 I was recently asked, “Who is Embodied Movement® for?” and to my surprise I got silent, then stumbled over my words. This made me quickly realize I’ve GOT to clarify this quickly because in all of my trillions of cells I believe this is an urgent matter in upgrading the health hand wellness space this year and beyond. The short answer is Embodied Movement® us for everyone. But let’s get more specific and figure out why… First let’s answer the question: What is Embodied Movement®? Embodied Movement® is an approach that can be applied to any type of movement, whether it is dedicated movement like exercise or daily functional movement like posture habits for daily activities. It is a way to access safety in the body through gentle resiliency. Embodied Movement® teaches the methodology of: Release, Realign, Strengthen, Refine in order to build new neural pathways through movement. Why is this important? The key is the communication network of your nervous system. When you taken in information, through the environment, through circumstances, and through emotional impact, your nervous system “learns” it’s programming. As humans, we operate on pathways and habits until or unless these habits and patterns are disrupted by new information. When we have been through stress or trauma, often the reactive signals in fight / flight / freeze/ faint / fawn mode become part of our daily rhythms. These signals include tension and other body processes that zap energy and function away from restoration, repair, and rejuvenation. Basically we feel like less of ourselves. What can we do about it? The good news is our brains, neuropathways, neuromuscular signals, and nervous system habits are all very “plastic” - meaning we can mold them! But we have to know how, because when they have been trained by stress, trauma, and intense emotional impact that programming is prioritized, so we have to learn the hacks. Often people try mind-first approaches, and while they are a helpful part of a holistic approach, because this information is somatically (in the body) stored, they run into dead ends, change is frustrating, slow, or not even happening! Using Embodied Movement® you are coming in from a sensory-first approach which gives new signals directly through the body, the nervous system, and to the brain. This is flipping Mind ⌲ Body to Body ⌲ Mind Not that the first is incorrect, just that it’s not always (in fact often isn’t) the most effective pathway. Ok... back to WHO is this for? I can break this down into 2 categories: personal and professional. Personally Embodied Movement® is for:
Professionally Embodied Movement® Training is for:
What now? The most important steps you can take to upgrade your own kinesthetic intelligence are:
Of course, I would LOVE to support you on your personal or professional Embodied Movement® path! Please reach out to me at hello@embodiedmovementtraining or check the services or freebies & shop pages on the website for our current classes and programs! Best in health, 
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 The more I speak with people in the embodiment space the more I recognize how powerfully this conversation is going. One of my biggest goals with Embodied Movement® is to simplify this concept and bring practical applications of it to every body. This past year has brought to light the disconnection so many people have with their body, and illuminated much of what is lurking under the surface. For many folks, this has been a challenge, but I would like to point out that this is one of those challenges that sparks change! A beautiful revolution is going on. A deep desire women have to shed shame and expectations...their own, and the ones that have been put upon them. There is a craving for freedom from stress, strain and sometimes the excess weight of layers of emotional pain. Also an increase of strength, inside and out. It is time that we believe in our bodies. And treat these bodies to the pleasure of vibrant health and MOVE in ways that support this shift. The present moment is the time to activate and enjoy the delightful responsibility of caring for your muscles, bones, cells, and soul. It is my deep belief that your body wants to be healthy, that health is your natural dynamic, and that life, and all your herstory, eventually builds up stress & compression, wiring your system for a less vibrant version of you. However, this doesn’t have to be permanent, you can MOVE in ways that unlock the blocks and unleash your vitality. When you are wound tightly, the patterns that keep you in pain cannot change. BUT YOU ARE MALLEABLE. You have great power to make deep changes that shift you into vitality, long term. 🔹 Recently I did this talk for the Natural Life Business Partnership on connecting your conscious awareness to your body's wisdom so that you can create conscious body practices. It's an hour long, and a great overview of the whats, whys and how-tos of Embodied Movement®. 🔹 If this work speaks to you and you want to learn the bones of it and how to integrate it into your personal and professional life, this is the last week to save 25% on the fall cohort of the Embodied Movement Training course. Code "move25" will get you the savings at checkout! 🔹 I am currently scheduling complimentary consultations for serious inquiries into this field. Whether your curiosity is personal or professional, I'd love to hear your story and share more behind the scenes of mine! Be well,   I know you know the powerful relationship between emotions and physical health…and today I thought I’d check in with an Embodied Movement approach to this potent place where we can either be dragged down, or make positive change. We humans have developed such a funky relationship with our emotions. Over time the role of emotions has evolved. This past year has intensified the physical manifestations of whatever has been lurking under the surface for many of us. I have heard from so many folks that it is no longer optional to let unresolved emotions hide in their body history, that it’s TIME to address these pockets of pain. But the biggest hesitation is not knowing how to effectively do this without breaking down, because let’s face it…it was hard to begin with, and now with the year we’ve had it might just feel overwhelming. A little human emotion history… We used to be more intuitive and use them as a useful sense, a guide, a compass. Now, for most of us, between storing pain from very real life circumstances, and a culture that tells us continually in overt and covert ways to stuff ourselves, stuff down the flow of emotion in order to get stuff done, we have no idea how we feel, and so do not properly process them.
When your awareness is not aligned with the truth of your emotions, the emotional experience has a funky influence on your health and sense of wellbeing. That funkiness can show up in a number of ways. Some of us have habitual modes we unconsciously slip into, and sometimes it depends on what is going down. This funky juncture between the emotional happening and where you put your attention can be MESSY. When the emotions are sloppy and raw it can feel like a blender with the lid blown off and smoothie splattered all over the counter, the walls, and the ceiling. The mess is hard to clean up because the emotions are just everywhere. They’re choppy, hard to handle, hard to look at.
So what the heck are we supposed to do, when we, as humans, have gone so far down the rabbit hole of not relating to our own emotions?
When you can get your body’s energy circulating you have a good chance at cleaning up some of the mess, shift what is stuck, dislodge a block, clear up confusion, settle the overwhelm, accept what feels inappropriate, and drop resistance to what is unwanted. Movement literally makes room in your body, in your being for the natural flow of emotion. When emotions can flow, process, and complete they feel true, sensory, connected, resonant, satisfying. Movement can even transmute emotion, it can turn nervousness into excitement, anger into empowerment, grief into compassion. These emotional experiences: flowing, true, sensory, moving, connected, resonant, satisfying, THESE are evidence of right relationship with emotion. Got a story about embodying emotions? I'd love to hear it! Email me at [email protected] Be well,   Folks have been asking me recently what the heart of the matter is with this Embodied Movement stuff, so I thought I’d share some of the good with you! Often folks ask…What’s the difference between this and working out or doing yoga? Or is it a hybrid modality? Here’s the best way I can put it…
You know when you try to make a change in your health routines, or in your life and you just keep hitting the same loops over and over again? That’s because those patterns are wired, often below your level of consciousness in your nervous system. That’s how you, as a human, are designed. If you didn’t run on habitual loops it would take a TON of mental energy to get ANYTHING done. It’s intelligent human design. AND it can get you super stuck. There are many factors that influence those patterns that get embedded in your nervous system. You are wired to survive – not thrive (that’s a whole different level of operation!) When life starts happening and your survival gets challenged your nervous system has to reroute to adapt to the circumstances. Things like general stress to acute trauma trip that wiring and initiate patterns that create a body armor – a protective layer that keeps you safe. This happens on the physical, emotional, and energetic layers. You can feel this as tension, pain, panic, emotional reactivity, or just a sense that something is off. Of course there are many many other ways that this could present. The good news is that there are ways that you can bring things up from this subconscious auto-pilot level, make changes in those nervous system patterns, and then ease back into your groove, running on new loops. This “trick” is also built in to your human design, however it takes the ingredient of AWARENESS to use it. There are effective and efficient ways to facilitate this “re-wiring” – Embodied Movement is my favorite, and the way I work with my clients. I’m sure you know this feeling – storing all your stress in your body. You probably have a way you feel this, either tension in your neck and shoulders, your jaw, your low back. Your whole life’s history is stored in your body systems from superficial to deeper layers. Embodied Movement techniques allow you to MOVE through the layers, locate and bring hidden patterns of sabotage up to your consciousness and shape shift them. This is often a very satisfying process because your body shape shifts too. Your body is currently molding itself around those stress, pain, and trauma patterns, when you clear those up your body takes a shape of greater strength and ease. Do you have a story about shifts you've made to your nervous system? I'd love to hear it! Email me at [email protected]. Be well,  Listening to your Body's Signals with National Board Certified Health Coach Kara Hodes-Wechsler4/26/2021
Conscious Body Conversations Episode 12In this episode Kara shares her story about listening to her body’s signals in making important life changes and her perspective on how the knowledge within the body can inform change. Find Kara here: vwww.kaleidoscopehealthways.com Share your AHAs and ask questions here. (Please send a request to join the Private Facebook Group if you aren't a member) Be well,  Conscious Body Conversations Episode 10Teresa D’Angelo is a Somatic Dance/Movement Educator and her company is Live Love Move, LLC. She believes that people of all ages and abilities can feel better and heal through movement. Through severe autoimmune illness she found relief through gentle movement expression. She has been a guest on national healing summits and podcasts and is featured on healthcentral.com. Teresa supports people who are dealing with pain from aging, illness or injury. She is a Nia® mind-body wellness instructor, Ageless Grace® Brain & Body Health Educator and Trainer. Find Teresa here: www.live-love-move.com Share your AHAs and ask questions here. (Please send a request to join the Private Facebook Group if you aren't a member) Be well,  The Embodied Movement Method allows you to truly feel at home in your body because you have developed the tools and skills to be present, feel & decode your body’s language of sensation, and then choose ways of moving that actually meet your health needs in the moment…physically, emotionally, mentally, and energetically. This quick video helps you break down the steps to make this happen!
*Note: comments are turned off for this blog, I’d love to hear from you over on the post in the Facebook Group! Your body is designed to survive…so when something overly ~or covertly~ threatens that, your biological responses are to fight or retreat. Problem is that sometimes things like: “Feel the fear & do it anyway” can trigger this survival instinct and freeze up your vital resources (I bet you know how that feels!) Plowing through and attempting to override this has been the go-to instructions, however when trauma triggers are relentless, this approach can actually bury the issues even deeper.
There is another approach. Going in with a steady awareness that cares for your nervous system. I’d love to hear your thoughts! *Note: comments are turned off for this blog, I’d love to hear from you over on the post in the Facebook Group An embodied perspective on RESPONSEability. Your true ability to respond – to your body’s needs – based on being able to accurately sense and decode your body’s language: SENSATION.
Thoughts? Experiences? I’d love to hear from you! *Note: comments are turned off for this blog, I’d love to hear from you over on the post in the Facebook Group! When I teach the Embodied Movement Method, what are you actually learning? Physical health? Exposed emotional patterns? New neuropathways? This short series discusses some of the nuances in this simple, practical approach to decoding your body’s language of sensation and connecting your conscious awareness to your body’s wisdom. This is the intro.
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