Embracing Your Embodiment
Deepen Your Intuition, Your Pleasure, and Your Inner Knowing Through Your Body.
2 hour MasterClass with Selena Garefino
What is your body telling you?
Embodiment is a term used in reference to the mind body connection. It is more than just feeling grounded and centered. In fact- there is so much more to it! We experience the world through our body and senses and when we recognize the full intimacy between ourselves and what is showing up in our field we are embodied.
The truth is that people are often disconnected from their bodies these days without even knowing it and that is why it is important to learn how to listen to your body’s sensations. They are often telling you something important.
When we build our intuition, our boundaries, and our pleasure, a deeper connection to inner knowing and to self can manifest, and a real love relationship with our bodies at any stage of life can be experienced and as a result you can reach your fullest potential!
Body Awerness is a Healing Agent
The human mind is largely influenced by our bodies and how they interact with the physical world around us.
Embodiment is the process of building a deep and meaningful connection with our physical selves and by developing a heightened awareness of our physical sensations so we can forge healthy connections with the world around us through our bodies.
We can do this through:
Learning how to pause and assess
Self regulation practices
Cultivating awareness of physical sensations
How Our Body Protects Us:
Our bodies are inately intelligent and when we undergo a traumatic experience, our body tries to protect us by creating a sense of detachment from the experience - an adaptive response that can be highly beneficial in the moment but how do we move past this?
Dissociation Can Look Like:
Thinking your feelings are wrong
Believing that your body is something to be controlled
Never feeling safe
Negative emotions and behaviors.
Self-Mastery Through
Self-Regulation
By honing our ability to recognize external stimuli, whether physical or emotional, without instantly reacting, we can teach our body and mind to respond in a healthy, confident manner.
What’s more, as we distance our reactive self from our true Self, we begin to embody a more authentic version of ourselves and can nurture our inner world and outer relationships from a more grounded and positive position.
In this MasterClass, you will:
What embodiment is and why it matters?
Managing stress and downregulating the nervous system from “go-mode” to ease
Cultivating Presence via the Body
What an embodiment practice can teach you, such as : greater emotional regulation, healthy responsible expression, greater access to background pleasure, increased connection to intuition and inner knowing.
Confidence in who and what you are at any stage of life
The Body Keeps the Score
Trauma, either big T or little t, impacts our memory processing system, causing it to malfunction and leaving traumatic memories unlogged and improperly stored. Instead, our mind defaults to a more simplistic method of recording signals, encoding traumatic memories as vivid images or physical sensations.
This process of dissociation impeds the brain's natural recovery process and often manifests as symptoms commonly associated with post-traumatic stress, increasing our risk of experiencing physical illness and other adverse outcomes.
Whether we experience physical pain without obvious injury, or emotional misregulation, such as chronic stress, by addressing the original dissociation we can bring our system back to a healthy state.
Image credit Nat Girsbergerhttp://www.natgirsberger.com
"We can heal trauma by reconecting to our bodies and mind"
The Science Behind Embodiment and Somatic Healing
PhD Kelly Turner extensively studied terminally ill cancer patients who experienced spontaneous remission who often cited releasing emotional stress or trauma as a key component of their healing. “You don’t have to be stuck,” says Harvard psychiatry professor Dr Kerry Ressler, “there is a good chance that you can move past this.” Examples of people healing trauma from reconnecting to their bodies and minds, and healing life-debillitating illness shows the power of the process.
Yoga As Medicine
Another study on PTSD treatment found that “yoga was far more effective than any medicine that people have studied up to now. That doesn’t mean that yoga cures it, but yoga makes a substantial difference in the right direction.”
After this MasterClass, you will have a greater appreciation and understanding for:
Embodiment and how our bodies respond to stress and trauma
Methods of healing through self-awareness
Protecting ourselves through self-regulation
Meet Your Healer
Selena Garefino
Teacher, writer, artist, and speaker, Selena inspires people to live the life of their dreams, love themselves just as they are, and to imagine all that can be.
She offers a practice and teachings that are pragmatic, practical, and magical to help you author your life, live from your heart, and operate from a place of grace.
Selena is the founder of the WeEvolve Method™ a yoga method anchored in Classical Yoga, Personal Development, and Modern Movement Methodologies.
Her movement and wellness training includes certifications in Katonah Yoga™, thousands of hours in yoga training with modern luminaries, FRC Kinstretch™, FRC Mobility Specialist, Balanced Body Pilates, Personal Training, Precision Nutrition™, Ayurveda, Movement Flow™, and dance. She is also a growing martial artist and personal development coach.
Selena believes that practice is service and that there must be a direct line between our personal spirituality and civil engagement. That our individual wellbeing cannot be separated from the collective wellbeing.
Selena holds a BA in Sociocultural Anthropology with a minor in Philosophy and Women’s Studies, a Masters in Public Health in Infectious Disease and Maternal Child and Infant Health, and is currently a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology with a focus in yoga and South Asian Anthropology. She is a two-time Cornell Fellow, Fulbright Awardee, and scholar.
Selena is also the host and creator of the Mapping the Self Podcast™ a show dedicated to conversations on self-mastery, self-exploration, and our simplest altruism.
What's Included:
2-hour live MasterClass
Q&A with Selena Garefino
Access to the replay
3 daily practices you can continue at home to begin to deepen your relationship with self and body.
