Somatic Compass

Welcome to Episode 10 of Somatic Compass. Stacey and Trevor explore what the heck is trauma, trauma resolution and whether we are walking around like trauma zombies from a somatic perspective.   Do you have trauma?  Have you experienced stress or toxic stress?  What is the difference?  Have you heard about little 't' trauma versus big 'T' trauma?  Or are you upset about AI data centres too?  Jump...

Welcome to Episode 9 of Somatic Compass. Stacey and Trevor explore imagination, dreams, nightmares, night terrors, and sleep paralysis from a somatic perspective.  Do you dream?  Are they even important?  What are dreams anyway?  Jump into this conversation with them as they explore how dreams give us somatic gifts, types of dreams, and even how you can dream journal and seed dreams somatically.  ...

Welcome to Episode 8 of Somatic Compass. Stacey and Trevor explore the phrase “releasing trauma” and how language matters.  What if this phrase creates more shame and confusing?  Stacey believes that language matters and when people say they want to release trauma, they usually mean relief.  Relief matters.  But Stacey thinks the word “release” can sometimes pull us into the wrong relationship wit...

Welcome to Episode 7 of Somatic Compass.  Stacey and Trevor explore what it means to be alive in this episode as they unpack being inhabited and inhibited somatically.  What do these experience feel like in one's body?  Are their practices one can do to be more embodied or inhabited?  Does it matter?  Join them and jump into this conversation with them, learn and explore your body's wisdom and tru...

Welcome to Episode 6 of Somatic Compass.  Stacey and Trevor explore how our bodies never lie and are always communicating to us about food, tasks, people, situations, events, and decisions that face each of us.  Do you know that your body has a ‘yes’, a ‘no’, and a ‘maybe’.  Moreso, a ‘fawn’ response to keep us safe.  Do you know your Heck YES and your ‘F’ NO?  Jump into this conversation with the...

Welcome to Episode 5 of Somatic Compass.  In this conversation, we journey with Stacey and Trevor as they explore who the heck 'Trevor' is and what privilege means.  Their conversations tend to move a bit like a river, you know, it's not like a linear point A to point B sort of way that they work together.  There are twists and turns, and there might be some whitewater rapids and other times it mi...

Welcome back to Part 2 of the conversation of “Who is the heck is Stacey? And what does she mean by Somatics” in Episode 4.  Picking up on Stacey’s personal experience of embodied presence as a 19-year-old practicing yoga, Stacey and Trevor explore what embodied presence means.  They then discuss how we are all Dorothy with those red ruby slippers and conclude on how they chose “Somatic Compass” a...

Welcome to Episode 3 of Somatic Compass.  In Part 1 of this conversation, we journey with Stacey and discover who the heck she is and why somatics is so important to her.  Stacey gently explores and unpacks all things somatics from her own life experience.  We hear how this journey has led Stacey to explore our survival adaptions, the physiology of trauma, the connection to the body, and the physi...

Welcome to Episode 2 of Somatic Compass.  Stacey and Trevor dive into all things somatics and explore being overwhelmed by life and the world.  Are you feeling overwhelmed at times?  They explore what overwhelm means for their nervous systems, bodies, emotions, and how to befriend it.  What if overwhelm is something to embrace and actually is a message for boundaries and action?  So instead of for...

Welcome to Episode 1 of Somatic Compass.  Stacey and Trevor dive into all things somatics and explore what is support.  Can a chair give you support?  What happens to our nervous system and soma (body) when we find support?  Sometimes when we find support, we encounter being in functional neutral.  Functional neutral is a body-centred experience and awareness where we are more inhabited in our bod...