Resonance: The Subtle Communication Between Body & Soul

Your body holds every experience you’ve ever had.

Your thoughts, your emotions, your dreams, your memories.

Woven in layers, like a tapestry, your patterns of behavior, belief, and resilience tell the story of your experiences through the lens of familial, cultural, and personal conditioning.

Most of those patterns were learned and encoded in your neural pathways before the age of seven. Before the age of reason, before you were able to choose for yourself.

              As a massage therapist, I saw these patterns show up as pain or limited range of motion, or chronically tense upper shoulders or jaw.  As a Trauma Touch Therapist™, these patterns show up in my clients as anxiety, overwhelm, and hypervigilance. As a somatic coach, these same patterns show up as perfectionism, feeling stuck, or thwarted creative expression. Different layers of the same story, all stemming back to patterns learned in childhood, or traumatic experiences, or coping behaviors that just don’t fit anymore.

              And when you get right down to it, the reason something doesn’t fit is either because the story wasn’t yours to begin with, or you have experiences that shut down your ability to feel safe. Deep down, you have a knowing wisdom, a guiding force that whispers, “Not that” or “Not quite”, or “Yes, this is you!” But hearing this whisper means getting still and allowing the subtle nudges and nuances to be felt. And most of us have little knowledge or practice of getting still, much less feeling subtle nudges.

              Body to Soul Coaching™ is a somatic-based model of getting clear so you can hear those whispers and feel those nudges. And so, you can release the conditioned behaviors and limiting beliefs that don’t align with your deeper knowing.

              The key here is safety. When we feel safe to explore our story, our experience, our inner wisdom, we are suddenly privy to a whole new world of possibility. We no longer have to blindly do what we have always done. We find a sense of agency and freedom. We can change our story. We can own what is ours and let go of what no longer serves us.

              What story is your body holding right now?

              "The mind’s language is thought.

The heart’s communication is emotion.

The body’s communication is sensation.

The soul’s communication is knowing."

~ Carol Holguin, Body to Soul Coach