A framework for integrating + embodying your whole Self
energy archaeology® + the realms of embodiment
Embodiment is a practice in integration.
Bringing together. Unifying. Making whole.
A NEW MODEL OF EMBODIED HEALING
Integration, in its most simplest definition, is the act of bringing together or incorporating parts into the whole. Within the western world, integration has taken on a charged social context, so if that word doesn't feel inviting, expansive, or a big sigh of relief for you (or is part of the reason you're on a healing journey to begin with) I invite you to try on a couple others:
Bring together. Unify. Make whole.
Energy Archaeology and the Realms of Embodiment reframe what it means and looks like to integrate and live in coherence.
The way you embody and unify the parts of yourself is incredibly personal. Which is why it might be confusing or frustrating that the journey to embodiment is one of integration. For you that may mean only going for gentle walks and drinking herbal tea until your body tells you otherwise. For someone else it may mean cathartic rage screams and ice baths. Your Realms each need something different to help them communicate!
This is why it's incredibly important to understand the parts we're bringing together! How can we know what to integrate unless we feel how it moves through our body?!
To understand the journey to wholeness - the path of integration - all you have to do is openly and honestly listen to the guidance your body gives you - whether that's sensation, emotion, or energy. We can also work together to listen and let your body unwind, release, and come to coherence through 1:1 work.
Energy Archaeology, and The Realms of Embodiment are the framework that shows you the whole journey. Spirit + Soul. Mind + Body. Finally, the pieces that you've healed separately can come together, creating the capacity you've desired.
Embodiment is a practice in integration.
Bringing together.
Unifying.
Making whole.
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Working with the Realms of Embodiment often feels like moving up and down a ladder. A sensation, pattern, program, or belief makes itself known in the Realm you feel safe to see it or hear it - often one you're already in touch with. From there, the healing and integration moves "up" or "down," as if on a ladder.
When you become aware of something in Realm 4 - Organ, Emotion + Rhythm, it may feel like the sensation or pattern moves up and out through Realms 5 and 6. Or, it will integrate down through Realms 3, 2, and 1.
The Realms of Embodiment also exist as a fractal - a never-ending intricate pattern that is the same across different scales. In this fractal, the "lower Realms" and "upper Realms" communicate and synthesize into one coherent system - which you experience in your human physical body!
The Realms of Embodiment act like a ladder and a fractal
The realm of DNA and quantum is an exploration of the micro and the macro.
When you travel deeply enough into the worlds that vibrate at each cell, unfurl into your genome, and journey to interconnection - you dissolve into particles and light. When you explore those particles, those vibrations, and those fields, you are brought into the vastness and expansiveness of the macrocosm.
One collapses into the other. The realm of DNA + quantum is a field of never-ending endings and beginnings.
Embodying it is an experience of leaping, and at the same time knowing you'll begin again at the foundation.
DNA and Quantum
Your nervous system is a Realm of connection to all parts of your physical self, soul, and Higher Self.
Your ability to be present is largely tied to the physical and energetic regulation of this realm. It is as multi-dimensional as three-dimensional. As ancient as present. It holds your ability to come back to regulation, and alignment with your Soul.
Realm 5 is a realm of paradoxes. It is parts that work together to help us hold and grow through complexity.
This is a Realm of illumination, where you embody and experience the conduits of frequency that weave together your human and Higher self.
nervous system and frequency
Your organs, physically and energetically, are the keepers of, and witnesses to, your own personal rhythm. They know and teach you that the way to a cooperative world is to do your part in your time + trust others to do the same.
The primary energies you work with in this realm are your emotions.
When you can bear witness to, and hold, your own emotions with acceptance and understanding, your body begins to trust the rhythm of its nature.
Feel what's there without judgment, shame, or attachment, and create space for your own perfect timing and rhythm.
organ and ecosystem
Your fluid body is the realm of endo and exo - as within, so without.
Physically, this flow from the depths to the surface is held within the container of your body. Energetically, the parts of yourSelf that crave and need to flow also crave a container to flow within.
This realm is about seeing the balance, the duality, the polarity, and ultimately the unity of life.
Healing at this realm is doing the deep work of trust. Trust that your energy knows when to flow, which direction, through what, and for what. Trust that the lower connects to the higher, the inner to the outer, and that each is doing exactly what it needs to.
fluid and flow
muscle and connection
Your muscles, ligaments, and tendons are a realm of attachment, and open up a threefold opportunity for healing.
Your ability to connect and attach, how you connect and the way you feel about it, and your feelings about the resource you're connecting to.
Resources that you can work with at this realm include money and abundance, relationship and partnerships, and time.
Healing at this realm is liberating deep truths about your feelings, your belief systems, and integrating attachment theory. This Realm is an opportunity to grow in communion with the physical world towards equity and justice.
Your bones flow and transmit energy at a foundational level based on the energetic resonance of Who You Are.
Healing in this realm is often referred to as shadow work, and you can access energies from your Inner Child, Ancestral Lineage, Past Lives, and core wounds.
The Realm requires excavating, looking at, healing, transmuting, and integrating parts of yourSelf, your past, and your lineage that desire acceptance, love, and wholeness.
As you find wholeness in your foundations, your capacity for embodiment expands.
bone and foundation