Dr. Bianca Baciu

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Dr. Bianca Baciu

Somatic guide, educator and pianist specializing in unique trauma and stress release modalities.

11/21/2025

🤷‍♀️Can you relate to having your experience classified, categorized or minimized by an external source?

How might it feel to allow labels to dissipate and to witness our experience as it is?

11/17/2025

👉Ming’s testimonial brings up a very important point -

How does belief influence healing outcomes?🤷‍♀️

🤔Does our scepticism and apprehension negate the potential benefits of interventions that are new to us?

Not necessarily.

While one’s willingness to try something different provides a strong access point for our work together, sometimes even disbelief helps us quite a bit because there are no pre-conceived ideas, scripts, or agendas 💡.

Disbelief can also mean we’re able to appreciate the smaller steps forward because they come as such a surprise.

Instead of making a beeline towards pre-determined outcomes, we support the body’s intelligence to give us more accurate information, come online, and start taking care of business ⚡.

In my work of guiding people somatically, emphasis is placed on the body’s nuanced experience (emotional, physical, nervous-system based, spiritual, energetic, collective) with the mind as a witness 🧠. There is absolutely no agenda, and both belief and disbelief can be exceptionally supportive, because for either belief or disbelief to happen, a degree of engagement with the work has to take place.

👉This approach allows for healing even when the mind doubts the methods and modalities, or when we have no explicit memory of a traumatic experience, despite living with its effects (such as pre- and perinatal trauma, ancestral or generational trauma).

🎧The Safe & Sound Protocol involves listening to lab-treated sound under the careful supervision of a qualified practitioner. It is a mostly passive intervention targeting the vagus nerve, middle ear muscles and other social engagement systems. For this reason, it is often a welcome access point for clients who are not able to access their sensations and feelings, or verbalise traumatic experiences.

To read more about its proven effectiveness in clinical studies and to hear from more of my clients, feel free to visit my website - linked in my bio 🩵.

11/14/2025

👉Emotional release is often associated with intensity - outbursts, long held-back tears, trembling.

But release and integration can also be gentle, even quiet.

💫This allows the body to navigate the process without losing itself in it, and the mind to witness it.

It’s how we can find a strong sense of coherence.

How do you allow time and space for integration 🩵?

11/12/2025

💡If - in its vast wisdom - nature sees the necessity for periods of expansion and contraction;

🍂Fall and Spring

🌄Day and night

🐻Hibernation and migration

Can we trust that - as part of nature - we will benefit from allowing rather than resisting the same as we heal, evolve and grow?

11/07/2025

👇Let’s talk about exploratory orienting versus defensive orienting.

When we work in person, we take the space in, we engage and connect with the environment and others, and attention is expanded outward to take in sensory information 🔆.

👉This is exploratory orienting, and - unless there are perceived threat signals in the environment - it keeps the body at ease and the nervous system in a ventral vagal state.

💻When we work online, and spend most of the time pouring ourselves into small screens, attention narrows sharply, the body becomes tense and braced and the breath shallows.

👉This is defensive orienting. Even if we don't necessarily detect a threat signal in the environment, the body ends up behaving as if we did.

Head and eyes snap toward a stimulus.

Neck, jaw and shoulders tighten.

💡This posture ends up creating a state of hypervigilance and restlessness in the body.

It affects relationship dynamics and capacity to engage with others when we get off the screen.

It moves us into a "something might be wrong" state.

🤷‍♀️What can you do to shift from defensive to exploratory orienting?

🔹Turn your head slowly around the room.

🔹Look out the window.

🔹Gently track sensations.

🔹Be curious about your emotions in that Zoom meeting.

🔹Connect with others - try to engage beyond the work task.

If you found this post helpful, consider saving or sharing it with others who spend a lot of time on Zoom🤗.

11/05/2025

👉We have been groomed to be dependent on comfort and convenience,

The kind of courage and willingness needed to open “Pandora’s Box” on a healing journey carry unfamiliar resonance now.

We are bushwhacking on overgrown paths as we sense that what has always been there, since the dawn of humanity, is still there - our capacity 🩵.

11/03/2025

👉Feel free to visit my website to read about the results my clients have experienced after stepping courageously onto “the path less traveled” 👣🩵.

10/31/2025

🤷‍♀️Do you relate to any of these examples? This post does not mean to oversimplify the nuances of complex trauma responses. Rather, it is an invitation to explore my page and learn more about how our early experiences can impact the way we engage with the world as adults🤗.

10/29/2025

🤷‍♀️Do you know anyone who hasn’t experienced trauma in one form or another?

Even those who cannot point to a specific traumatic experience can be impacted by trauma without being consciously aware of it.

How?🤔

Consider - for a moment - the implications of this:

💡The body exists on at least four different levels…

1️⃣The individual gross body🏃

The tangible body we can see & touch. This is the level most Western somatic approaches focus on, working with physical sensations, tension & movement.

2️⃣The individual subtle body⚡

Our energetic body - including the nervous system’s electrical impulses, meridians, chakras & bio-field. It’s where we experience a different level of emotion, thought, and subtle sensation that aren’t purely physical but still felt in the body.

3️⃣The changing collective body 💫

Our interconnection with all living things and the environment. It acknowledges that our bodies are not isolated systems but are constantly interacting with and influenced by collective energies, social fields, and environmental factors.

4️⃣The unchanging collective body of pure awareness🌌

This is the deepest level - the foundation of consciousness itself. It’s the unchanging witness or awareness that remains constant beneath all our changing experiences, emotions and sensations.

👓When viewed through this lens, many of us who experience inexplicable challenges - seemingly unrelated to our immediate circumstances and/or environment - feel validated and seen in new ways.

It also highlights the impact we, as individuals, can have on the collective experience when we are courageous enough to prioritize our own healing. There is so much available to us now - neuroscience, many body-based and awareness- building modalities, meaningful community support. Also a culture that is slowly moving toward destigmatizing this work🩵.

10/27/2025

👉This year, I attended my last “Eye Of The Needle” training on near-death and altered state experiences - deepening how I support those living with existential terror, rage, shame & fragmentation.

It’s profoundly nuanced work - rich, deep and intense.

🐂There is a parable known as “The Ox & The Eye of the Needle” that says:

“A great ox passes effortlessly through the eye of a needle -

Its massive head, strong horns, and broad shoulders all pass through -

But the tail gets stuck”

The “tail gets stuck” as it moves uncontrollably, and cannot find enough stillness to pass through the eye of the needle.

Near-death experiences stir us internally in ways that create constant background noise in our systems, similar to the ever-moving tail. We respond to them with:

🔸Dissociation,

🔹Chronic physical pain or fatigue,

🔸Fibromyalgia, migraines, autoimmune conditions, impaired breathing

🔹A pervasive sense of dread that impairs sleep and digestion

🔸A sense of deep void that people describe when first starting Eye of the Needle work.

The work is slow and moves in infinitely small steps. There is no telling when the person will arrive in the Eye of the Needle 🪡.

But when they do, they are in a space of stillness and presence. A place of no heart rate variability for a few moments.

That’s where the tail of the ox becomes still. That’s where the person finally moves through deep layers of trauma without losing themselves .

Sometimes, the layers are numerous - one near-death experience becomes a magnet for another 🧲.

Many of us who work in this space know these layers intimately - from prenatal trauma, to shock trauma, to anaesthesia or plant journeys gone wrong, to su***de attempts.

Decades ago, I would wear my survival experiences as a badge of honour😊,

But I’ve found that they are much better suited to fuel deep support for others.

🤗To meet them by the Eye of the Needle and guide them through.

I’m so grateful for this work 💙.

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