If you have experienced addiction or find yourself repeatedly reaching for something outside yourself to escape, soothe or feel safe… this practice is for you.

Addiction can take many forms. We may reach for alcohol, drugs, food, screens, work, control or another person’s presence. Although the behaviour may be different, beneath it there is often a part of us trying to move away from something that feels too painful, intense or overwhelming to hold alone.

These patterns are not evidence that you are broken.

They are ways your system learned to protect you.

Staying With Yourself is a guided Flow Dance Meditation that invites you to notice the moment before the reaching: the first flicker of discomfort, the sensation beneath the urge and the part of you asking to be met.

Through music, vibration, breath and intuitive movement, you are gently supported to pause, turn towards yourself and discover what it feels like to stay.

AN EMBODIED, IFS-INFORMED PRACTICE

This practice is informed by the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model developed by Dr Richard Schwartz.

IFS recognises that we all have different parts within us. Some carry pain, fear or unmet needs, while others work hard to protect us - sometimes through addictive, compulsive or codependent patterns.

Rather than judging or trying to eliminate these protective parts, we meet them with curiosity and compassion. As we create a little space between ourselves and the pattern, we can begin to recognise:

You are not the part that reaches.

You are the one noticing it.

This is an embodied, IFS-informed practice rather than IFS therapy. It invites you to explore your parts through sensation, breath, music and movement.