The Illusion of Embodiment & What You Should Know
When I first heard the word embodiment, I honestly didn’t know how to grasp it - what it really was, what it truly meant.
It sounded intriguing, almost mysterious.I assumed it meant embodying certain qualities we want to call more into our lives.
And I wanted that. I craved it.
And yes, embodiment is also about that.
About cultivating and re-activating certain energies within ourselves.
About embracing our feminine essence, healing the masculine, reconnecting with our sensuality, our archetypes, our inner goddess, the elements, and the cyclical, intuitive parts of who we are.
Yet while we may work with all of this as embodiment facilitators, the baseline work is something far more simple - and far more foundational.
It is about learning to inhabit the body fully again.
𓍯 Reconnecting with the body’s signals and sensations
𓍯 Attuning to our emotional landscape
𓍯 Noticing what is happening inside without rushing to change it
𓍯 Meeting the nervous system with honesty instead of performance
𓍯 Listening to boundaries, impulses, tension, softness, and truth
𓍯 Letting the body lead instead of being controlled by the mind
And here is where many misconceptions arise.
Embodiment is not about always feeling calm or soft. And it is not about being “aligned” all the time. It is not a pose, a trend, or a performance. And it will not prevent you from getting triggered, overwhelmed, or needing space. Embodiment is not the absence of fear, anger, sadness, or grief. It is learning to meet what is here without abandoning yourself. And no, embodiment is definitely not bypassing what hurts. Because when you numb pain, you numb aliveness too.
Embodiment is not linear. Some days you will feel rooted. Other days you will realize how far you drifted. And both are part of embodiment.
So embodiment is not:
a task - a trend - false positivity - performance - constant openness - rejecting darkness and escaping into light - movement without feeling - spiritual bypassing - mistaking aesthetics for aliveness - being fearless - something you “get right” - hyper-awareness - always regulated - a destination - being always confident - numbing with pleasure
It is not who you should be.
2,5 years ago, I made a decision that came from a full-body yes. Not a mental calculation, but a deep, grounded knowing.
I enrolled in a professional training in embodiment and women’s health, and it cracked me wide open.
It pulled me deeper. It showed me just how powerful this work truly is.
Embodiment became the ground I stand on, and the doorway into deeper explorations, studies, and lived, embodied experiences I continue to walk today. A path that keeps expanding the more I listen. The more I surrender.
And what embodiment continues to teach me is this: It is the return, again and again…
𓍯 to your breath
𓍯 to your sensations
𓍯 to your emotions
𓍯 to your energy
𓍯 to your healed and unhealed parts
𓍯 to your inner child and your nurturer
𓍯 to your feminine and masculine
𓍯 to your light and your shadow
𓍯 to your womb, your roots, your becoming
𓍯 to your truth
𓍯 to all that you are
Your body is not asking you to perfect it - it is asking you to meet it.
𓍯 To feel what is alive.
𓍯 To breathe where it tightens.
𓍯 To stay when it trembles or begins to open.
When you meet your body with presence, it becomes your guide, your truth-teller, your doorway. Life begins to move through you, because you become available to receive. Your body is not asking you to perfect anything.
Over the past week, through quiet introspection, this clarity has landed even more deeply.
Before sharing more about feminine embodiment, energy alchemy, and the inner muse, it felt important to begin here - with embodiment itself.
Because embodiment is the baseline for how much we can expand, within ourselves and beyond.
It is not a steady state. It is a relationship.
The more you listen, the more you open - again and again.
With love,
Claudia
07 December 2025
