27/07/2026
Excretion is a core life process like respiration, digestion and reproduction. Everything I practise is rooted in physiology and is ultimately cellular, I look at everything through this lens.
You ll have heard me talk about ‘undigested life material’? This is what causes emotional armouring that shows up in muscle tone, posture, clenched jaw and poor digestion.
So many people who arrive in my room report, years of therapy is really helpful in accessing understanding and knowing of our patterns, behaviours and roots - but being in relationship with those things requires a felt knowledge. The knowledge of interoception. The knowing of oneself at a somatic level. Step one: FEELING IN
To start with many people find they have little connection to what’s there. They can’t feel their feet, face or hands, let alone the cranial or which lung is inflating less that the other. Step Two: CLARIFYING with Cranial work and somatic psychotherapy by connecting of emotional tone and experience to your physical experience of Self.
The excretion part is a constant in this process. Tears, sound, yawning can be some of the first signs of opening up. Shaking and large muscle twitch releases also feature. Excretion requires movement. In the subtle realms of CST when we find a lack of motion in the fluids, tissues and tides of the body it’s usually a guide that somato-emotional constipation has set in - either because of a temporary physical or emotional trigger, or because of a life time accumulation of unexpressed emotions held in the tissues.
Stage 3: MOVING IT THROUGH
Cranial work supports this and indeed we literally move it through in the room, shaking, sounding, pushing away, kicking, stamping. As we work the desire to move grows - many cultures refer to this in different ways, awakening, kundalini rising, life force returning. Finding how you continue this process is part of that. Identifying resources that we could call emotional laxatives (!) because in the movement, through the sweat, we excrete that which no longer serves us. Moving into clarity. Leaving the past behind. Keeping yourself clear beyond that relies on these resources. My tool of excretion is dancing. Yours?
