Body of Resource, Body of Story
How bottom up and top-down meet in your body
People get stuck in different ways.
They procrastinate.
They are internally conflicted.
They don't keep promises to themselves.
They find the answer to their needs but they don’t follow through.
In the body, this can look like bracing or not feeling the emotional content of the physical.
You can solve this in 2 phases. The first is finding your Body of Resource.
Your body of resource is the one that has evolved over millions of years to solve a universal human struggle:
navigating the design of an unstable structure called your skeleton.
The skills you need to do that are contained in standing and walking.
Try this 5-minute video to experience this in your body.
The second phase is to understand how you create your Body of Story.
Bracing often gets in the way. Bracing happens most often at:
the jaw
the shoulder girdle
the pelvis.
So do we just go in and open everything up? Absolutely not!
If your stability is based on bracing, you need to titrate yourself into a new body.
In Coherent Body you
1. find a different layer of support
2. release some bracing
3. go back and reinforce the new support
4. and then release more bracing
5. and repeat.
Think of bracing as a loud defiant body "NO!"
Think of learning to stand differently as an offering of "What about this way?"
And then the bracing might lower to a "Maybe, but not now."
And then you go to the floor and say "Will this work?"
Then bracing might dial down to a "OK, I can try that."
The conversation with your bracing is about coaxing your body into listening.
The conversation with your bracing is about coaxing your body into listening. You can start this by narrating the present moment out loud.
This conversation needs to be reinforced by your facility in finding support in upright.
This is the necessary bridge to enduring changes.
Standing with internal support is finding the neutral experience of evolutionary body intelligence, which is your body of resource.
Learning to unburden old emotional survival strategies is working with the body of story, which is unlocked through language.
These skills work together in a feedback loop that deepens as you integrate them.
Join me in a live 2.5 hr intensive
In this intensive, I'll go over the body of resource and the body of story.
One is bottom up and physical.
The other is top down, emotional, and unlocked through language.
Sat, March 14
10-12:30pm PT
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BONUS:
1. a digital copy of my book When Things SticK
2. instructional videos
3. immediate access to my private online community.
Who am I?
Hi there! My name is Sue Choi. I’m a somatic movement expert, bodyworker, and author with 26 yrs’ experience helping clients find inner support, power, and ease through posture and breath training. Her book When Things Stick: Untangling Your Body From Old Patterns, have sold over 20,000 copies.
What you’ll learn in this intensive has been battle-tested by thousands of people. I hope you take advantage of this opportunity to be introduced to this potent, proven system!
“It’s been a resource that is almost unfathomable. It’s a different sort of power for me. There’s like a safe energy in my body that I can actually have my psyche inhabiting while other layers are shifting around in their sometimes super chaotic ways. It’s been really fun and it’s been really helpful.”
“Your work has helped me so much. I have discovered that by creating space inside…it fills up with an incredible peace and stillness, changing everything. I passed out your book like candy canes this past holiday…”
“I have practiced tai chi for quite a while and this first standing in your course has put me more in touch with all of my body without taking years to acquire. Bravo! This is really way more than helpful, it is revolutionary!
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“Wow, such a profound shift in moments. Exactly what I have been praying for as I seem to have gotten lost in micromanaging and gripping physically and mentally and emotionally. From so many years of study and practice I actually became very overloaded, overthinking over-sensing. I never thought I could return to just simple being and moving.”
“My biggest insight was the sheer playful joy my body expressed at not having to stand braced for adversity and feeling about to topple. The gentle re-alignment seemed to shift years off me!”
FAQ’s
Q. Will there be a recording?
A. Yes. It will be emailed to you after the event.
Q. Do I need to have experience in mind-body, or will this teach me about somatics?
A. This will be a lot to take in if you are brand new to somatics. Although there are no requirement in order to understand this, the intensive is best for people who already have some background in mindbody concepts.
Q. I have advanced training as a somatic practitioner / nervous system specialist / vagus nerve educator. Will this be worth my time?
A. You will definitely learn things you have not seen before. I have many people with certifications and decades of experience learn from me and finally make connect the dots.
Q. Are there physical requirement for this?
A. I normally suggest you should not be in the midst of recovering from an acute condition and you should be able to walk outside for 30min without getting out of breath. We will be sitting and standing and turning.