Welcome. This is a guided practice for building safety from the inside out. Most safe space meditations ask you to imagine a place where you feel safe. For some people this works beautifully. For others — and I suspect some of you are in this group — it doesn’t. The imagination doesn’t quite produce a felt sense. The body doesn’t quite believe the image. If that hasbeen your experience, you are not failing the practice. You are simply someone for whom safety is going to come differently. Not from a place you imagine, but from a quality of attention you offer yourself. Safety, in the end, is not a location. It is a kind of company.

Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Therapist and Nervous System Specialist (Dublin, Naas, Newbridge & online) — this practice draws on EMDR safe-place resourcing (Francine Shapiro), Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine), polyvagal-informed care (Stephen Porges), and the self-compassion lineage (Kristin Neff, Tara Brach). We build safety by becoming the safe presence ourselves — by offering, to whatever is inside us in this moment, the kind of company that creates safety simply through being there.

If you’d like to work more deeply with the inner ones, with safety-building somatic resourcing, or with the older material that often surfaces when safety is finally available — in person across Dublin and Kildare or online globally — more at somatictherapyireland.com and blissfulevolution.com.