Show Notes
De-theologizing shame by making God intimate and embodied.
This prayer is a profound embodiment of Ana’s entire body of work — it’s not simply spiritual language; it’s somatic invocation.
1. Reuniting the Spiritual and the Somatic
Ana is weaving together the language of prayer with the language of the body.
When she says:
“Move through me, speak through me, walk through me, heal through me,”
she’s not appealing to an abstract deity. She’s inviting the sacred to inhabit the body — to let divine presence become movement, breath, and nervous system regulation.
This is somatic theology — healing not through escape from the body, but through returning to it as a vessel for grace.
2. Restoring Relational Safety
Her repeated invocations — “Let me lean on you… Let me be held by you… supported by you…” — are re-parenting moments.
In trauma, safety is broken; the body learns it must hold itself alone.
Through prayer, Ana restores the felt sense of being held, not only psychologically but spiritually.
She is offering a reparative experience — one in which Divine Spirit becomes a co-regulator.
3. Transforming Helplessness into Communion
Instead of fighting darkness, Ana models surrender as sacred collaboration.
Each line — “rest in me… live in my bones… dance in my heart…” — turns despair into dialogue.
She’s teaching that you don’t heal by forcing light but by allowing what is divine, ancestral, and alive to move through you even when you feel broken.
This is how trauma becomes transmuted into devotion — not bypassed, but inhabited with grace.
4. Reclaiming the Ancestral Body
By naming Beloved Ancestors, she opens intergenerational space:
Healing isn’t solitary; it’s ancestral repair.
She invites listeners to feel lineage behind them — support that trauma often erases.
In Ana’s language, ancestors aren’t abstract; they are part of the nervous system memory — the strength behind your spine, “standing behind my back when I falter.”
5. Reframing Prayer as Somatic Regulation
The repetition — move through me, walk through me, rest in me — mirrors the natural rhythm of the body’s regulation cycle: expansion, contraction, rest.
Listeners experience calm not through religious belief, but through entrainment — the nervous system settles into the rhythm of Ana’s voice.
She’s teaching that prayer can be a nervous system practice, not just a spiritual one.
6. Her Deeper Offering
In essence, Ana is:
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De-theologizing shame by making God intimate and embodied.
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Decolonizing prayer by rooting it in the self and the ancestral line rather than institutional authority.
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Rehumanizing trauma recovery — where the sacred is not “out there,” but inside breath, movement, and presence.
Summary
Through this prayer, Ana transforms spirituality into somatic repair.
She reclaims prayer not as petition, but as participation — a way for survivors to feel inhabited by life again.
Her words teach:
“Healing is not separation from the body. It’s the body becoming home for the divine again.”
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About Ana Mael:
Ana Mael is a genocide survivor, somatic therapist, and author of The Trauma We Don’t Talk About. She is the founder of the Somatic Trauma Recovery Center and has dedicated her career to helping survivors reclaim their identity, dignity, and self-trust.
With decades of lived experience, Ana offers a unique, unapologetic approach to healing that combines trauma justice, somatic therapy, and spiritual integrity. She advocates for vulnerability, accountability, and collective healing to dismantle the systems that perpetuate oppression and harm.
Ana’s work provides a critical lens into the trauma of marginalized communities and offers a roadmap for healing that is both deeply personal and collectively transformative.
Chapters
- (00:00:01) - Living With My Beloved Ancestors
