Day 6 - A Gentle Change, A Deeper Knowing

Honouring the subtle, supporting the small,
& witnessing realignment in every sense.

As the week began to wind down, I noticed a change of pace, not only in the rhythm of the immersion, but in how my body was meeting each Spinal Flow session. The energy had grown softer. The energy had softened, and the waves were no longer crashing through.  We had moved through with such intensity, deep emotional releases, heart openings, hours of practice each day. And now there was an air of softness settling over us. That said, this day was still full of learning, both practical and profound.

Healing Across Many.

This morning we explored how to work with multiple clients simultaneously, something I wasn’t initially drawn to. In my mind, healing was an intimate, one-on-one process. But witnessing the beauty of collective sessions this eek has changed my thoughts on this.

Because once the Spinal Flow is activated, the body’s own healing intelligence takes over. The practitioner doesn’t need to maintain constant contact, the body knows what to do once activated. It might just need a little boost and support now and then. And some clients even prefer this setting, feeling less observed and more free to let their bodies “do the work” while the practitioner moves quietly between them. And then there is something about the collective energy in the room that seems to amplify healing.

I am still not sure if holding group sessions for clients on the daily is/or will be my thing. But this opened my mind to the possibility in the context of weekend workshops and retreats. I can already envision blending Spinal Flow with Breathwork, Somatic Meditations & Movement, and Energetic Group Healings, a full-body, full-heart experience. Probably not right away. But it will come.

Holding the Smallest Bodies.

On this day we also focused in on a particularly beautiful subject, how to support babies, children, and sensitive individuals with Spinal Flow. As we discussed the different needs of these tiny, growing bodies, something clicked deep inside me.

I thought about myself as a child, quiet, always shy, hesitant and scared to participate even when I wanted to. I now recognise this for what it was, nervous system dysregulation. I was sensitive. I was absorbing everything around me, emotions, energies, unspoken tension. I carried it all in my small body without knowing what it was or how to release it.  If Spinal Flow had been available to me then, I often wonder how different my experience of growing up might have been.

The truth is, children, even infants, absorb their environment. They feel what their parents feel. They pick up stressors in their surroundings and, just like adults, store that tension in their spines. Even birth itself, while natural, is a significant physical and energetic event for a baby’s system. And science is beginning to show that babies can hold on to their mothers' stress, a reminder that our energetic systems are deeply interconnected.

What I love most is that Spinal Flow offers a gentle, non-invasive approach that supports their nervous systems, growth, posture, and sense of embodiment, even before they can speak. As someone who has had to slowly unpack the patterns of early trauma in adulthood, I did feel a calling, this is something I would love to offer families. This is something that matters and that can change the course of the direction your life is going.

The Quiet Power of Connection.

Later in the day, we returned to one-on-one practice, focusing on something beautifully simple, connection. Heart to heart presence. The reminder that as we give healing, we also receive it.

As I lay on the table during this session, I felt the spinal flow focusing and building in my sacral region. I could feel my body wanted to move my pelvis and my hips and focus on this area. And curiously, on this day, every practitioner working on me had landed on the same access point on my sacrum. Not my coccyx, as had mainly been the case in the previous days, but slightly higher up and the same spot. It surprised me and my coscious mind, but didn’t surprise my body. It clearly knew what it needed and which access point. As practitioners, in order to land on an access point, we scan the area with our fingers multiple times and let ourself be guided by your body, like magnets the fingers are drawn to the right access point, and for me this was interesting to observe and also a learning point in removing my mind from thinking it knows better.

Realignment.

As I stood up from my session to observe the next in my group, I noticed that something felt different. My sacrum felt like melted butter, as if someone had put WD-40 on my sacral vertebrae. It just felt soft and smooth when I was moving my body. I felt my body wanting to sway, slowly rocking my hips side to side as I was standing there. I started noticing a tingling sensation around my right hip joint, a focused area with pins and needles. This went on for a while, as I was observing the sensations in my body, slowly swaying side to side, I started noticing that my legs felt different. My feet felt so grounded to the floor, and my stance was just "tall". I had my suspicion of the new shifts that had taken place in my body but wanted to wait until the end of the day to be certain.

Later that day, we joined our original pods again for re-assessments, and what I thought had taken place, had in fact happened.

My legs were now the same length and my hips had realigned.
This was the shift I had felt from the last session on this day, and I could still feel the area of my hip joint, it was not tingling any more, now it just felt a little tender like a bruise.

I also found out that my shoulders and ears were almost perfectly balanced.
And layers of emotional and chemical stress that had been detected along my spine earlier in the week had melted away. I still had some emotional stress in my cervical vertebrae (no surprise here) As well as my thoracic spine, just behind and below the heart, but it was less noticeable and layers had melted away.  I was excited and grateful for the changes and how my physical body had healed and mended. 

The Emotional Body in the Physical Spine.

There were others in the room whose physical transformations were even more dramatic, practitioners who had joined the course after dealing with injuries, spinal curves, or chronic pain, had witnessed considerable changes of improvements in their bodies.  Here we all were, transforming, healing, realigning.

I came into this immersion, this modality, for emotional and energetic healing, not because of any major physical issue I had been struggling with. But that’s the beauty of Spinal Flow, it reminds us that stressors don’t live in isolation. They lodge into the body. Emotional pain becomes physical tension, Chemical stress settles into posture and breath. 

This is whole-body healing. And it is so needed in the world.