Why Embodied Coaching?
Why Embodied Coaching?
This is what I'm interested in: we're always changing, breathing, maturing. We can do this consciously (choosing the direction in which to connect the dots), or let this happen naturally - but it's happening anyway. When we are stuck, feeling like we can't feel good about our past, we can go see a therapist. When we can't feel good about our future, we often see a coach. Thankfully, there is a lot of cross-pollinating and overlap between these professions: we all understand that for healthy action, you do need to have made peace with your past, for your future to stand on solid, embodied ground.
As your past lives in your body, I want to, with the help of your body, resurface the clarity of where you are, make space for your direction of evolution (it can be as simple as choosing a little more relaxation, or as life-changing as envisioning a career change, with everything in between), and we will spend time to connect the dots, together.
Between body, mind, heart and soul, between inner and outer, between past, present and future, etc. - our work is to create the conditions for natural re-connection; so that the system can function as one, big, interconnected, healthy and resilient, dynamic and alive whole.
This might not be in one hour, nor in one time - but little by little, piece by piece, we make way for major change, meaningful relationships, and healthy expression of everything you came on this planet to be.
What you need to know about the bodymind
The brain is plastic, meaning it is ever-changing, and responsive to your inner and outer environments. It is made of interconnected brain cells, which are alive and making stronger or weaker connections all the time - according to what we put our attention on, and what our experiences are.
The body is also constantly wiring and re-wiring itself, due to its nervous system wiring, its interconnection of tissues, organs, muscles and bones, and to its hormonal diffusions (see The Molecules of Emotion by Candace Perth: our emotions directly affect and modify our bodies).
The heart changes size according to its capacity to feel, its sensitivity (it is bigger in this case, more responsive), or its inability to feel much (its armoring, toughening, and shrinking size). A healthy heart has a large HRV (heart rate variability), or capacity to respond with a variety of responses (fast, slow, rythmic, desynchronized), to a variety of (outer and inner) stimuli.
Our DNA furls and unfurls in response to stress or relaxation, and the science of epigenetics has shown a correlation between lifestyle and gene expression: we are constantly changing, down to the very core and functioning of our breathing, living, multiplying, and dying cells.
Even our Soul is in evolution: we learn, we expand lived knowledge and lessons, we become more conscious of the interconnection of more and more life.
So what is stable in this life?
What do we hold on to, when everything is change?
Where do we choose to go? What are the patterns we want to guide our life?
Those questions are important for our happiness and creation as a collective.
We need to connect the dots at all levels, so that we act as one. One with many faces, many expressions, many lives, but one...
One giant body, with many cells; and many body parts, many organs, many muscles. It doesn't make sense to fight other body parts.
Only our interconnection and our roles in the co-creating make sense.
Our recognition that we need difference: a foot is not a hair, and the liver is not the brain. We need to work together as a big human family, with everyone being healthy and happy, or at least at peace with their choice. And this means living through difficult emotions coming up to be felt.
The good thing is, we are becoming more conscious, collectively.
It starts with each of us doing what they can to function in a more wholesome fashion - in connection with the rest of the body.
For us, this means that we ask ourselves different questions, go on different investigations, because that's how we open up the mind to the intelligence of Life.
When we relax in goodness and get curious, and listen, many, many good solutions just come up to the surface of our awareness - effortlessly.
Let's go on this adventure together!
Towards the inside of the mystery of who you are, and what's left to uncover...
There is something that cannot wait for this to unfurl to even better relaxation and vibrant health (emotional, physical, relational, & mental)!
Get in touch with me here to see what we can do for you together.