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Your body

You cannot think your way out of a body that is braced. This area starts there: the breath, the ground under you, moving, eating, resting, and the small physical things that change how the rest of the day lands.

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Posture and how you carry yourself Body based Twenty minutes Clear all

Theme · Posture and how you carry yourself

Your nervous system 14 Moving your body 6 Breathing 5 Touch and bodywork 4 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Grounding and settling 2

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 5 Five minutes 6 Twenty minutes 2

Calm is only half the training. Plenty of people are more frightened of stillness than of adrenaline, because stillness puts the guard down.

If everything you practise is a settling practice, half the range goes untrained, and you may be asking someone to drop a defence they still need. So…

Twenty minutesPosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 25:64

Play belongs here. Being a lion, a tree, a hissing snake, the way children do it with no embarrassment at all.

A lot of people meet trauma work as something solemn, and solemn is easy to sit through without ever softening. Silliness is harder to fake. If a…

Twenty minutesPosture and how you carry yourselfBody basedQur’an 22:27