Somatic Grief Release: Supporting The Grieving Body

Grief doesn’t just live in the mind — it settles deep into the body. This somatic practice gently guides you into the places where grief is held the most, offering space, breath, and presence to support its release. Through this easy body-based practice, you’ll be supporting your body with a physical exercise to release stored grief. There’s no need to explain or fix — just a chance to meet yourself where it hurts, create a vessel of release, and offer relief from within.

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Transcript

Grief can be so overwhelming,

Can feel like it's crashing onto you.

Sometimes it can feel like being numb or just tightness or heaviness on your chest.

And then sometimes it can all just feel okay before it comes back crashing onto you.

And that even after years of not feeling it.

And that's okay.

Your body is holding on to that love and the loss.

But sometimes the body is also storing grief in the muscles and this is a little practice in which we will slowly but surely release that,

That part,

That tension that's been stored and support your body by releasing the grief.

So you can do this practice when you are either going through a very hard time and you're grieving or when you feel like there's some grief stored somewhere that's not been released yet but you don't really know what it's all about.

So I invite you to take your index finger and put it underneath your collarbone and then you slide it with some pressure underneath your collarbone,

Just along the collarbone to that little dip before your shoulder.

Just do that with some pressure.

You can choose either side,

Left or right.

And then after three times when you're at that dip,

You take another finger,

Put a little bit more pressure and do some circular motion.

And at this point you might already feel a little bit emotional.

Just welcome what's coming up and just allow your body to release.

You're supporting your muscles,

You're supporting your body and releasing an emotion.

Sometimes that means a little bit of discomfort.

That's okay,

You're releasing right now.

Allow it to flush through.

And if you like,

You can also do that on the other side of the body,

On the other collarbone.

And you can do that as long as you need to do it for or you can make a regular practice,

Do it every day a little bit.

Just take care of yourself.

If you enjoyed this practice and you'd like to learn how to feel more safe,

You can find other tracks and courses about how to restore safety in my profile.

And I'm so glad that you're here doing this practice with me.