It’s Changeable.

”It’s changeable. Neuroplasticity is real.”

Dave Berger, a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, made this comment during a lecture in the week-long training I attended last week. It’s simple but profound. “It” could be anything: physical pain, emotional pain, unhelpful and outdated beliefs about yourself or someone else.

We often feel trapped in the pain and patterns we’ve lived with for years. But the brain’s ability to rewire itself means that change isn’t just possible; it’s biological. Healing happens by teaching your nervous system a new way to respond, one small shift at a time.

This is what we do in Moving Whole classes. We come together to support small, steady changes — to build awareness, to notice where we hold tension, and to allow the body to find a new pattern of ease. Sometimes that shift is barely perceptible at first: a deeper breath, a softer shoulder, a greater tolerance for confusion. But over time, those small adjustments accumulate.

Change doesn’t have to be dramatic to be valuable. It begins quietly, with attention and compassion — and with the belief that what feels stuck and permanent can, in fact, move and change.