Gifts from the Soul: Somatic Meditation and a Guided Journey

About the workshop

Life gets busy – there are constant expectations, tasks to complete, jobs to do, people to meet and meetings to attend. Many of us do all the ‘right’ things – yoga, exercise, healthy eating, therapy. And yet, there can still be a sense of disconnection – from our bodies, from ourselves.

The workshop I would like to share with you grew out of the recognition that the resources we truly need are already within us, waiting to be discovered.

I will guide you through a process of reconnecting with your body and calming your nervous system, followed by a guided meditation journey towards discovering your Healing Self – the part of you that is there to support you, care for you and help you grow.

Gifts from the Soul: Somatic Meditation and a Guided Journey into the Healing Self is an experiential workshop offering space to slow down and turn your attention inwards.

It is the first in a planned series of workshops designed to help you experience your life in new ways, discover your inner resources, and explore the barriers and patterns that may be holding you back. Through these experiences, the workshops aim to create space for deeper self-understanding, personal growth and a fuller, more meaningful life.

Through somatic meditation, guided imagery and active imagination, participants will be invited to explore their inner world and reconnect with qualities, resources or parts of themselves that may have become forgotten, hidden or difficult to access.

I think of the healing self as the part of us that holds an innate capacity for growth, creativity, connection and movement towards greater wholeness. Rather than trying to analyse or change ourselves, this workshop invites us to become curious about what may emerge when we create enough space to listen.

The workshop combines body awareness with imagination. Experiences may arise in many different ways – through sensations, feelings, images, memories, symbols, words or simply a sense of knowing. There is no particular experience that participants are expected to have.

The journey

We will begin by arriving together and exploring the idea of the healing self.

I will guide the group through a somatic meditation, allowing time to slow down, notice the body and become more grounded in present-moment experience. We will then move into the central practice of the workshop – Gifts from the Soul, a longer guided meditative journey drawing on active imagination.There will be plenty of time afterwards for quiet reflection, journalling, followed by an optional sharing circle. For those you would like to, I will offer hand on Reiki (energy healing) to help with integration the process in the embodied way.

What the workshop may offer

The workshop is an opportunity to:

• slow down and reconnect with the body
• explore inner experience through meditation and imagination
• become curious about personal symbols and imagery
• reconnect with qualities or resources that may have been forgotten
• create space for reflection and self-discovery
• experience a deeper and more compassionate relationship with oneself

No previous meditation or therapeutic experience is needed. Participants are always free to adapt a practice, keep their eyes open, take a break or choose not to share their experience with the group.

About the facilitator

Dr Martyna Chrzescijanska is a psychotherapist, somatic practitioner and mindfulness teacher with a long-standing interest in our inner world and its capacity for healing and transformation.

With a background in psychoanalytic and Jungian thinking, her work has gradually expanded to include the body, meditation and imagination. She brings these approaches together to create warm, reflective spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with themselves and become curious about what might emerge from within.

Martyna is an ACP-accredited psychotherapist and holds a PhD in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and a Doctorate in Child Psychotherapy. She is also trained in trauma-informed somatic counselling (ACCPH) and mindfulness (UK College of Mindfulness Meditation), Reiki (Level 2).