Navigating the Liminal Body
- Develop inner vision.
​- Access inner knowing.
- Learn to expertly navigate, not drown in your state.
From Feeling Lost in a Storm, to Riding the Waves
So many people feel "lost at sea", at the mercy of their own emotions and nervous systems. I help transform that lost, helpless feeling of noise, into a meaningful journey of signal.
I help people become a "navigators" of their interior experiences, able to ride the waves that arise within, rather than drown under their weight.
What I offer is a way to consciously access difficult feelings directly in the body. You'll see it emerge and take shape. You might hear it speak. You'll experience shifting shapes and colours, symbols, archetypes, a kind of surreal gestalt of the situation, and watch it transform in real-time.
A great thing about this work is that you don't need to know why something feels off to shift it. You can go inside and shift things directly. You have agency.
You can stop feeling tossed around by waves of anxiety or fear. You don't need to feel numb, empty, sad. You don't need to be a passive bystander anymore. You don't need to feel stuck. You've got this.
Below is the basic method for consciously accessing your body's wisdom. It's rooted in the Focusing technique, which I've expanded with my own perceptive abilities.
This should give you a feel for work. It's the frame for 1:1 Guided Sessions.
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1. Relaxing into Trance
Bringing Awareness to Your Body & Entering a Light Trance State
We start by helping you slow down, let go of the day, the worries, the spinning mind, the to-do list, the sense of urgency. You can't feel urgency, rushing, or worry and notice the subtle arisings of the Felt Sense at the same time.
If your mind is very active, it's difficult to sense the body. There is a greater risk of flying off into imaginary scenarios rather than authentic listening to the body. This step can last even 30 minutes because if one slows down enough, the body naturally speaks.
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Don't worry. There's nothing you need to do. I'll simply talk to you in a way that will make you feel very relaxed. When I notice that you're in a nearly light trance state, we'll move to the next step.
2. Contacting the Liminal Space
Finding the Liminal Sensations
Whenever we experience anything emotionally-charged there is also a vague physical sensation that arises within us. This sensation is not exactly physical, nor emotional, nor mental, but rather, a hybrid of these. It exists in between all of these. It's liminal.
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Often we don't notice these sensations, but they are perceptible when we slow down and release the mind from performing tasks. These sensations are the doorways to access an alternate experience of yourself.
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During a session, I help you slow down, soften the grip of your mind, and draw your attention to these sensations, so you can find them and stay with them. ​Then I'll help you relate to them in the way that gives them space and allows them to open up to reveal more.
3. Entering Somatic Reverie
Symbols, Emergent Images, and Meanings Revealed
If you can remain very detached from outcomes, a blank slate, willing to be surprised, the vague liminal sensations start to transform. This is the domain in which our personal archetypes live. It's the domain of the somatic reverie, a kind of soulful body-dream.
The blurry shapes take on a life of their own and turn into something you can "see" and "hear". At times, they can take on very vivid forms with full characters and stories. Other times, they remain a vaguely-shaped gestalt.
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It's important to know that the symbolic stories are secondary. The symbols are not the goal of this work. What matters most in these journeys, is how you connect with this domain.
The quality of your noticing, allowing, uninvested curiosity, non-judgemental acceptance is what brings inner ease, flow, wellbeing, and energy. Refining our relationship to this felt-sense is what soothes fear, resistance, tension, pain, conflict, and emptiness.
How you relate to what arises is what transforms your inner life from scary storm to intriguing or exciting adventure. ​
Common Obstacles to Entering Reverie
The more you want it, the more impatient you, the more you try to push, or force "a message" from your depths, the less likely it is to come.
You have to let go of the grip. Let go of the desperate yearning.
That's where I come in - to help you let go and relax in a precise way.
Below are the most common attitudes I encounter in clients which get in the way of having the full reverie experience.
It's the most human thing on Earth to have these instincts. But they don't serve us in this other realm.​ You can check to see whether you relate to any of these urges and start to develop an awareness of these tendencies.
1) Really really wanting a vision or a message
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2) Allowing imagination to substitute genuine arising
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3) The urge to analyse what arises and give it a why
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4) The instinct to interpret symbols with the mind
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5) A sense of hurry, or impatience
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6) The reflex to comfort something in pain
7) The desire to immediately interact with and talk to the visions
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8) A desire to solve problems and "love" what is unloved
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9) Believing that one is receiving messages quickly, without giving enough time to the phase of not knowing anything
How does Guiding Work?
As a guide I connect to my client's interiority. Often times, I can feel and see what my client sees. I can sense the map of your interior landscape. I have a feeling for where you are trying to go, and what the next steps should be in the inner journey. However, I'm not in charge of your trip. I'm the co-pilot, the sous-chef. You are the captain of your ship. You know yourself best.
I only make suggestions to keep you in the trance state and help you explore your inner person. I'll mirror your experience to amplify it. I might make suggestions, like, "perhaps you want to take a step back from it" or "come back to your body" or "are you ok to face that?" As much as possible, I step out of the way. You'll decide if the advice feels right to you, or whether you want to go in a different direction. You are the boss. I want you to eventually take the helm, when you feel up to it. Until you do, I keep you safe as you explore.
Specifically, as a guide, I help you:
​​- Relax deeply
- Find the domain of your inner symbolic world
- Trust that it's ok to move even more slowly
- Have even more patience and kindness towards all of yourself, even the parts you don't like
- Release agendas, and the desire to "do it right"
- Resist the urge to move towards any particular storyline or conclusion
- Learn to keep the mind in check and not let it take over the session
- Be okay with not knowing and not receiving
- Tease apart the difference between the grips of an imaginative scene and the true emergent symbolisation of your own knowing
- Distinguish which are fruitful sensations that lead to your vital knowing
- Move through your own landscape
- Find safety in the face of seemingly dangerous scenarios or feelings
- Keep the visions from disappearing
- Stay in the altered state
- Bring you back from imagination takeovers
- Find a way for your body to feel heard and understood
- Notice the greater flow and ease that results, and not minimise it
- Integrate the experience into your daily life​ and mind, afterwards.
What are the Benefits?
What results from this work?
This work brings us to the zone where we can hear ourselves most clearly. It's a place where we are not stuck and crystallised, looping in mental constructs. Our identity softens. There's natural movement, so we can get unstuck from whatever ails the soul and gets in the way of joy.
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Here are some benefits I've seen time and time again:
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Longstanding emotional pain that feels very stuck can transform in the body.​
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You feel more beautiful, and sensual, as you move from into body awareness.
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Advanced meditative states are more easy to access because you know how to navigate your inner world with precision.
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Trauma loosens its grip in your life. It stops being a hardened part of you. There is wiggle room for change.
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You develop confidence in your ability to access your own wisdom so you don't need to seek advice or approval from others to be okay.
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You feel a unique, bodily or somatic clarity about things. You can more easily feel what's good for you and what's not.
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You can make deep peace with all parts of yourself. You can forgive yourself and others. Your inner critic can take a break.
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You feel less needy of others because you can turn to yourself to genuinely fulfil your own needs. You develop greater resilience, because you have a beautiful place to come back to when you get knocked down.​
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You build a genuine core of inner strength, self-love, and flexibility from which to move through life.
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You can be more okay with not knowing, imperfection, and our general humanity. You can be softer.​ You lose the need to control. You feel safer to let go.
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​You worry less about your circumstances in the world and more about your inner harmony regardless of circumstances.
This work adds somatic wisdom or a bodily knowing dimension to anything else you're trying to do. The more you visit, you can gain insight into all sorts of things:
It adds a new wellspring of inspiration to all creative endeavours. Music, dance, writing, take on new depth and surprising turns as you pull from your authentic depths.
Mathematical insight and scientific pursuits also benefit from sharper instincts as you draw on this new intuitive space within.
Spiritual pursuits or healing pursuits amplify a lot as the granularity and specificity of the inner world increases in resolution.
FYI -I am not a guru.
You are your own fountain of wisdom.
We are learning from each other.
I think it's important to take a minute to say that while I "guide" folks through these altered states of consciousness, I'm not claiming to have special answers. I'm not trying to teach you about the right way to live life, or anything like that.
I'm trying to help you hear your own guidance, within your own belief systems, so you can calm your storms. I have my own challenges to face in this lifetime. I'm playing the game too and I shift as I learn.
What I do have, is a lot of experience entering and navigating in the inner world of others. Each client has a unique world and is a total surprise. After many, many, years, I rarely get lost when wayfinding. I have a sensitivity that allows me to accompany you as you explore. I can hear what direction will likely bring you to your own fruitful knowing. It's a facility but also a skill. It can be taught.​
I've learned about this world from my clients, who graciously allow me to enter this intimate space. No-one has written a guidebook to the various inner landscapes. My clients teach me what's possible. They contribute to my evolution, as I, hopefully, contribute to theirs.
We are all shaping each other in this life, hopefully towards something better, but, if at any point, I ask you to try something that doesn't feel quite right, I'll encourage you to let me know. I'm here to assist you on your path, not mine. Each person is unique and only your body knows where your treasure lies. Your body knows what's best for you.
Energy Work
Sometimes, we don't want to talk, we don't want to think, we don't want to learn a new skill, we just want someone to understand and take care of us.
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At those times, I help clients by entering their fields from a distance, and taking a look to see what I see. ​ I listen to what your energetic system requests, and assist your energy body to carry out those wishes. ​​​Sometimes, clients present me with vivid details of stories which I share at the end of the session. This is not always the case.
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As long as I can see your torso on a Zoom call, I can do this work. On your end, I will talk to you to help you relax and then you will take a little nap as I work. Afterwards, I'll let you know when I'm done and we'll compare notes and discuss what they mean.
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See my testimonials for what that feels like from the client's perspective.
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