Healing Movement Exercise to RELEASE TENSION: Move through stress,anxiety, trauma & emotional blocks

In this video, we will be exploring a powerful movement exercise to help you release trauma from your body. Elements such as unprocessed emotions, repeated exposure, uncompleted stress responses, and frequent triggers can cause trauma to stay stored in our bodies, often making us feel unsafe, anxious, and overwhelmed. This video uses 3 powerful somatic techniques to slowly guide your nervous system back to a space of grounding and relaxation.

More about the 3 somatic techniques:

1. Venting: High-intensity, fast-paced movements that help release pent-up energy and unblock stuck emotions in your body, while disconnecting from the mind. Venting is a strategy most of us are used to doing verbally. Something upsetting happens to us, we call a friend, talk very fast for 5 minutes straight about the upsetting event, and feel a sense of release afterward. Well, venting can also be done with your body! And, it is usually more effective because you get to go to the core of the blockages and pent-up emotions that are creating an over-stimulation of your nervous system.

2. Tense & Release: Rhythmic movements that create a small build-up of tension, followed by a release. These movements help gently soothe your nervous system while making it feel grounded and supported. If you are highly triggered, connecting to stillness and calmness can shock the nervous system when done abruptly. Movements like swaying and bouncing regulate the nervous system, gently de-escalating the stress response and walking it toward relaxation.

3. Relax Calm, flexible movements that use body weight, breath, rocking, and rest to allow the body to gently come back to its state of balance. Having gone through the previous steps, this state is now more accessible to me, allowing for deeper integration. This is where the healing happens!

Important, go at your own pace and always adapt the movements to what feels comfortable! Repeat this exercise as many times as you need, it is meant to really train your body into returning to its natural state of balance and harmony. Remember, your body is wise. The more you make space and time to connect to it, the better you will feel.

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Music:

- Fizz by Xack
- Lamma Amoot by Ebo Krdum
- Musing by Amber Glow
- Rest In His Love by Joyspring

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00:00 Intro
00:32 Venting
03:24 Tense & Release
08:34 Relax