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There is life waiting for you, and a season of blossoming upon you.

Life is composed of love and light, within the dark, as a seed in the soil waiting for the right condition to manifest.

It is laying dormant in the dark, and as soon as the light is there, it springs out.

And then you put all the love and energy to this seed, nourishing and nurturing it, letting this seed unfurl from the dark soil hiding itself in. and that sprouting, spring unfurling is a beautiful energetic love

You are that seed, and this is the way to tend to your own soil, your very own body and being, as there is something waiting within you to sprout, to unfurl

And with the right condition, the right love and light, it will.

The right light and right love manifests Life.

Life: a vibrancy, an unfurling of becoming ourselves, and a continuous thread that weaves us all.

Engaging with Life through the right condition of love, light and acknowledging the soil we come from.

No seed is the same, but all seeds grow from the same light, deserve the same love.

We are all part and parcel of that same life, that flows through the veins, arteries,, undercurrent and overcurrents within and around us,

And that flow, that thread, that pulse of life… it streams through us all.

🌸 spring equinox from luscious bali —
grateful for the winter rains here, closing season here, opening to the wildflowers of Portugal’s spring.

& so loving my pinky rose birthmark in this season, that shows her colour through the warmth, relaxation, rejuvenation, and the veins of openness within (quite literally)

www.tessaschiethart.com/support

There is life waiting for you, and a season of blossoming upon you.

Life is composed of love and light, within the dark, as a seed in the soil waiting for the right condition to manifest.

It is laying dormant in the dark, and as soon as the light is there, it springs out.

And then you put all the love and energy to this seed, nourishing and nurturing it, letting this seed unfurl from the dark soil hiding itself in. and that sprouting, spring unfurling is a beautiful energetic love

You are that seed, and this is the way to tend to your own soil, your very own body and being, as there is something waiting within you to sprout, to unfurl

And with the right condition, the right love and light, it will.

The right light and right love manifests Life.

Life: a vibrancy, an unfurling of becoming ourselves, and a continuous thread that weaves us all.

Engaging with Life through the right condition of love, light and acknowledging the soil we come from.

No seed is the same, but all seeds grow from the same light, deserve the same love.

We are all part and parcel of that same life, that flows through the veins, arteries,, undercurrent and overcurrents within and around us,

And that flow, that thread, that pulse of life… it streams through us all.

🌸 spring equinox from luscious bali —
grateful for the winter rains here, closing season here, opening to the wildflowers of Portugal’s spring.

& so loving my pinky rose birthmark in this season, that shows her colour through the warmth, relaxation, rejuvenation, and the veins of openness within (quite literally)

www.tessaschiethart.com/support

Beauty, to me, is so much more than shine, looks, glamour or gloss

I am so grateful for a father, who is a quantum mathematician, and who taught me early on in life there is so much more to beauty.

I was given insight into sacred geometry, universal laws, and harmony and balance that brings about Beauty and that this Beauty also lived within us.

There is something deeper to Beauty, a deep pulse, a deep radiance that shines from within.

We each hold this within, this inner radiance. It is a life force that can be cultivated to shine outwards into the world.

To me, beauty is in the order and harmony of nature, in energy, in rhythms and cycles, in the beat of our heart and the way we carry the body and see the world.

Beauty, more than only seen, is then lived.

🌹 #thebeautyway #beauty #empowerment #lifeforce #radiance #sacredgeometry #navajo

Beauty, to me, is so much more than shine, looks, glamour or gloss

I am so grateful for a father, who is a quantum mathematician, and who taught me early on in life there is so much more to beauty.

I was given insight into sacred geometry, universal laws, and harmony and balance that brings about Beauty and that this Beauty also lived within us.

There is something deeper to Beauty, a deep pulse, a deep radiance that shines from within.

We each hold this within, this inner radiance. It is a life force that can be cultivated to shine outwards into the world.

To me, beauty is in the order and harmony of nature, in energy, in rhythms and cycles, in the beat of our heart and the way we carry the body and see the world.

Beauty, more than only seen, is then lived.

🌹 #thebeautyway #beauty #empowerment #lifeforce #radiance #sacredgeometry #navajo

there are times in our lives that ask for deep healing— a healing that includes the understanding of mind ánd the wisdom of the body, healing that softens so it releases, healing that asks for our pain to be witnessed, so that it transforms into beauty. 🌹

— if the words resonate, subscribe to my newsletter where I send the occasional long-form writing (yes to slow content!)— dm ‘subscribe’, I’ll send the link. 🌹

there are times in our lives that ask for deep healing— a healing that includes the understanding of mind ánd the wisdom of the body, healing that softens so it releases, healing that asks for our pain to be witnessed, so that it transforms into beauty. 🌹

— if the words resonate, subscribe to my newsletter where I send the occasional long-form writing (yes to slow content!)— dm ‘subscribe’, I’ll send the link. 🌹

daily, I have people tell me their fears in their lives, their challenges and hardships.

with that, they also tell me their frustrations, patterns and how they can feel stuck.

I recently had a client tell me she was so scared to be betrayed that she started to heavily control the situation she was in

I love to shift perspectives.
To come to see that beneath her fear lies her care.
And that the control is merely a pattern to get her care met.

A pattern often is just a way to get our care, love and longing met in a way that doesn’t actually serve us— the pattern

Until we see the deeper layer;

that our patterns actually hold a beauty beneath them

and that that beauty IS our deep feeling, our deep care, our deep love and longing for something, someone.

• beneath the patterns we hold lies the beauty of the truth of what we actually feel

Once we see the deeper layer to our pattern (care, love, a longing), we see it differently too, and that’s where a pattern can shift

because anything you judge cannot shift

When you release your own judgements on your patterns, and shift your perspective to the beauty underneath, things in your life can shift for the better.

The care, love and longing can be shown more fully, more raw, authentically and truthfully

You can honor the beautiful aspects of the hardship you experience and hold yourself in it more wholesomely.

You can express the deeper layers of feeling more beautifully with those you are in relationship with too.

This is where we can flourish from— when we see beneath the patterns that hold us back, honor the deeper layers of feeling beneath them, relate differently to the pattern, and transform them into beauty 🌹

| www.tessaschiethart.com

#deeperrelating #theartofrelating #humanflourishing #embodiedliving #thebeautyway #lookdeeper #seetruth #empowerment #bittersweet #transformation

daily, I have people tell me their fears in their lives, their challenges and hardships.

with that, they also tell me their frustrations, patterns and how they can feel stuck.

I recently had a client tell me she was so scared to be betrayed that she started to heavily control the situation she was in

I love to shift perspectives.
To come to see that beneath her fear lies her care.
And that the control is merely a pattern to get her care met.

A pattern often is just a way to get our care, love and longing met in a way that doesn’t actually serve us— the pattern

Until we see the deeper layer;

that our patterns actually hold a beauty beneath them

and that that beauty IS our deep feeling, our deep care, our deep love and longing for something, someone.

• beneath the patterns we hold lies the beauty of the truth of what we actually feel

Once we see the deeper layer to our pattern (care, love, a longing), we see it differently too, and that’s where a pattern can shift

because anything you judge cannot shift

When you release your own judgements on your patterns, and shift your perspective to the beauty underneath, things in your life can shift for the better.

The care, love and longing can be shown more fully, more raw, authentically and truthfully

You can honor the beautiful aspects of the hardship you experience and hold yourself in it more wholesomely.

You can express the deeper layers of feeling more beautifully with those you are in relationship with too.

This is where we can flourish from— when we see beneath the patterns that hold us back, honor the deeper layers of feeling beneath them, relate differently to the pattern, and transform them into beauty 🌹

| www.tessaschiethart.com

#deeperrelating #theartofrelating #humanflourishing #embodiedliving #thebeautyway #lookdeeper #seetruth #empowerment #bittersweet #transformation

It was in the moments I was sick that I found reverence for my body.

The moments I could barely move, that showed me movement was what I wanted to devote to.

It was in the moments when my eyesight was recovering from surgery, and I couldn’t see, that I became intimate with smell, taste, touch…
And those moments once lasted a summer of 3 months of only that,
where life became slow, sensual to the touch, taste and smell.
Blurry but blissful. Dark yet light.

–being present to the sensations of life, of deeply living life with reverence to your body and your experience, of being with beauty and devotion in every moment.

The relationship to our bodies and the challenges there, has the potency for us to become intimate with the most important aspects of living. To not take living for granted, and to enjoy the ecstasy that lies within each moment. Regardless of what you see, taste, smell, touch, relate to, or hear, to find beauty there– exactly as the moment unfolds.

I’ve learned that we often think everything is super important until we are sick.
Because when we have that annoying cold, the life-threatening diagnosis, we often realize that this moment counts, and that it is lived from within the body. And that there was only ever one thing important. Your health. Your body. And that your body was the only place you’d ever really live.

And then there is the realization what a blessing a body without pain or discomfort truly is. I still have these moments, where pain transforms into beauty.

I hope you root into reverence to your body, I hope you devote to the very place you will only ever live.

I hope you see, smell, taste, hear and touch your own divinity in moments, especially the challenging ones.

I hope you find wholeness there.

I hope you take seat within your own body, like what in Ayurveda is called ‘swastha’; an anchoredness within your own being.

acknowledging that there is reverence for the body to be found in the very moments where you are challenged with your body.

To never forget, it is a gift to feel comfort in your body.

It is the only place of true belonging 🌹

embodied living | deeper relating | www.tessaschiethart.com

It was in the moments I was sick that I found reverence for my body.

The moments I could barely move, that showed me movement was what I wanted to devote to.

It was in the moments when my eyesight was recovering from surgery, and I couldn’t see, that I became intimate with smell, taste, touch…
And those moments once lasted a summer of 3 months of only that,
where life became slow, sensual to the touch, taste and smell.
Blurry but blissful. Dark yet light.

–being present to the sensations of life, of deeply living life with reverence to your body and your experience, of being with beauty and devotion in every moment.

The relationship to our bodies and the challenges there, has the potency for us to become intimate with the most important aspects of living. To not take living for granted, and to enjoy the ecstasy that lies within each moment. Regardless of what you see, taste, smell, touch, relate to, or hear, to find beauty there– exactly as the moment unfolds.

I’ve learned that we often think everything is super important until we are sick.
Because when we have that annoying cold, the life-threatening diagnosis, we often realize that this moment counts, and that it is lived from within the body. And that there was only ever one thing important. Your health. Your body. And that your body was the only place you’d ever really live.

And then there is the realization what a blessing a body without pain or discomfort truly is. I still have these moments, where pain transforms into beauty.

I hope you root into reverence to your body, I hope you devote to the very place you will only ever live.

I hope you see, smell, taste, hear and touch your own divinity in moments, especially the challenging ones.

I hope you find wholeness there.

I hope you take seat within your own body, like what in Ayurveda is called ‘swastha’; an anchoredness within your own being.

acknowledging that there is reverence for the body to be found in the very moments where you are challenged with your body.

To never forget, it is a gift to feel comfort in your body.

It is the only place of true belonging 🌹

embodied living | deeper relating | www.tessaschiethart.com

I see this around me at times — the romanticizing of our hardship (or the positivizing of things that actually deep down touch us deeply)

I truly believe there may be something that, often in hindsight, we see our hard times as epiphanies, as revelations, portals in becoming more of us, and understanding why it happened.

I sure relate to my hardships in that way, in hindsight.

But endings in life, letting go of people and parts of ourselves is incredibly challenging too, especially when we’re in it, going through it.

Hardships create all sorts of questions. From ‘why me’?
To ‘what do I want’?
To ‘what does this mean for my life’?— some questions empowering, other questions not so empowering for us.

Abd these are multi-faceted questions— with many layers of who we are behind them and in the answers to these questions.

They can be important to ask ourselves.

I am fortunate to work with people that face all sorts of challenges, and exploring, navigating and tending to the depth of these hardships, challenges and life alterations.

And I know too that those of us having faced incredibly hard things, often go on to create incredivle beautiful things in the world too. I see it all the time— small or big

Resilience creates beauty— to overcome, to face, to triumph.

The hardship equips us uniquely.
It takes time and inquiry to deeper relate to what we face and transcend and transform.
But this will create meaning and insight, and more access to our unique embodied life beyond the hardships we all will face sooner or later.

🌹 www.tessaschiethart.com |

#beauty #challenge #grace #embodiedliving #deeperrelating
#resilience #empowerment

I see this around me at times — the romanticizing of our hardship (or the positivizing of things that actually deep down touch us deeply)

I truly believe there may be something that, often in hindsight, we see our hard times as epiphanies, as revelations, portals in becoming more of us, and understanding why it happened.

I sure relate to my hardships in that way, in hindsight.

But endings in life, letting go of people and parts of ourselves is incredibly challenging too, especially when we’re in it, going through it.

Hardships create all sorts of questions. From ‘why me’?
To ‘what do I want’?
To ‘what does this mean for my life’?— some questions empowering, other questions not so empowering for us.

Abd these are multi-faceted questions— with many layers of who we are behind them and in the answers to these questions.

They can be important to ask ourselves.

I am fortunate to work with people that face all sorts of challenges, and exploring, navigating and tending to the depth of these hardships, challenges and life alterations.

And I know too that those of us having faced incredibly hard things, often go on to create incredivle beautiful things in the world too. I see it all the time— small or big

Resilience creates beauty— to overcome, to face, to triumph.

The hardship equips us uniquely.
It takes time and inquiry to deeper relate to what we face and transcend and transform.
But this will create meaning and insight, and more access to our unique embodied life beyond the hardships we all will face sooner or later.

🌹 www.tessaschiethart.com |

#beauty #challenge #grace #embodiedliving #deeperrelating
#resilience #empowerment

“Nourish me not with love but with the desire for love.” – Ibn Arabi. “Do not seek for water, be thirsty.” – Rumi.

I love the great mystics, the poetry & the devotion to Longing.

My dad had all the poetry books right there where I grew up.

Longing, and aching, missing, grieving—show a raw beauty.

When it comes to love & longing, the most ecstatic moments of my life were perhaps in heartbreak—on my carpet, winter outside, candlelight flickering, and in the ache of deep feeling and longing I tasted life more beautifully than ever before.

Our longing does not leave. It lingers beneath everything. Because longing is not about lack—it is about depth.

Our world does not teach us how to sit in longing. It tells us to chase, to reach, to grab the next fix—

Longing is not craving.
Longing is not wanting.
Longing is beyond fulfillment.

The moment you get what you want, another hunger will arise. But longing—that deep, holy ache—is different. It is the whisper of something beyond that the poets wrote about.

In the realm of Longing, I love how Sufism sees pain & separation not as a psychological event, but as a spiritual opening. Longing can lead us to become intimate with this one primal pain; the pain of separation. The pain of not belonging. Being born merely is separation.

When we allow the separation & longing to lead us deeper within ourselves, it can take us deeper in life, and in love.

I love to remind the women I work with of longing, as it is particularly part of our feminine nature (while also honoring the psyche & its beautiful wants & needs).

I’ve come to see that longing, and sadness, grief, and ecstatically missing hold such such súuuch beauty!

Longing is not meant to be solved or fulfilled.
I love that longing is meant to be lived. It is meant to bring you deeper. Because, as Rumi said—longing itself is a cure.

The cure is perhaps that it stretches your heart open.
The cure may be feeling deeply.
The cure may be to sit with what is.

If anything, our longing holds pain & beauty simultaneously. Let it move you. 🌹

www.tessaschiethart.com/support

#beauty #longing #love #embodiment #sufism #rumi #mysticism #poetry

“Nourish me not with love but with the desire for love.” – Ibn Arabi. “Do not seek for water, be thirsty.” – Rumi.

I love the great mystics, the poetry & the devotion to Longing.

My dad had all the poetry books right there where I grew up.

Longing, and aching, missing, grieving—show a raw beauty.

When it comes to love & longing, the most ecstatic moments of my life were perhaps in heartbreak—on my carpet, winter outside, candlelight flickering, and in the ache of deep feeling and longing I tasted life more beautifully than ever before.

Our longing does not leave. It lingers beneath everything. Because longing is not about lack—it is about depth.

Our world does not teach us how to sit in longing. It tells us to chase, to reach, to grab the next fix—

Longing is not craving.
Longing is not wanting.
Longing is beyond fulfillment.

The moment you get what you want, another hunger will arise. But longing—that deep, holy ache—is different. It is the whisper of something beyond that the poets wrote about.

In the realm of Longing, I love how Sufism sees pain & separation not as a psychological event, but as a spiritual opening. Longing can lead us to become intimate with this one primal pain; the pain of separation. The pain of not belonging. Being born merely is separation.

When we allow the separation & longing to lead us deeper within ourselves, it can take us deeper in life, and in love.

I love to remind the women I work with of longing, as it is particularly part of our feminine nature (while also honoring the psyche & its beautiful wants & needs).

I’ve come to see that longing, and sadness, grief, and ecstatically missing hold such such súuuch beauty!

Longing is not meant to be solved or fulfilled.
I love that longing is meant to be lived. It is meant to bring you deeper. Because, as Rumi said—longing itself is a cure.

The cure is perhaps that it stretches your heart open.
The cure may be feeling deeply.
The cure may be to sit with what is.

If anything, our longing holds pain & beauty simultaneously. Let it move you. 🌹

www.tessaschiethart.com/support

#beauty #longing #love #embodiment #sufism #rumi #mysticism #poetry

I like meeting people, knowing that behind all of their faces lie stories that are worth listening to

I like raw, I like real, I like unconventional. I like the hidden parts of us deep within our hearts.

Like that young man I met on a retreat, whose body posture looked closed, who looked slightly angry. And then, over a night of deep talk when every body else left, told me everything about what serving in the war was like, giving words to the visuals no eyes should see

Or the loudest lady at the table, who then shares in the bathroom with me the deep grief in her heart—

Ive always known thing do not always look as they are.

And Ive always had people tell me their stories. Not just stories— their deepest life experiences, the things they carried in their hearts, their truths.

I have accepted I have a hard time keeping up conversations that do not feel deep.

I live for depth in conversation, for true listening, connection and rawness.

It humbles me. It teaches me. People tend to pour their hearts out to me. They always have.
In real life encounters. In my dm’s. In long emails I receive.

And the older I grow, the more I am a vessel for this. As my own stories, thoughts and feeling fade more to the background, and do not grapple me as much as my sensitive twenties did.

It is so so liberating to be a vessel people trust

Tell me the truths you’ve never dared to speak. Tell me about your experiences that shaped the way you live. Tell me your grief. Tell me over and over as it will come in waves and as the stories change you.

And lets anchor these stories. Let us anchor them within the very soil of your being. Your body. For its there that the story of your life flourishes. In your embodiment. In your raw, real being.

🌹
#embodiment #somaticpsychotherapy #beingseen #deeperrelating

I like meeting people, knowing that behind all of their faces lie stories that are worth listening to

I like raw, I like real, I like unconventional. I like the hidden parts of us deep within our hearts.

Like that young man I met on a retreat, whose body posture looked closed, who looked slightly angry. And then, over a night of deep talk when every body else left, told me everything about what serving in the war was like, giving words to the visuals no eyes should see

Or the loudest lady at the table, who then shares in the bathroom with me the deep grief in her heart—

Ive always known thing do not always look as they are.

And Ive always had people tell me their stories. Not just stories— their deepest life experiences, the things they carried in their hearts, their truths.

I have accepted I have a hard time keeping up conversations that do not feel deep.

I live for depth in conversation, for true listening, connection and rawness.

It humbles me. It teaches me. People tend to pour their hearts out to me. They always have.
In real life encounters. In my dm’s. In long emails I receive.

And the older I grow, the more I am a vessel for this. As my own stories, thoughts and feeling fade more to the background, and do not grapple me as much as my sensitive twenties did.

It is so so liberating to be a vessel people trust

Tell me the truths you’ve never dared to speak. Tell me about your experiences that shaped the way you live. Tell me your grief. Tell me over and over as it will come in waves and as the stories change you.

And lets anchor these stories. Let us anchor them within the very soil of your being. Your body. For its there that the story of your life flourishes. In your embodiment. In your raw, real being.

🌹
#embodiment #somaticpsychotherapy #beingseen #deeperrelating

on my path, and in guiding others, these are just some of the words that have been anchors.

anchors for resilience, empowerment, choice, creativity, belonging, relating, depth, flourishing and beauty,

themes I deeply love to awaken to and guide you in.

this work I love to bring is rooted in resilience. rooted in the understanding that any human faces challenges in this life, and that those challenge have such potency to bring us empowerment, to bring us an embodied and creative way of living, and a deeper sense of relating to all of life. and that within all of it, there is beauty — beauty in the deepest meaning we can give to it.

🌹 which of these is your favorite?

•
#beauty #resilience #empowerment #meaning #hafiz #rumi #frankl #poetry #wisdom #embodiment #relating #intimacy #choice #belonging #humanflourishing

on my path, and in guiding others, these are just some of the words that have been anchors.

anchors for resilience, empowerment, choice, creativity, belonging, relating, depth, flourishing and beauty,

themes I deeply love to awaken to and guide you in.

this work I love to bring is rooted in resilience. rooted in the understanding that any human faces challenges in this life, and that those challenge have such potency to bring us empowerment, to bring us an embodied and creative way of living, and a deeper sense of relating to all of life. and that within all of it, there is beauty — beauty in the deepest meaning we can give to it.

🌹 which of these is your favorite?

•
#beauty #resilience #empowerment #meaning #hafiz #rumi #frankl #poetry #wisdom #embodiment #relating #intimacy #choice #belonging #humanflourishing

I find this one of the most beautiful things about men:

Their way of seeing us

a man devoted to you, loves to see you in your beauty, shine, greatness, in your power, in your gifts, whatever you name it.

Over the last year, I have worked with tens of men, often partners of the women I worked with – I love that, and it is so beautiful to witness how they can see their woman 💕

A lot of the men I work with have this beautiful way of seeing their woman in her glory ánd see it if she’s not.

The truest men will tell us, wíth full heart, no judgement.

Many men have strong vision, strong insight, and they can see us clearly (depending on their level of presence, too).

the men who will see where were not in our fullness, ánd bring it so so lovingly where he loves to see more in your power, more with the things he knows you’re flourish in, the things he knows you love to do… are a gift.

Can you receive him when he tells you? Can you actually hear him?

or is that hard at times? (i know, patterns in this comeup for all of us..)

ps. there is discernment in whether he judges or truly brings his heart and longing for more of you - you can feel the distinction in your body - often, you can sense a vulnerability, a genuine desire from him for you to grow!

maybe you do feel made small by a man, if he judges, then this is a sign. perhaps a sign to leave — not because he is ultimately wrong or whatever pop-psychology label you want to put onto him, but because you deserve your shine, softness & flourishing met by someone.)

ps. I offer relational mentoring with partners individually, not coupled. I primarily work with monogamous individuals, men and women, using the framework of the stages of relating by deida, who my work is deeply inspired by, as well as many beautiful tools such as attachment relating, mindfulness & nvc, er’tic friction and energetics.
I have a focus on spectrum-relating; e.g grief + love, pain vs. pleasure (example; I work with individuals who have (a partner with) chronic illness / pain that affects pleasure, relating & intimacy.

& I work with more topics of wonder, depth & delight in relating — www.tessaschiethart.com

I find this one of the most beautiful things about men:

Their way of seeing us

a man devoted to you, loves to see you in your beauty, shine, greatness, in your power, in your gifts, whatever you name it.

Over the last year, I have worked with tens of men, often partners of the women I worked with – I love that, and it is so beautiful to witness how they can see their woman 💕

A lot of the men I work with have this beautiful way of seeing their woman in her glory ánd see it if she’s not.

The truest men will tell us, wíth full heart, no judgement.

Many men have strong vision, strong insight, and they can see us clearly (depending on their level of presence, too).

the men who will see where were not in our fullness, ánd bring it so so lovingly where he loves to see more in your power, more with the things he knows you’re flourish in, the things he knows you love to do… are a gift.

Can you receive him when he tells you? Can you actually hear him?

or is that hard at times? (i know, patterns in this comeup for all of us..)

ps. there is discernment in whether he judges or truly brings his heart and longing for more of you - you can feel the distinction in your body - often, you can sense a vulnerability, a genuine desire from him for you to grow!

maybe you do feel made small by a man, if he judges, then this is a sign. perhaps a sign to leave — not because he is ultimately wrong or whatever pop-psychology label you want to put onto him, but because you deserve your shine, softness & flourishing met by someone.)

ps. I offer relational mentoring with partners individually, not coupled. I primarily work with monogamous individuals, men and women, using the framework of the stages of relating by deida, who my work is deeply inspired by, as well as many beautiful tools such as attachment relating, mindfulness & nvc, er’tic friction and energetics.
I have a focus on spectrum-relating; e.g grief + love, pain vs. pleasure (example; I work with individuals who have (a partner with) chronic illness / pain that affects pleasure, relating & intimacy.

& I work with more topics of wonder, depth & delight in relating — www.tessaschiethart.com

if you want to be yourself, if you want to deeper relate to yourself, others and the world around you, learn to be witnessed, learn to witness yourself, be aeen. it will be vulnerable, triggering, opening, scary, humbling. it has you seeing you for all you are and then letting the world in — and its so worth it, because there is nothing as rewarding as just simply being yourself

and it is your gift to the world. your uniqueness truly is.

• #beingseen #embodiedliving #embodiment #empowerment

if you want to be yourself, if you want to deeper relate to yourself, others and the world around you, learn to be witnessed, learn to witness yourself, be aeen. it will be vulnerable, triggering, opening, scary, humbling. it has you seeing you for all you are and then letting the world in — and its so worth it, because there is nothing as rewarding as just simply being yourself

and it is your gift to the world. your uniqueness truly is.

• #beingseen #embodiedliving #embodiment #empowerment

One thing I adore about my birthmark, is that it invites connection and truth

No matter where I find myself in the world — I seem to always have people recognize me.

like “hey, I saw you at yoga the other day, how was your class?” & I end up having lunch with people, be invited to people’s events..
I meet dutchies across the world who tell me “I know you from somewhere”.
In the villages I find myself, it takes about 3 days for all the locals to know me and connect. Its so lovely.

Whether people recognize me from a photo, a friend’s party, a magazine interview, a talk show I was on, or just the neighborhood,

its wild sometimes how I get to meet people.

I know there’s of a feeling that our uniqueness is unacceptable, should be hidden, fumbled away or otherwise is unwanted

Yet, I feel and know your uniqueness creates for something special, for you and others who engage with you.

And your uniqueness deepens truth, too.

I know that the people I attract are open to look deeper. At me. At people. At life. Beyond skin or surface.

To recognize someone, in a deeper way, is not what all people are able to do. And so the people who are not able to look deeper easily fall away. Uniqueness filters.

This creates a real and raw presence with people that my deep heart doesn’t want to live without anyway.

I rarely write about my birthmarked experiences these days, and these words surely do not mean I don’t have hard moments either. I do.

But those moments can be counted on one hand. While the beautiful moments of connection & truth are endless, bringing me a life of wonder & delight. 💕

Your uniqueness is a gift.
Carry the embodiment of your uniquenss, whether on your skin or below your skin.

The radiance you will shine out as a result is attractive — not in the superficial sense of the word. But in the literal sense: it attracts.

Your own embrace of who you are attracts people, opportunities, and trust me, wild experiences too!

— sending love, Tess

www.tessaschiethart.com |

#embodiment #radiance #truth #connection #embrace #withinyourskin #empowerment

One thing I adore about my birthmark, is that it invites connection and truth

No matter where I find myself in the world — I seem to always have people recognize me.

like “hey, I saw you at yoga the other day, how was your class?” & I end up having lunch with people, be invited to people’s events..
I meet dutchies across the world who tell me “I know you from somewhere”.
In the villages I find myself, it takes about 3 days for all the locals to know me and connect. Its so lovely.

Whether people recognize me from a photo, a friend’s party, a magazine interview, a talk show I was on, or just the neighborhood,

its wild sometimes how I get to meet people.

I know there’s of a feeling that our uniqueness is unacceptable, should be hidden, fumbled away or otherwise is unwanted

Yet, I feel and know your uniqueness creates for something special, for you and others who engage with you.

And your uniqueness deepens truth, too.

I know that the people I attract are open to look deeper. At me. At people. At life. Beyond skin or surface.

To recognize someone, in a deeper way, is not what all people are able to do. And so the people who are not able to look deeper easily fall away. Uniqueness filters.

This creates a real and raw presence with people that my deep heart doesn’t want to live without anyway.

I rarely write about my birthmarked experiences these days, and these words surely do not mean I don’t have hard moments either. I do.

But those moments can be counted on one hand. While the beautiful moments of connection & truth are endless, bringing me a life of wonder & delight. 💕

Your uniqueness is a gift.
Carry the embodiment of your uniquenss, whether on your skin or below your skin.

The radiance you will shine out as a result is attractive — not in the superficial sense of the word. But in the literal sense: it attracts.

Your own embrace of who you are attracts people, opportunities, and trust me, wild experiences too!

— sending love, Tess

www.tessaschiethart.com |

#embodiment #radiance #truth #connection #embrace #withinyourskin #empowerment

Maybe you just need rest?

Maybe you don’t need another activity, but just to lay your body down and be.

Maybe it is simple to rest, maybe it is not at all something that is fancy.

Rest is not a luxury, it is a human need.

It is not defined by massage, or shiny things fhat you think define selfcare.

But just to lay your body down. To breathe for 7 minutes straight. To let your body calm down.

To let the winds of your exhale wind down the intensity.

Maybe you feel you are only allowed to rest when you’ve first done something to deserve it.

Maybe you don’t need to be exhausted to deserve rest. You donMt need to earn your way to rest.

You don’t need to please others before you can rest.

In a world that does so much, doing nothing is a rebellious act.

Often uncomfortable for those who feel they only deserve rest under certain circumstances, and a necessity for those who have a body that demands rest without negotiating — something I am invited in often.

Yet, a rested bodymind is actually more productive than productive exhaustion ever could be. Creativity is one thing that requires rest and relaxation, pleasure, open heartedness, and joy too.

Relaxation is a gateway to understanding ourselves better.

Because we need to have a relaxed nervous system to access parts of ourselves that aren’t online in a stress-mode.

And it ripples out. Stress is contagious. Our energies literally influences the people around us. Our bodies resonate with one another. So your rested state impacts others. If its hard to rest for yourself, then remind yoursef that it ripples and impacts others.

Your aliveness and flourishing starts from rest.

A relaxed open state creates for a different experience of life.

Our bodily rest is needed. It contacts deeper parts of us. Its lets you become aware of what happens in the undercurrents of who you are. Below all the noise and activity and doing.

— when you want to deepen your stae of rest, join the workshop on February 23rd

we’ll dive into relaxation and rest for an openness in your body to step into life with more ease.

• softening within your skin •

dm ‘softening’ & I’ll get you the link 🌺

Maybe you just need rest?

Maybe you don’t need another activity, but just to lay your body down and be.

Maybe it is simple to rest, maybe it is not at all something that is fancy.

Rest is not a luxury, it is a human need.

It is not defined by massage, or shiny things fhat you think define selfcare.

But just to lay your body down. To breathe for 7 minutes straight. To let your body calm down.

To let the winds of your exhale wind down the intensity.

Maybe you feel you are only allowed to rest when you’ve first done something to deserve it.

Maybe you don’t need to be exhausted to deserve rest. You donMt need to earn your way to rest.

You don’t need to please others before you can rest.

In a world that does so much, doing nothing is a rebellious act.

Often uncomfortable for those who feel they only deserve rest under certain circumstances, and a necessity for those who have a body that demands rest without negotiating — something I am invited in often.

Yet, a rested bodymind is actually more productive than productive exhaustion ever could be. Creativity is one thing that requires rest and relaxation, pleasure, open heartedness, and joy too.

Relaxation is a gateway to understanding ourselves better.

Because we need to have a relaxed nervous system to access parts of ourselves that aren’t online in a stress-mode.

And it ripples out. Stress is contagious. Our energies literally influences the people around us. Our bodies resonate with one another. So your rested state impacts others. If its hard to rest for yourself, then remind yoursef that it ripples and impacts others.

Your aliveness and flourishing starts from rest.

A relaxed open state creates for a different experience of life.

Our bodily rest is needed. It contacts deeper parts of us. Its lets you become aware of what happens in the undercurrents of who you are. Below all the noise and activity and doing.

— when you want to deepen your stae of rest, join the workshop on February 23rd

we’ll dive into relaxation and rest for an openness in your body to step into life with more ease.

• softening within your skin •

dm ‘softening’ & I’ll get you the link 🌺

In the framework I curated when working around Beauty, I have made 3 beautiful distinctions in relating to Beauty

1. surface shine — this is relating to beauty from the surface, the looks of it, the external. this is what most people relate to, when relating to beauty; their skin, external looks, the shinyness, and the enhancement of it. this is what ‘beauty’ means for most in our society. its not wrong, its just surface-level— not quite as deep as we can relate to it, but it can be nourishing, like decorating your house is, like enchanting yourself with jewelry and dress, like playing with colors and fabric. ánd it comes with a shadow too: of adjusting, covering and masking, of not enoughness and hiding. for women it often comes with comparison, judgement and generally a more mind-oriented relationship to beauty: of what is deemed beautiful and what is not.

2. equanimous beauty — this is relating to beauty from compassion, (body) neutrality, from the heart and true inclusion of all aspects and expressions of beauty, it is not only external, but an internal wholesome stance towards yourself, others and the environment you find yourself in. it is acceptance: a coming to see beauty in any natural expression. and it usually comes with a lot of healing: healing the way we look at ourselves, the way we see our bodies, a path of releasing any patterns and closures around your beauty and beauty itself, a way of seeing beauty wholesomely.

3. divine beauty — this is an integration, or realization of the deep pulse of beauty within you; a pulse that radiates outwardly, that is unseen yet so felt, so present, and exudes outwardly. it is pure, light, artful, expressive. not confined to any look, beyond the look, a beauty carried because of the inner beauty within.

i love the framework of the psychospiritual 3 stages, and applying this to beauty.

beauty is my most beloved path— teaching intricate lessons, our relationship to beauty is so deeply ingrained in our human experience, as we move between these stages in different ways, in different stages of our life and relationship to our bodies

its the beauty way ✨

#beauty #divinebeauty #wholeness #embodiment

In the framework I curated when working around Beauty, I have made 3 beautiful distinctions in relating to Beauty

1. surface shine — this is relating to beauty from the surface, the looks of it, the external. this is what most people relate to, when relating to beauty; their skin, external looks, the shinyness, and the enhancement of it. this is what ‘beauty’ means for most in our society. its not wrong, its just surface-level— not quite as deep as we can relate to it, but it can be nourishing, like decorating your house is, like enchanting yourself with jewelry and dress, like playing with colors and fabric. ánd it comes with a shadow too: of adjusting, covering and masking, of not enoughness and hiding. for women it often comes with comparison, judgement and generally a more mind-oriented relationship to beauty: of what is deemed beautiful and what is not.

2. equanimous beauty — this is relating to beauty from compassion, (body) neutrality, from the heart and true inclusion of all aspects and expressions of beauty, it is not only external, but an internal wholesome stance towards yourself, others and the environment you find yourself in. it is acceptance: a coming to see beauty in any natural expression. and it usually comes with a lot of healing: healing the way we look at ourselves, the way we see our bodies, a path of releasing any patterns and closures around your beauty and beauty itself, a way of seeing beauty wholesomely.

3. divine beauty — this is an integration, or realization of the deep pulse of beauty within you; a pulse that radiates outwardly, that is unseen yet so felt, so present, and exudes outwardly. it is pure, light, artful, expressive. not confined to any look, beyond the look, a beauty carried because of the inner beauty within.

i love the framework of the psychospiritual 3 stages, and applying this to beauty.

beauty is my most beloved path— teaching intricate lessons, our relationship to beauty is so deeply ingrained in our human experience, as we move between these stages in different ways, in different stages of our life and relationship to our bodies

its the beauty way ✨

#beauty #divinebeauty #wholeness #embodiment

“The true party happens on the inside”

& the true adventure remains the traversing of our inner landscapes.

I giggle often with one of my teachers when yet again we deepen into all that seems to happen inside of me, from digestion to devotion.

Because with a rich inner world, I have always felt there is so much to discover within me that although I can find myself in an external circumstance, in far away lands and fun parties,

nothing really seems to beat the richness of my inner landscapes.

Below your skin lies the true world wide web to discover.

From sensations, emotions, and thoughts, to organs with their functions, feelings and fumbles. From the stories of your mind, and the motions of your heart, to the wisdom held within your cells as they pulse in exaltation.

The trinity of yoga, ayurveda and t-an-tra has guided me in traversing my inner landscapes, and the different bodies: my mental, emotional, physical, energetic, and spiritual

from the sweetest joy and pleasure to the immense pulses and pangs of pains,

I see such beauty in discovering our inner landscapes & bringing it in relationship to the outer world,

through practice & embodiment.

Our inner landscapes are so interesting because they will never be fully travelled, traversed– it is a widening field that opens and deepens just as you thought you’d arrived

The magic? Your inner landscape is right there, right beneath the sacredness of your skin.

To come into relationship with all you hold within takes softening, relaxing, sensitizing, and awareness & curiosity.

I teach a beautiful workshop with the skin as our gateway to the depths of your inner landscapes

with practices of softening and relaxation within the body so that you can step into the world attuned to the wisdom within your very being, within your skin

Softening within your Skin – a workshop

February 23rd

✨ dm me ‘softening’ for the link to join & something sweet with it coming too

#embodiment #embodiedliving #deeperrelating #withinyourskine

“The true party happens on the inside”

& the true adventure remains the traversing of our inner landscapes.

I giggle often with one of my teachers when yet again we deepen into all that seems to happen inside of me, from digestion to devotion.

Because with a rich inner world, I have always felt there is so much to discover within me that although I can find myself in an external circumstance, in far away lands and fun parties,

nothing really seems to beat the richness of my inner landscapes.

Below your skin lies the true world wide web to discover.

From sensations, emotions, and thoughts, to organs with their functions, feelings and fumbles. From the stories of your mind, and the motions of your heart, to the wisdom held within your cells as they pulse in exaltation.

The trinity of yoga, ayurveda and t-an-tra has guided me in traversing my inner landscapes, and the different bodies: my mental, emotional, physical, energetic, and spiritual

from the sweetest joy and pleasure to the immense pulses and pangs of pains,

I see such beauty in discovering our inner landscapes & bringing it in relationship to the outer world,

through practice & embodiment.

Our inner landscapes are so interesting because they will never be fully travelled, traversed– it is a widening field that opens and deepens just as you thought you’d arrived

The magic? Your inner landscape is right there, right beneath the sacredness of your skin.

To come into relationship with all you hold within takes softening, relaxing, sensitizing, and awareness & curiosity.

I teach a beautiful workshop with the skin as our gateway to the depths of your inner landscapes

with practices of softening and relaxation within the body so that you can step into the world attuned to the wisdom within your very being, within your skin

Softening within your Skin – a workshop

February 23rd

✨ dm me ‘softening’ for the link to join & something sweet with it coming too

#embodiment #embodiedliving #deeperrelating #withinyourskine

“Beautiful people don’t just happen”– these words I read many years ago, deeply appreciate them, from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

Over the years, I’ve heard and sat with so many beautiful people, and with their experiences of despair, doubt, challenge, heartbreak, obstacles, limitations, grief, and loss– and within my own journey there are some key insights that have brought me to the beauty, grace and flourishing that lies within and beyond each and every of these life hardships,

The wisdom of some of the great mystics have inspired me to orient to an embodiment and acceptance that embraces all experiences in life.

Like Teresa of Avila, partly the namesake of my grandmother and I, who taught me there is growth in challenge, to let nothing frighten you, to open, and build capacity for patience.
Like Khalil Gibran, who taught that suffering brings soulfulness.
Like Rumi, who beautiful said that the wound is where the light enters.

I have come to see that every adversity, every doubt, every setback, every challenge, has the immense potency to let you grow, develop and become soulful in being.

Those who have known defeat, been at the end of themselves, known suffering, struggle, loss and despite it all find their way because of it, not despite of it–

Those experiences hold the potential to bring us a deepened relationship to Life, a sensitivity, appreciation, a not-taking-anything-for-granted attitude, a gratitude, and compassion.

Like Ram Dass said, “I do not wish you the stroke, but I wish you the grace of the stroke”.
I hold many scares myself, but I know deep within there is not a single thing I would change about them for they hold all the beauty of my Life today.

This is where I love to sit with people– at their moment of deepest difficulty. Not because I wish you the difficulty, but because I deeply see potency, possibility and beauty there.
To move challenge into growth, pain into pleasure, and your becoming into your truest beauty.

there is such beauty in human resilience, and the transformative power of coming in harmony with life’s hardship.

🌹 www.tessaschiethart.com/support –

#resilience #embodiedliving #deeperrelating #transformation

“Beautiful people don’t just happen”– these words I read many years ago, deeply appreciate them, from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

Over the years, I’ve heard and sat with so many beautiful people, and with their experiences of despair, doubt, challenge, heartbreak, obstacles, limitations, grief, and loss– and within my own journey there are some key insights that have brought me to the beauty, grace and flourishing that lies within and beyond each and every of these life hardships,

The wisdom of some of the great mystics have inspired me to orient to an embodiment and acceptance that embraces all experiences in life.

Like Teresa of Avila, partly the namesake of my grandmother and I, who taught me there is growth in challenge, to let nothing frighten you, to open, and build capacity for patience.
Like Khalil Gibran, who taught that suffering brings soulfulness.
Like Rumi, who beautiful said that the wound is where the light enters.

I have come to see that every adversity, every doubt, every setback, every challenge, has the immense potency to let you grow, develop and become soulful in being.

Those who have known defeat, been at the end of themselves, known suffering, struggle, loss and despite it all find their way because of it, not despite of it–

Those experiences hold the potential to bring us a deepened relationship to Life, a sensitivity, appreciation, a not-taking-anything-for-granted attitude, a gratitude, and compassion.

Like Ram Dass said, “I do not wish you the stroke, but I wish you the grace of the stroke”.
I hold many scares myself, but I know deep within there is not a single thing I would change about them for they hold all the beauty of my Life today.

This is where I love to sit with people– at their moment of deepest difficulty. Not because I wish you the difficulty, but because I deeply see potency, possibility and beauty there.
To move challenge into growth, pain into pleasure, and your becoming into your truest beauty.

there is such beauty in human resilience, and the transformative power of coming in harmony with life’s hardship.

🌹 www.tessaschiethart.com/support –

#resilience #embodiedliving #deeperrelating #transformation

Washing everything away that is not my natural wild. — precisely after 10 years, a january in bali

a month of rewilding, rewiring, inwardness and being reminded of what home feels like, within and without

of dancing in the rain, big belly laughs, of nasi campur and lime juice, of endless rides through the rice fields, of joe dispenza’ing & long morning meditation as my refuge, of yogic practice, of women’s circles, kirtan, ecstatic dance,

but then all the more for relearning bahasa like I used to speak, of honoring my grandmother who was born and raised on this land, the gamelan sound reminding me of childhood, of re-acquainting with balinese healing arts, of giggles with the women who teach me their recipes as I am welcomed into their living & cooking space, of going to temple with their family for ceremony, of contemporary balinese dance classes, and accidentally learning to woodwork while sheltering from exquisite monsoon rains,

of papa Nyoman’s reflexology as my feet cringe & giggle in pain and pleasure, and discussions with the gojek-driver on indonesian geo-politics or economy, remembering the contents of minoring in indonesian studies at uni, my inner anthropologist alive

of working online with clients while here, and to study, to deepen hindu and buddhist studies, to reflect, to deepen, to read for hours,

with mosquito bites, early nights and earlier mornings, of roosters and birds, coconuts and bananas, incense in the air, flowers everywhere.

of a rekindled knowing why this land always felt so good deep within the merrow of my bones

the blessing of a month away by my self yet to be in relationship to the many beautiful ones here and all the beauty surrounding

—
#downmemorylane #islandofgods

Washing everything away that is not my natural wild. — precisely after 10 years, a january in bali

a month of rewilding, rewiring, inwardness and being reminded of what home feels like, within and without

of dancing in the rain, big belly laughs, of nasi campur and lime juice, of endless rides through the rice fields, of joe dispenza’ing & long morning meditation as my refuge, of yogic practice, of women’s circles, kirtan, ecstatic dance,

but then all the more for relearning bahasa like I used to speak, of honoring my grandmother who was born and raised on this land, the gamelan sound reminding me of childhood, of re-acquainting with balinese healing arts, of giggles with the women who teach me their recipes as I am welcomed into their living & cooking space, of going to temple with their family for ceremony, of contemporary balinese dance classes, and accidentally learning to woodwork while sheltering from exquisite monsoon rains,

of papa Nyoman’s reflexology as my feet cringe & giggle in pain and pleasure, and discussions with the gojek-driver on indonesian geo-politics or economy, remembering the contents of minoring in indonesian studies at uni, my inner anthropologist alive

of working online with clients while here, and to study, to deepen hindu and buddhist studies, to reflect, to deepen, to read for hours,

with mosquito bites, early nights and earlier mornings, of roosters and birds, coconuts and bananas, incense in the air, flowers everywhere.

of a rekindled knowing why this land always felt so good deep within the merrow of my bones

the blessing of a month away by my self yet to be in relationship to the many beautiful ones here and all the beauty surrounding

—
#downmemorylane #islandofgods

I am yet to meet a woman who does not struggle with the skin she is in

almost all women have gone through difficult moments or periods of challenge with their body.

My journey has been quite the ride, around fearing being seen for only my birthmark and not all my interior gifts, coming to terms with the beauty and hardship in what my skin brings to all moments in life

My relationship to food has not always been easy nor has the shape of my body

Embodiment practice has been the one and only thing that has cultivated the deep, wholesome and inclusive relationship I have with my body today.

Yogic practice has been the glue to my daily living & coming into union with my mind and body

Today I see deeply how feeling confident in your skin is an internal affair

You can enlarge, adjust, inject and reshape your body all you want, and I do by no means hold the belief that that is inherently wrong, more so there is true benefit and healing there too (my work at uni in skin terapy has taught me this, and more so, i am the receiver of plastic surgery — albeit at a very young age in the aftermath of the medical mistake of burning my birthmark),

but there is really nothing like feeling your body from the inside out, inhabiting your skin in all glory, devoting to being really curious about your lived experience, your feelings and sensations from within.

how deeply you can relax in your skin, in your body, is related to how you embrace and embody your uniqueness as a woman.

relaxing into your skin is one of the main embodied practices to cultivate

because there is nothing shining brighter than a woman fully relaxed in her skin, confidence and wholesome embodiment

there’s beautiful magnetism (visible + invisible/felt) to you in your very unique being,
no matter your looks or limitations. 🌹

— currently enrolling for 1:1 private mentorship focussed around body image, pain vs. pleasure, sensuality + seg’suality & your embodied self beyond any dis-ease, symptom or limitations

✨ dm me ‘beyond’ and I will get you all the details!

📸 beloved memories of mysore, india, of deep journey into the body —

I am yet to meet a woman who does not struggle with the skin she is in

almost all women have gone through difficult moments or periods of challenge with their body.

My journey has been quite the ride, around fearing being seen for only my birthmark and not all my interior gifts, coming to terms with the beauty and hardship in what my skin brings to all moments in life

My relationship to food has not always been easy nor has the shape of my body

Embodiment practice has been the one and only thing that has cultivated the deep, wholesome and inclusive relationship I have with my body today.

Yogic practice has been the glue to my daily living & coming into union with my mind and body

Today I see deeply how feeling confident in your skin is an internal affair

You can enlarge, adjust, inject and reshape your body all you want, and I do by no means hold the belief that that is inherently wrong, more so there is true benefit and healing there too (my work at uni in skin terapy has taught me this, and more so, i am the receiver of plastic surgery — albeit at a very young age in the aftermath of the medical mistake of burning my birthmark),

but there is really nothing like feeling your body from the inside out, inhabiting your skin in all glory, devoting to being really curious about your lived experience, your feelings and sensations from within.

how deeply you can relax in your skin, in your body, is related to how you embrace and embody your uniqueness as a woman.

relaxing into your skin is one of the main embodied practices to cultivate

because there is nothing shining brighter than a woman fully relaxed in her skin, confidence and wholesome embodiment

there’s beautiful magnetism (visible + invisible/felt) to you in your very unique being,
no matter your looks or limitations. 🌹

— currently enrolling for 1:1 private mentorship focussed around body image, pain vs. pleasure, sensuality + seg’suality & your embodied self beyond any dis-ease, symptom or limitations

✨ dm me ‘beyond’ and I will get you all the details!

📸 beloved memories of mysore, india, of deep journey into the body —

We each come with unique histories, life experiences and stories.
Our body holds these stories inside.

The stories, experiences and histories we have not yet fully integrated, or the ones we do not yet want to face, are held within the body.
These held stories in the body express in body language, in a tight belly, a stiff fist, in contraction in certain situations. Your felt sensations tell the stories of what is held and experienced inside.

It takes a readiness and willingness for us to start to feel the depth of what is stored in our bodies.

It takes a readiness to feel, deeply.

When we begin to feel, sensation come to us in a myriad of ways.
With intensity, in hot and cold flashes, in all kinds of little tingles, pangs, or flows of little electrical pulses of sensations. Which can bring discomfort, pain, confusion and fear.

To feel often is uncomfortable, tender and deeply vulnerably–

Deep feeling is about integrating what is held within, to face the stories that are discomfortable, painful and tender at heart.

The beauty is that within your bones, you hold centuries of knowing too.
Your ability to feel your sensations and your sensual aliveness is as natural to you as your breath is. Coming home to your body through felt sensation, through feeling and integrating brings gold and riches that no worldly thing can buy – it is worth the depth of your experience of life.

Feeling is interconnected with touch and to be touched by life, means you have to feel.

🌹 | www.tessaschiethart.com
#somatictherapy #embodiment

We each come with unique histories, life experiences and stories.
Our body holds these stories inside.

The stories, experiences and histories we have not yet fully integrated, or the ones we do not yet want to face, are held within the body.
These held stories in the body express in body language, in a tight belly, a stiff fist, in contraction in certain situations. Your felt sensations tell the stories of what is held and experienced inside.

It takes a readiness and willingness for us to start to feel the depth of what is stored in our bodies.

It takes a readiness to feel, deeply.

When we begin to feel, sensation come to us in a myriad of ways.
With intensity, in hot and cold flashes, in all kinds of little tingles, pangs, or flows of little electrical pulses of sensations. Which can bring discomfort, pain, confusion and fear.

To feel often is uncomfortable, tender and deeply vulnerably–

Deep feeling is about integrating what is held within, to face the stories that are discomfortable, painful and tender at heart.

The beauty is that within your bones, you hold centuries of knowing too.
Your ability to feel your sensations and your sensual aliveness is as natural to you as your breath is. Coming home to your body through felt sensation, through feeling and integrating brings gold and riches that no worldly thing can buy – it is worth the depth of your experience of life.

Feeling is interconnected with touch and to be touched by life, means you have to feel.

🌹 | www.tessaschiethart.com
#somatictherapy #embodiment

I was given the path of Ayurveda at age 17 on the fortnight of a defining medical moment. My dad gave me a book of wisdom that I read in 2 days which I attempted to apply before a treatment of sorts.

I dare say Ayurveda has saved my life in myriad ways.
I trained as an Ayurvedic nutritionist because of it shortly after that treatment and the path gifted me a relationship to health & dis-ease that influences and inspires me every single day.

It mostly taught me that

health is not the mere absence of dis-ease.

When we approach health beyond the absence of dis-ease, it means so much more. In Ayurveda, there are more stages to dis-ease development prior to a symptom.

Health, too, is about the presence of harmony in mind, body and spirit, includes the vibrancy you live with.

Health is so much more than merely physical, food choices or exercise.

Aside from the balance within the physical body that creates health, there is the mind, the senses and the soul that thrive within a state of balance, contentment, peace and clarity.

Health is thriving beyond surviving.
It is the ability to remain in balance amidst life challenges. It is remaining ‘swastha’ - anchored in your seat (or sitting on your life’s throne :))

Health is a dynamic equilibrium, a constant fluctuation, a balancing.
With the acknowledgement that health may be individual, that what is healthy differs from person to person when it comes to certain choices, that there are differences to experiencing joy, peace and vitality as well as digestion, rhythms and energies based on individual indicators.

+ do not mistake me; I LOVE western medicine. It is very much a part of my individual indicator for balance, I thank my life to it, AND I thank my life to the Ayurvedic path as well.

Balance is the key.
Perhaps to everything.

& to me, Ayurveda is a path of balance, which I always incorporate in somatic therapy with clients.

Because our sense of health affects our relationship to self, to others, to the world around us and to how we relate to our beautiful vessel through which we experience the world, our very unique bodies.

🌹
#ayurveda #health ##wellbeing #bali

I was given the path of Ayurveda at age 17 on the fortnight of a defining medical moment. My dad gave me a book of wisdom that I read in 2 days which I attempted to apply before a treatment of sorts.

I dare say Ayurveda has saved my life in myriad ways.
I trained as an Ayurvedic nutritionist because of it shortly after that treatment and the path gifted me a relationship to health & dis-ease that influences and inspires me every single day.

It mostly taught me that

health is not the mere absence of dis-ease.

When we approach health beyond the absence of dis-ease, it means so much more. In Ayurveda, there are more stages to dis-ease development prior to a symptom.

Health, too, is about the presence of harmony in mind, body and spirit, includes the vibrancy you live with.

Health is so much more than merely physical, food choices or exercise.

Aside from the balance within the physical body that creates health, there is the mind, the senses and the soul that thrive within a state of balance, contentment, peace and clarity.

Health is thriving beyond surviving.
It is the ability to remain in balance amidst life challenges. It is remaining ‘swastha’ - anchored in your seat (or sitting on your life’s throne :))

Health is a dynamic equilibrium, a constant fluctuation, a balancing.
With the acknowledgement that health may be individual, that what is healthy differs from person to person when it comes to certain choices, that there are differences to experiencing joy, peace and vitality as well as digestion, rhythms and energies based on individual indicators.

+ do not mistake me; I LOVE western medicine. It is very much a part of my individual indicator for balance, I thank my life to it, AND I thank my life to the Ayurvedic path as well.

Balance is the key.
Perhaps to everything.

& to me, Ayurveda is a path of balance, which I always incorporate in somatic therapy with clients.

Because our sense of health affects our relationship to self, to others, to the world around us and to how we relate to our beautiful vessel through which we experience the world, our very unique bodies.

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#ayurveda #health ##wellbeing #bali

Ceremony and ritual have been a part of people’s lives since the very beginning. Ritual and ceremony hold some potent powers.

Ritual is based in natural cycles. The celebration of the changes of seasons, the day of your birth, the season to cleanse, the season to bloom, the season to hibernate. With lights, gifts, scents, symbol and song, and the messages of hope in the dark, blooming in the light. The seasons of life.
Ritual symbolizes a beginning and an ending. It symbolizes cycles, rhythms and somatically affects our bodies. Our bodies have known ritual for 1000s of years. Ritual connects us to our bodies as our nervous system thrives on cycles and rhythms.

Life is uncertain, life is unknown.
Ritual helps us walk more sure-footed in this creat mysterious journey.
Ritual is not necessarily religious.
Ritual is as humanly necessary as can be.

As humans, we need beginnings and we need ends to anchor our nervous systems in time and space. Just as much as we need to complete a cycle of stress, we need the completion of a year, a season, or a time in our lives.

Something in all of us ignites when we live with rituals.
Love and attention flow to that which we focus on. Our experience changes entirely based on what we zoom into.
So, make it sacred.

To make sacred, to me, means to hold life as an exquisite masterpiece.
Each moment blessed with the capability to bring the daily doing into the space and place of ritual, by the use of attention, small prayer, ceremony.

Spend time in ritual.
Light a candle.
Sit in the warmth of water.
Plant a seed.
Sip your tea.
Rub your feet.
Be still.
Make your home filled with symbols that are meaningful to you.
Listen to the seasons, live by her rhythms..

Your personal rituals anchor your life, your body and your sense of hope, belonging and the nature of the seasons internally within you and externally around you, and in the cycles of life your find yourself in.

A world devoid of ritual is a world out of sync with its natural cycles, seasons and rhythms.
Tend to your cycle. Tend to your rhythms.

—
📸 during our Reconnect to Her retreat last september :: join us in May ‘25 again! • link in bio / dm me

Ceremony and ritual have been a part of people’s lives since the very beginning. Ritual and ceremony hold some potent powers.

Ritual is based in natural cycles. The celebration of the changes of seasons, the day of your birth, the season to cleanse, the season to bloom, the season to hibernate. With lights, gifts, scents, symbol and song, and the messages of hope in the dark, blooming in the light. The seasons of life.
Ritual symbolizes a beginning and an ending. It symbolizes cycles, rhythms and somatically affects our bodies. Our bodies have known ritual for 1000s of years. Ritual connects us to our bodies as our nervous system thrives on cycles and rhythms.

Life is uncertain, life is unknown.
Ritual helps us walk more sure-footed in this creat mysterious journey.
Ritual is not necessarily religious.
Ritual is as humanly necessary as can be.

As humans, we need beginnings and we need ends to anchor our nervous systems in time and space. Just as much as we need to complete a cycle of stress, we need the completion of a year, a season, or a time in our lives.

Something in all of us ignites when we live with rituals.
Love and attention flow to that which we focus on. Our experience changes entirely based on what we zoom into.
So, make it sacred.

To make sacred, to me, means to hold life as an exquisite masterpiece.
Each moment blessed with the capability to bring the daily doing into the space and place of ritual, by the use of attention, small prayer, ceremony.

Spend time in ritual.
Light a candle.
Sit in the warmth of water.
Plant a seed.
Sip your tea.
Rub your feet.
Be still.
Make your home filled with symbols that are meaningful to you.
Listen to the seasons, live by her rhythms..

Your personal rituals anchor your life, your body and your sense of hope, belonging and the nature of the seasons internally within you and externally around you, and in the cycles of life your find yourself in.

A world devoid of ritual is a world out of sync with its natural cycles, seasons and rhythms.
Tend to your cycle. Tend to your rhythms.

—
📸 during our Reconnect to Her retreat last september :: join us in May ‘25 again! • link in bio / dm me

Especially as women we have a deep longing to be seen. Sure, for the surface-level parts of our appearances.
But, at the depths, more so for our deep inner heart, our energy, our emotion, our capacity to feel, to love, and experience this world fully…
to be recognized, to be acknowledged, to be seen for our deepest parts, the parts that connect to our radiance, our true spark, our inner light.

There is a shadow to our longing to be seen too.
When it becomes “I need to be seen… in order to be whole, in order to be loved, in order to thrive” aka “I need you to witness my emotion, my perspective, my expression, my looks, my body…” – then this beautiful deep longing to be seen becomes wrapped in neediness.

Our deep longing is beautiful and pure.
Outside of the realms of actual needs, our neediness is a pattern, coming from conditioning,
And we are all human to have these patterns.

When we relate to our longing to be seen from a place of neediness, it can show as an identification with our thoughts, our emotions, and the identification with our more surface level expression and energy.

Our neediness can prevent us from actually being deeply embodied and skillful in how we bring our body & energy (emotion, thought, expression…) to the world, to our loved ones, and ourselves.

Our longing to be seen ibeautiful, pure, natural, deep.
It is there asking you to bring your fullness and expression.

— It is an ongoing practice: to anchor yourself in the deeper longing as there will continously be moments you find yourself in a pattern— but then to release identifications and return to a deeper place within you.

And when you practice releasing the need to be seen for something or someone, you may find more often than you may think, that you will be seen for so much depth when you lose the grip of the surface level needs.

@tessa.schiethart

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#longing #femininearts #embodiment #feminineenergy #deconditioning #womensempowerment

Especially as women we have a deep longing to be seen. Sure, for the surface-level parts of our appearances.
But, at the depths, more so for our deep inner heart, our energy, our emotion, our capacity to feel, to love, and experience this world fully…
to be recognized, to be acknowledged, to be seen for our deepest parts, the parts that connect to our radiance, our true spark, our inner light.

There is a shadow to our longing to be seen too.
When it becomes “I need to be seen… in order to be whole, in order to be loved, in order to thrive” aka “I need you to witness my emotion, my perspective, my expression, my looks, my body…” – then this beautiful deep longing to be seen becomes wrapped in neediness.

Our deep longing is beautiful and pure.
Outside of the realms of actual needs, our neediness is a pattern, coming from conditioning,
And we are all human to have these patterns.

When we relate to our longing to be seen from a place of neediness, it can show as an identification with our thoughts, our emotions, and the identification with our more surface level expression and energy.

Our neediness can prevent us from actually being deeply embodied and skillful in how we bring our body & energy (emotion, thought, expression…) to the world, to our loved ones, and ourselves.

Our longing to be seen ibeautiful, pure, natural, deep.
It is there asking you to bring your fullness and expression.

— It is an ongoing practice: to anchor yourself in the deeper longing as there will continously be moments you find yourself in a pattern— but then to release identifications and return to a deeper place within you.

And when you practice releasing the need to be seen for something or someone, you may find more often than you may think, that you will be seen for so much depth when you lose the grip of the surface level needs.

@tessa.schiethart

🌹
#longing #femininearts #embodiment #feminineenergy #deconditioning #womensempowerment

cultivating sensual aliveness by tuning into your internal, subjective experience—your felt sense within the body, is partly about connecting deeply with your bodily sensations: the tingling in your belly, the tightness in your throat, the heaviness in your chest. The somatic awareness through being sensually alive invites you to listen to the body’s language—a language spoken through sensations.

sensation is not emotion.
* Sensation is: “heavy heart,” “tight throat,” “tingle in the belly.”
* Emotion is: fear, joy, sorrow.

While sensation and emotion are distinct, they are also interconnected. Sensations can give rise to emotions, and emotions can spark sensations.

In a world that often teaches us to numb and suppress, learning to feel safe to feel our sensations in our own body is a powerful act of reclamation.

Many of us avoid discomfort, in any kind of way, because, honestly, it’s hard to feel.
But avoiding our feelings and sensations comes at a cost: pent-up sensations and emotions when uncheck, released or given their rightful place and space in our human life, can manifest as all sorts of dis-ease and dis-connect.
 Ssuppressing our humanness in favor of following rules and ticking boxes, is what we all learned at some point.

Learning to feel safe to feel where it once felt unsafe is one of the most beautiful gifts you can give yourself. Because it gives so much beauty back: the savoring of deep taste, nourishing touch, beauty to see also become much more alive in you as you enliven your sensual awareness

The gateway is safety, and, relaxation. Relaxation of the body gives an openness, which allows you to become more receptive to the subtle messages of your body.

The safety and relaxation and the sensually aliveness bring a beautiful return to wholeness from within your very own body.

🌹www.tessaschiethart.com/support

#somatictherapy #embodiment #sensuality #sensualawareness

cultivating sensual aliveness by tuning into your internal, subjective experience—your felt sense within the body, is partly about connecting deeply with your bodily sensations: the tingling in your belly, the tightness in your throat, the heaviness in your chest. The somatic awareness through being sensually alive invites you to listen to the body’s language—a language spoken through sensations.

sensation is not emotion.
* Sensation is: “heavy heart,” “tight throat,” “tingle in the belly.”
* Emotion is: fear, joy, sorrow.

While sensation and emotion are distinct, they are also interconnected. Sensations can give rise to emotions, and emotions can spark sensations.

In a world that often teaches us to numb and suppress, learning to feel safe to feel our sensations in our own body is a powerful act of reclamation.

Many of us avoid discomfort, in any kind of way, because, honestly, it’s hard to feel.
But avoiding our feelings and sensations comes at a cost: pent-up sensations and emotions when uncheck, released or given their rightful place and space in our human life, can manifest as all sorts of dis-ease and dis-connect.
 Ssuppressing our humanness in favor of following rules and ticking boxes, is what we all learned at some point.

Learning to feel safe to feel where it once felt unsafe is one of the most beautiful gifts you can give yourself. Because it gives so much beauty back: the savoring of deep taste, nourishing touch, beauty to see also become much more alive in you as you enliven your sensual awareness

The gateway is safety, and, relaxation. Relaxation of the body gives an openness, which allows you to become more receptive to the subtle messages of your body.

The safety and relaxation and the sensually aliveness bring a beautiful return to wholeness from within your very own body.

🌹www.tessaschiethart.com/support

#somatictherapy #embodiment #sensuality #sensualawareness

A little reflection on Beauty as of late.

There is always a possibility to see beauty.

Beauty, for me, has been a potent gateway to reimagine my relationship to my body and the earth itself, to slow down, look at the overextension and come closer to wholesomeness, natural cycles, and the present moment awareness of what it actually means to flourish as a human, as a species, and as a planet.

The way you see yourself, and the way you treat your body is so much bigger than you, not as a way to pressure you even more, but with such a reference to you, your beauty and your body, and as a delicate way of realizing the interwovenness of who we are as humans, that we are part of a living system, that we have cycles, and seasons, and also, that often, personal dis-ease goes hand in hand with environmental decay,

that we are not individual failures when we feel disconnected from our bodies and our beauty,

That anything like stress, depletion and burn-out of the body (yours or the earth’s) has an interwoven effect, on both, that it is systemic, and that in all of it, we are not separate or alone when we feel a disconnect from our beauty, or dislike, mistrust, or have shame around our bodies, but instead are reminded to come home to our bodies, and see the beauty of our own soil and earth.

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#beauty #visionovervisibility #ecopsychology

A little reflection on Beauty as of late.

There is always a possibility to see beauty.

Beauty, for me, has been a potent gateway to reimagine my relationship to my body and the earth itself, to slow down, look at the overextension and come closer to wholesomeness, natural cycles, and the present moment awareness of what it actually means to flourish as a human, as a species, and as a planet.

The way you see yourself, and the way you treat your body is so much bigger than you, not as a way to pressure you even more, but with such a reference to you, your beauty and your body, and as a delicate way of realizing the interwovenness of who we are as humans, that we are part of a living system, that we have cycles, and seasons, and also, that often, personal dis-ease goes hand in hand with environmental decay,

that we are not individual failures when we feel disconnected from our bodies and our beauty,

That anything like stress, depletion and burn-out of the body (yours or the earth’s) has an interwoven effect, on both, that it is systemic, and that in all of it, we are not separate or alone when we feel a disconnect from our beauty, or dislike, mistrust, or have shame around our bodies, but instead are reminded to come home to our bodies, and see the beauty of our own soil and earth.

🌹
#beauty #visionovervisibility #ecopsychology

little thai tales of loving it here & now

taken to these grounds where I feel home, loved and opened, always, but especially this month.

being here, now, I am grateful for the wild turns and twists of this year
• of the loss and the grief that filled the first months of ‘24.
• of the opening, the meeting and the grounding that brought the next few.
• then the packing, departing and coming home elsewhere.
• the adventure, the love and the mystery I close the last months of this year with.

Like for so many of us, a year of shedding and letting go
A year that quite literally stripped me bare from anything that wasn’t mine to keep
— I feel full while ‘shedded’ to my core at the same time, fresh, new, grown. grateful for continuing the steps, one at a time.

& grateful for some doubting of the continuation of my presence here earlier this year, of my service, vision, mission. And then to completely changing my whole business, from name to offer— refreshing, maybe that was what this year was?

Then, to be able to see the fruits of the moves & changes— in my own life and within a flourishing of this beautiful full therapy practice, a dream, deepening empowerment, embodiment and intimacy, love lives, and the relationship to self, other, body, beauty, life…

• the gift of serving my work from wherever my body finds herself, whichever place in the world, whichever state of my ability with a body that keeps having her own ways at times, with days where its more uncertain, challenging, with pain with pleasure, with rest, with trust, and, with love.

grateful for the wild dreams, the claimed desires, the beautiful longings, this year especially,

on knees, humble bows, the Asian jungles opening up a mystery of unfolding for the next months to come

closing chapters, always opening new ones.

#2024 #ka

little thai tales of loving it here & now

taken to these grounds where I feel home, loved and opened, always, but especially this month.

being here, now, I am grateful for the wild turns and twists of this year
• of the loss and the grief that filled the first months of ‘24.
• of the opening, the meeting and the grounding that brought the next few.
• then the packing, departing and coming home elsewhere.
• the adventure, the love and the mystery I close the last months of this year with.

Like for so many of us, a year of shedding and letting go
A year that quite literally stripped me bare from anything that wasn’t mine to keep
— I feel full while ‘shedded’ to my core at the same time, fresh, new, grown. grateful for continuing the steps, one at a time.

& grateful for some doubting of the continuation of my presence here earlier this year, of my service, vision, mission. And then to completely changing my whole business, from name to offer— refreshing, maybe that was what this year was?

Then, to be able to see the fruits of the moves & changes— in my own life and within a flourishing of this beautiful full therapy practice, a dream, deepening empowerment, embodiment and intimacy, love lives, and the relationship to self, other, body, beauty, life…

• the gift of serving my work from wherever my body finds herself, whichever place in the world, whichever state of my ability with a body that keeps having her own ways at times, with days where its more uncertain, challenging, with pain with pleasure, with rest, with trust, and, with love.

grateful for the wild dreams, the claimed desires, the beautiful longings, this year especially,

on knees, humble bows, the Asian jungles opening up a mystery of unfolding for the next months to come

closing chapters, always opening new ones.

#2024 #ka

For women, the body can be kind of a battlefield– societally, and culturally, our looks, hormones, the pressures of what to do with our bodies, to conceive & birth… it all can lend itself to see the body as an enemy, based on how we relate to our body,

We have been heavily conditioned in how we relate to the body.

There are many complexities synthesized in our body, from which we create behavioural patterns in response to our bodies.

There are the traumas of our grandmothers and mothers of whom many grew up in times of conflict which has an imprint on the ancestral lines we belong to and that continue to live on in our bodies (epigenetics, generational traumas).

Having maladaptive (eating) patterns, ways of relating & dealing with the way we look, the way we dress, and have learned to (dis)connect to our sensuality & sec.suality are all influenced by conditioning as women, societal messaging about our bodies and the overculture that wants us to be, look and behave certain ways.

It is important to acknowledge & destigmatize that the shame, mistrust and rejection of our body is something we all carry as women, to varying degrees, to be able to come home to our bodies, to be truly in relationship to our bodies.

The journey towards our empowerment and towards our embodiment is about uncovering how we are affected by external forces, to see how we are coping and responding to external forces in ways that do not necessarily benefit the relationship to our body, and to learn to take personal responsibility for some of the societal imprinting we were not necessarily solely responsible for receiving.

Undoing shame, stigma and mistrust gives an opportunity to come home to our body, heal, and integrate and relate to our body as our most beautiful vehicle— because she is; a portal of your wisdom, haven for truth, an agent for insight and a unique expression of being + so much more, which I hope and wish you see and feel.

✨

—
#womanhood #healing #empowerment #embodiment

For women, the body can be kind of a battlefield– societally, and culturally, our looks, hormones, the pressures of what to do with our bodies, to conceive & birth… it all can lend itself to see the body as an enemy, based on how we relate to our body,

We have been heavily conditioned in how we relate to the body.

There are many complexities synthesized in our body, from which we create behavioural patterns in response to our bodies.

There are the traumas of our grandmothers and mothers of whom many grew up in times of conflict which has an imprint on the ancestral lines we belong to and that continue to live on in our bodies (epigenetics, generational traumas).

Having maladaptive (eating) patterns, ways of relating & dealing with the way we look, the way we dress, and have learned to (dis)connect to our sensuality & sec.suality are all influenced by conditioning as women, societal messaging about our bodies and the overculture that wants us to be, look and behave certain ways.

It is important to acknowledge & destigmatize that the shame, mistrust and rejection of our body is something we all carry as women, to varying degrees, to be able to come home to our bodies, to be truly in relationship to our bodies.

The journey towards our empowerment and towards our embodiment is about uncovering how we are affected by external forces, to see how we are coping and responding to external forces in ways that do not necessarily benefit the relationship to our body, and to learn to take personal responsibility for some of the societal imprinting we were not necessarily solely responsible for receiving.

Undoing shame, stigma and mistrust gives an opportunity to come home to our body, heal, and integrate and relate to our body as our most beautiful vehicle— because she is; a portal of your wisdom, haven for truth, an agent for insight and a unique expression of being + so much more, which I hope and wish you see and feel.

✨

—
#womanhood #healing #empowerment #embodiment

it may be quite the buzzword, embodiment —

for the beautiful reasons that embodiment and embodied practice is a true process of a home-coming to the body.

We are never not in our bodies, yet it does not mean we are in feeling connection to our bodies. Our psyches also can move away from connection to our body due to life experiences, traumas and disconnection through lifestyle choices. Embodiment is then the process of reconnection & becoming aware of the signals of the body, and learning to cognitively interpret these messages — a unique language to learn about ourselves.

The process of embodiment is taking the body as a gateway of wisdom to know ourselves deeper in all arrays of who we are.

somatic therapies and embodied practice can bring immense awareness to how emotional and mental events affect the body and how the body stores the stories of our experiences, and how our psyches move away from the body until the stored material is examined, released and integrated.

embodiment practice, in the forms of unstructured movement, artful therapies, and many body-based modalities and practices help move the psyche back towards the body, towards feeling, sensations, sensory awareness, to wholesome being and towards our ability to engage in life, socially, relationally, towards trusting ourselves, towards balanced self-management and experiences of pleasure of all sorts in life.

such a beautiful process of healing, practice and therapeutics to engage our selves deeply in

🌹www.tessaschiethart.com/support
#embodiment #somatictherapy #healing #wholesomely

it may be quite the buzzword, embodiment —

for the beautiful reasons that embodiment and embodied practice is a true process of a home-coming to the body.

We are never not in our bodies, yet it does not mean we are in feeling connection to our bodies. Our psyches also can move away from connection to our body due to life experiences, traumas and disconnection through lifestyle choices. Embodiment is then the process of reconnection & becoming aware of the signals of the body, and learning to cognitively interpret these messages — a unique language to learn about ourselves.

The process of embodiment is taking the body as a gateway of wisdom to know ourselves deeper in all arrays of who we are.

somatic therapies and embodied practice can bring immense awareness to how emotional and mental events affect the body and how the body stores the stories of our experiences, and how our psyches move away from the body until the stored material is examined, released and integrated.

embodiment practice, in the forms of unstructured movement, artful therapies, and many body-based modalities and practices help move the psyche back towards the body, towards feeling, sensations, sensory awareness, to wholesome being and towards our ability to engage in life, socially, relationally, towards trusting ourselves, towards balanced self-management and experiences of pleasure of all sorts in life.

such a beautiful process of healing, practice and therapeutics to engage our selves deeply in

🌹www.tessaschiethart.com/support
#embodiment #somatictherapy #healing #wholesomely

| my hope is that life teaches you to see the beauty in resilience. In my own journey and within the journeys of my clients, I see over and over that truth lies within sitting with the pain, to honor the beauty in the struggle, to see how adversity can become art — if we want to, choose to, let it, when we dare to say ‘yes’ to all that life brings, with the willingness to weave all of it into the story of our lives. Not necessarily knowing how to— yet opening to finding out. Resilience to me is not just survival—it is transformation. It is beauty born from breaking, hope rising from hardship, and it holds the quiet poetry of a human life.

✨
#resilience #empowerment #embodiment #healing #somatics

| my hope is that life teaches you to see the beauty in resilience. In my own journey and within the journeys of my clients, I see over and over that truth lies within sitting with the pain, to honor the beauty in the struggle, to see how adversity can become art — if we want to, choose to, let it, when we dare to say ‘yes’ to all that life brings, with the willingness to weave all of it into the story of our lives. Not necessarily knowing how to— yet opening to finding out. Resilience to me is not just survival—it is transformation. It is beauty born from breaking, hope rising from hardship, and it holds the quiet poetry of a human life.

✨
#resilience #empowerment #embodiment #healing #somatics

| being born with a heart-shaped birthmark taught me a few things about the nature of Beauty.

As an anthropologist, I was schooled and interested in the cultural meaning of beauty. I have found beauty to be an aspect of every culture, exhibited in ceremony, ritual and traditions, through dress, religion, rites, ritual, through application of products to bodies, through a wide range of meaning-making practices. I graduated on women’s bodily veiling practices and the deeper notion of beauty within it.

Beauty has been an important path in so many ways for me — academically, surely personally.

And I learned that there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the deeper nature of Beauty.

Why? Beauty can be seen as perceived from the inside out, where it can be mistaken for glamour, which is perceived from the outside in.

Glamour relies on external adornments, artifice, and fleeting qualities like fashion, fame, or glittering allure. It invites fantasy, drawing attention to an idealized or unattainable image, often shaped by societal or cultural constructs. And it’s ephemeral: glamour fades with time, context, or proximity, often leaving little lasting impression.

Beauty arises from authenticity, harmony, and resonance, often reflecting something deeper, like truth, vitality, or connection. Beauty is deeply relational – It’s not just seen but felt—it invites a sense of presence and appreciation rather than projection, it is timeless, is rooted in essence rather than trends or enhancement.

Beauty, I feel, is a way of experiencing life, it is a felt experience, it is lived, it is an inherent pulse that lives within your body. It is light that radiates through your eyes, your unclenched, open body.

Nothing wrong with glamour — yet I feel, the subconscious question is not whether you fit the standards, it is whether you are able to see the deeper nature of Beauty too.

Being intimate with Beauty is a matter of seeing – to see through the collective interpretations in our mind’s eye (and the actual mirror too!) by taking an honest deep look at ourselves and others.

The practice of discerning beauty from glamour is an ever-deepening practice in this world..

🌹

| being born with a heart-shaped birthmark taught me a few things about the nature of Beauty.

As an anthropologist, I was schooled and interested in the cultural meaning of beauty. I have found beauty to be an aspect of every culture, exhibited in ceremony, ritual and traditions, through dress, religion, rites, ritual, through application of products to bodies, through a wide range of meaning-making practices. I graduated on women’s bodily veiling practices and the deeper notion of beauty within it.

Beauty has been an important path in so many ways for me — academically, surely personally.

And I learned that there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the deeper nature of Beauty.

Why? Beauty can be seen as perceived from the inside out, where it can be mistaken for glamour, which is perceived from the outside in.

Glamour relies on external adornments, artifice, and fleeting qualities like fashion, fame, or glittering allure. It invites fantasy, drawing attention to an idealized or unattainable image, often shaped by societal or cultural constructs. And it’s ephemeral: glamour fades with time, context, or proximity, often leaving little lasting impression.

Beauty arises from authenticity, harmony, and resonance, often reflecting something deeper, like truth, vitality, or connection. Beauty is deeply relational – It’s not just seen but felt—it invites a sense of presence and appreciation rather than projection, it is timeless, is rooted in essence rather than trends or enhancement.

Beauty, I feel, is a way of experiencing life, it is a felt experience, it is lived, it is an inherent pulse that lives within your body. It is light that radiates through your eyes, your unclenched, open body.

Nothing wrong with glamour — yet I feel, the subconscious question is not whether you fit the standards, it is whether you are able to see the deeper nature of Beauty too.

Being intimate with Beauty is a matter of seeing – to see through the collective interpretations in our mind’s eye (and the actual mirror too!) by taking an honest deep look at ourselves and others.

The practice of discerning beauty from glamour is an ever-deepening practice in this world..

🌹

i often get the question what exactly somatic therapy entails — how it differs from more traditional talk therapy and what the specific benefits are

Somatic therapy is sensation-based therapeutic paradigm of relating and awareness, aiming to learning the language of the body, a language that comes through sensations, revealed through breath, sound, movement and felt sensations.

Sensation is ‘heavy heart’, ‘tingle in belly’, ‘tight throat’ etc. Often these sensations tell us another part of the stories we have uncovered in talk therapy. Our bodies hold stories our midns are sometimes not even aware of anymore. And so our bodies hold the wisdom of many aspects of our lives.

Walking a medical path myself since I was very young, has gave me all the reverance to the body’s wisdom, and showed me very young I wanted to live life in support of the body.

Somatic therapy holds the potential for us to discover much beauty and wisdom within us, as we connect to sensation, our senses, it holds the potential for a changed embodiment, released tension, emotion, and relaxation, to free up more expression and more intimacy with our senses as we can feel, see, hear, taste and touch more of Life through a relaxed, open, receptive, attuned and feeling body.

It is what this world needs I believe 🌹

#somatictherapy #embodiment #sensation #beauty #wisdom #relaxation

i often get the question what exactly somatic therapy entails — how it differs from more traditional talk therapy and what the specific benefits are

Somatic therapy is sensation-based therapeutic paradigm of relating and awareness, aiming to learning the language of the body, a language that comes through sensations, revealed through breath, sound, movement and felt sensations.

Sensation is ‘heavy heart’, ‘tingle in belly’, ‘tight throat’ etc. Often these sensations tell us another part of the stories we have uncovered in talk therapy. Our bodies hold stories our midns are sometimes not even aware of anymore. And so our bodies hold the wisdom of many aspects of our lives.

Walking a medical path myself since I was very young, has gave me all the reverance to the body’s wisdom, and showed me very young I wanted to live life in support of the body.

Somatic therapy holds the potential for us to discover much beauty and wisdom within us, as we connect to sensation, our senses, it holds the potential for a changed embodiment, released tension, emotion, and relaxation, to free up more expression and more intimacy with our senses as we can feel, see, hear, taste and touch more of Life through a relaxed, open, receptive, attuned and feeling body.

It is what this world needs I believe 🌹

#somatictherapy #embodiment #sensation #beauty #wisdom #relaxation

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