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SLOW DOWN TO SHOW UP

I am still landing after a beautiful weekend at a festival, where I had the pleasure of guiding an embodiment with all participants during the opening ceremony.


The workshop was called somatic consent, but all that we really did was slowing down to be able to show up.


I want to tell you what I mean with that and why it is important, as this is something I start all of my workshops with.

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When I got handed the microphone I could feel all the excitement, shyness, nervousness, fear and awkwardness in the room within my own body as a massive charge.


All 200 nervous systems in the room were reacting in their own individual way to the challenge of being in a room with a bunch of new people.


No-one really knowing what would happen next, many probably already starting up their own well known strategies and patterns to cope. So was I.

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