I often begin with Salvador Dalí's Woman with Flower Head (c. 1937) — a figure whose face is a bouquet, whose thinking has been quietly replaced by blooming. It's a strange, beautiful lens into somatic healing.

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Because healing moves from sensation to story, not the other way around. You don't think your way out of a tense nervous system. You feel your way out.

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The practice on this page is built for that direction of travel — body first, meaning later, and only if it wants to come.