BODY LOVE REWIRED CHALLENGE
A FREE 5-day embodied nervous-system challenge with Loni Markman, September 8–12
You don’t need another list of things to fix about yourself. You need a different way of being WITH yourself.
Maybe you’ve tried to change how your body looks, how it moves, what it weighs or how much space it takes up.
But we override our bodies in a hundred other ways too.
We push when we’re exhausted. We say yes while something inside us is saying no. We disconnect when what we’re feeling gets uncomfortable. We look outside ourselves for answers our body has already been trying to give us.
And after doing that for long enough, it can become really hard to tell the difference between what you actually feel and what you’ve learned you’re supposed to feel.
Not with forcing yourself to love your body.
Not with convincing yourself everything is beautiful.
And definitely not with another five days of information about all the things you should be doing differently.
We're going to work with the body and the nervous system to start creating something much more useful:
Safety. Connection. Awareness. Trust.
Because when your system starts to feel safe enough to listen, you can begin noticing the language your body has been speaking all along.
And THAT changes the relationship.
Somewhere along the way, so many of us learned to experience our bodies from the outside.
How do I look?
What needs changing?
Am I doing this right?
What will they think?
But at the same time, we stopped asking some much more interesting questions.
What am I actually feeling right now?
What happens in my body when something is a YES?
What happens when it's a no?
What does safety feel like in MY system?
What does my body do when I override myself?
What does pleasure feel like before my brain has an opinion about whether I should be having it?
What has my body been trying to tell me that I've become really good at ignoring?
Because your body has a language.
Your nervous system has patterns.
And the more you learn to recognize both, the more choice you have in how you respond instead of automatically reaching for the same old patterns you've been running for years.
This isn't about becoming perfectly regulated or loving every part of yourself every second of every day.
It's about building enough safety and connection in your system that you can actually BE with yourself differently.
That's what we're going to start exploring together.
Every day, I'll give you one short embodied practice.
Each practice is designed to help you explore the relationship between your body, your nervous system and the patterns you've learned around things like safety, connection, receiving, movement, pleasure, visibility and self-trust.
Some might feel really good.
Some might surprise you.
One might bring up some sh*t you weren't expecting from something that seemed ridiculously simple.
That's the interesting part.
Because we're not trying to think our way into a different relationship with our bodies.
We're giving the body a different experience and noticing what happens.
Five days.
One practice at a time.
No homework pile. No getting ahead. No trying to win the challenge.
Just show up and see what your body has to say.
Not much...
Every day, I’m going to give you a short video and one simple embodied practice to try, because I want you to actually EXPERIENCE this work in your body rather than add another hour of information to your brain.
That’s it.
You don’t need equipment, there’s nothing to track and you are not going to fall behind because you missed your opportunity to win Body Love Rewired. 😂
And I’m definitely not giving you food rules, workouts or anything else designed to change what your body looks like in five days.
Because when you create more safety in your nervous system, you can start noticing the language your body has been speaking all along.
You can begin to recognize what happens in your system when something feels good, when something doesn’t, when you’re reaching your capacity, when you’re overriding yourself, when you’re bracing, when you’re receiving, when you’re connected and when you’ve completely disappeared into your head again.
And the more familiar you become with that language, the easier it becomes to actually LISTEN to it.
That’s what I want these five days to begin opening up for you.
And some of the practices we're going to use are ridiculously simple, which is completely intentional. I want you to be able to actually do this in the middle of your real life rather than save it for the imaginary day when you have an hour to yourself, your nervous system is perfectly regulated and nobody needs anything from you. 😂
You’ve been on the self-love journey for years and still find yourself circling around some of the same thoughts about your body, your worth, your needs or whether you can actually trust yourself.
You know a lot about nervous systems, self-love, boundaries, body image or embodiment, but knowing the language hasn’t necessarily changed what happens when real life hits.
Maybe you still push yourself too far before realizing you’re overwhelmed. Maybe your body has changed and you don’t quite feel like yourself in it anymore. Maybe you’re actually fine with how your body looks, but you’ve spent so much time experiencing it from the outside that you’re not sure you really know how to be IN it.
You can understand the patterns and analyze the sh*t out of why you have them, but knowing what your body needs in the actual moment is a whole different story. Because body love is so much bigger than liking your reflection.
It’s the relationship you have with yourself. How you speak to yourself, how well you listen, whether you trust your own signals, and whether you feel safe enough to be seen and say yes to the things that light you the fuck up.
Your nervous system is a huge part of that relationship.
Body Love Rewired is about getting out of your head long enough to actually experience yourself differently.
You don’t need to hate your body to be here.
You just need to want a relationship with yourself that feels better to live in.
I’ve been teaching versions of Body Love Rewired for around ten years, and I keep coming back to this work because the relationship we have with our bodies shows up in so many more places than the mirror.
It shows up in the way we move, the way we receive, the way we experience pleasure, the way we set boundaries, the way we make decisions, the way we trust ourselves and the way we show up in our lives.
I’ve spent almost two decades working with bodies through Pilates, movement, nutrition, nervous-system work and embodiment, and one thing has become really clear to me:
You can understand something intellectually and your body can still be running a completely different pattern.
You can know you’re safe and still feel your system brace.
You can know you want more and still contract when it’s time to receive it.
You can know you need rest and still feel guilty when you stop.
You can know comparison makes you miserable and still find yourself doing it before you’ve even realized what’s happening.
You can know your body is giving you information and still override it because the old response is so automatic that you don’t even notice you’re doing it.
Which is why these five days aren’t really about teaching you more sh*t you should know.
Because your nervous system doesn’t rewire because you read the right Instagram post and thought, Ohhhh, that makes sense.
It starts to rewire through experience.
Through creating safety.
Through noticing.
Through giving your body opportunities to experience something differently and then paying attention to what happens.
That’s where regulation starts to become something you can actually feel instead of something you understand intellectually, and that’s where the relationship you have with your body starts becoming a relationship you can actually trust.
And because I’ve been doing this challenge in different forms for around a decade, I know that sometimes the smallest practice is the one that catches you completely off guard.
So come play with me and see what yours is.
You don’t need to buy anything, be fit, flexible or good at any particular kind of movement, and you absolutely do not need to arrive with a perfectly regulated nervous system or a beautiful relationship with your body.
That would rather defeat the point. 😂
Bring the body you have.
Bring the relationship you have with it today.
Bring the patterns you understand and the ones you have absolutely no idea you’re running yet.
Bring the part of you that feels connected and the part that sometimes wants to live entirely from the neck up.
We’ll start there.
For five days, we’re going to get curious about what happens when you stop approaching your body as something to fix and start experiencing it as something you can actually be in relationship with.
We’re going to create opportunities for more safety in your system, start noticing the signals and patterns your body is already giving you, and begin rewiring some of the ways you’ve learned to relate to yourself.
Not by forcing anything.
Not by pretending everything suddenly feels amazing.
And not by giving you another five-day self-improvement project.
By actually being IN your body and listening to what happens.
One short video and one simple embodied practice each day to help you regulate, reconnect and start rewiring the relationship you have with your body.
Your body already has a language. Let’s start learning how to listen to it.