Transformational Bodywork Australia

12/03/2025

Feelings are like children.
You don't want them driving the car,
but you shouldn't stuff them in the trunk either.
~Thanks for Sharing

15/06/2024

“When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me, and without pain.
From this I understand that
what I want also wants me,
is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great secret here
for anyone who can grasp it.”
Rumi

Anna Pavlova and Jack the Swan, 1912.

13/01/2024

Our life a short pilgrimage, the interval between emergence from original oneness and sinking back into it.

~ Carl G. Jung

[Art: Talon Abraxas]

13/01/2024

We do not become healers.
We came as healers. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become storytellers.
We came as carriers of the stories
we and our ancestors actually lived. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become writers, dancers, musicians, helpers, peacemakers. We came as such. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not learn to love in this sense.
We came as Love. We are Love.
Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes 💚

www.earthschoolharmony.com

14/11/2023

07/09/2023

From Pathways to Bliss

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07/09/2023

Much of our collective attention is pulled to drama or discord due to the media offering it up as a passive addiction.

If that is where we focus our attention, then hopelessness and loss of meaning creep in and build residence inside our psyche.

It is up to us to seek out the sweetness, build inner sweetness and nourishment if need be and remember that beyond all the pain and trauma, our soul's connection to Great Mystery is unbreakable, infinite and full of sweet sustenance.

Blessings ✨
(c) O. Nightsky
(Art: Frank Howell)

19/06/2023

16/06/2023

We are taught to lean heavily on rational analytical thought, but turning to the body can help us make sense of things when it all gets too much and the 'keep calm and carry on approach' isn't cutting it. Transformational Bodywork has its roots in body-centred psychotherapy, this article explains it beautifully.

Body-centered psychotherapy is an experiential therapy based on the idea that we store or hold information and emotions in our bodies. Said another way, our bodies have a kind of memory for experiences and feelings. Read more “Body Centered Therapy”

13/06/2023

Somatic and manual therapies like transformational bodywork can help release trauma.

In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat and defend themselves.

The very structure of trauma, including activation, dissociation and freezing are based on the evolution of survival behaviors. When threatened or injured, all animals draw from a "library" of possible responses.

We orient, dodge, duck, stiffen, brace, retract, fight, flee, freeze, collapse, etc. All of these coordinated responses are somatically based- they are things that the body does to protect and defend itself. It is when these orienting and defending responses are overwhelmed that we see trauma.

The bodies of traumatized people portray "snapshots" of their unsuccessful attempts to defend themselves in the face of threat and injury. Trauma is a highly activated incomplete biological response to threat, frozen in time. For example, when we prepare to fight or to flee, muscles throughout our entire body are tensed in specific patterns of high energy readiness.

When we are unable to complete the appropriate actions, we fail to discharge the tremendous energy generated by our survival preparations. This energy becomes fixed in specific patterns of neuromuscular readiness. The person then stays in a state of acute and then chronic arousal and dysfunction in the central nervous system.

Traumatized people are not suffering from a disease in the normal sense of the word – they have become stuck in an aroused state. It is difficult if not impossible to function normally under these circumstances.

~ Peter A. Levine

[Art: Lucy Campbell]

12/06/2023