Reader, we've covered how shame moves through the collective, from individuals, groups, and within society. But how does it move within your body?
That's what today's email is all about.
Shame enters in our Organ Realm, because it's a social energy, often present in the web of interrelationships. But there are six Realms of Embodiment, and shame can make it way to each of them, taking on a different feel and distortion in each.
The Organ Realm offers a myriad of pathways into the other Realms. It can move directly into Muscle, DNA, Fluid, and/or the Nervous System Realm. From there, it's just a quick hop, skip, and a jump to the Realm of Bone and Foundation.
But let's focus on the personal Realms first: Fluid, Muscle, and Bone.
Shame and the Fluid Realm
We'll assume that shame has its oily stake in the Organ Realm, maybe in the ecosystem of distribution - your arteries and veins. Or perhaps in the digestive ecosystem, or respiratory ecosystem. From any of these places, it's an easy slide into the Fluid Realm where your once omnipresent fluid energy and movement of Spirit becomes separated into little hydrophobic bubbles.
On Tuesday, a client told me that when I say Fluid Realm and shame she immediately sees a bottle of RainX - a product made so water bubbles up on a glass surface. This is actually an incredibly accurate visualization of what shame in the Fluid Realm does. It pushes your fluid energy into small contained pockets where similar energies become grouped together, and in some cases, appear to congeal.
So while previously your fluid energy could communicate within itself seamlessly, no matter where it was located or what form it was in, once shame enters the picture, it becomes sequestered and these bubbles repel each other.
These bubbles function as what we may call "echo chambers" in the Fluid Realm, which makes it like rafting a turbulent and rocky river for our Spirit. Each time one of them is bumped, ruptured, or congeals somewhere, it impedes the smooth and omnipresent movement of spirit in our body and life.
Shame and the Muscle Realm
There are many parts of the Muscle Realm that take on differing roles in our relationships and communication with resources. But by and large, shame still functions as an energy of disconnection and warped perceptions in this Realm.
Working on your money mindset or relationship with food without addressing the shame disconnect in this Realm, isn't going to be effective when there's a polymer-like energetic coating around the muscle fibers.
This coating is how shame entrenches itself in the Muscle Realm. It's not as malleable as it is in the Organ or Fluid Realms; instead, it feels nearly like a thin balloon-type material that keeps muscle fibers separated from one another, and unable to create any lift or movement in a consistent direction. It shuts down the conversation in the muscle and disconnects the message from other Realms.
It also perpetuates itself in this Realm through self-shaming. "Why can't I make better decisions with my money?" "I always do this when I'm around ice cream." "I wish I could open up more with people." "Why haven't I fixed this yet? I've been working on it forever!"
That's shame in the Muscle Realm making sure it sticks around. It compounds the energy that's already there, by making you feel worse about the shame, the disconnection, and what may feel like an inability to make meaningful change in those areas of your life, resources, and relationships.
Shame and the Bone Realm
As shame moves to the Bone Realm, it continues its progress in becoming denser, while staying as impermeable as ever.
When I encounter the energy of shame here, it feels like Teflon - that nonstick coating on cookware. It makes its way through the porous spaces in the bones, coats the inner hollows where marrow is found, and disrupts how your life force energy moves and your bone energy's ability to turn over and evolve.
Any foundational energy shifts that you're working towards embodying slide off, it's like they literally can't stick around. It feels like the Ninja Warrior Games where they run up the curved ramp and try to make it to the top, only for most of them to get close and fall back down.
It's a huge energetic investment to make foundational changes when shame is present in the Bone Realm, and even then, most shifts are small "gains" compared to what you thought was possible.
Shame in the Bone Realm is persistent feeling of "this is going to be the thing that does it for me."
Shame Session #1
These three Realms are the first we'll venture through together in the Shame Sessions. On Monday, September 22, 2025 at 1 pm we'll meet live on Zoom and systematically move through these three Realms.
You can (and most likely will) listen to the Shame Sessions and re-activate them whenever you need them - this isn't one-and-done energy work.
We live in a society that's oozing with shame. We breathe it, we hear the messaging, and no one is immune from taking it on. But, once you release what you've carried in your body for so long, you become less accommodating to the energy of shame. It becomes harder for it to make a home in your Realms because it's re-colonizing an environment that isn't hospitable. Instead of it feeling hard to ever release shame, it becomes hard for it to live within you.
So in order to help you release as much embodied shame energy as possible, as thoroughly as possible, these sessions will be infinitely repeatable. The replay is as potent as the live session. This is also important for those of you who can't make it to the live call. I know 1pm on a weekday can be difficult to make work.
If you have questions about whether this group is a good fit for you, please reach out, I'm happy to have a conversation and answer questions I may not have covered in the emails so far!
I can't wait to do this work together,
Ash
P.S. Tickets are available for the Shame Sessions all the way up until the morning of the second session. If you need more time to think or consider this group, you have until September 25 at 10 am Eastern.