Awakening Inner Wisdom: Embodiment as your Compass
Your body is incredibly alive - and it is always speaking to you. Our internal landscape - the realm of sensations, rhythms, and stirrings is rich with guidance.
This is interoception: our felt sense of what is happening within.
When we tend to it well, we can allow it to inform and shape how we engage with what lies outside (which is our exteroception: the world we bring ourselves into).
Why Embodiment Matters
One of my favourite leaders in the world of embodiment is Amanda Blake, Author of ‘Your Body Is Your Brain” - a book I can’t recommend enough! Her work, embodiment has illuminated how meaningful, grounded, and transformative this modality can be as she reminds us we don’t merely have bodies; our body is the brain in its fullest sense. Our thinking, our presence, our emotional intelligence, they all unfold through the body’s wisdom.
The body is our social and emotional sense organ, alert to nuance even before words form. We have these core somatic competencies that we get to enhance. These being sensing (our ability to feel inner shifts) and centering (regulating these sensations into grounded presence).
Through this, we become more resilient, more attuned, and more real in our choices. It is such powerful stuff, and something we actually all know at an intuitive level. This is why I have made it my mission to guide more people back to that knowing and that deep, trusting relationship with their body to gain optimal vitality, ease and joy!
Let’s dive a little deeper now and look at how this concept plays out in the real world:
Embodiment in Action
1. Posture & Presence
Your posture affects your perception - and then how the world responds to you based on that. When we stand tall, lift out chin slightly, and soften our shoulders, maybe even lift our heart, notice how even these subtle shifts can ripple into emotional and mental clarity and carry you into more confident action
2. Breath as your Neuromuscular Modulator
A conscious breath isn’t just air, it’s an invitation to recalibrate. Soften the ribcage, lengthen the exhale, let your breath anchor you into now when you feel overstimulated. This shift isn’t only physical, it orchestrates your calming nervous system into harmony, receptive and resourceful.
*It’s important to note here that breath work is deeply nuanced - and often we require different types of breathing techniques depending on our current nervous system state. This is where an experienced guide or coach can be helpful as you’re starting out.
3. Regulating Through Feedback
When life speeds up or things feel sticky, your interoceptive awareness is your ally. Feeling a clenched jaw or a flutter in the belly? That’s information, not weakness! Naming these shifts can be the first step in up- or down-regulating your nervous system and inviting ease or harnessing energy. The most amazing part? It can often be shifted in literally a few minutes!
The Bridge: Inner Awareness to Outer Creation
Witness how these inner shifts pave your way into the world:
When your breath softens, how does this affect your ability to feel present? Do you feel more or less trusting? Are you more or less called to lean into collaboration and cooperation?
When your posture holds you steady, does your voice feel like it carries more or less weight? Do you feel more or less confidence in yourself and your ideas?
When you take a moment to pause before you react, and to check in with your body’s intelligence - do you notice more clarity and alignment in how you’re being called to respond?
The more we practice this, the better we can get at centering on the fly - learning to implement a somatic practice that helps you reset even mid-conversation! Some of my faves are as subtle as softening my gaze, relaxing my jaw, and feeling into my grounded feet. I’m wary of the term “hacking” - but these tiny tools really can become powerful shortcuts to presence when you apply them with intention!
Living from the Sensing Body
Let’s do a min practice right now, as you’re reading this, to help you tune in to your own body’s intelligence …
Pause and sense: Catch the felt shifts happening now in your breath - is it shallow or deep? Long and slow or fast and choppy? Where in your torso is the breath most noticeable? Are you feeling a contracting or expanding?
Tweek your physical self: Now ground your feet. Soften your chest. Breathe into your pelvis and find a sense of dignity up your spine while at the same time you soften your front.
Hold here and breathe. Look around. Notice what you notice.
Watch how your outer world responds: Observe any subtle shifts in energy, clarity, receptivity, or resonance.
Let this be your Invitation to let Your Body Be Your Guide
This isn’t about perfection or control. It’s about re-discovering your body’s innate intelligence and befriending the quiet, knowing presence that nudges you toward what feels aligned.
Lean into the felt sensation of alignment, even if your mind is still taking notes. Let posture, breath, emotion, movement, and sensing shape not just what you do, but who you become.
There’s a knowing inside you, embedded in bone and blood. Let it lead. The world you create outside is waiting for this version of you x
