Uncomfortably Numb


There are moments—like this week—when the world feels like too much.

You open the news and it hits before you can brace: airstrikes. university occupations. protest crackdowns. leaders falling. systems unraveling.
And yet somehow, you’re still expected to reply to emails, make dinner, smile at strangers in the grocery store.

The body knows something is wrong, even when we keep moving through our day.


This past Saturday, just 90 minutes before teaching The Source Awakens, I was out walking my dogs. The sun was already high. I felt the breeze on my skin, the ground beneath my feet, and the quiet hum of the world around me as I walked in silence.

And in that stillness, something became clear.


Before we moved—before we dove into the neuromuscular cueing, the breathwork, the proprioception—we needed to arrive.
We needed to
make contact with ourselves. Not just mentally, but through felt sensation.

So I rewrote the beginning of class. We opened with a meditation.

It wasn’t about tuning out. It was about tuning in—using sensory mapping, breath-based awareness, and micro-movements to re-establish connection between body and perception. To feel ourselves clearly, without bracing. To quiet the noise just enough to locate center.

And when a student joined from Israel—live, late at night her time—it confirmed everything. The meditation wasn’t an extra. It was essential.


My friend Anya Kamenetz expressed this moment perfectly in her latest essay:

“We are living in a hypernormal state, where the systems that rule us are visibly falling apart, and yet we move through our days pretending that nothing fundamental is changing.
The danger of beauty in such a time is that it can become dissociative.”


That hit me hard. Because yes—when we don’t ground beauty in the body, it can numb instead of nourish.


But when we root it in sensation? It brings us back to life.


🌀 That opening meditation is now available as a free resource—a 20-minute sensory reset you can return to anytime.

🎧 Download the Audio: Centered - A Sensory Reset.mp4


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Feel free to share this with anyone who might need a soft landing.



If this practice opened something in you—if it brought you back to breath, or into clearer contact with yourself—then I invite you to take the next step.

Next weekend, I’ll be leading J.E.D.I. Spine Tricks Trilogy, a 3-day immersive training in perceptual anatomy, breath-based mobility, and nervous system repatterning.

This isn’t just movement. It’s deep work on how you perceive, stabilize, and adapt under pressure. We’ll explore the mechanics of the spine, yes—but also the unseen architecture of attention, safety, and inner orientation that allows true change to take root.

Whether you’re a teacher, a healer, or someone navigating the intensity of modern life, this work is for you.


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J.E.D.I. Spine Tricks Trilogy

🗓 June 20–22 | 📍 Seattle + Online
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Workshop Details + Registration

You don’t need to hold it all together.
You just need to remember how to feel.
The rest flows from there.


With breath and steadiness,


Domini Anne


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