Somatic Therapy for Self-regulation & Co-regulation
From the inevitable day-to-day stress, to when the world feels particularly more politically intense, exploring the capacity to “handle” your energy, enables you to better be in relationship with others while maintaining presence and steadiness with your unique sense of self.
Instead of losing yourself in a mountain of overwhelm — from work emails, to skipping another meeting, to the principal’s phone call, to the possible layoff, to after school tantrums, to that growing pile of laundry — you want a way to manage, focus, persevere through what you know you can no longer escape.
You know you don’t want to revert to old habits — checking out through avoiding the hard conversations, fueling yourself on air and adrenaline instead of food, or finally raging because you’re sick of saying yes — because you’ve experienced too much emotional growth to feel that defeat again. You want to continue moving into your highest, wisest, most embodied, most adult self that can handle your vulnerable feelings too.
Handling practices help you to define the space around your body, aiding in self regulation that creates more capacity for co-regulation.
We develop and learn how to handle ourselves in our earliest relational experiences depending on the capacity our caregivers could handle themselves and us. We make actions that are designed to get a reaction; As we grow up, we become the person to react, to handle ourselves.
However, no one gets what is ideal. Often, multi-generational patterning affects embodiment, your developmental capacity to individuate and handle yourself while dancing with others in life. Sometimes you need a somatic redo, to experience what you didn’t get, in an effort for your body to re-member, to handle all of you.
That way, you can embody the quality of, “All of me is welcome now.”
Interested in learning movements and somatic practices that create more capacity for Handling?
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Monday Movement Group: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine
With Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator
1:00-2:00pm Kirkwood/ATL
Ongoing, closed group
3-month commitment
Interview required
$200 month
All bodies, 18+ welcome
*No experience necessary 🩷
Register: Caroline@MBodiedTherapy.com
www.mbodiedtherapy.com/events/m-bodied-monday-movement-group
Along with developmentally-significant yoga shapes & sequences, members get to explore somatic movement practices including:
Navel Radiation: Move from your core with fluidity
Contralateral Movement: Explore blockages & invite more energy to flow
Gesture: Discover your energetic skin for presence as well as boundaries with others
Handling: Expand your movement vocabulary for a more satisfying and eventual self-supported experience
Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, is also a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator with ISMETA. She developed M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine as an offering of movement and shapes based on developmental and relational patterns for deep nourishment from the inside-out.
M-Bodied is grounded in the principles & practices of the somatic trauma healing method Chi for Two®, which groups and sequences early relational embodiment practices as symbolic redos for nervous system functioning and healthy relationships.