Contact me hello@livingpresence.com.au or 0424 361 703 to register your interest.