Embodiment as a radical act
A guest post by Lise Lønsmann
Friends, today I share with you a guest post by my friend and colleague Lise Lønsmann. Lise is opening a membership that will support women with a lot of the things I talk about in this newsletter. Lise is wise, compassionate, and courageously names what is present. I see her not only doing her work but living her work. Please consider following her and checking out her membership (more details can be found at the bottom of this letter).
More about Lise:
Lise is a trauma-informed somatic practitioner and an embodiment mentor. She supports heart-led women in connecting deeper with their body and its wisdom, to heal old inner wounds and create safety in the body and inner world. Through gentle embodiment practices she guides her clients to start a gentle conversation with their body and tune into the guidance and the answers it is holding, so they can shift out of survival mode and stuckness and into embodied self-support and a felt sense of empowerment.
Lise lives in Aarhus, Denmark, and supports her clients through online somatic sessions, online women’s circles, and her online embodiment community Rooted.
Find out more about Lise and her embodiment work on Instagram and her website or sign up for her Substack.
Embodiment as a radical act
I often speak to women who say that they don’t know how they feel or what they need. That they feel disconnected from their body and their emotions because they are always so busy tending to the needs of others that they have forgotten to tend to themselves.
In a world where we are all conditioned to push through, to disconnect, to not listen to ourselves, to fight through, to battle ourselves and each other, to win, it is no wonder that so many of us feel burned out and/or don’t know how to connect with or tend to ourselves on a deeper level; an emotional level, an inner world level, an embodied level, a felt level.
We have forgotten how to sit with ourselves and with each other, in deep, rooted, embodied presence and witness our own experience. We don’t know how to stay with. Stay with the discomfort of what moves through us so often in this human life, stay with the unknown or the unanswered, stay with ourselves, stay with each other.
We spring into action mode, into doing, into fixing. Because it is all we know, all that we have learned.
We have been taught to forget how to sit with our felt experience. How to stay present with what our body is holding; our hopes and dreams, what is unsaid or unfelt, what our heart is holding, what we wish for, but have let go of in order to navigate this complex life, our longings, our felt knowing, our deepest truths.
We have to remember ourselves back to that practice, of sitting with, of witnessing our own felt experience, in order to stay true to who we truly are. To not show up with masks, pretending to be what others want or need us to be. To show up speaking our truth, knowing who we are and what we need and how we can contribute; in our relationships, in our community, in the world.
We need spaces for that remembering, for that practice of reconnecting. Spaces that hold us gently, as we practice that embodied self-connection, that leaning into ourselves, that remembering ourselves back to who we are at our deepest roots, deep within ourselves, beyond words and language, beyond understanding and analyzing. Deep within us, where a soft whisper calls us back to ourselves, whispers us awake to what is true for us.
We need soft spaces of connection and tending.
Spaces where we can practice embodied presence.
Spaces that we know are there to witness us.
So we can practice that remembering, that connection to ourselves, that rooting deeper, while being held.
I want us all to have spaces like that.
Spaces where we can cultivate a deep connection with ourselves and our felt experience. With our sensations, the way we experience our needs and emotions, with how present we feel in our body (or not). Spaces that support us in tending to ourselves and where tending to body connection is held as sacred.
Practicing embodiment and self-connection is a radical act in a world that asks us to disconnect from ourselves. Choosing to connect deeper with our felt experience, with our sense of self-connection, with our own humanity is an act of rebellion in a world that conditions us to dehumanize ourselves and each other.
The chaos of the world is inviting us all to take a closer look at how we are showing up in the world. How we are relating, how we are co-creating, and how we are contributing. It is painful and complex to untangle from our conditioning because it has seeped into all parts of us, so the untangling is slow and exhausting.
If you are also untangling, I just want to say that I see you, and I witness you.
This is the work 🔥
Keep going 🔥
Rooted: An online community for heart-led women longing to reconnect with their body’s wisdom
Rooted is a monthly online membership for women looking for a gentle and supportive space to gather and explore deepening self-connection and reconnecting with their body’s wisdom through embodiment practices and awareness. It is an intentional space of connection and resourcing, where you can take a break from everyday life and let yourself be held.
Find out more by clicking this button:
I hope you all appreciate this share from Lise. I’ll be back next week with my own writing.
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