How Feminine Embodiment is changing my life
As I graduate from an intensive period of study with the glorious team at the School of Embodied Arts, I’ve been reflecting on what Feminine Embodiment has brought to me.
And it’s been so profound I wanted to share it with you.
I guess Feminine Embodiment found me.
Perhaps it was first through 1:1 client work, where I had found myself organically turning to body-led inquiry. Increasingly I was tuning into what a clients body had to say over what the egoic-mind could so cleverly craft and shield, I started leaning on this more and more as a profound way to contact truth. But I had no framework, or methodology behind me to back this up it was all purely intuitive, but the psychologist within was knocking at the door insisting that I research this further and ensure I was working in a do-no-harm, trauma informed approach. In my own self-directed study I then came across a coaching certification with the School of Embodied Arts which provided the lessons, tools, and practices I wanted to incorporate into my work. This certification has resonated so very deeply, and were providing methodologies that were actually working.
But perhaps the Embodied Feminine found me more subtly through my enquiry and devotion with the feminine energy (which had been so sorely repressed in my life), and naturally with that began the exploration of the energy with my own body. A spiritual quest that didn’t look like meditation, and transcending consciousness and love and light, but was incredibly earthy, raw, wild and messy.
Alongside my studies I devoted myself to my own personal mastery, a commitment which continues today. It is here that everything began to shift.
I have seen transformation in such poignant ways in a seemingly short period of time. Not only in my 1:1 client work, but also greater enrichment and ease in how I run my business, and radical changes in how I engage in life (and parenting).
In client work Feminine Embodiment has supported me to:
Leave any agenda I may have harboured to ‘heal’ someone behind
Let the client’s body lead
Follow depth before direction, knowing that the truth of the matter is in the feel of it
To lay expectations for what a session should be like aside and trust what unfolds for each individual. Our body knows what it needs, this might look like massive shifts in one session, and so very subtle the next, and I’ve realised that bigger is not better, and that growth can be peaceful, and that regardless our bodies will continue to process over time.
Develop the resonance and the calibration to hold a safe space which is essential to allow vulnerability, processing and transformation – this is perhaps the most important aspect of all. Ensure that whoever you see in whatever capacity is trauma-informed, because ‘personal development’ work hired in the wrong hands can be damaging.
In business I am supported to:
Honour my body as a conduit for the work that wants to actualise through me
Work cyclically, rather than striving forward linearly (there is a cycle for everything!)
Nourish my nervous system and calibrate my energy as the first priority, without that nothing will happen
Cultivate the feminine power of magnetism to draw in what is coming my way rather than hustle
Prioritise pleasure over productivity = doing less, feeling more which ends up doing better
Follow my full, embodied Yes and decline everything else
Let go of fear masquerading as perfectionism & procrastination
Work from an abundance, rather than a scarcity approach: I am not in competition with anyone, there is more than enough to go around
Become more and more conscious of my impact in this world, including unpacking the ways I benefit from privilege and contribute to harm, and committing to doing better.
In my personal life I am supported to
Receive the gifts of increased sensitivity, more spaciousness, clarity, and peace through a daily devotion to myself through my non-linear movement practice, The Unfolding, (even when I don’t think I have time!)
Embrace the painful, uncomfortable, and messy parts that is very-human Jess and lean into them with curiosity instead of resistance
Effectively and efficiently process the icky bits as they inevitably arise
Release shame and grief I’ve held for longer than there are memories for and as they released their clench on my freedom and my power I have found myself feeling liberated, and doing things I would never have done before.
Unearth both tenderness and power that has long been constrained.
Unfreeze a jammed up nervous system that I didn’t even realise was running the show
Let my heart break all over again each and every day, and as it cracks welcome in a growing capacity for joy, love, and truth
Expand my capacity for pleasure and have it fuel my days
Find full-bodied orgasms rippling over my skin in unexpected moments, the boon of sensuality and sensitivity practices
Leaning into the uniquely feminine energetic power of magnetism.
Come home to myself
Be freely, unapologetically me.
As I’ve cultivated my practices in both embodiment and the feminine I have found greater congruency, freedom and aliveness than I had ever felt before.
I’m curious, is this work and way of living calling you? Have you felt your heart pound, or desire tug in your veins? We all have our own calibration to honour, something might be singing, and something may not - I’m intrigued to know what, hit reply to this email I’d love to hear from you!
Working with the Feminine, and Feminine Embodiment is a growing field and rightly so – for what both offer is life changing, and the is what our world so desperately needs.
If you’ve been feeling all the ++tingles++ and you desire to see some of these shifts in your own life you and you would like to know how, then you I’d love to talk with you. Book in for a complimentary discovery call with me to learn more.
Click away beautiful one!
Hesitations? I’m absolutely available to hear them too. 😊 ALL of you is always welcome here.
xo
Jess