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When spiritual groups struggle with different somatic capacities

Our meditation group started exploring embodied practices together but three of us have very different relationships to our bodies — one person pushes through pain, another gets overwhelmed by any physical sensation, and I freeze up when we do group movement — and I think we're all pretending it's going fine when actually nobody feels safe to be authentic about what's happening in their body.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A practice community is avoiding the reality that different nervous system states and body relationships are creating an inauthentic shared container.

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