Somatic Bliss, 8600, Lagos (2026)

28/01/2026

When more challenging material comes up, in therapy or in close relationships, resistance can follow.

It can look like blanking out, tracking the room instead of the conversation, an urge to joke, analyse... Heaviness, tension, sleepiness are also common.

These responses don’t automatically mean something has gone wrong. They usually appear when attention moves closer to a lived experience that asks more from the nervous system than it can hold at once.

From a somatic perspective, resistance is protective. It signals a need to slow down and be met with care rather than pressure. I don’t believe in healing through force. The body has intelligent ways of defending itself, and those responses deserve respect.

When resistance shows up, it becomes part of the work. We get curious about how it’s organising itself, what it’s guarding, and what’s needed to stay present.

You don’t need to get rid of resistance to begin somatic therapy. You can bring it with you — and we work from there.

Warmly,
Jurga Bliss

26/01/2026

Befriend your nervous system course
🕖 3 FEB 19:00 - 20:30
📍 Studio Panta Rei, Palermo
🌐 English
Registration necessary with

Open into social engagement, connection, and inner safety.

Whether you often feel stressed, stuck, numb, or disconnected, this workshop offers a supportive space to reconnect with your body's natural capacity to regulate and feel safer and more comfortable relating with other people.

Facilitator: Jurga Bliss, an ISMETA-Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies and find ease from within.

For over seven years, she has been guiding Somatic Movement, nervous system regulation, and Authentic Movement workshops, as well as offering one-on-one Polyvagal Theory-informed somatic therapy sessions online.

Her work is rooted in the Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) approach - weaving together body awareness, mindful movement, and gentle exploration to support greater connection, safety, and self-regulation.

18/01/2026

Today I had the opportunity to participate in another Authentic Movement workshop
in Palermo, Italy.

Authentic Movement is, for me, a pathway to myself. It is a space where the body speaks louder than the mind, and movement arises from what is alive in the present moment. Without a plan, without “shoulds,” without trying to make anything aesthetic or harmonious. The body does what it wants to do, in the way it wants to do it.
This is being in truth.

As a somatic movement therapist, Authentic Movement is especially important to me because through it I continuously learn how to witness - both another person and myself.

To witness does not mean to figure something out or to fix it. It means to stay present and aware, allowing the experience to be exactly as it is. Be with presence in the body, in the breath, in stillness, in movement.

In therapy, clients often come with a desire to change something within themselves, and alongside this very natural impulse to change, it feels essential to me not to lose sight of being with what is here - now.

Practicing Authentic Movement teaches me this kind of presence.
Being with whatever arises in the moment: vulnerability, strength, a pause, or the impulse to move. Without judgment, without rushing to understand. Simply being, moving, seeing. Consciously sensing what this awakens within me.

And sometimes, it is precisely within this simple act of being present that the deepest self-knowledge unfolds.
Do you long to be seen and witnessed just the way you are?

Book a free 20 min discovery call via DM or email info@somaticbliss.eu and start your somatic journey with me online

Your body is your greatest teacher. Let`s discover it together.

Warmly,
Jurga Bliss

13/01/2026

Overthinking is a protective nervous system strategy, yet it can often be unhelpful.

When sensation starts to exceed our capacity to hold it, the mind steps in to manage what we feel the body can’t sustain. Thinking, rationalising, intellectualising becomes containment and a way to create distance. This is especially true for neurodivergent and overreactive nervous systems, where emotional activation is often more intense, more sensory, and thus more overwhelming.

Overthinking or rumination is often a developed adaptation to high internal pressure. However, it can itself create feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, stuckness, procrastination and more. But it's nit so easy to stop it.

You can’t think your way out of overthinking. What you can do is widen the body’s tolerance for sensation. That doesn’t mean plunging into feeling. The thought that it is, is scary, because we fear it will overwhelm (as it has before). The tolerance for sensation builds up as we learn to support ourselves through being with the feeling: through gournding, movement, breathing, refocusing towards cues of safety, etc.

As sensation becomes legible and survivable, as we feel safer to feel, thinking loosens on its own because it is no longer needed as an urgent survival mechanism.

To quiet the mind, teach the body it can feel without flooding.

02/01/2026

Next week's class!
Move out of Freeze-Shutdown state
🕖 6 Jan 19:00
📍 Studio Panta Rei, Palermo
🌐 English

If you’re sometimes feeling heavy, stuck, unmotivated, isolated, helpless and more.. this class is for you.

When you understand what’s happening in your nervous system in Freeze/Shutdown state you stop being at the mercy of it and get empowered to help your body and mind back into more aliveness.

You’ll learn:
• The physical cues, emotional signals, and even thought patterns that reveal you’re in freeze/shutdown
• Why your body reacts this way (from a Polyvagal lens)
• What your system needs to be able to move out of it

You’ll do:
• Simple somatic practices that gently brings energy back into your body
• Techniques to shift your internal state & thoughts
• Grounding movements that help your system return to more aliveness

This class is part of the winter course "Befriend your nervous system", which will take us through different states and ways to support ourselves through simple yet efficient body based practices.

Facilitator: Jurga Bliss, somatic therapist

REGISTRATION necessary, PM for details.
Event organised by

27/12/2025

Somatics for Nervous-System Relief

The holidays feel stressful not just in your head: your nervous system remembers patterns, old dynamics, and expectations before your mind does.

You might notice things like:
• feeling on edge even when nothing “bad” is happening
• restlessness in your body
• tension in shoulders, jaw, tummy
• wanting quiet but feeling stuck in overwhelm
Sound familiar? You’re not alone.

Here are 3 somatic resets that might help:
1️⃣ Orient Your Senses
Slowly let your eyes track the room — colors, light, textures — to signal safety to your nervous system.

2️⃣ Micro-Pause Regulation:
• soften your jaw
• feel your feet firmly on the ground
• put a hand over your heart
These tiny moments send a “safe” signal to your body.

3️⃣ Exhale Longer than You Inhale
A 4-in / 6-8-out pattern engages the relaxation response — even in just a minute.
Boundaries begin in the body — noticing where it tightens tells you when to step back, step out, or take a breath.

This holiday, don’t just push through.
Notice. Regulate. Choose.
Your body already knows how — it just needs your attention.

If you’re thinking of trying something new to support your inner processes next year - try somatic approach with me. Now making new appointments for January. DM me for an intro call.

19/12/2025

Why do we fall into soothing habits — especially during the festive season?

Research shows that how we try to manage emotions isn’t random — it’s rooted in real biology and psychology.

Scientists studying everyday emotion regulation have found that as environmental demands change (like shorter days, colder weather, altered routines), typical ways of handling emotions can shift too, and not always in helpful directions. For example, people tend to ruminate more and accept their emotions less in the cold season, which can make negative moods hang around longer.

That matters because comfort-seeking behaviours - whether it’s extra scrolling, overeating, shopping, or zoning out - aren’t just bad habits; they are responses to how our nervous system is trying to manage stress and emotion. From a neuroscientific perspective, activities that feel soothing often activate overlapping reward circuits in the brain that also respond to social connection and safety - which is why a lack of connection can drive stronger cravings for food or distraction.

Emotional eating specifically has been shown to bridge perceived stress and eating habits - meaning the stress itself doesn’t drive the behavior directly; the emotional coping mechanisms do.

Moreover, early experiences shape how we regulate stress later in life. Emotional regulation difficulties (like leaning heavily on soothing behaviors) are linked with past emotional dysregulation and self-esteem patterns, not just momentary cravings.

So what can we do — especially in December — without just “trying harder”? See the slides for tips!

Would you like more support? DM me to arrange a free 20min discovery call and let's start your somatic journey in the new year.

03/12/2025

Next week's class!
Move with Fight-or-Flight
🕖 9 Dec 19:00
📍 Studio Panta Rei, Palermo
🌐 English

If you’re done feeling hijacked by stress and ready to feel more like yourself, this class is for you.

When you understand what’s happening in your nervous system, you stop being at the mercy of it.

You’ll learn:
• The physical cues, emotional signals, and even thought patterns that reveal you’re in fight-or-flight
• Why your body reacts this way (from a Polyvagal lens)
• What keeps you stuck in reactivity without you noticing

You’ll do:
• Simple somatic practices that interrupt the stress loop
• Techniques to shift your internal state & thoughts
• Grounding movements that help your system return to clarity and choice

This class is part of the winter course "Befriend your nervous system", which will take us through different states and ways to support ourselves through simple yet efficient body based practices.

Facilitator: Jurga Bliss, somatic therapist

REGISTRATION necessary, PM for details.
Event organised by Palermo Gatherings.

25/11/2025

M Y S T O R Y: I've always been a person for whom intelligence and cognitive processing was important. Understanding things matters to me - I need to analyze, trace patterns, see how everything connects.

After my first round of therapy, I could explain exactly why I felt the way I did. I understood my history. I saw my patterns more clearly.
But I still walked around tense. Still needed to do things perfectly. Still got stress migraines. Still raised my voice at my kids over homework. Again and again, the same responses.I knew what was happening and why. But it wouldn't stop...

So when I decided to go to therapy again, I chose someone trained in somatic work. And things actually shifted - not just in what I understood, but in how I felt. In my whole system.

The roles I'd been performing loosened. My value hierarchy changed. I found my way back to myself in a way I probably hadn't felt since early childhood.

It moved me so much that I spent three years training in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy & then another couple years on my case study to get a somatic therapy diploma. Not just for myself - to also offer support and knowledge to others.

I'm 45 now. Raised four kids (three are adults). Spent a decade in business before changing my profession to this. I currently live in Italy and work online with clients in English and Lithuanian.

I work with people who whish to reconnect with themselves, gain more agency in life, manage stress and get out of stuckness. Who notice their body still reacts like the past is present. People navigating developmental trauma, stuck in relationship patterns, freeze states, yearning to learn to establish boundaries & etc. If you've done the insight work but something still doesn't feel resolved, maybe we should talk.

DM me or check the link in bio.

20/11/2025

HOW TO RECOGNISE YOUR "YES" & YOUR "NO"

Your body knows a "yes" from a "no" - that's the natural role of our immune, digestive and other body systems. We open up and reach towards what feels good and right just like we close, retreat, push away (or out) what feels foreign or off. Your body has been telling you what it needs long before you learned to second-guess it.

Sometimes "no" shows up as the subtle turn of your shoulders. The impulse to look away. The sudden need for more space.
Sometimes "yes" arrives as a soft forward lean. A deeper exhale. The way your chest opens toward something nourishing.
In somatic work, we treat these cues as truth-telling — your nervous system's native language.

What makes it complicated is that most of us learned early that our boundaries weren't safe to express. That saying no meant losing connection. That our needs caused conflict.
So your body learned to hold it in - tension in your jaw, tightness in your chest, words that won't come. The signal is there. It just can't get out.
How to change that?

Bridging feeling and expressing:
First, learn to recognize your body's signals (swipe for the practice). Then give them a voice — even just to yourself at first. The more you honor what your body is telling you, the easier it becomes to speak it. Your nervous system needs proof that boundaries are safe.
Practice with low-stakes situations first. Feel it in your body, then let your body support your words.
There's no right timing. It is your choice, your pace - your body & your life.
One of my favourite healing sentences is "I belong to myself".❤️‍🔥

Today, notice one small boundary your body has already signalled — and see what happens when you trust it, first in your body, then in your words. With all the discomfort that it brings - at first - and then feeling how it grows on you.

11/11/2025

You might have done good work in therapy.
You've made connections between your past and how you show up today. That matters - awareness is where everything begins.

But maybe you've noticed something: even with all that clarity, you still feel or behave in similar ways. Maybe you are still finding yourself in the same relational issues. Maybe you feel stuck in your professional life or your best self-care intentions never become actual actions. Maybe your mind knows you're safe, but somewhere in your chest or your gut, there's this... hesitation... bracing...
That's your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do - the pathways in your body that learned how to best survive and adapt to this world. Which then translates into automatic, often subconscious familiar choices that you would rather change.

Our bodies don't learn safety or new ways through mere insight. They learn through experience, through what actually happens in real time, in our tissues, in the pace of our breath.

This is where somatic work can help integrate and embody what you already know.

In somatic therapy sessions we pay attention to what happens under the narrative: the way your shoulders rise when you talk about asking for what you need, the subtle pulling back when someone gets close, how your breathing changes before you even realize you're uncomfortable.

We're not trying to fix those responses. We are learning from them. We're learning to be with them. To slow down enough that your system can sense: this moment, right now, is actually different. Sometimes that means following an impulse that got interrupted, e.g. a reaching out, a turning away, a covering. Sometimes it's just tracking sensation until something softens or shifts.

What I see happen, again and again, is that the understanding you've worked for starts to drop in differently. It becomes embodied. You don't just know the story—you feel the difference between then and now.

Want to learn more? I have a few spots still open for weekly sessions in November. DM me for a discovery call.

05/11/2025

Dysregulation may show up even when we look perfectly functional or calm from the outside. We may find ourselves in functional freeze, be disconnected from our body and emotions and/or seemingly "at peace". Regulation isn’t about always being peaceful - it’s about having range & adaptability: a truly resilient nervous system doesn’t only know how to slow down and relax, it knows how to rise up, express, and respond appropriately to what life is asking from you.

There is no "one size fits all" method to regulate. What will work depends on the state you are in, your history, past trauma, current challenges & what they require of you. In somatic therapy sessions we rely not only on expert knowledge but also on real time responses of your body. So if you are curious to try - book a session with somebody trained in somatics and applied Polyvagal theory. This framework can give a practical and eye opening lense to view your state through, and find tools to help yourself in different situations.

Warmly,
Jurga Bliss
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