In the Realms of Embodiment, the whole of you is at the center, and each of the parts – bones, muscles, fluids, organs, nervous system, and DNA –  are tended to as they speak up.

There’s no priority or order of importance, and there’s no right way to explore them or journey with them. You simply notice which is speaking and what needs tending.

When we stop imposing assumptions or importance, when we stop controlling the journey, the body can lead.

What I find, is that as I journey with the Realms of Embodiment, there are patterns in the way they work energetically between and amongst each other: as a ladder, moving from one to another sequentially, or as a fractal, where a change in one necessitates a change in another at multiple scales.

So let’s explore the Realms of Embodiment and what this means in your body and for your healing.

What Are The Realms of Embodiment?

The Realms of Embodiment act like a ladder and a fractal. It’s your physical body and experience structured into six energetic Realms:

Realm 1: Bone and Foundation

Realm 2: Muscle, Connection, and Relationship

Realm 3:  Fluid and Spirit Movement

Realm 4: Organ, Emotion, and Ecosystem

Realm 5: The Nervous System and Soul

Realm 6: DNA and Quantum

Working with the Realms of Embodiment can be like moving up and down a ladder, or side-to-side on a scale (since the Realms are non-hierarchical, I like to envision it this way more). A sensation, pattern, program, or belief makes itself known in a Realm, and you feel safe to see 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, or side to side, like the keys on a piano.

When you work with an energetic pattern in the Organ and Ecosystem Realm, it may feel like the sensation or pattern moves “up and out” through the Nervous System and DNA. Or, it will integrate “down” through Fluid, Muscle, and Bone.

The Realms of Embodiment also exist as a fractal, a never-ending intricate pattern that’s 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!

Feeling Energetic Healing in the Realms of Embodiment

Feeling the experience of the Realms as a fractal isn’t easy. There’s no linear way to track a shift when it occurs across Realms and different inner and outer spheres of your life simultaneously. It can feel chaotic, but not in an overwhelming way. In a way that feels like disparate pieces of your life are coming together simultaneously.

It’s easier to feel and track the energetic shifts in your body when you pay attention to the edges between Realms.

When you’re in the process of living out and integrating healing in one Realm, you’re able to feel it most acutely in the two on the other side rather than the one you’re in.

This connection and expansion can sometimes feel like chafing at the edges. When you embody an energetic shift in your Bone Realm – the foundational energies underlying everything you’re building – your micro and macrocosmic energetic patterns (the DNA Realm) and the structure for how these foundational shifts move into relationship with the Muscle Realm, may be what you feel most!

Your relationship with resources may begin to feel too tight, constricting, stretched, or even ruptured. That’s the uncomfortable edge when the Bone Realm shifts and it needs to move into a new relationship through Muscle.

Your inner and outer world may feel like they’ve been upended and you don’t know which way is forward or where to go next – that’s the feeling when your DNA Realm is integrating a new foundational pattern. Everything has to reorganize at scale and you may feel like a shaken-up snowglobe while it happens.

Likewise, your Muscle Realm will necessitate shifts most acutely in the Bone and Fluid Realms;  

Fluid will most strongly influence Muscle and Organ Realms;

The Organ Realm will invite energetic shifts into the Fluid and Nervous System Realms;

The Nervous System will communicate changes most strongly to the Organ and DNA Realms;

DNA shifts will integrate into the foundational pattern of the Bones and shift the communication of the Nervous System.

The edges are…edgy

These edges are where we intensely feel or notice each shift, which presents an amazing opportunity to play with them.

Within a Realm is where you feel the ease, the expansion, the clarity, the releasing of enmeshment. But, between the Realms is where you’ll feel the tension, chafing, or edge you get to play in (if you’re a little bit kinky). 

These edges are where you create rupture and repair within yourself and with others. They’re the space where you get it wrong, then get it right, and then get it more right. It’s in this space that you stretch and titrate your capacity to be with instability.

These edges are where you integrate and build integrity between the Realms.

What edges are you playing at these days? What feels like tension or chafing?

Can you let yourself celebrate that edge, not as a boundary, but as a re-weaving of integrity?

Can you play with expansive ways to let those edges feel juicy and rich?

Can you surrender to the tension?

If you’re ready to come into an entirely different relationship with your body and energy, I invite you to Embodied Realms Immersion, a series of six one-on-one somatic energy work sessions over 2-3 months. Learn how to listen to your body and let it guide you; explore more here.