by Daphne | Feb 22, 2022 | Body, Curiosity, Diaphragm, Exploration, Gravity, Movement, Nervous System, Organs, Relational, Somatic, Training Course
In somatic explorations, we become curious in our relationship with both the external environment as well as our internal being. Could the tightness that you’re feeling in your back be caused by your organs sitting in the front of the body?When our body isn’t...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Connection, Consciousness, Exploration, Grounding, Mind, Other, Self, Space
This lady here is the woman who gave me life. I was her first born. She was 22. For most of my life, we couldn’t see eye to eye. There were resentments and estrangements. I swore I would never be like her. And then I learnt about tolerance. And empathy. And...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Bones, Exploration, Fluid, Gravity, Movement, Muscles, Nervous System, Proprioception, Sensory, Somatic, Space, Stability
A lot of tension in the body is often created through accumulative tension in the muscles, either through compensatory movement habits or through our stress response. We tend to forget that our skeletal elements such as the bones and ligaments give us form and...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Embodiment, Exploration, Fluid, Movement, Nervous System
Workshop recording from the recent online virtual conference Sugar & Spice – a sexuality & embodiment festival.Presenting a bottom-up experiential approach to relate to the nervous system through the fluid body.”Daphne’s session was a good...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Body, Embodiment, Exploration, Homeostasis, Limbs, Mind, Other, Self, Somatic, Yoga
On 29 December 2018, I received a phone call that changed the world I knew forever. My father passed away, without warning… Everything around me crumbled in that instance. I felt my limbs went numb, and I stood frozen looking at the phone in...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Cells, Embodiment, Embryology, Exploration, Homeostasis, Movement, Nervous System
It all begins with 1. In the Chinese tradition, we are 1 when we’re born. The Chinese take into account that life begins in the womb – the moment of conception, when our journey in this realm begins. When we study embryology, we go back in time to explore...
