This space is also dedicated to more fully embodying the body: dropping out of the wind-blown patterns of mind to find in the body a sense of solid, anchored strength and stillness. Trauma symptoms so often feel like a thunderstorm happening to the body: something imposed from the outside. But in exploring somatic techniques, it becomes clear that trauma is an inside job: all that energy is yours. Given the chance, the ancient intelligence of your body works to create ever higher conditions of harmony and wholeness. Our job involves co-creating that: being engaged and present, but also getting out of the way and letting the body release stored energy and relax into healthier ways of being. It may be that this work reveals the body as the realm in which deep transformation happens: of emotional, mental and spiritual concerns.