Today on the show we welcome Charlotte von Hemert. She is the founder and owner of Wild Heart Somatics LLC, based in Woodstock, NY. She believes that personal healing is inseparable from collective healing. When we reconnect with our bodies, we enter into authentic relationship with our whole selves, which allows us to enter into genuine connection with the world around us. In a world that often encourages disconnection from self and other, somatic work helps us return to wholeness and connection.
She does this work because she knows what it’s like to feel broken; to be caught in striving, self-blame, and disconnection. She knows what it’s like to get caught up in spiritual practices and healing modalities that encourage transcendance, self-denial or clawing out of who we are, rather than turn towards with understanding and compassion.
Her mission is to create a space where our bodies and who we are is not something to override or fix, but a source of truth, resilience, insight and belonging. Where healing happens not by endless struggle to improve, change or figure things out; but by listening and slowly returning to what’s always been sacred and true within us.
She has extensive dance experience and has spent years practicing and exploring yoga and embodied spiritual practices. The modalities she practices (Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Inner Relationship Focusing) are life-affirming paths back to trust in the self and the body’s wisdom.
Charlotte tells us the story of her journey to living from the inside out, beginning with dance and the spark it ignited within her. She’s had many chapters so far, each with their own set of challenges, calling her to listen more closely to her body and what it is sepaking to her. Charolotte shares how her work with somatic experiencing allowed her to slowly build the capacity to be with herself and her inner world, allowing her to show up to the outer world with greater ease and authenticity. She’s beginning to dance again and will be offering a pop up class in Woodstock this October for those who want to move with her. You can learn more and find Charlotte at https://www.charlottevonhemert.com
P.S. We mentioned in passing how we met Charlotte at the Greater Mysteries gatherings. If you’d like to join in the upcoming events, you can learn more at https://www.greatermysteries.com/gather
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