The Six Pillars
Rachel Halder ❍ Somatic Soul Work
Six interconnected questions that every offering is built around, each building on the one before.
Connecting into right relationship with the six pillars is a ritualistic, embodied and therapeutic experience. It is designed to help you delve deep into your own healing, then resurface to show up for the work with others: clients, partners, friendships, family, and collective change.
Soul
Who am I as a soul self?
Body
How does my body know what is safe?
Earth
How do I belong to the cycles of life?
Lineage
Whose stories live in my body?
Spirit
What beyond the seen eye can hold me?
Sex
How do I find home with eros?
The first pillar
Soul
Who am I as a soul self?
The first pillar is about finding a deep connection within ourselves and our original blueprint of wholeness that is integral to who we are as humans.
Unfortunately, we often receive imprints from the world around us — physical, energetic, spiritual, emotional and/or relational trauma — that cover up the natural blueprint of remembrance.
This pillar focuses on safety and self-trust, the foundation of rooting into that blueprint inside of self, knowing it’s our soul’s journey to remember and rebirth.
The second pillar
Body
How does my body know what is safe?
Being a human being in a body can often feel like a complex thing. At its core, Somatic Soul Work is all about developing a secure attachment system to self, earth, and creation. With proper neuroception — an ability to feel what is dangerous versus what is safe — we can act upon the instincts of the body in aligned ways.
The second pillar of this work focuses on how we use the body to navigate and understand the world, and how we heal the body to better show up in the world. We go deep into understanding nervous system dynamics, and how to work with threat and freeze responses inside the body.
The third pillar
Earth
How do I belong to the cycles of life?
Our bodies and earth are one. We are cyclical beings, just as the earth is a cyclical being. We are wild beings, just as the earth is a wild being. There is darkness, and there is light.
Somatic Soul Work dances with animism and the concept that everything is alive and constantly communicating with us, just as we are communicating with it.
This pillar is about learning to communicate with the earth, how to ground into the natural cycles of life, how to be with the earth for stability, and how to grieve or rage about the destruction of our planet, and the interconnection of it all.
This work isn’t about “fixing” or “saving” you.
It is about meeting and marrying your own soul.
The fourth pillar
Lineage
Whose stories live in my body?
Your story, your history, your trauma, your body, your beliefs, and your experiences didn’t start with you. We are connected to far more than just ourselves and our immediate environment. Yet the patriarchy has taught us to focus on ourselves, solely. We don’t tend to the ancestors’ whispers — the stories of our lineages or bloodlines — and how they still live inside our body.
Our ancestry and lineage play a role in how we can show up in our lives. Many of us carry shame around our ancestor’s stories, or we haven’t differentiated their pain from our own. With Somatic Soul Work, we can tap into the resources of our ancestors, and use them as support, guidance, and embodied healing.
The fifth pillar
Spirit
What beyond the seen eye can hold me?
I see spirit as two-fold: the physical expression of what it means to be a body with a soul, and the expression of “god” energy in the universe, outside and within self.
This isn’t a religious thing. Spirit could refer to god/goddess, the deep feminine, the universe, divinity or energy. It’s not so much about WHAT it is, as it’s how we relate to the experience of something beyond the seen eye.
How can we tune into something beyond self and allow it to support? Is there something inherently powerful and divine within Self, that is deeply connected and rooted? How can we use spirit to regulate our beings into a sense of belonging? How can we be with spirit to remember our life force energy?
The sixth pillar
Sex
How do I find home with eros?
The erotic is life force energy. It is also death. It is regeneration. It is creation. It is the deep, spiritual, emotional and physical feeling behind all actions (shout out to Audre Lorde for her definition of the erotic).
Somatic Soul Work is about tapping into your life force, expression, creativity and magic that comes through your body, finding healing and integrative ways for this energy to come through.
How have we been conditioned to view “sex”? How do we embrace our erotic nature, in the body we’re given, aligned and rooted to all that is? How do we tap into this feeling of love that empowers us? How do we find a feeling of home with “eros”?
How they work together
Each pillar builds on the one before, gestating through the programs we do together.
Rebirthed & Rooted moves through all six pillars, three workshops each. Other offerings draw on them in their own ways.
Where would you like to begin?
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