“Head on a Stick” to Living in Flow
There are moments on any embodiment journey when we realise — almost with a jolt — that we’ve become numb. Not from pain this time, but from comfort. From ease. From the illusion that we’ve arrived.
I recently recognised that I’d become what I often call a head on a stick — living from the neck up, guiding others through movement, therapy, and energy work, yet quietly disconnected from my own desire, vitality, and sense of aliveness.
I had reached a plateau: not in crisis, but in stagnation.
It’s easy to stay in that comfortable space. Change, even positive change, asks us to feel again — to wake up the parts of ourselves that went quiet from trauma and fear. Yet when we resist that awakening, a restlessness creeps in. We distract ourselves with habits, purchases, busy-ness, or self-criticism, anything to avoid the ache of our soul’s longing to evolve.
But that discomfort is also an invitation. When we pause — hand on heart, breath steady — and ask a greater intelligence, “What would you have me do now?” the answer is often simple: let it all fall away. Let the pretence, the pushing, the distractions soften. Allow yourself to listen.
Healing isn’t about us striving to stay “up” or “awake.” It’s about learning to move again — body, heart, and soul — with grace, curiosity, and compassion.
So if you, too, feel like a “head on a stick” right now, know that this, too, is part of the dance. You haven’t lost your way. You’re simply being called to return — to your body, to your breath, and to life itself.
Come dance yourself deeply home into all the layers of your being human. To merge with your own unique soul calling and emerge afresh into the world once more as an aligned, awake human. Next opportunity to dance with me is 25 October in the Om studio, Northampton. Details below…
TUNE : The 360 Emergence
Saturday 25 October 2025
10:30am - 13:30pm
39 Queens Park Parade, Northampton, England, NN2 6LP
