The School Of Embodiment

In this video, Dom sits down with Chris for an open conversation on somatic healing, meditation, and spiritual awakening. They explore questions like: What’s the best book on embodiment? Is anger actually healthy? and how does somatic healing support deeper awakening?

And much more besides.
Have a watch and let us know what resonates.

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Announcement

From February, I will be offering a weekly live bioenergetic sessions on YouTube for those who feel called to explore this work more deeply.

These sessions are an invitation to come back into the body.
To move energy that has been held.
To meet what has been repressed.
To allow the body to do what it naturally knows how to do.

Bioenergetic work supports the release of trauma and conditioning stored in the body.
It can be deeply helpful for anxiety and depression, not by analysing the mind, but by restoring movement, sensation and aliveness.
It brings both grounding and vitality, helping the nervous system settle while allowing energy to flow again.

These sessions are open to anyone who wants to experience embodiment directly, rather than just think about it.
They are experiential, accessible, and rooted in the intelligence of the body.

More details will follow soon.
For now, know that if you have been curious about this work, February is an opportunity to step in and feel it for yourself.

1 week ago | [YT] | 12

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I had a really awesome conversation with my mate Dom Berry.

We talked honestly about healing trauma, the limits of self-enquiry and meditation, and what truly supports lasting freedom.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 3

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If you haven’t watched it yet, you’re welcome to dive into our free workshop “A Beginner’s Guide to Embodiment.”
In this session, we explore the three foundational pillars of the embodiment journey:

Feeling the Body

Opening the Body

Going Beyond the Body

You’ll find the link in the comments.

1 month ago | [YT] | 4

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The Body and Nonduality: Returning Through the Body

Let’s begin.

Our natural state is one of openness, fluidity and non-identification.
Before the name, the story, the conditioning, the preferences and repulsions, there was a raw, unfiltered, uncensored, free flowing awareness that was able to express itself in the most intimate and spontaneous ways.

Somewhere along the way, this seamless awareness that was once free flowing began to contract. This contraction and concentration of awareness marked the beginning of physicality and duality. Our ability to concentrate awareness into a single point of focus created a sense of narrowing, a kind of density that eventually took shape as what we now call my body, my personality and my life.

The first traumas, conditions, and experiences of separateness began with the body. From there we continued our creation by dividing an in here and out there experience, a self and a world, a me and everything else. Our lives have become serious, and the body, which was once a pure expression of life itself, has become something to manage, control and survive. Rather than enjoying our creation, we find ourselves trying to survive it.

The body is the doorway, the entry point, you must walk through it and back the way you came.

The body is not a mistake or an obstacle. It is the most direct doorway back to the uncensored, non-dual recognition of self. The contractions, emotions, survival instincts (fear) that brought this organism into existence must be systematically dismantled, through somatic work, to allow this shaky foundation to give up its holding and survival.

When we consistently do this it begins to reveal the same openness and fluidity that existed before the sense of separation appeared. The body becomes a bridge between the seeming individual and the vastness that holds everything. Within this process, the birth of functionality, health and sanity is born. Through the body we can enjoy all expressions but with a deep knowing of who we are and what is truly here.

1 month ago | [YT] | 11

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Belief Systems, the Body and Emotional Repression

Belief systems have become a popular idea in modern psychology.
We are told that what we believe, whether true or false, will shape the way we experience our lives.
There is truth in this.
Beliefs do influence us.

But there is a deeper and more essential question that is almost always overlooked.
Where do beliefs come from?

What is their origin?

Beliefs do not begin in the mind.
They rise out of the emotional life of the body.
Most belief systems are the mind’s attempt to make sense of what the body could not feel, could not process and had to bury.

Repression is the root.
Beliefs are the branches.
And most healing work focuses on trimming the branches rather than tending to the roots.

This is why so many people do not change.
They are working on the symptoms of repression rather than the repression itself.
It has taken me many years to understand this: repression rules!

Trying to rearrange thoughts, challenge beliefs, practise affirmations or repeat new narratives while the body still carries the weight of emotional repression can create the feeling that we are changing, or at least trying to yet rarely brings the result that we want.

Do you ever feel as if you keep meeting the same experiences and the same outcomes again and again?

If so, it is likely that you are meeting the effects of repression. 

If you want real agency in your life, you will need to look into the body where the repression rests, seemingly dormant yet completely active.

It can be an intense yet liberating experience to know yourself beyond repression.
In that space, you begin to discover who you were before you became who you learned to be.

Check out the Back to the Body program (LINK BELOW) if you want an immersive experience into the world of repression and want to learn the somatic tools that help you become free from it. This whole program is geared towards lifting the effects of repression and the embodiment of our real, authentic self.

There are very few schools or teachings that work directly with this area, mostly because of how repression operates.
It is the master of disguise, the quiet force that hides in plain sight.

But once you begin to recognise it, you feel deeply that you are meeting the very thing that has shaped, governed and controlled who you have believed into existence.

LINK:
www.theschoolofembodiment.com/backtothebody

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 9

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New Upload: Check out our podcast episode on healing and awakening through trauma.

It's good to know that although we post lots of videos on Youtube, in the roll of "teacher'' we are very much just normal lads who happened to have fallen in love with spirituality and personal growth.


Awakening and deep transformation are available for everybody, so long as you are willing to put in the work.

Check it out.

1 month ago | [YT] | 5

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Non-duality, Authenticity and the Body

This is something I struggled with for years. I felt the real benefits of body-based therapies and somatic practice, but there was still a quiet belief inside me that this was somehow a lesser path compared to those who focused only on nonduality.

My devotion for the body and non-dual awareness has continued, but over time something has become increasingly clear. The nondual state that so many teachings point toward, the sense of direct intimacy with everything and beyond everything, is only ever known through the immediacy of the felt sense in the body.

More recently, and more importantly, I have seen through my own experience that one of the main reasons so many of us feel cut off from this natural awareness, and continue to suffer inside the illusions of the mind, is because of the layers of tension and holding in the body. These contractions narrow our perception and keep us repeating the same patterns again and again.

I love the radical message of nonduality, the deep rest that comes when there is nobody to protect, no separate me to maintain, no time and nothing to chase. A complete sense of freedom. But when the body is still shaped by old habits and conditioning, when it is held in contraction, these openings come and then fade again. They appear for a moment and dissolve like mist.

In the Back to the Body program (LINK BELOW), we support the natural unwinding of these contractions. Instead of approaching the nature of self through the mind, we work through the body. We soften the physical sense of the separate self, which in time leads to a softening and dissolving of the thought made self in the head.

Because we are such cognitive creatures the top-down approach is usually the most tempting. It gives a feeling of control and safety that the body often does not. The world of feeling can seem unknown and unpredictable. But it is inside this discomfort and this fear that something real can unwind. Here we can let ourselves dissolve in a way that is natural and authentic.


LINK:
www.theschoolofembodiment.com/backtothebody

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