Your body is not merely something to manage, improve, or make acceptable. It is part of how you sense safety, guidance, emotion, connection, pleasure, and the next movement that is right for you.
This nine-session workshop with Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli explores how to develop a more respectful and useful relationship with your body:
- recognize your personal Body YES, Body NO, and NOT YET
- understand emotional movement without turning it into a scorecard
- reconnect gently when being present in the body has not felt safe
- allow pleasant feelings and support to register
- create boundaries that protect an honest YES
- notice warning signals and take practical movements toward safety
You can follow the workshop in sequence or begin with the issue that feels most relevant now.
Choose the Guide That Fits
1. Body YES and Body NO: Learning to Listen to Your Body’s Guidance
Begin here to discover how your body communicates openness, contraction, readiness, hesitation, and relief. The Guide includes practical exercises for learning your own signals without expecting perfect certainty.
2. Trusting Your Body’s Guidance After Years of Overriding It
Choose this when you doubt that guidance exists, regret choices you made while “trusting yourself,” or fear that listening inward will cost approval and belonging. It helps separate guidance from alarm, obligation, and rebellion.
3. Moving Up the Vibrational Scale: A Practical Guide to Emotional Guidance
Use the vibrational scale to understand emotional states without grading yourself. Learn why neutral can be a meaningful destination and how to reach for the next believable shift.
4. When Your Emotions Keep Dropping: Return Without Forcing Positivity
Come here when an old feeling returns, fear-heavy environments keep pulling at you, or a sudden emotional drop makes you question your progress. The Guide helps identify whether the next movement is soothing, perspective, or a boundary.
5. Why Do I Feel Disconnected, Unsafe, and Unhappy in My Body?
Start here when embodiment itself feels distant or threatening. Explore disconnection as protection, present-day orientation, and reconnection in doses small enough to preserve choice.
6. Reconnect With Safe and Happy Feelings in Your Body
Use this Guide to widen body awareness beyond pain and warning. Practice respect before body love, receive ordinary pleasant sensations, and build trust by responding before the body has to shout.
7. Feeling Safe When You Feel Exposed, Ashamed, or Not Okay
Choose this when speaking, joining a group, being visible, or remembering old social wounds makes your body brace. It works with shame, belonging, body image, and gradual expansion of the comfort zone.
8. Creating Safe and Healthy Boundaries
Learn to hear the body and anger as boundary information, make NO more available when guilt or authority fear takes over, and choose consequences that protect rather than punish.
9. A Proactive Approach to Safety: Trust Your Body and Plan Before You Need It
This session with guest Vivian Cannataro combines intuition with practical planning. It covers early warning signals, respectful and unhealthy relationship patterns, social-safety preparation, and reaching for qualified help.
A Suggested Path Through the Workshop
The sessions build naturally, but emotional relevance matters more than chronology.
- Learn the language of your own YES and NO.
- Work with the old rules that made self-trust unsafe.
- Locate emotional states and reach for a believable next shift.
- Use emotional drops as information rather than proof of failure.
- Respect disconnection as protection and restore present-day choice.
- Help neutral and pleasant sensations become available again.
- Bring compassion and adult options to shame and exposure.
- Turn body signals into clear boundaries.
- Pair intuition with practical safety planning and support.
If one title brings a strong response, begin there. Borrowing benefits—the relief and insight we can receive while tapping with another person’s related experience—means the situation does not need to match yours exactly.
Listen to the Original Workshop
Each Guide includes its corresponding recording. The full workshop is also collected here if you prefer to listen in sequence. Transcripts were generated automatically and may contain errors.
Session 1 — Body YES and Body NO
Session 2 — Trusting Your Body’s Guidance
Session 3 — Moving Up the Vibrational Scale
Session 4 — When Your Emotions Keep Dropping
Session 5 — Feeling Disconnected or Unsafe in Your Body
Session 6 — Reconnecting With Safe and Happy Feelings
Session 7 — Feeling Safe When You Feel Exposed
Session 8 — Creating Safe and Healthy Boundaries
Session 9 — A Proactive Approach to Safety
Emotional regulation and body awareness can support clearer choices, but they are not substitutes for appropriate medical, mental health, legal, or safety support.