ACTIVE SHAKTI

In February 2023, I recorded a video for my boss explaining why I couldn't come in that day. I sent it. I waited. She didn't reply. And eventually I went back into the chat and deleted it — because I had exposed myself completely, and the silence on the other end felt worse than if I'd said nothing at all.

Somatics is a word that appears increasingly in wellness and coaching spaces, often without much precision about what it actually means. Korina Tsipoura, a somatic and energy coach who works under the name Amorphous Being, offers a definition that I find both useful and grounding: somatics is the technology already built into the body for communicating, storing, and releasing. It is not something applied from the outside.

Delphine has worked for over 25 years as a VP of product management in global technology. She runs teams across time zones — engineers, data scientists, product managers — and does it as a single mother of two. She is precisely the kind of woman who appears to be managing everything. And several years ago, her nervous system stopped cooperating entirely.