Last Monday I attended the second Somatic Healing session. To be honest, my expectations weren’t very high. I’ve never attended one of these sessions online (I’ve tried one or two in real life), and honestly felt pretty anxious at the start. Had an expectation that I would just be talking to strangers about how I feel or something of that sort and it felt off.

However, when I got into the session, it was actually quite nice! The thing I enjoyed most was actually the start, where we did some meditative (?) exercises like taking deep breaths, closing our eyes, pulling on our earlobes, and thinking about specific objects in my room. That part was a good break from the past two weeks. There was also a lot of good information in there about hypo and hyper arousal, and how to deal with both. I think I learnt a lot through this session and found it pretty fun!

It was also nice to see people sharing how they feel in the chat. It made it feel a lot more wholesome. All in all, the feeling I had most was deja vu, as I haven’t used Zoom since I was in school during covid times. I felt like I was 16 again.