Leading with intention

Hi Reader

Early in my practice, I had a session that taught me something I have never forgotten.

A woman arrived and she was wired. Stressed was the word she used, the only word she had for what she was carrying. Work, ambition, her family's needs, everyone else's expectations stacked on top of her own. She did not yet have language for what was actually happening in her body. Neither, at that point, did I have the framework I do now.

So we trained the way most sessions are trained. Straight into movement.

She rushed through every movement. I would suggest she slow down, loosen her body, and she could not. She had not been given the chance to sit, to connect, to arrive. Her breath stayed high in her chest the entire session, never dropping low enough to fill the movement.

Within minutes she was tired. Not from effort. From trying to push a body that was already over capacity into doing more.

Her movement got sloppy. I had to give her more instruction than usual, but she could not take much of it in. There was a kind of fierce determination in her, pushing past her own boundaries, past what her body could actually do that day.

For days afterward she was aching everywhere. Not just the muscles she had used, but the muscles that had been quietly bracing the entire time, holding an anxious, stressed posture that had nothing to do with the exercises themselves.

That session changed how I work permanently.

This is why I never start with just a warm-up. I start with the breath. With connection. With moving from the deepest place first. If something needs to release, that happens before anything else.

It is not a softer approach. It is the only approach that actually works for a body that arrives already at capacity.

If this sounds familiar, the first step is always the same. A Somatic Audit, online, thirty minutes, complimentary. We find out exactly what your body is holding before we decide what to do about it.

Seema x

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