The way we talk about trauma being ‘stored’ in the body makes it sound like our bodies are a scorecard taking tally of all the things that happen to us, or make it seem like once we have trauma in the body it’s there forever.
But our bodies aren’t scorecards, and the trauma isn’t ‘stored’.
It’s more like our bodies are a map of all the movements and patterns that we do most often. Our bodies are extremely adaptable and when we repeat a movement our bodies get stronger or weaker around that movement. That’s why if we train legs we get stronger legs, and if we don’t we don’t.
But the movements we do in the gym are only a tiny fraction of the movements we do in life.
And when we are stressed or traumatised we move our bodies differently to when we are relaxed, and so long term stress get’s coded into our bodies.
But like I say, our bodies are very adaptable, we can make new patterns and train our bodies to not brace as much.
When we move the body in new ways and teach our bodies how to relax we are creating brand new ways for our bodies to be, and over time our bodies adapt to this new way of being.
This is exactly what we are doing in yoga.
If you are interested in the physical application of this, for members of the Zoom Studio or Practise Library we have a very special Soul Restore Session on Sunday the 30th August at 8pm
We will be doing a deep dive into the nervous system and how to relax.
If you’re a member of the Zoom Studio you can come live or watch the replay, if you’re a member of the Practise Library you can watch the replay.
The Zoom Studio is currently full to new members but there’s space in the Practise Library if you’d like to sign up 🥰
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