Somatic Bliss

24/10/2026

I believe there is so much more to us than the stories we tell ourselves. More than our thoughts, our explanations, our coping mechanisms, our roles, and the versions of ourselves we have learned to present to the world.

We are a body that remembers. Feelings that never fully got to be witnessed. Parts of us that learned to stay quiet, be good, keep the peace, hold everything together, or become someone others could love.

And there are parts of us that long to live differently. More freely. More honestly. More fully ourselves.

I care about the freedom to feel what you feel, even when it feels wrong. To reframe misaligned thoughts and yet to give compassion to raw feelings as they are. To have needs without apologising for them. To set boundaries without abandoning your compassion. To be loving without making yourself responsible for everyone else's feelings.

I care about the courage it takes to become visible. To speak your truth, even when your voice shakes. To let yourself be powerful, sensual, angry, tender, imperfect, and alive.

I care about loving ourselves as we are, not as we think we should be, because we are human and our worth is inherent. I also care about the possibility of transcending and transforming, about healing and arriving where we want to be, without waiting for that to happen before we love ourselves and others.

I don't believe there is one practice that works for everyone or one right way to heal.

My path is walking alongside the body that is part of who I am. A part of who you are. A wisdom older than humanity itself.

I want to support the person who is ready to stop living entirely from the neck up. Who is learning to recognise their own no. Who wants to trust their yes. Who longs to feel at home in their body rather than constantly monitoring, controlling, or overriding it.

I want you to know that you don't have to choose between tenderness and strength. That you can be compassionate and still disappoint people. That you can be generous without giving everything away. That you can be powerful without becoming hard. You can be You and you can be loved.

Warmly,
Jurga Bliss

21/10/2026

Join us for Finding the We Without Losing the I with Jurga Bliss, an embodied exploration of boundaries, self-agency, and staying connected to yourself and others.

This workshop is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with your body, and explore how your nervous system responds when you move toward, move away, stay, say yes, or say no.
During the workshop, we’ll explore how your body responds to yes, no, maybe, and not now, what happens when someone comes closer or moves away, and how stress responses influence the way you set and hold boundaries.

Together, we’ll discover what helps you stay connected to yourself while being in connection with another person, recognise and honour your own limits, needs, and desires, and experience your body as a source of clarity and self-agency.
This event is open to anyone curious about boundaries, consent, relationships, and the nervous system.

📍 Where: Panta Rei, Piazza Verdi 29
📅 When: 27 October
⏰ Time: 19:00-20:30
👥 Spots: Limited
📝 Sign up: DM me to get a Palermo Gatherings group link

About the facilitator:
Jurga Bliss is an ISMETA-Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies and find ease from within.
For over seven years, she has guided Somatic Movement, nervous system regulation, and Authentic Movement workshops, as well as offering one-on-one Polyvagal Theory-informed somatic therapy online.
Her work is rooted in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT), weaving together body awareness, mindful movement, and gentle exploration to support connection, safety, and self-regulation.
More info: somaticbliss.eu

Come with curiosity.
Come with your body.
Come and explore what happens between us.

15/10/2026

12/10/2026

Your attention is a regulation tool. 🤍

When life feels like too much, we tend to think we can only push the feeling away or get swallowed by it. There's another option: turning toward something that feels safe or supportive. A person, a place, a memory, a steady sensation in your body.

This isn't just "positive thinking." Here's what the research suggests:

🧠 Reframing a situation recruits prefrontal control regions and is linked to calmer amygdala activity (Buhle, 2014).

🤝 Hand-holding helps. Women anticipating a mild shock showed less threat-related brain activity holding their husband's hand, more so in happier marriages (Coan, 2006).

📷 Even a photo can help. Looking at a partner's picture during mild pain lowered pain ratings and increased activity in the vmPFC, a region tied to safety signaling (Master, 2009; Eisenberger, 2011).

🌿 Your body gets a say. The insula maps the body's internal state (Craig, 2002), which may be why noticing something steady can tell your system "I'm okay right now."

Social baseline theory proposes the brain expects supportive others to be nearby, and works less hard when they are (Beckes & Coan, 2011). Resources aren't a luxury. They're part of how we're built to cope.

Something to have in mind:
• These studies were small and often involved partnered women, so read them as suggestive, not definitive. Check the claims against your personal experience - that mist accurately tells what works for you and what doesn't.
• A resource isn't a fix. It gives your system a little more room to breather and help regulate.
• With a trauma history, a resource sometimes can stir up grief or fear. This is common. Go slowly, in small doses, ideally with a therapist who can help pace it.

Try it now: pick one thing that feels calming or pleasant to look at. Look at it for 30 seconds. Notice what subtly shifts in your body, feeling, thoughts.

What's one thing that helps you feel safe? Tell me below 👇 and save this for later.

If you'd like some help to identify your resources and learn to work with safety and danger signals in your body, I offer a free 20min discovery call. DM me or check somaticbliss.eu

09/10/2026

I got an enquiry recently asking: "Can we learn to feel safer in our bodies?"
I thought I'd share my answer with you too.

Yes, although I would say that we are not talking about "restoring safety" as a one-time achievement, but rather about strengthening our capacity to experience safety and recognise it in the body.

In individual sessions, we can explore how a person recognises signals of safety and unsafety, which areas or sensations in the body feel resourcing, and what helps them remain connected to themselves in a difficult situation.

One practice I often use is pendulation: learning to notice that two experiences can exist at the same time. One part of the body may feel tense, while another feels calmer or even relaxed. We can move our attention between them, so tension doesn't take over the whole of our experience.
With practice, we can bring this into everyday life.

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What happens in your body when you feel stressed, overwhelmed or unsafe? You don't have to know the answer immediately. Noticing is already a beginning.

Jurga Bliss
Somatic therapist RSME/T, dipIBMT

05/10/2026

No books will teach you what your body will.💙
I grew up believing that being rational meant being strong, and that big feelings were something to set aside because they could put you in harm's way. I got good at picking them apart and sorting them into the valid ones and the ones undeserving of attention.

So when panic attacks started after my father died in a car accident, I went to a psychologist and did what I knew best: I analysed. I understood what I felt and why, and how I wanted it to be instead. Then I hit the ceiling of understanding, because the feeling itself stayed the same. I was still tense, still pushing myself toward impossible standards. Stress still gave me migraines and gastritis, and I still raised my voice at my kids over homework.

I had all the insight I could ask for, and no book could give me what was missing. The patterns lived in my whole system, not only in my thoughts, so something new had to be experienced there. Some years later I looked for therapy a second time, with a therapist who worked with the body.
Near the end of that therapy I wrote a poem, my first in many years, and it felt like a little tap opening. Writing came back to me, my poems were even published..

That channel was still open later, when I was already a therapist and a client of mine with cancer passed away. I was struck with grief and awe toward life and death, and a poem was born that became my goodbye to her. Writing has long been how experiences get digested and settle in me. For me, integration means my relationship to a feeling changes, even when the feeling stays.

You can read about this for years, and I hope you do. Yet, if there is a story you keep replaying while the feeling stays the same, give it a form that isn't an explanation. At five I drew a parent I was angry with and showed them the drawing, and I felt a little better. You can write a few lines or draw too, and it doesn't need to be "good". Let the feeling move you. What impulses arise in your body? Explore them - it can be a path toward integration.
What is something your body keeps doing that you have already understood and still can't change?.

29/09/2026

What you see is not just a room with random pillows scattered around. One of them stands for a part of a woman who didn't get to say No.

This is a setup for continuous 1 on 1 systemic constellation sessions, in person, waiting for a client who comes to explore her relationships with some family members, inner parts and authority figures. As an example, one pillow might stand for her mother, another for the part of her that never got to say no, and the blanket on the floor is a boundary.

Why does this type of processing work? When a relationship or a part of us lives only inside our heads, it's tangled up with everything else, and the issue can feel confusing, or like the whole of who we are. When we place it outside, for example by externalising it into a pillow or a small object, we can finally see it, see who stands too close, what is missing, what takes up all the space and what needs to shift...

As a somatic therapist, this is where I go a step closer to the lived experience. My client stands in place of a pillow and we track the sensations, impulses, thoughts and feelings in her body, at the pace of her nervous system, because the body often knows what the logical brain cannot find.

Then we watch what happens when the pillows change positions and how things want to move. We use healing phrases, words that needed to be said and never got heard, or movements that wanted to happen and couldn't. Sometimes she steps inside the blanket boundary, her system feels a little bit safer, and a part of her regains power, agency or peace. Witnessing that is beautiful, and I often see it continue into how people make decisions, set limits or relate with family, etc.

Constellations help most when we feel stuck, when stories are entangled, when relationships feel impossible to mend. Plus, online we use small objects and the body is still part of it. If you're curious, send me a message and we can organise a free discovery call to discuss if this could be helpful with your personal struggles.