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CHELSEY POWER | Raw + Unfiltered | Somatic Adjustment™

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I don't fix people. I understand bodies.
Behaviour | The Body | Being Human
🐅 Founder of Somatic Adjustment™
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If the Pyramids aren't safe,

Neither are we.

Cos everyone is technically entitled to their opinion 🤣

How often do you need to remind yourself of this?

🖐 Happy to admit it's daily for me haha 😅 by @mana.temple

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7 months ago

🌹WHAT YOU'RE REALLY SAYING IS🌹

💔You’ve learned to endure.
💔You’ve trained yourself to suppress.
💔You’ve adapted to disconnect.

Having a high pain tolerance isn’t always a badge of honor because it’s often a sign of survival.

A nervous system that’s learned to override discomfort, ignore the body’s signals, and push through at all costs.

You've learned to suppress, as you were conditioned by your environment. You may be "tough" but it comes at a cost.

I find high tolerance people also struggle with these behaviours;

→ Delay Seeking Help – You wait until the pain is unbearable before addressing it.

→ Minimize Discomfort – You downplay injuries or emotional distress, telling yourself, “It’s not that bad.”

→ Pushes Through Fatigue – You override exhaustion and keep going, even when your body is begging for rest.

→ Disconnect from the Body – You struggle to notice tension, aches, or emotional cues until they become extreme.

→ Struggle with Emotional Expression – You suppress emotions, seeing vulnerability as weakness.

→ Have a History of Endurance – You’ve learned to tolerate discomfort from a young age: physically, emotionally, or both.

🌩 Unfortunately, a high pain tolerance isn’t just physical, it’s often a learned survival response.

Your nervous system has adapted to withstand. But your ability to withstand pain doesn’t mean you should.

🌹 Healing isn’t about enduring more; it’s about learning to feel safe enough to soften.

How many symptoms can you relate to?

Ps. If you're on a healing journey, then this is the page for you 🙏

#somatichealing #nervoussystemregulation #bodykeepsscore #traumarecovery #healingjourney by @mana.temple

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2 years ago

🤲 A SOMATIC EXERCISE FROM A SOMATIC THERAPIST 🤲

When anxiety takes over, it can feel overwhelming but sometimes, the simplest actions can bring us back to calm.

Enter gliding hands or hand skating: a soothing somatic exercise that gently calms the nervous system and grounds you in the present moment.

How it works:
Place one hand on top of the other, palms facing each other, and begin to glide them back and forth in slow, fluid motions. Feel the warmth, texture, and connection as your hands meet and part.

Why this helps:
🔹 Grounding: This mindful touch anchors you in the here and now, creating a sense of safety.
🔹 Self-regulation: The repetitive, rhythmic motion signals your nervous system to shift out of fight-or-flight mode.
🔹 Accessibility: You always have your hands with you, making this a discreet and effective tool for any moment of overwhelm.

👪👦 This is a really handy exercise I use with little humans either at home or in clinic. Teaching our children to use techniques that assist in self-regulation empowers them to take charge of their feelings and the way their body feels. It's all about processing the moment not storing it.

This practice is perfect for moments of stress, anxiety, or even as part of your daily self-care ritual 🙏

HAND-SKATING EXERCISE
1️⃣ Sit comfortably and place your hands together.
2️⃣ Glide them back and forth slowly, matching your breath to the motion.
3️⃣ Focus on the sensations and the warmth of your palms, the gentle friction, the calming rhythm.

🫴 Your challenge: Pause for one minute today to try this practice. Let me know how it feels in the comments below!

#somatichealing #anxietyrelief #mindbodyconnection #selfsoothing #nervoussystemregulation by @mana.temple

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2 years ago

BODY TEMPLE | SRI LANKA 🔥

We're taking the Temple somewhere new.

7 days of stepping out of the noise and into the body.

Moving through -
The emotions. The patterns. The stories. The parts of yourself you've been avoiding.

Join me for an immersion, a disruption of familiar, a descent into fire and devotion to the first temple you build. Your body.

Expressions of interest are now OPEN.

Places are limited.

Comment RETREAT and I'll personally send you the link with all the details.

Details in stories + bio link

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#retreatsrilanka #healing #spiritualawkening #bodyhealing #nervoussystemhealing by @mana.temple

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Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

And sometimes that awareness is inconvenient as hell.

Because now you have to question the people, patterns and behaviours you've spent years making excuses for.

And the hardest part?

You can't keep pretending you don't know what you now know.

That's where the real work begins 🔥⚡️🪽

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#nervoussystemhealing #healing #bodykeepsscore #mentalhealth #CPTSD by @mana.temple

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8 days ago

Can we stop pretending a sick body is always the universe telling you to rest? Argh 🙄

Sometimes you’re depleted.
Sometimes you need medical care.
Sometimes it’s hormones, infection, inflammation, genetics, grief, environment or something still undiagnosed.

Not every symptom is a spiritual assignment.

Not every illness was created by your inability to slow down.

And getting sick does not mean you failed to listen.

Your body may be communicating.

That doesn’t mean the message is always rest.

Sometimes it’s:
Investigate.
Ask better questions.
Change something.
Get support.

Stop normalising what hurts!

Your body is not delivering a punishment from the universe!

It is giving you information.

👋 Anyway, Hey, I’m Chelsey. A somatic kinesiologist with over 12 years in the room, helping people understand what their body has been trying to tell them.

I take the woo-woo out of healing without stripping it of soul. We talk body, behaviour and survival.

Follow for healing with more truth, less bullshit 😊😉🫠
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#nervoussystemhealing #healing #spiritualhealing #mentalhealth #yoga by @mana.temple

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16 days ago

The Empath

The glorification of being hyper-attuned to everyone except yourself.

Reading the room before reading your own body.
Absorbing moods. Anticipating needs. Excusing behaviour. Calling hypervigilance a spiritual gift.
Calling porous boundaries compassion.
Calling self-abandonment love.

Your sensitivity becomes the very thing consuming you 🩸

Until you become fucking tired of being the soft place where everyone else leaves their damage. Until you stop confusing understanding someone with giving them access to you.

The Open Empath dies through this process.

While The Embodied Empath learns to stay with herself.

However when The Dark Empath rises....🗡
Her empathy is no longer a leash, but she must remember: Becoming dangerous enough to protect yourself does not mean becoming the person you survived.

So,

Which one are you??
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#Empath #healing #shadowwork #energyhealing #boundaries by @mana.temple

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17 days ago

This one is for my deep thinkers...

We don’t experience the world exactly as it is.
We experience it through perception.

Through everything we’ve lived, learned, anticipated and had to become aware of.

Neuroception happens before conscious thought. The body notices a shift in tone, expression, energy or behaviour before we’ve found the language for it.
Then perception gives that sensation meaning.

Sometimes the meaning belongs to the present.

Sometimes it belongs to something we’ve lived before.

I wonder what it would feel like for you to notice the cue without immediately deciding what it means.

To stay curious for a moment longer.
To ask: What am I sensing? And what am I perceiving?

They may not always be the same thing.

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Tell me: what’s one perception you’re struggling with right now?

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#healing #somatics #brainbody #nervoussystemhealing #mentalhealth by @mana.temple

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22 days ago

I saw it.
I experienced it.
And I let it fucking destroy me.

The way men protect other men when women speak about consent, abuse and unethical behaviour in the healing industry is horrendous.

It is disgusting.

And it is part of the much bigger issue surrounding women’s actual bodily safety in this world. 🔥💀

👉👁️ Trust me when I say this:

If you come for me in my DMs again

and some of you will read this knowing exactly who you are

fawning will not be my response this time.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is my platform.

Women deserve safety.
Women deserve guidance from other women.
Women deserve honest conversations about our power, our choices and what red flags actually look and feel like. 🚩🚩🚩

I’m angry.......and I’m fucking back. 🐅

Currently building new spaces for women who are done making themselves palatable too.

3 new spaces, deeper communities, unfiltered, body-led, voice activating, good girl era ending

Opening soon...are you in? 🩸

#healing #divinefeminine #activation #nervoussystemhealing by @mana.temple

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23 days ago

STRESS PATTERNS IN THE NECK...

Our nervous system is constantly learning through repetition.

Who we need to be around Mum.
Who we need to be around Dad.
What we carry for our siblings.
What work requires from us.
Whether it feels safe to speak.
Whether there is enough internal space to create, imagine and think differently.

Over time, stress patterns can become familiar body patterns... bracing, gripping, holding the breath, collapsing, pushing through or disconnecting from sensation.

The body becomes incredibly efficient at rehearsing what it has learned.

So when I work with a body, I’m rarely only interested in where the stress pattern appears.

I’m curious about what was happening when the body learned it needed to hold there.

This is the Mana approach to healing 🤲

🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬

What does your body do when life starts asking too much of you?

#nervoussystem #somatichealing #kinesiology #stresspatterns #bodyawareness by @mana.temple

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I didn't know what I signed up for until I was in it 💀✋️

But I'm so glad so stayed in it

#darknightofthesoul #healing #awaken #spiritualawakening #cptsd by @mana.temple

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Survival kept you alive.

Then it started running the whole fucking show.

Your work.
Your money.
Your health.
Your ambition.
Your relationships.
What you tolerate.
What you believe you deserve.

Survival doesn’t care if you’re fulfilled.
It cares if you’re familiar.

READ. THAT. AGAIN 👆

Survival does not care if you are fulfilled.
It cares if you are familiar.

And so... the purpose of healing is lnt to become fluffy, softer, more tolerant.

It's to take your life back from the version of you built only to survive it.

🩸🔪

#survival #healing #cptsd #nervoussystemregulation by @mana.temple

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