How to sit with your Feelings when your body does not feel safe
Home / I often meet people who find it hard to sit with their feelings, especially when they are experiencing intense emotional pain or physical discomfort. However, if feeling your emotions seems impossible right now, I want to say to you that you are not broken, because for many of us, especially those who experienced […]
Why Desire Can Feel Scary: A Somatic Yoga Perspective
Home / Have you ever felt it? That flicker of desire that makes something in you come alive. You want something, you long for it, and there’s this expansion that happens in the body. A kind of aliveness. Maybe it’s warmth in the chest, maybe it’s a lightness, maybe it’s butterflies. The body knows desire […]
Yoga That Works With the Body, Not Against It
Home / I was still new to my practice when it happened. I was working through Prasarita Padottanasana, the wide-legged forward fold, and I wanted the shape. The full, beautiful expression of it. So I pushed, reaching for a form I wasn’t actually ready for yet. I felt it tear. The injury put me out […]
Somatic Yoga and Embodiment: How They Work Together
Home / I once finished an entire yoga class and realised I couldn’t remember a single moment of it. Every pose had been technically fine. My alignment was right, my breath was timed, but I hadn’t actually been in my body for any of it. I’d been somewhere above it, directing from the outside. That […]
Somatic Yoga for Beginners: Where to Start (and Why it Looks Different Than You Think)
Home / If you’re curious about somatic yoga but don’t know where to begin, you’re not alone. Somatic yoga for beginners is less about mastering poses and more about learning how to listen to your body. In this guide, I’ll explain what it is, why it feels so different from traditional yoga, and how you […]
What is Somatic Yoga and How Does it Work?
Home / There comes a moment on the healing path where doing more no longer works.You might be practicing yoga, exercising, talking things through, understanding why you feel the way you do — and yet something still feels stuck. This is often the moment when the body asks to be included. Somatic yoga is a […]
What Happens When We Stop: Finding Safety in Stillness
Home / Stopping feels simple in theory, but in practice, it can be surprisingly hard. For me, even pausing for a few minutes sometimes triggers tension, racing thoughts, or a sense of urgency — almost like the world might fall apart. Lately, I’ve been reflecting on this. Why does stillness feel so uncomfortable? What does […]
Sensual Embodiment Yoga: Awaken Your Senses
Home / How sensual embodiment yoga reconnects you to aliveness and pleasure For a long time, I didn’t know what it truly meant to feel alive in my body. I wasn’t disconnected because I wanted to be. I was simply surviving; moving through the motions of daily life, getting things done, holding it all together. […]
Why You Still Feel Anxious Even After Trying So Many Things
Home / Have you tried a bunch of things to manage anxiety or stress, but you’re still struggling?If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many people find themselves asking “Why do I feel anxious?” or even “Why do I feel stressed and anxious for no reason?” especially after trying therapy, self-help, or mindfulness practices. Today, […]
Navigating Chronic Fatigue and Exhaustion through Yoga and Somatic practices
The Challenges we are facing Very often we find ourselves caught in a cycle of stress, chronic fatigue, and exhaustion. These sensations, while familiar to many, are showing that we are mostly living with an overstimulated nervous system. As a society we are very often disconnected from our bodies’ natural rhythms, its needs and its […]