Focalizing

What happens during a focalizing session?

We start with some gentle movement, breathing, and a short, guided meditation to get you into an embodied, calm and relaxed state. Some people may prefer to keep their eyes shut or to lie down. It is totally up to the client. All these can help to gain deeper access to the body's wisdom.

From there I invite you to articulate an intention for the session that you want to investigate. I encourage everyone to speak this out but it can also be kept private if that helps. The intention is normally around any personal blocks or challenges or strong recurring emotions, but it can relate to more general issues like work challenges, purpose, relationship issues, could be to explore, addictions, or traumatic experiences in the past.

"What is my body holding about…?"

"I would like to explore impatience…”

Once the intention is clear and has been framed and spoken out, I may ask a few questions back to you around it like "how long have you felt this way" or "what feelings arise in the moment as I repeat the intention back"? And then I ask you to watch and speak out any feelings or sensations that arise from the body. For example, my right hand is tingling, I feel a lot of heat rising in my head, or my left leg feels numb. Whilst any number of body sensations, feelings, emotions, or thoughts arise I am a loving, safe presence to witness this and mirror and validate back everything that is expressed. There is an open heart, mind, and curiosity that permeate the session. Everything is welcome to be witnessed and seen even the difficult feelings and resistance. Quite often people get a lot of visual stimulus-be it colours or images or vibrant memories coming back too, some that may have been suppressed or forgotten for a long time. Sound and movement may arise and be incorporated in a session too to flow unimpeded and unedited as much as the client feels comfortable. What emerges is something real but intangible as the body is being acknowledged and honoured. In a very quick time, normally within 15 minutes of witnessing and observing what surfaces the body's natural innate and very powerful healing energies tune in and turn on. With that the opportunity to effortlessly release and/or lessen the charge around a whole array of possibilities, including strong emotions, stored trauma, fear, and anxiety. These releases (healthy discharges of energy) open the door for a wave of more life force and creative energy to surge into your being and with that a stronger sense of connection to your true essence can be restored. It's a very simple process but very profound too.

The space is held with great tenderness, curiosity, respect and within a safe container, that allows participants to feel secure and comfortable and helps facilitate a release of whatever arises during a session – be it blocked trauma, stuck emotions, conditioned thinking, patterns of behaviour or historic programming that we take on from an early age. 

As a consequence, more life force energy is ushered in to manifest in myriad ways-creativity, relationships, a greater lightness of being, more loving kindness to oneself and others, higher purpose, more balance and centred physicality, emotional and mental resilience, a stronger connection to one’s inner wisdom and core.  It is deep and powerful work. From my own experience of giving and receiving sessions I find the effects of Focalizing very profound and have witnessed big changes in myself and others.   

If any of you would like to work with me please do get in touch. Sessions are available in person and also zoom, which is extremely effective too.  

You can find out more about Focalising here