Dobayukivanie: inner child work

Dobayukivanie (roughly “rocking to sleep again”) is a process of healing the child and mother aspect and of re-living your birth. It covers the time in the womb, the birth itself, coming into the world and the first contact with your mother.

This is usually where our “glitches” come from — difficult experiences received while still in the womb or during birth. Few of us can say we had a natural birth, and the same goes for the first contact: it did not always happen, and it was not always harmonious.

In dobayukivanie we create conditions in which the body remembers this experience: you are gently rocked, wrapped up, with calm sounds around you. These are memories that are not in our conscious mind — they lie very deep, and one way to become aware of them is through the body. Because the body holds all our feelings, all our fears, all our experience since conception.

We re-live this experience in order to leave it in the past and create a new one — to reprogramme the core patterns of our life. It is a practice of restoring basic trust in the world. Everyone’s experience is different: some cry, some fall asleep, some truly rest for the first time in a long while.