Episode 21 | Heart-Space Connection: Guided Somatic Audio Journey

Welcome To The Womanhood Podcast.

In this weeks’ episode, we’re focusing on exploring the Heart-Space; building upon the wisdom from the previous episode (Emotional Sensitivity & Emotional Numbness). This episode invites embodiment into our lived-experience; moving and feeling through this wisdom of the Heart-Space.

RESOURCES: 

🎧 Episode 20. Emotional Sensitivity & Emotional Numbness (Apple link): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/womanhood-by-shannon-harrison/id1856661674?i=1000768714794 

🎧 Episode 20. Emotional Sensitivity & Emotional Numbness (Spotify link): https://open.spotify.com/episode/69Diqd6zwQNAWgrPdngTQ4?si=28f8fae1eac245b6 

🎧 Episode 14. Explore Numbness & Dissociation Via The Womb-Space (website page with embedded player): https://www.somaticbody.com.au/workshops-events 

📚 The Emotions & Thoughts and the Treasure Chest Of Compassion Mini Guidebooks (access here): https://www.somaticbody.com.au/shop 

🌹 Book A Somatic Womb Session With Me (Info Link): https://www.somaticbody.com.au/one-on-one-consults 

🌹 Book A Somatic Womb Session With Me (Buy Link): https://buy.stripe.com/cNibJ08lzcmZ2FkcfU5EY0m

Connect With Me: 

IG 📲 @somatic.body 

Website 🌐 https://www.somaticbody.com.au/ 

Book an Embodiment Session 🔮📞 A free chat with me: https://www.somaticbody.com.au/book

With Love, Shannon 

🔻 Somatic & Energetic Integration Specialist for Women, 

🔻 Creatress of the Feminine Harmony™ Program and the SomaCycle™ Method. 

🔻 Feminine Systems Educator | Reclamation Guide | Ritual Facilitator 

🔻 Foundress of Somatic Body™ - a space devoted to helping women reconnect to their feminine bodies.

00:50 Introduction: What This Episode Is Covering 

01:53 - 26:58 Somatic Experience (Audio Journey) To Explore The Heart-Space and Heart Chakra. 

26:58 - 27:56 Finalising The Episode & Whats Next On The Womanhood Podcast

Transcript

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Welcome to the Womanhood Podcast. I'm your host, Shannon, Somatic and Energetic Integration Specialist for Women, founder of Somatic Body and creatress of the Soma Cycle Method and the Feminine Harmony Program. And I'm here to inspire you to reclaim your rhythms, remember your wisdom, and root into your womanhood. Each week I'll be discussing topics centered around our womanhood from a multifaceted, thematic, and energetic viewpoint, weaving together both science with spirituality and masculinity with femininity. We'll be talking cyclical natures and rhythms, intuition, instinct, ancient room wisdom, and grounded embodiment strategies. Find yourself a cozy space and let's get started. Welcome to the Heart Space Connection Guided Audio Journey. We're going to be taking you through a somatic audio journey. And before we begin, I invite you to find a quiet, safe space, a cozy space like I have where you can fully soften into this experience as we go through this journey. You may wish to find a cozy space on the couch or the bed, sit comfortably, lay comfortably, light a candle, use a weighted blanket, grab your favorite petty, dim the lights if you're not a candle gal, but just find your cozy space. This is your space now. Nothing to fix, nothing to hide from, nothing to force, nowhere else to be. Just you, your breath, your heart, your body, your soul. In this moment here, as we settle in and prepare for the journey. And so as we begin, just take a slow inhale through your nose and exhale gently through the mouth. Again, inhale slowly and soften the jaw as you breathe out. One more time, bringing in a sense of safety in and breathing out tension. Allow your body to fully arrive here in this moment. With each exhale, with each inhale, using the breath as the anchor as we start journeying in. Coming back to the breath as your anchor whenever you notice distractions, outside noises, coming back to the breath and my voice. Whenever your mind starts to wander, just allow the mind and the thoughts to flow through and pass by, like a leaf floating downstream as you watch it go by in a river. And today's invitation is a journey back to your emotional body, back to your heart space, back to the parts of you that may have learned to close or harden, to suppress and protect. And if you find resistance arising during this journey, that's okay too. You know resistance is protection, and protection deserves more compassion. If we meet protection with resistance, we meet it with the same frequency. If we meet it with compassion, we invite protection to soften. And so now there is nothing you need to do perfectly. Simply allow yourself to receive as we drop deeper into this practice. Dropping back into the breath now, and begin noticing the points of contact beneath your body, the floor beneath you, the chair beneath you, the support holding you. Let your shoulders soften, relax your hands, unclench your jaw, allow your belly to soften and release with each exhale and expand and inhale. And with every breath, allow yourself to arrive more and more fully inside your body. And now bring awareness towards your chest space, the center of your heart, your heart chakra, not the physical organ, but the energetic space that surrounds it. The heart space, the emotional center, the place connected to love as well as grief, connection with others, a longing for a sense of belonging, a space where we can find safety in our connection with others and in connection with ourself. Through vulnerability, we feel our emotions here and our vulnerabilities. This is the heart chakra, the space that says, I love. I love. It's where we can access love vibration. And without trying to change anything, simply notice what lives here today in this chest space, the heart chakra. And you might like to place one or two hands on the chest space. And just notice: does your heart space feel tight, open, heavy, numb, guarded, cool, tender, overwhelmed? What do you feel in your heart space here? There is no wrong answer, there is simply your body communicating with you. And now imagine your breath moving directly into the center of your chest. Inhale gently into your heart, directing the breath to the heart chakra, and exhale slowly out. Again, inhale, breathing softness into the heart space, into the chest space. And as you breathe out, inviting pressure and tension to release, you may begin noticing sensations starting to arise. Perhaps emotion, memories, something fuzzy and undefined, or perhaps nothing at all. And if you feel numb, that is okay. Numbness is not failure. Sometimes numbness is the body's way of saying, I have carried too much for too long. And we can witness and honor that during these journeys. And if you feel emotional, that's okay as well. Sensitivity is not weakness. And sometimes sensitivity is the heart saying, I still long to feel fully alive. And for a moment now, invite the visualization of the heart space as a room. Invite that concept into your third eye, into your vision, visualizing a space, a room around you that is the heart space. A sacred inner room within you that is expanding around you. Your sacred safe container. And as you start to allow this heart space room to evolve around you, notice what the room feels like. Does it feel light, dense, heavy, or a grounded weightedness? Does it feel refreshing? Is it bright or dim in the space? In that heart space room? Does it feel warm or cold? Or perhaps open or closed? Within this heart space room, are there walls here that literally can find the space for you and define that container? Or is it open? Are there windows and doors? Walkways that lead out to other rooms and expand. Just observe gently, no judgment, just following what comes up for you. Starting to allow some questions in, allow them to land into this heart space as well as into your body. Is there anything your heart has been protecting you from? Or is there anything your heart has been protecting inside of you? Perhaps grief, disappointment, loneliness, shame, fear, abandonment, rejection, heartbreak, or perhaps the fear of being fully seen, the fear of vulnerability. Your heart has worked so hard to protect you. And today we are not forcing it open. We are simply letting it know it is safe to soften if it wishes to. Bring one hand to your heart now if it isn't already. Feel the warmth of your hand. And that slight pressure and comfort that hand provides for your chest space. Feel your own touch, your own presence, your own nurturing and caring energy here. Here you are safe to meet yourself fully. You are safe to feel. You are safe to soften slowly at your own pace. No right pace, just your pace. And now imagine a soft green light glowing inside the center of your chest space. Gentle, warm, alive, vital. And this light represents your heart energy, your emotional body, your capacity to be loved and to love. And with every breath, this green light expands softly through your chest, emanating out of that chest space and expanding in any directions it wishes to. No force, no urgency, no expectations, just gentle expansion. Any armor, any walls, any mental exhaustion, any stories that told you you had to stay guarded to stay safe. You had to hide your vulnerability to stay safe. But today you do not need to remove all of your protection. Some protection was necessary, and some protection helped you to survive in the past. But perhaps now, your body no longer needs to carry it all alone. Your body no longer needs to protect. And as you breathe here in this space, you may notice emotions rising. If tears come, let them come. If sadness comes, let it move. If anger arises, let it exist. And if nothing arrives, we honor that too. Because healing is not measured by intensity, it's measured by safety. And now slowly ask yourself what emotion inside me is asking to be witnessed today? No overthinking, simply notice what arises. With that question, let it land in your body, in your heart space. And wherever you feel that emotion rising from in the body, just gently breathe there. If it lives in your chest, breathe in the chest. If it lives in your throat, breathe your awareness there at the throat. If the emotion lives in your belly, breathe the awareness into the belly. You do not need to analyze the emotion, you do not need to solve the emotion. Your body is not asking to become a logical machine right now. Your body's just asking for presence. And now imagine the version of you that first learned it was unsafe to fully feel. Take some time for that to land. Imagining the version of you that first learned it was unsafe to feel. Without forcing an answer, just allow it to land. Perhaps she was young, perhaps she was hurt, perhaps she was unseen or felt unsafe. Perhaps she learned to suppress, to stay quiet and disconnect because it was all too much. Or to overgive and focus on the energy and the emotions of others rather than her own. And take in that visualization as well as the sensations that come with it. Notice her face, her posture, her energy. And instead of trying to change her or fix her, simply sit beside her. Let her know that she doesn't have to carry this alone anymore. I'm here with you now. You are safe with me, you can say. Perhaps a blanket of light, a warm embrace, a hug, perhaps some golden energy, or simply a loving presence, a holding of hands. Just notice how your body responds to that. Maybe your chest softens, your breath deepens. Maybe the emotions flowing through you start to shift and evolve now into something else. Or maybe stillness arrives. All of its welcome. And now gently bring awareness back to your heart space again. Slowly contracting back to the body, coming back to the body from that heart space room. Bring the awareness right back down to your own sacred chest space and heart space. You might like to place your hands there again. Notice that green light inside your chest as it continues to glow softly, steadily, lovingly. And notice how this light begins to extend through the rest of your body and just outside of your body, emanating through the shoulders, down your arms, your hands. Down the spine, through the hips, the legs, your womb, your entire being. Your emotional body becoming softer, more spacious, more alive, beating like the heart itself. Your emotions are sacred messages. You do not need to fear your feelings. You can honor your sensitivity and your vulnerability. You can honor your protection as well. Because your protection showed up at a time where the capacity to feel was too much. So we honor that. And you can repeat after me softly if you like. I am learning when to soften and when to hold boundaries. I am allowed to feel deeply without getting lost or abandoning myself. My heart deserves safety too. And now imagine that energy center, that green light emanating from the heart space. Imagine that heart space and that green light becoming balanced. Not necessarily a perfect 50-50 or a perfect in the middle, but becoming balanced in the sense that it's not overly open to an extent where you feel exposed, and yet it's not fully closed either. Simply feel what that is for yourself and visualize that green light. Being open to the extent that feels comfortable for you. Coming back to balance. Not drowning in emotion, not suppressing emotion, but allowing emotion to move through you with presence. And take a deep breath in now and sigh it out slowly. A few more times, inhaling and exhaling with softness, coming back to the breath, back to that anchor. Begin noticing the room around you again, the temperature of the air, the sounds that surround you, the feeling of your body in the space around you, the support beneath you. You can start to invite some movement back into the body, opening and closing the hands, wiggling your fingers and toes, and just start object-orienting, so naming some objects in the room. Just have a look and name five of them. Helps you come back to the space. And as we come back to the space before we close the practice for today, this journey, just invite you to place your hands back onto your heart. Feel your heartbeat. Feel your life force here. Your soul, your heart, your mind, your body, all connected. Alive, breathing, existing, loving, flowing, healing. May you return home to your heart with gentleness and whenever you feel called to. May you trust your body's wisdom. And come back to that wisdom whenever you feel the call to. And if you haven't opened your eyes yet, I invite you to slowly soften and open the eyes and take a final deep breath in and out. Drink plenty of water, journal if needed, move slowly, do what you need to do after the session to fully integrate and process through everything you've just journeyed through. But most importantly, be tender and loving with yourself after this journey. Thank you for sharing this space with me inside the Woman Hall podcast today. And may this journey remind you that your heart is never too much to return back to. Just need a safe space to land. Sometimes we simply just need safety to be felt in order to feel. Bye for now. I'll see you next time. As we finish this week's episode, remember that you are your own rhythm keeper. So just keep listening for that rhythm and keep coming home to you. Until next time, with love, Shannon at Somatic Body.