Dear Ones,
Happy April everyone! My workshop “The Art of Healing” (combining Trauma-Informed yoga and Transforming Touch) was a success and I will be offering another series in the fall.
I have moved office spaces this week and will now be at 11-1638 Pandosy Street, in Kelowna. This space is welcoming, warm, and decorated in my favorite muted blue colour(s). I also will be able to bring my little Yorkipoo (Lily) to my sessions, and I am sure her gentleness will bring extra healing to our time there.
It is my goal to be offer in the late summer to early fall, group healing sessions over Zoom utilizing Transforming Touch modality to support nervous system regulation and healing. They will be 50 minutes long, and there will be a drop-in option as well as purchase of several sessions at a discount available. Please email me to let me know if you want to be included in either offering.
The Felt Sense - What is it?
To experience and have awareness of the body from the inside. In general, society has valued thinking instead of being embodied and assumed that the brain was solely in charge of the body. Scientifically speaking that is not always true with 80% of the information that we receive about our environment, whether we are safe and who is safe comes from the gut up to the brain.
Qualities of Felt Sense
- Feeling/Sensation
- Pressure – even, uneven, supportive feeling, crushed feeling, cutting off circulation.
- Air current – gentle, cool, warm, from right, from left, stimulating, rush, like a feather, like mist.
- Tension – solid, dense, warm, cold, inflamed, protective, constricting, angry, sad.
- Pain – ache, sharp, twinge, slight, stabbing.
- Tingling – pricks, vibration, tickling, numb.
- Itch – mild itch, angry itch, irritating itch, moving itch, subtle itch, small itch, large area of itching.
- Temperature – warm, hot, burning, cool, cold, clammy, chills, icy, frozen, like: hearth, even, fire, sunshine, baked bread, snow, stone, shade.
- Size – small, large, tiny.
- Shape – flat, circle, blob, like a mountain.
- Weight – density, light, heavy.
- Motion – circular, erratic, straight line.
- Speed – fast, slow, loping, still.
- Texture – rough, wood, stone, sandpaper, smooth, silky.
- Element – fire, air, earth, water, wood.
- Colour – gray, blue, orange etcetera.
- Mood/Emotion – sinking, pulling in, open, closed, uplifting, sunny day, dark cloud, roiling, volcano.
- Sound – buzzing, singing, humming, ringing.
- Taste – sour, bitter, sweet, tart.
- Smell – pungent, sweet, like rain, like leaves, like summer.
Think of the above as descriptors that may help you discern what your bodily experience is like. The practice is in (small amounts) bringing awareness to sensations, feelings, and allow them to be witnessed/felt. Creating curiosity/space for what has been previously pushed away, is the path towards healing and a deeper sense of compassion for you and all that you have been through. Remind yourself often - that you are here, you are alive, and you survived.
With deep appreciation,
Caroldean Jude
Somatic Trauma Therapist
Transforming Touch Practitioner
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Internal Family Systems Practitioner