Somatic Experiencing Beginning 2
Training / Exploring Curiosity
It’s exciting to have my first blog entry be about my recent training through Somatic Experiencing International. I have done Beginning 1 & 2 now, and will be moving forward with Beginning 3 this year.
My heart is beaming from the connection made, beautifully orchestrated by our instructor and help from compassionate assistants. I’ve been fortune lately to have the courage to place myself in online platforms through organizations that connect me to like-minded folks from all over the world. It makes this bubble of life feel less alone, more hopeful, and intertwined with different cultures and worlds, it validates what I am feeling. A desire for a collective consciousness, oneness, and a need to be seen and held.
In Our Heads / In Our Bellies / In Our Bodies…
Landing on the last day of class, I was ready for it to be over. It’s a lot of information to digest and a lot of feelings to let settle. Our instructor, Shideh, sparkled poetry and mindfulness throughout the four days. I appreciated the pauses, the noticing, and the embodiment of the work we were practicing. She invited us to place our hands at the sides of our screens, as if connecting palms to one another… now, I have never been invited to do something like this via zoom. But we all felt it— immerse gratitude for this connection as we closed the training. I logged off feeling a moment of expansion that lightly followed me throughout the day. It’s still with me now.
Connection Validates Us / Expands Our Capacity
I want to hold space and support multicultural families and individuals facing traumatic symptoms and relationship challenges. I want to specialize in working with marginalized populations. This is my long-term goal and my heart’s calling. Beginning 2 has opened the opportunity for me. I used the word courage earlier to describe putting myself out there to share and be seen over online platforms. To me, that has been a vulnerable step, although it’s given me more access to folks who look like me, grew up like me, and resonate with me…I wasn’t quite comfortable with it. Now, that is no longer an obstacle. I can comfortably support folks who are struggling and actually feel connected and resourced, from our homes (note: if your home isn’t a safe place, online connection makes local libraries, community centres, spaces in the outdoors) available through our screens.
Go Forward With Openness
I am not able to offer services as an SEP yet, that would be unethical. I would love to practice connection with anyone around the world, though! Within my scope of practice.
Here is my invitation: If you’d like to connect and set-up a zoom call… reach out through this blog.
How will connecting look like?
invitational language to help support…
us orienting to what is around us
letting sensations settle in our bodies
paying close attention to our nervous system
Co-regulation / A Safe Space to Soften
With permission and consent, I will most likely pull from other recourses from my tool belt for mindful movement. This invitation is to connect and just be as we are as humans, with no narrative, no story, out of our heads and into our bodies for a bit.
And with that, I will share, as I’ve shared many times before, one of my favourites:
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
- rumi
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for being a curious human.
I hope this finds you in a good place.