19/11/2025
My goal as a bodyworker is to help people - whether they are working with trauma, pain or anxiety - is to reconnect to a sense of wholeness and include more in their sense of self.
Embodiment is key to this process - when we feel at home in the space bounded by the skin, we feel less defended and fragmented in our internal world, and more connected to the flows, movements, resources and aliveness inside of us.
This in turn allows us to feel safer to connect to others, to nature, to mystery, to all of life that isn’t human, and to a richer experience of being alive.
One of the important connections I’ve seen in my clinic work and research about the connection between embodiment and health is this: when we can’t feel, it’s hard to heal
To truly feel the size, shape and weight of our body is surprisingly tricky - I see this in my clinic work often. The struggle to map our bodies is predictive of poor outcomes when it comes to our experience of pain, anxiety and trauma.
In trauma, many people dissociate, shut down, or immobilise to protect themselves. Although this gesture of disconnecting is useful, necessary and enables us to survive traumatic situations, it means we can lose contact with the size, shape and weight of our bodies and it can be hard to return to the body.
Over the years, I’ve seen that maintaining a thread of good connection with the body predicts good outcomes when it comes to health.
Embodiment tools form a key focus on my two-year Art of Touch biodynamic craniosacral therapy (BCST) training. If you’d like to explore this approach to safe, relational touch either to add a new modality to your work as a health professional, or as well as a way to start a career in an exciting and evolving therapy, please see the link in my bio.
