When we talk about somatic practices for regulation, it’s easy to fall into the language of “fixing” or “hacking” ourselves. As if we’re machines with a glitch that needs troubleshooting. As I’ve explored in Embodied Self Regulation: How the Vayus Help Us, our bodies have their own wisdom—one that doesn’t need fixing— it just needs listening. But you’re not a machine. You’re a living, breathing, feeling human. And your nervous system isn’t broken—it’s responding. Responding to everything you’ve lived through, everything you’ve learned about safety and danger, everything your body has stored along the way. So when we talk about somatic practices—grounding, orienting, resourcing—we’re Continue Reading