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Jody Brown
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Leaning In
It has been so tempting to me to orient to 2025 now, last week, probably later today, as I/we often do when the present moment is like a...
Jody Brown
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Let us reclaim the art of dying while living
Death and dying... there seems to be alot of it happening.... I'm feeling it. I'm hearing it. I'm not talking about outside of us,...
Jody Brown
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Where I am currently
Here is where I am currently My jaw wants to continuously chew..... something My jaw and my mouth want to eat life. And also to be eaten...
Jody Brown
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Vulnerability is our Rose
This morning I received a Somatic Therapy session from my peer (we do I weekly swap and yes I realise what a gift that is). In the...
Jody Brown
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buckle up buttercup she said
Reflections from Somatic Dance Facilitator Training/Initiation. It was about day 9 or 10 of the 11 days of dancing in the field of...
Jody Brown
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Befriending your Body, Befriending Life pt 1
I’m 47 and my healing journey really started to click for me when I understood how the ANS (autonomic nervous system) and the survival...
Jody Brown
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An important key to healing
One of the most important keys to healing is FEELING yourself i n t h e p r e s e n t m o m e n t. Feeling the support underneath...
Jody Brown
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Why are we doing this?
Why are we doing this? What is the purpose of this practice? This came up in a recent yoga class. And it’s a great question and whilst...
Jody Brown
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The link between embodied safety and your wisdom.
One of the things I have found when receiving or giving really yummy Somatic Therapy or Embodied Inquiry Sessions (the ones that feel...
Jody Brown
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The way in is also the way out
Sometimes when we are reading about trauma we get re-awoken to our own trauma that is still inside. And after years of internal...
Jody Brown
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Becoming our own Ally in opening to LIFE.
In my yoga classes we are exploring chakras through a developmental (growing ourselves) and somatic (feeling ourselves) lenses. We are...
Jody Brown
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Embodied Inquiry
Embodied inquiry is what is giving me the most connection to my wholeness currently and it has become something I really want to bring...
Jody Brown
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Disrupting the system of fear.
You cannot create a new life, a new story, a new world when your existing reality is operating from an underlying basis of fear. And...
Jody Brown
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Don't want to live in your head anymore????
Have you ever had the experience during meditation of being witness to the constant voices in your head? It can feel like a madness. A...
Jody Brown
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Metamorphsis
There is this story about how a nymph (dragonfly lavae) metamorphosis into a dragonfly. I'm going to possibly butcher this story (author...
Jody Brown
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Coming out of your Shell
As I am preparing to run a course on opening your wild heart I keep returning to the question of “what is a wild heart anyway”? I have...
Jody Brown
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This is my why
Living Wildly for me is an act of activism. A rebellious middle finger to the way many of us are corralled into living in survival and...
Jody Brown
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Feeling Frustration
FRUSTRATION It’s that tightening feeling that creates tension and heaviness. It’s that irritation in your jaw, and in the side or your...
Jody Brown
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Your Wild Heart Speaks
There is something I want to share with you. Pull up a comfy seat and take a breath. I believe that LIFE is here for us, and if this is...
Jody Brown
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Thank you for noticing
I wrote this piece a number of years ago, before I began studying Somatic Therapy, but it spoke to me again. I was recently wandering...
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