In movement, we trust: a byproduct of presence

“Come and hang with me and my mum, something will happen.”

That’s what my son said recently.

We weren’t planning anything. We weren’t “doing movement.” We were just together - on the couch, in our shared cocoon of recovery and presence after a long week of masking, school, and stretch.

It’s often like that with him. We don’t schedule movement or regulation. It shows up in a 30-second silly dance, an armpit tickle fight, or a sideways glance that says, I’m ready now.

This is how I understand movement in my work, too.

It’s not a prescription. It’s not a program.

It’s what happens when the body feels safe enough to return to itself.

At Wise, I meet people - many of them neurodivergent, many carrying pain, many with bodies that have learned to freeze or brace or protect.

And rather than pushing movement, we listen first. We follow the thread of aliveness. We build safety, not instruction.

Because movement, when it’s trusted, doesn’t need to be forced.

It comes as a byproduct of presence. Of co-regulation. Of being with, not doing to.

So often, when we stop trying to make something happen,

something happens.

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