Yoga Reimagined

 

Okay, so that’s not me. And Yoga hasn’t been one of my movement mainstays. But I do like to move in different ways and explore new perspectives on life! Hopefully I will find the time to share more fully (in small increments) about my movement oriented focus when it comes to my holistic healing approach to letting go of what is sometimes referred to as embodied childhood trauma— this is not a quick undertaking and I won’t pretend I’ve reached the end of this process even though I’ve been actively working on it for over 30 years.

In more recent times I’ve connected with embodiment resources and implemented practices that invite me to feel that which I’ve previously numbed myself out to. I’ve learned to identify what I’ve been doing in my body both in feeling disempowered and overwhelmed. From there I’ve practiced new actions to take in subjectively feeling more resourceful, responsive, and present on a personal level while more connected with the people and environment around me.

I won’t say much more as this is not a cognitive process at least in terms of what’s been most powerful for me to directly experience!

Ironically my story doesn’t help me as much as my embodiment practices when it comes to feeling more like I’ve always wanted to feel because I’m finally starting with taking the actions I need to take over staying stuck trying to change things in the past rather than the present! Sometimes that may seem like the obvious path to take, but some patterns are so unconscious and at the same time so scary my conscious thinking mind isn’t able to get involved long enough to recognize what’s happening without first practicing safe ways to move (from the perspective of my previously overwhelmed younger version of self) and in the process recognize I’m no longer whatever my less conscious than I am now brain concluded about my own sense of who I am and what Life will always be like!