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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 Twenty minutes Any ordinary day Clear all

Theme · Posture and how you carry yourself

Moving your body 21 Your nervous system 11 Food, caffeine and fuel 8 Touch and bodywork 7 Grounding and settling 6 Breathing 5 Feeling from the inside 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Rest and pacing 1

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 4 Five minutes 3 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