Holding Space for Ourselves

Before my journey to England to be of service at an IAKP training course, I sat with my frog boss for a targeted self treatment focusing on the heart.

As a Kambo practitioner I speak a lot about holding space for my clients, but there often comes a moment when the frog calls, and I know it’s time to hold space for myself. For me this means sitting with myself in a space of unconditional love and support, not judging nor trying to control anything about the process I am going through. Simply meeting myself and the emotions that come up, accepting them, listening to them and honouring them. This is something I make space to do every single day, taking that moment (or several) to be still, drop out of my head and into my heart space, and listen.

During this treatment I experienced a massive emotional purge, sitting on the floor sobbing my heart out, most of the time not even knowing why. But the magic of this medicine is that it goes where it needs to go, and if we can step into a space of surrender and meet the frog half way, the transformations that can occur are utterly beautiful.

It is common practice to deem emotions such as sadness and anger to be negative, to shun them and pack them away as quickly as possible without witnessing what they may need to show us. For me, these are emotions that I always try to welcome with open arms, because of their ability to be catalysts for growth, and for the teachings about ourselves they can hold if we allow ourselves to listen to them and work with them.

Just as I felt relief when I experienced my emotional purge, so to do I feel relief when I witness a client stepping into that space during a treatment, and allowing themselves to go there without trying to control or filter anything. It is a time to truly unpack, offload, release and transmute; and what a gift that is. Viva Kambo.