How a Holosomatic Experience in London Reignited My Creative Spirit!
In late June 2025, I stepped into something quieter than a performance, more alive than meditation—a Holosomatic Experience: Breath, Body & Energy in London. It wasn’t just an event. It was the event that shifted something inside me.
The Event
Held at Mercure London Earl’s Court on 28th June, the Holosomatic Experience was hosted by InnerCamp. The programme promised a fusion of breathwork, bodywork, energy activation — all grounded in both scientific understanding and spiritual tradition.
We passed through three stages:
- Reset — discharging stress, settling the nervous system.
- Activation — waking up our bio-energetic field, stirring latent energy centres.
- Expansion — accessing non-ordinary states of consciousness, letting emotions and long-held tension rise and transform.
I arrived that afternoon, nervous, excited, and a little sceptical. But the atmosphere drew me in: the soundscapes, the safe holding of guided practice, the way everything invited surrender rather than control.
What Shifted
Something subtle but undeniable changed inside me. Over the course of those few hours:
- I felt stress melt away in a way that had nothing to do with ‘relaxing’ in the usual sense — it was more like discharging, releasing tension I’d been carrying unknowingly.
- My attention turned inward; I was more aware of my breath, my body, and how they hold stories, emotions, memories.
- Most significantly: pieces of me that had gone quiet—my creativity, my imaginative impulse—started to hum again.
Faces From My Mind
It started small. A sketch late one evening: a line, shading, something that looked like a face. Then more. Each drawing arising seemingly unbidden. Faces.
Faces with eyes I hadn’t yet named. Expressions I couldn’t quite place. Faces drawn not from a model, not from reference photos, but from my mind’s own gallery.
These drawings felt important. They were freer than anything I’d done recently. Less self-judgment. More curiosity. Less ‘getting it right’, more ‘letting it become’.
Through that flow, I realised something: I had left behind this essential joy of drawing — the joy of letting whatever wants to come, come. And this event brought me back to it.
Here is one of my first portraits after the event –
Why It Felt So Free & Spiritual
Why did this event open that door? I think a few reasons:
- Safe container: The facilitators (from InnerCamp) created an environment that wasn’t about performance or achievement. It was about presence, witnessing, healing.
- Body-mind alignment: Breath, movement, energy — these practices bypass the overthinking mind and tap deeper stores of knowing.
- Collective resonance: Being in a room of others also exploring, releasing, opening, created a shared field that allowed vulnerability and authenticity.
- Integration of science & spirit: The blend of neuroscience, trauma-informed care, somatic intelligence gave legitimacy and grounding to what otherwise might feel woo-woo. That mix permitted me to lean in.
What I’m Taking Forward
Since the event:
- I draw every few days now. Sometimes faces and always with more openness.
- I pay more attention to my breath, my physical tension. I’ve learned how much creative block arises from being stuck in the body or stuck in fear.
- I give myself permission to make imperfect work. The point isn’t to publish or compare; the point is to feel and to express.
- I hold onto the enthusiasm, the wonder I felt that day. When it fades, I return to a drawing, or a breath-practice, or a walk, to reconnect.
Conclusion About My Holosomatic Experience!
If you asked me before June whether a 4-hour breath/body/energy workshop could rekindle something as intimate as my art, I might have hesitated. But that afternoon in London taught me that creativity isn’t lost — it can be hidden, sidelined, muffled by expectation, fear, distance. What the Holosomatic experience did for me was bring me back to an inner space where drawing faces — or anything — isn’t about perfection, but about seeing.
And now, when I sketch from memory, from imagination, from the interior, I feel like I’m home.
Thanks for joining me on this journey!
Kate xx