somatics
rob hardy and
somatics
rob hardy and

Dance of the senses
- District Vision
when you deal with someone who talk about feeling lost, or not connected, or drift â
you cannot get back into any kind of real connection by talking about the fact that they arenât connected - âyou should do this, you should do thatâ - it doesnât work that way.
youâve got to show them, how to connect.
Alexander Lowen
MargaretC ⢠10 cards
Do all of these before moving to talking therapy.
1. Basic health stuff. Regular exercise, healthy diet. That stuff. (That alone doesn't do much, but you need vitamins and proteins and stuff to repair the cellular damage done by nervous system dysregulation)
2. Neurostimulation (thoughts, yoga, nature, Feldenkrais, and stuff. Basically letting the brain and and know you are going to learn something soon, get ready, wake up
3. Neuromodulation (Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Practice, and stuff, letting out all the trauma)
4. Neurorelaxation (a lot of sleep and downtime after you release trauma â you can now be regulated)
5. Neurodifferentiation/ Learning (Which is basically where talk therapy would belong)

Not Only But Then is a handbook by Claus Haxholm that explores the temporal boundaries of body and space. While not focusing on any specific body or room, it offers instructions-like snippets that encourage readers to engage in body movements or manipulations within a given space.
Mashup of some Alexander Lowenâs clips talking about energy, feelings and breath.
For you to feel your body, something has to move. Something that doesnât move cannot feel - it isnât alive. itâs dead.
First, you gotta get your body alive, then sense what you feel.
You can talk about feelings all day long, but itâs an idea (in the mind) not a feeling.
Feeling is a very simple thing - itâs a sensation in the body that comes when you can sense whatâs going on.
You can have good and bad feelings, but if you donât sense youâre body youâre just a âdisenchanted spiritâ thatâs wandering around, with nowhere to go.
If you put the spirit back into the body, the body becomes more alive, and the spirit becomes more uplifted and fulfilled.
Culture is not a body culture - itâs head oriented, emphasising thinking, power and not feeling. Feeling is the last thing that enters the picture in modern life.
âWas in therapy for 3 years - we didnât do much talking, we did body therapy and breathâ
Insanity is losing touch with your body and senses
a healthy person is really characterised by a body thatâs alive, and vital. Eyes that shine, a voice thatâs resonant, a manner thatâs soft, a sense of grace, a courage thatâs dignified, and not dominated by his ego, with a sense of humility when he talks about things.
Energy through the breath
Feelings are movement
feel an internal movement
in order for it to move there has to be energy - energy creates movement (thatâs the nature of energy)
if we make the energy strong enough the movement reaches the surface, and youâre gonna have a feeling.
How do we get the energy?
You have to eat
You have to breathe - you cut of feelings by stopping the energetic process by holding your breath or diminishing your breathing
if your breathing is free and full, your energy is strong, you have strong feelings and you have to deal with them
cutting off your breathing is like slowly putting out a fire, because thereâs no oxygen - now that things are cool, and calm, your mind can think.