Somatic Skills to Build CONFIDENCE

It's difficult to be confident and powerful if we feel like we have to shrink or stay small. It's also hard to "talk ourselves into" confidence, because confidence lives in the BODY through our posture and movement. In this video, I offer two ways to connect with your innate, internal confidence and agency, using a bottom-up (somatic) approach. We will embody our grounding structure (the pelvis) as well as explore a confident posture.

[@miriammeiner3560]

Thank you so much for sharing these exercises and also your kind energy!

[@sarahritt.creates]

Thank you for this--such a beautiful way to start my morning. I've just happened upon your channel and I'm really finding nourishment in these exercises❤

[@EmilyWinterSE]

I’m so glad you’re enjoying. Thank you for watching!

[@susanleigh9281]

Thank you Emily. I really enjoyed doing these exercises with you today 🙏

[@EmilyWinterSE]

You're so welcome!

[@ritanunez4349]

🍃 Hello Emily!! I'm curious about my confidence... it seems to me that it involves more than ``being confident'', ``straightening your back''... You bring the connection between the hips, the pelvis, and the feeling of grounding. I didn't know that... when I thought about grounding, I thought about the feet... without bringing the feeling... It's interesting to ``think'' about an idea, and how it can be felt, or not, in the body... Thank you ! 🌱

[@EmilyWinterSE]

Hi Rita! You make some great observations - we can think about grounding all day, but FEELING grounding in the body is totally different! And, you can definitely ground through your feet, too. The pelvis is anatomically the structure we ground through (a person with no legs can still ground through the pelvis/root chakra) but many folks (including me) also find grounding through their feet!