The Wheel of Consent

Useful framing, and diagram, outlining aspects of consent we can be aware and unaware of, and explore in consensual touch, like taking/allowing and serving/accepting. Also useful videos for exploring what consciousness of those aspects might mean, and/or how they might feel in practice.

TRE practice demonstrations

TRE short practice demonstrations

TRE (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises) practice

Conversation about and demonstration of TRE excercises and practice.

TRE (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises)

Video explaining the process of the tremor mechanism in the TRE process. It integrates the neuro-physiological mechanisms in a manner that demonstrates why the tremor mechanism in humans might be essential for bringing the body back into homeostasis after stressful or traumatic experiences.

Centering practice

Staci Haines – Embodiment and Somatic Practices

Yoga Nidra for Sleep

This soothing yoga nidra practice offers tools to induce sleep naturally, connecting within and to the body. Use as you transition into sleep, or as a way to bring meditation into napping. When we can’t sleep, it can be due to physical factors, mental and emotional factors, or a combination of both. This track will be a friend to your rest, relaxation and sleep rhythms.

Palming the eyes for rest and relaxation (longer more detailed practice video).

Introduction to the Bates Method practice of Palming.

Palming the eyes for rest and relaxation (short video of practice).

A practice to rest the eyes, and central nervous system, useful to relax generally, especially useful after screen time on computers/phones.

Short video about somatic ‘Sites of Shaping’.

Sites of Shaping video illustrates how we are always living inside of a social context. We embody our social contexts, just as we are shaped by and embody our family contexts, communities and the land/environments that influence us. When we are looking at transformation, social context is one of the most influential forces, whether we are focused on personal, community or systemic change.

Short video about what somatic transformation means.

Staci Hains of Strozzi Somatics and generative somatics talking about what Somatic practice means, and how we can transform our embodied ‘shape’ through somatic awareness, opening and practice within sites of shaping like social context.