Hiya friends,
A Message to Somatic Healers of all types and stripes—a way to set your work, your passion for this topic in the world, and your business creativity FREE to do what you know you can do for others. Examples in the video.
Personally, for me... somatic healing has changed my life for the better more than anything I have ever done.
I spent the first half of my life thinking the primary determinant of my life (and enjoyment of it) was between my ears instead of below my neck. Then something happened, and I have practised somatic (body-based) meditation for the more than 23 years since. Never missed a day.
It all started in November 2021 when I found myself on a Level 1 Reiki, Seichem, and Golden Dragon weekend course in Ireland with Gisela Kissing—the astonishing woman I would later credit with changing my life and trajectory profoundly. She wove many healing modalities into the one experience that weekend and, poignantly for me as it would turn out… led us on guided meditations INTO OUR BODIES.
This was new to me and, like everything else that weekend… I found it a bit woo-woo, possibly even BS. I had a hard time with it, and I didn’t think it would change my life.
It did.
Two weeks later I was sitting in my living room chair near the fireplace after working at my commercial diving job. I was sipping a tea and reading the paper, my wife Kathleen beside me, and that’s when it kicked in. I’ll never forget the moment.
I suddenly felt a wide-open space inside me that had never been there before, or perhaps I’d just never noticed it before. All I can say is it felt like a kind of freedom inside my chest. The kind of freedom that I’d craved all my life (I would later realize) but had never known the feeling of. An invitation… down into myself. Into being me. Instead of who my brain thought I was.
That moment rocked me to such an extent that I have practised somatic meditation every. single. day since then. Because… I wanted to know… ME. And suddenly I knew a way to do it.
Does it make me perfect? God no—ask my family and friends. I’m an average person with a generous helping of gifts and weaknesses. A work in progress, as they say. But the biggest win for me…
it's taught me how to feel at home in my own skin. I like being me. That's a thing.
Because of this…
I especially love supporting somatic healers of all types.
And that's why I made guided somatic meditations a core feature inside the Big Dream Program course. (Optional, yes, as it's not for everyone, but many have told me it's the best thing in here.) Like this one here: 🍀 Somatic Meditation: Can we feel more ease in ourselves, and our work? I believe so.
If you’re a somatic pracititioner, healer, workshop leader of some kind, do please comment and get in touch. I’d love to meet more of you out here carrying such a mighty flame in this world.
🛶
Alex
PS - if interested in the Big Dream Program, the Starter Pack and full course are here.
