Visioning through the body
1:1 session with Vive Oldham
You set the goals. You make the plan. You freeze.
What if your thoughts are at odds with your instincts?
What if it's not a discipline problem?
In this session you'll flip the script on goal-setting and map your path into creative liberation & self-authorship.
Discover what happens when you put your mind back in service to your body.
Imagine
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Getting under your own skin, straight to the heart of it, to what's actually yours (not another 'should')
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Decoding the signals from your body while it hands you the answers
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One small ritual, easy enough you'll actually do it - proof that you show up for yourself
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Feeling like the next steps just make sense
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doing the thing (and loving it), not just planning the thing
This isn't a fantasy. This is 75 minutes.
I know hand on heart you've got this.
Here's why.
Because it's all INSIDE you.
I don't mean that in a vague way, it is literally inside your cells, implicit memories, heart and your imagination.
It's IN there, and YOU can access that wisdom and vision through your body.
Who am I to know that?
I'm Vive. Somatic Practitioner, artist.
Most days, I'm a woman standing in her garden in regional Western Australia, chatting to birds and making sure I do the things I ask my clients to do.
I've spent the last 10 years training in in BodyDreaming, creativity coaching, authentic expression, somatic vocal work and exploring my own art practice - learning how nervous systems, dreams, creative arts, attachment theory and Jungian work actually talk to each other, instead of just to a textbook.
I’ve co-produced two five-day global summits on myth, somatics, pleasure and depth psychology because I genuinely can't stop being curious about this stuff.
I read tarot at my desk. I regularly talk to my neighbours cactus. I don't apsire to have it all figured out, I'm good with partial answers.
Here's what I do know: I don't fix what's unresolved in you. I treat it as intelligence AND compost - the raw material your next real thing grows out of.
I've seen this process work with enough people to trust it. That's not a guess. That's just hours spent with humans like YOU.
You truly can save yourself years of making plans that never make it off the page, forcing yourself through goal-setting frameworks that never sit right in your body.
You'll have everything you need to (1) decode what your body is trying to tell you, (2) untangle the pattern where your mind and body have been quietly working against each other, and (3) create with a felt-sense vision for your creative liberation (ie what you want to create in your life) and a ritual to help you get there (that's simple enough you'll actually do it!) — in just 75 minutes.
And that's exactly what Visioning Through the Body is designed for.
BodyDreaming is an embodied therapeutic practice that integrates Jungian psychology, neuroscience, and somatic trauma therapy to create a robust nervous system and genuine presence in your life.
Inside the Session
Simply put: we spend 75 minutes exploring the language of your body.
First, you'll learn a way to decode the signals in your body. Instead of guessing at what you want and need, you start to actually know (in your bones).
Then, we find your fertile ground, a felt sense vision to orient towards. I guide you to notice what genuinely feels resourced, steady, and coherent in your body. This becomes something you can return to on your own, after our session ends.
Finally, we imagine into your Tiny Rituals, the 'doing' that will help you enact your vision. Not what you should want. What you're genuinely longing for.
You leave with three things: a way to decode the body, a clear felt-sense vision to orient toward, and one or two Tiny Rituals that supports your creative liberation and self authorship.
Ready?
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Pssst. From my tender heart to yours...
You've made the vision board. You've written the goals in the nice notebook. You've done the journaling prompts where your head tells you who you're supposed to become next... while your body, the one place that actually knows, sits there like your cat at the door, waiting for it's human servant to let it in.
I don't work that way. And I'm not going to teach you that way either.
This session puts your body in charge for 75 minutes. That's new. That's good. It might even feel like relief. And here's the honest part: that also means we don't just get the good stuff. Sometimes you trip right over what's uncomfortable too - the activation, the protective patterns, the implicit memory you've held long before you had words. When that happens, I know how to meet it tenderly. Not to fix it - to befriend it, tend it, integrate it. And you'll learn how to do that too. Mess is human, inner and outer. I can show you how beautiful that is, even when it hurts.
Just like gardening: it's not always tidy. Sometimes what surfaces is messy, or inconvenient, or has been waiting a decade to get a word in. Good. That means it's real.
