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SitStill & Listen

2 min readMay 24, 2025
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As my mobility decreased, and I spent more hours sitting at my desk, I combined traditional sitting meditation with InnerRealm Treks, using a SitStill & Listen technique.

The Body Keeps Score, by Bessel van der Kolk, published in 2014, is an excellent guide to how our brain and mind work together to store Somatic Memory. Trauma-informed memories create holding patterns such as anxiety-triggered shutdown or freezing habits. In contrast, repetitive movement training, such as playing a sport, vacuuming the floor, or riding a bicycle, is also a memory that the body stores.

My SitStill & Listen Practice begins with sitting at my desk in my black, rolling chair, feet on the floor, with my palms on my upper thighs. I visualize energy coming through my soles, up the back of my legs, stirring inside the pelvic bowl before flaring through the torso, out the arms and hands into my thighs down to the soles, completing the energetic circuit.

I select a Trek Theme, based on a Somatic Pattern I either want to interrupt or strengthen. When I want to get a tighter grip on AnxietyReigns. I visualize Charioteer completing the Energetic Circuit with HorsePowerReigns.

Flexible soles, powerful but not blocky calves, upper leg ripple, pelvic bowl glorious, torso lightup, one with horsepower.

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Cap Kotz
Cap Kotz

Written by Cap Kotz

Writer and Story Mapping Guide, I follow the life path no matter how challenging.

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