The Body Remembers – On Embodiment and Safety

For many of us, returning to the body is not a graceful glide — it’s a slow unfolding. A remembering. A re-learning of how to feel at home in our own skin. Especially if we’ve ever been taught — through trauma, culture, or experience — that our bodies weren’t safe places to be.

Embodiment isn’t about perfect presence. It’s not about being calm all the time or never dissociating. It’s about building a relationship with your body rooted in kindness, curiosity, and consent. It’s about listening gently, even when the body is loud. Even when we don’t yet have words for what it’s trying to say.

At Alyn, so many of our offerings begin here — with the body. With breath. With the sacred practice of coming back to ourselves. Slowly. Tenderly. At our own pace.

Whether you’re lying on a mat in stillness, dancing your heart out, sitting in therapy, or simply walking barefoot through grass — know that every act of reconnection matters.

You don’t have to rush. The body will wait for you.