Why do people move in Spinal Energetics?

You may have seen videos or heard stories about people moving their body during a spinal energetics session. It may seem weird and a bit scary if you haven’t yet experienced it. Let’s explore why people move in a spinal energetics session.

Movement in spinal energetics doesn’t always happen

It can take a few Spinal Energetics sessions before your body feels safe to move through the emotions. Initially the first few sessions are focused around developing self awareness in clients. Everybody is different with different stories and traumas within. What works for one may not work for someone else. Each treatment is tailored to you and how you are presenting on the day. No treatment is ever the same as the last. It’s important to arrive with an open heart and mind. Free of judgement, expectations and comparison. Be curious and compassionate in your experience.

My first session was a very internal experience. I felt an ocean wave energy pushing and pulling up and down my body and when I really lent into that feeling the deeper I could drop into the moment and learn to feel it and be with that sensation. I started to cry, my breathing rhythm changed. I focused on my breath then dropped back into focus on a diagonal wind like energy blowing from corner to corner. I noticed contractions in my belly and a subtle movement of my spine in my breath. My neck started to move side to side ever so slightly and cracked as I felt my face being pushed into the massage table. I cried and felt my breath for the second time. My hands and feet twitched with a sensation of pins and needles. An image in my head of two hands pulling a golden string.

Other experiences during spinal energetics

Some people experience visuals during the session. Some see colours, images or have dream-like experiences.
I have had many different treatments for many different modalities and have had that experience walking out thinking to myself “did anything just happen?”, “What was that?” Spinal Energetics was a cathartic experience and it was tangible. It was a truly wonderful experience to start to feel safe in my own body.

Movement may happen when the client has built safety and a deep connection within themselves. This feels like a meditative state, with awareness of the experience while altering between different brainwave states. It is normal for your monkey chatter mind to come back. This is also an invitation from your body to come back and feel into home a bit deeper.

When we have things like unexplained pain, anxiety and even illness this can be manifested in the body by trauma and unprocessed emotions stored by our nervous system.

In spinal energetics we are working with the body’s innate wisdom to heal itself, known as homeostasis. Our bodies want to come into homeostasis just as our bodies heal our cuts. By tapping into this parasympathetic nervous system state, we are able to unwind the tension held in the body. When connecting to our bodies, we are moving out of our fight, flight, freeze and fawn response and into rest and digest, the recovery state. We need to teach our bodies how to do this primordial movement, to self-regulate our nervous system.

Spinal energetics movement helps regulate our system

Our children can be good teachers. We can watch them stretch and yawn as they get out of bed. This is to regulate our system. it’s involuntary unconscious and natural action, that we are aware of at the moment. The child is not consciously thinking I’m going to stretch and yawn, its natural movement that occurs.

In western culture we are taught to not move from a young age. Think about all the things we might say to our children. “Sit still”, “behave!”, “be quiet”, “stop”. Movement and sound though are natural ways for us to move through our emotions. We invite it and encourage it. It’s important to note that not everyone will move during spinal energetics and it’s not the measure of a successful treatment. Some people may experience powerful internal shifts.

You are in control during a spinal energetics session

While the movement is involutory, the client has full control and can come out of the experience at their will. With safety and connection, we can release stored stress and tension. It may look like shaking, emotional releases, sound with stretching and contracting in movement. We have to move through the resistant patterns, which can be uncomfortable. It’s important to note that during Spinal Energetics you are not re-living any stories or being re-traumatised, there are no memories attached to the movement. Your body is so intelligent it will not let you have any experience you can not handle.

When we surrender and come home to ourselves, we can return to our true essence. Making it easier to connect with others and living a ‘do no harm’ existence to ourselves, others and our environment and living our true purpose.