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THE STEPS OF THE MOVING JOURNEYS EMBODIED MAP

1. The Call of the Senses – Awakening the Sensory systems

Every journey begins with a call—a sense of longing, feeling there is more to life or a life event that urges change. This phase invites us to turn inwards and into

the body’s deeper sensory intelligence. You will start to develop awareness of your inner landscape: the feeling, sensing body. These systems don't just collect

data. They create a felt sense, an embodied experience of ‘now’. We explore how we can bring these senses inwards to soften overwhelm and create greater balance.         

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite’ A. Huxley

2. Preparing for the Journey –Creating safety

Before diving deeper, we must feel safe. This phase focuses on nervous system regulation, especially through the vagus nerve, to create a stable inner foundation. The body becomes a safe container, allowing for increased focus, calm, resilience and internal trust.

“The body is where trauma is stored—and where it is healed.” -Peter Levine

3. Patterns on the Path – Trauma, Identity & Repatterning the Self 

With safety established, we begin to explore our conditioning. Beliefs, roles, and survival strategies shaped by our history, trauma and culture. We can gently begin to unmask and rewrite the script of the inner critic and repattern old stories. We begin to cultivate self-awareness and agency.

”The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to know how the wind is blowing , you can look at the sand.’ -B.Bainbridge Cohen

4. The Heart of the Journey – Feeling our Core Wound

Now we move into the emotional heart of the journey. We meet our core wound not as a concept, but a felt experience. We compassionately feel and process long-held grief, fear, rage and longing. We build heart-brain coherence and resilience. Craniosacral work helps us access stillness at the heart, a portal to deeper transformation.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” - Rumi

5. Crossing the Threshold – Membranes and Gateways in the body

With deeper awareness, emotional resilience and nervous system balance we arrive at a new threshold. Here, we soften the body’s diaphragms and membranes. Physical and energetic gateways that regulate flow. Opening them supports better breath, reduced anxiety and energy flow. Neurodivergents, creative and sensitive people have strong energetic intuition and this phase supports mastery of those gifts.

“Breath ripples like waves upwards through membranes that are longing to re-member their orignal translucency. Layers of life have imprinted themselves on these soft fragile membranes in an innocent attempt to keep us of safe. We return them to their fragile suppleness so that we may see clearly again -hwf”

6. Entering the Cave – Finding the Jewel and Awakening Inner Light

As breath deepens and membranes soften, we attune to the endocrine system. These inner alchemists do more than secrete hormones; they shape our felt sense of time, space, emotion and self. This phase invites us to stop striving and begin listening. The body becomes a guide to deep, embodied knowing.

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, The world is too full to talk abou. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense.” - Rumi

7. The Return – The Central Channel, A Space to Breathe

At the journey’s end, we meet the body’s vertical midline. A subtle channel anchoring energy, nervous system balance and inner stillness. By grounding and aligning breath, spine and diaphragms we open this channel. It becomes a compass and a resting place. We return not as who we were but more whole, connected and attuned.

“We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring. Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time” – T.S. Eliot