What somatic science, trauma research, and embodied practice teach us about healing.
There are things your mind has forgotten —
but your body still remembers.
A fall in childhood.
A tone of voice.
A year of stress you “got through” but never fully metabolized.
These moments don’t just vanish. They become patterns.
Patterns of tension, posture, breath, and movement — often unconscious, but deeply encoded.
🔁 The Body as Storykeeper
Your fascia, your nervous system, your muscles — they all hold data.
Science calls this implicit memory — memories stored not as words or images, but as sensations and reactions.
You might not think you’re still carrying stress, but:
- Your shoulders say otherwise.
- Your jaw does too.
- So does your shallow breath when no one’s watching.
This isn’t just metaphor.
It’s neurobiology.
🧬 How Movement Unlocks What Language Can’t
Traditional talk therapy is powerful — but it happens mostly in the prefrontal cortex, the thinking brain.
Many trauma imprints, however, live in the limbic system and body tissues.
They don’t respond to logic.
They respond to movement.
Play. Flow. Resistance. Repatterning.
That’s how we teach the nervous system:
“You’re safe now.”
“You’re allowed to move.”
“You’re allowed to expand again.”
🏃♀️ What This Looks Like in Practice
In Embodied Movement Mentorship, I guide clients through:
- Natural movement sequences (inspired by parkour, primal play, somatics)
- Ground-based movement to reconnect with the earth (and self)
- Breath-led motion to regulate the vagus nerve + limbic system
- Exploration of held tension, shutdown, and stuckness — with compassion, not force
🧘♀️ Common Patterns We Release Through Movement
- Hypervigilance → constant over-efforting, rigid posture
- Freeze response → flat affect, collapsed chest, shallow breath
- Fawn pattern → overextension, people-pleasing, lack of boundaries
- Disconnection → numbness, absent embodiment, “I don’t feel anything”
You don’t fix these with more willpower.
You shift them by moving differently — with presence.
💡 Try This: 90 Seconds of Embodied Inquiry
- Find a quiet place.
- Close your eyes.
- Let your body move however it wants — without a goal, stretch, or form.
- Notice: What wants to loosen? What wants to stay tight?
- Follow the impulse gently. No judgment.
This is the beginning of listening again.
✨ Healing Isn’t Always a Conversation.
Sometimes, it’s a movement.
Sometimes, it’s a breath.
Sometimes, it’s a shake, a jump, a stretch, a stillness.
And sometimes, it’s a remembering —
of who your body was before it had to carry so much.