01 — My story
My name is Giulia Bisonni.
I said “I’m fine” for most of my life, while my body was screaming.
Born and raised in Italy, I've since spent almost half my life living abroad. Moving between countries and cultures shaped the way I saw the world, and slowly broadened my understanding of what it means to actually live in a body, rather than just carry one around.
02 — Where it started
For a long time, anxiety was the loudest thing I could feel in my body. It overshadowed everything else, and the more I tried to pull away from it, the more I left my body altogether.
My body felt like a dark place: inflammation, physical pain, anxiety, shame, hopelessness. Being in it felt like surrendering to all of that heaviness. For most of my life, that's what I thought a body was for.
What I didn't know is that in pulling away from the anxiety I was also denying myself the chance to discover what else could be there.
03 — The turning point
Training in the SAH Method™, Somatic Activated Healing, with SAH D'Simone slowly started changing my relationship with my own body. And it still is.
I have very little interest in a "positive vibes only" approach to feeling well. I don't want to spend my life chasing good feelings, or trying to escape the ones that hurt. Of course I want to notice the thoughts, the conditioning, the limiting beliefs that keep me stuck in old patterns. But I also don't want to bypass the emotional landscape that moves through my body every day.
What I'm learning is that my body can be a place where I meet discomfort and pain when they visit, and also pleasure, joy, aliveness.
I don't have to choose one over the other. I can let more sensations co-exist at once. What else can exist alongside what you're feeling today?
04 — Taking up space
I think a lot of us learn, somewhere along the way, to make ourselves smaller: quieter, easier to be around, to take up less room. And to edit the parts of ourselves that seem different, the way we move, the way we speak, the things we get excited about.
I know this one personally. For a long time I felt like the odd one, like something was slightly off about the way I was in the world. So I learned to adjust, to watch how everyone else seemed to be and quietly work out how to be more like that. To hide the parts that felt too strange, too much, too different.
So when someone tells you, especially in somatic work, to take up space and be seen, it sounds beautiful, but knowing we deserve it doesn't mean our body automatically knows how to do it. So I invite you to start somewhere much smaller: notice the space you already have. The ground beneath you, the air on your skin, the space between you and everything else. Just: I am here. And little by little, we let ourselves move into a little more of it.
We don't have to constantly adjust to fit the room. We can meet the room as we are.
05 — Coming home
I said "I'm fine" for most of my life, while my body was screaming. When you live with long-term chronic pain, you get really good at powering through: the exhaustion, the inflammation, the discomfort, pushing difficult feelings aside and finding quick ways to make them disappear.
I talked endlessly about what I was feeling, over and over, but words alone still weren't enough. For a long time, I lived outside my body. Through intuitive dance and somatic movement, I started finding my body's own language: a way to express, feel, and release what words alone couldn't reach. That's what I want to share with you.
A somatic journey back into your body.
A space to slow down, listen to your sensations, and discover what's alive within you.
Trained with SAH D'Simone and Linda Thai, leaders in trauma-informed embodiment and somatic work.
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