Soul shaped with Monika

A WARM WELCOME!

By coming here, you’ve taken a bold step into deeper alignment with head and heart, and I’m truly lit up to meet you here with this practice. The journey of claiming our authentic power is one of courage, discomfort and miracles:

 - the courage to befriend the unknown, 

 - the discomfort to hold the rejected and abandoned parts of ourselves in love, and

 - the miracles that naturally start to unfold when we say yes to honouring our truth.

SETTING UP

Find a quiet time and space where you won't be disturbed. The practice itself is 15 minutes, allow a buffer to support your process. 

Remember there's no 'right' way of doing this, and don't worry if you don't have a big experience with it straight away, or if there is some confusion or overwhelm. This is normal in the beginning and likely to settle soon. 

The practice grows like an unused muscle, it will deepen in richness as you continue. You can come back to it as often as you like.  Connecting with yourself in this way is deeply healing, and paves the way to discovering your true essence.

• You might like to keep some writing materials handy to journal, sketch or make notes of any insights that come through during the process.

• Feel free to pause the recording if you're called to spend longer with any part of the practice.

some pointers before we start

• It's very common to be in a disconnected or even hostile relationship with our real feelings and needs. We may find ourselves avoiding them completely, or talking ourselves out of what we really feel and need. It can be challenging to be with some of our unmet feelings and needs as they surface, when we've been in the habit of judging and shutting them down. In this practice you're giving them room to be. 

• It's important to surround yourself in tenderness and compassion, as uncomfortable feelings of guilt, fear and shame show up. Appreciate yourself for taking the radical step to embrace these neglected parts, instead of denying their existence and escaping from them. Realise that this is not your fault, but the unhealthy default you are bringing into wholeness. 

• ALL of our feelings are natural, normal and healthy - regardless of what we've been taught. We don't need to be in fear of an inherent part of ourselves. When we suppress emotions, they don't go away but are forced to act out in unconscious and often destructive ways.

• Emotions are accompanied by sensations, like contraction, spaciousness, discomfort or pleasure. They are not permanent, but waves - the good ones and the less desirable ones. They arise, peak and then dissipate - keep breathing into your belly as you allow them to move through you. Stay with the resistance, and gently invite yourself to explore it's edges, you'll find that it starts to expand and melt. On the other side is a homecoming we've been longing for. 

• The intention with this practice is to have a dynamic and alive connection with yourself. It's not to fix yourself but to connect with the wholeness that's already here within, because there's nothing wring with you. When we stop fighting with reality, a spaciousness open up. In this clearing we can connect with clarity and see the way. 

• Be a fierce lion/ness on your own behalf, go all the way. Please also exercise self-care. If you find yourself unduly distressed, disregulated or overwhelmed, pause the practice. Take a few slow, deep breaths and sip on some water. You can come back to the practice later. Check in with your inner guidance on this. It's wonderful to seek support when needed, sometimes that's the act of courage we need the most.