02/06/2026
A share from a colleague, Serenity One Sanctuary (her business name) taking us through her personal journey with Spinal Flow Technique.
At What Cost to the Nervous System?
✨My Personal Journey✨
Today’s session left me sitting here with tears in my eyes, trying to find words for something that feels bigger than words.
The last couple of weeks of daily sessions have settled into a rhythm. The flow moves through my body, meets a blockage, my nervous system continues making connection after connection, and eventually I can feel it move through. Usually after a big connection, my body settles for a moment as if it is integrating what just happened.
Today was different.
The session started out much like every other session. I could feel the flow meeting resistance. It felt like my nervous system was reaching, connecting, reaching again, trying to establish communication through an area that wasn’t quite open yet.
Then I felt it.
The connection happened.
The flow moved through.
But instead of settling into integration, it immediately traveled all the way back down into my Base Gateway.
Then it moved all the way back up to my Awaken Gateway.
Then back down again.
Then back up again.
Base to Awaken.
Awaken to Base.
Base to Awaken.
Awaken to Base.
Four complete cycles happened one right after another.
I remember laying there thinking, What is happening right now?
Not because I was afraid.
Not because I was trying to understand it.
But because I was witnessing something so profound that my mind couldn’t quite keep up with what my body was doing.
Then something even more incredible happened.
It didn’t stop.
For the entire thirty-minute session, the flow continued moving between my Base Gateway and my Awaken Gateway. Sometimes stronger. Sometimes softer. Sometimes there would be a brief pause that felt like integration, and then it would continue again.
Base to Awaken.
Awaken to Base.
Again and again.
It felt like communication.
It felt like connection.
It felt like my nervous system was having a conversation with itself.
As I lay there, thoughts began flooding in.
I thought about my 52 years of life.
I thought about the surgeries.
The anesthesia.
The medications.
The MRIs.
The CT scans.
The injuries.
The physical stress.
The emotional stress.
The chemical stress.
And then there is the Leukemia.
I live with Leukemia.
For years my body has carried not only the weight of daily life, but also the reality of a cancer diagnosis. There have been countless appointments, blood draws, scans, medications, procedures, and moments of uncertainty. I take chemo daily. There have been days when I trusted my body completely and days when fear tried to convince me not to.
Living with Leukemia changes your relationship with your body.
You become aware of every ache, every symptom, every shift. You learn to pay attention because your life depends on it.
Yet as I lay there today feeling that continuous communication between my Base Gateway and my Awaken Gateway, I realized something that brought tears to my eyes.
My body has never been my enemy.
Not once.
Not through the diagnosis.
Not through the treatments.
Not through the fear.
Not through the uncertainty.
Not through the healing.
My body has been fighting for me every single day.
Adapting.
Protecting.
Communicating.
Doing everything it knows how to do to keep me alive.
And that’s the thing about the body.
It adapts.
It compensates.
It survives.
It keeps showing up for us over and over again, even when we’re asking it to carry more than it was ever designed to carry.
For years I looked outside of myself for answers. I turned to doctors, specialists, procedures, treatments, and medications. Many of those things helped me through moments that I genuinely needed help, and I am grateful for that.
But today I couldn’t stop thinking about something else.
What if my nervous system had been speaking all along?
What if the symptoms weren’t the problem?
What if they were the message?
What if my body wasn’t working against me but trying to communicate with me?
As I lay there feeling that continuous movement from Base to Awaken and Awaken to Base, I realized how little credit we give our bodies.
We marvel at technology.
We trust machines.
We place our faith in external solutions.
Yet inside every single one of us is an intelligence so profound that it knows how to keep us alive every second of every day without us consciously directing any of it.
My heart kept returning to the same thought:
Our bodies can adapt to almost anything.
But at what cost to the nervous system?
How much energy has been spent protecting us?
How much communication has been interrupted?
How much of our body’s wisdom have we learned to ignore because we’ve been taught to look everywhere else first?
Over the last year and three months, through receiving Spinal Flow and learning to trust the intelligence within my own body, I have connected back to something that was always there.
That life force energy.
That innate intelligence.
That wisdom within the body that never stopped working, never stopped communicating, and never stopped trying to heal.
What I experienced today wasn’t something being added to me.
It was something being remembered.
A connection that has always existed.
A conversation that has always been happening beneath the noise.
A body that has spent fifty-two years adapting and surviving finally being given the space to communicate more clearly.
If you would have told me a year and a half ago that I would one day lay on a table by myself and feel my body communicate from Base to Awaken and back again for thirty straight minutes, I would not have believed you.
Yet here I am.
Crying tears of gratitude.
Living with Leukemia.
Living with the history of surgeries, medications, stress, and trauma.
And still witnessing my body show up for me.
Still witnessing my nervous system seek connection.
Still witnessing the life force energy within me moving exactly where it needs to go.
Today reminded me that healing isn’t something we force.
It’s something we allow.
And when we create enough safety for the nervous system to communicate, the intelligence within the body can do things that leave us completely speechless.
Today my body reminded me of that over and over again.
Base to Awaken.
Awaken to Base.
A conversation that had been waiting years to be heard.