10: Somatic Tracking: Stop Arguing With Your Body

Your body has been speaking all along. This episode invites you to listen — without fixing a thing. In Episode 10 of IFS Enlightenment Snacks, Shankari guides you into somatic tracking: a gentle Somatic IFS practice of turning toward sensation in the body with curiosity and kindness, rather than analysis, urgency, or the impulse to make it stop. No dramatic experience required. No special training needed. Just presence — at whatever pace feels right for your nervous system today. Drawing from her years in Gestalt practice at Esalen Institute, Somatic EMDR training, and her own healing journey after being struck by a car as a pedestrian, Shankari shares why the body doesn’t always heal through insight alone — and what becomes possible when we stop arguing with sensation long enough to truly accompany it. This is not a trauma-processing session, and it is not a replacement for skilled support. It is an invitation to begin befriending your body’s present-moment intelligence — slowly, consensually, with nothing to perform and nothing to perfect. Reflection questions and a tiny daily practice included. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Somatic Tracking 04:53 The Healing Power of the Body 12:58 Reflection and Practice Invitation