Trauma Isn’t What Happened—It’s What Got Trapped: The Art of Alchemising Energy Through the Body

As somatic expert Peter Levine reminds us, trauma isn’t what happened—it’s what got trapped. It’s not the event itself, but the unfinished story in the body. The tension that never got to unravel. The breath that never got to release. The roar that was swallowed. The collapse that never got to rise.

In our fast-paced, high-functioning world, we’ve been taught to move on. To intellectualise, cope, and carry on. But the body doesn’t move on just because the mind says it’s time. It stores what it cannot release. And what we don’t complete in the moment, the body holds in stasis—waiting for a safe opportunity to finish what it started.

This is where alchemising comes in.

Alchemising isn’t about rehashing pain. It’s not about staying in the wound. It’s about offering the body the completion it never got.

It’s about letting the frozen parts move.

The silenced parts sound.

The braced parts soften.

The exhausted parts rest.

When we meet trauma through the body—not to relive it, but to release it—something profound happens:

We don’t just shift our behaviour. We liberate energy.

This energy was never meant to stay locked in old memories or emotional contractions. It’s your life force. And when you reclaim it, you don’t just feel lighter—you feel more you.

More available. More alive. More capable of creating, connecting, and choosing from presence—not pattern.

This is the heart of my work.

Whether through somatic healing, energy practices, or conscious movement, we create the conditions for that return.

A return to flow. To wholeness.

To the original, undistorted self—no longer shaped by the echoes of the past, but animated by the power of now.

Because healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken.

It’s about finishing what’s unfinished.

And when we do, our energy doesn’t just get cleared.

It gets clarified.

Focused.

Set free for what we came here to be.