What does it mean to embody boundaries?

Embodying boundaries is the ability to express our limits not just mentally or verbally but with our WHOLE body.

It’s the difference between saying “no” and actually feeling the truth of that “no” in our body - and allowing our BODY to lead in communicating the boundary.

To embody boundaries we must:

Rest and Connect: Relaxing and resting to reduce stress. Settling into the body and releasing from the fixation of the mind.

Meditatively Listen: Getting quiet enough to really listen so we can get to know our body’s unique language so we can interpret our own needs.

Cultivate Energy: Engage in somatic practices to cultivate sympathetic arousal. “Thaw the freeze”.
This is our fire, our life force energy.

Learn to Hold Charge: Practice being with and “holding” the feeling of energetic charge in our body so that we can be skilful with it’s expression.

Let’s slow down, tune in, feel into our roots and rise up strong in our power.

Who is this immersion for?

This container will be of huge benefit to you if:

You are looking to connect more deeply with the felt sense of your own body and your EMBODIED INTUITION.
You want to cultivate more intimate and vulnerable relationships with yourself and others.
You find yourself defaulting towards reactive patterns during challenging moments, especially those of the parasympathetic (freeze, fawn or collapse).
You are interested in exploring and unveiling power dynamics in your life and relationships.
You regularly find yourself in the position of “prey” in relationship dynamics and are ready to reclaim your power.
You are easily influenced by others but would prefer to remain in your centre to listen more closely to your own needs and desires.
You desire an open, present and compassionate community to feel supported by and engage with while you explore these often challenging somatic spaces.

What you will receive:

In the month of August you will receive access to live and recorded content:

4 x 90 minute Somatic Practice
2 x Sharing Circle containers
2 x Guided Meditations
Weekly journal prompts to open a writing practice
Community WhatsApp thread for connection and support.

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Why Embodying Boundaries?

So many of us learned from a young age that our boundaries are negotiable. It’s often been safer to just allow and be agreeable, especially for many of us socialised as women. We have experienced fawning and freezing in situations where we needed to actually say NO. The energetic uprising that is needed to express that boundary is not accessible in our body in those moments.

On top of this many non-dual practices invite us to merge with the infinite, to dissolve into no-thing ness? We are often asked to relax into the boundless, boundaryless, expansive open space of awareness… This can help us create space from our hypnotic minds, it can show us that we are not just these bodies separate from our surroundings, that our essence is in fact illimitable.

and…

It can also push us deeper into dissociation if that vastness is not integrated into our bodies. This is seen a lot when we see “enlightened” teachers

Embodied boundaries facilitate healthy relating with others.

What’s the point of all the spiritual practice if our relationships are shit shows in which we endlessly repeat unconscious patterns. Perpetuating harm for ourselves and our loved ones?

My journey with this work…

Finding the somatic tools to embody boundaries changed my life drastically as I clearly saw how I wasn’t living in alignment. After working with one of my teachers and receiving the transmission of this energy she calls “Jaguar” energy there was an intense embodied realisation that has lead to a great somatic reorganising and subsequently a huge consideration of where I was channelling my life force.

It was like meeting my inner fire for the first time. A life giving energy that was fierce and strong and had my needs as priority.

For the first time in my life I had the ability to choose myself, It felt like a superpower and initially a curse, as the truths of my circumstances were quickly revealed.

It felt like becoming my own protector, this fire I helped me thaw the functional freeze and people pleasing fawn states I’d been living life from. Though I fully acknowledge those freeze and fawn states were pathways my body was using to keep myself safe - and in a way they did for many years in abusive and manipulative relationships - but finding my embodied NO meant I suddenly had access to a more full range of nervous system responses to life.

I could start DISRUPTING PATTERNS.

This is important, life changing nervous system work.

It is not a quick fix. It is takes commitment to keep showing up, it is difficult, triggering and painful but an essential part of becoming a human adult.