Guidelines

config.footer.left: "[[sanuela.org->https://www.sanuela.org]]" config.footer.center: "[[Support this work->https://www.sanuela.org/donating/]]" -- {embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines1.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### What This is About We can come together for a somatic exchange to promote emotional healing and inner balance. It involves heart-centred breathing and motionless touch, such as holding hands or hugging, but not caressing. The focus is on helping you to feel yourself more deeply and balance your energies. You remain in full control at all times. Nothing is imposed on you – everything will happen with you. > [[Continue: Are You in a Relationship?->Guide2]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines2.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### Are You in a Relationship? Sharing human medicine by holding each other can nurture existing relationships by giving you more inner balance and capacity for closeness, and does not replace your partner in any way. Many partners even feel a quiet joy when they see you more relaxed, balanced and alive after a somatic exchange. Please be transparent with your partner about this somatic work, and consider sharing these guidelines with them in advance. When jealousy arises, we consider it a feeling that requires attention and discussion. We can openly acknowledge and address it together. If it helps to build trust, your partner is welcome to join a conversation about the work, either before or after a somatic exchange. If you wish, we can explore together how this work can support both of you, so that your relationship feels safer and more nourished by this practice. > [[Continue: Consent and Safety->Guide3]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines3.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### Consent and Safety Before we begin, we clarify wishes, fears, allowances and boundaries to find out what kind of touch is welcome. Consent is an ongoing process. During the somatic exchange, I will check in with you regularly, and you can adjust anything you like. You can say 'no', 'stop' or 'pause' at any time without giving a reason; this will be respected immediately. Alternatively, you can say the word 'auris' to indicate that you need to be heard. Or you simply speak about what is happening, how you are feeling, what you are processing and what you would like to be different. > [[Continue: Confidentiality and Comfort->Guide4]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines4.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### Confidentiality and Comfort Everything we share or feel here stays in this space. Confidentiality is a core agreement. You can take breaks, drink water, move around or end the session early if you need to. Your nervous system has priority. If something feels overwhelming or triggering, we can slow down, breathe and adapt or stop the practice together. > [[Continue: What Can Happen->Guide5]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines5.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### What Can Happen We may sit and hold hands in silence, breathing through our heart centres. We can share openly and lovingly, but the main focus remains on silently feeling the energies within us. If it feels right, honest and safe for both of us, we may do a longer seated or standing hugging meditation in stillness or other forms of holding. A natural, pleasant tingling energy can appear and is welcome, but it is not a signal to become active. We breathe through our heart centres and allow the energies to spread throughout the body. > [[Continue: Emotional Processes->Guide6]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines6.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### Emotional Processes Tears, laughter, numbness or strong emotions may come. Whatever you feel is welcome. There is no 'right' way to experience this. Nothing needs to be fixed or made more pleasant. Rather than giving advice or analysing you, I offer presence, listening and holding so that you can feel and meet yourself more lovingly. After the somatic exchange, we take a few minutes to share how you feel and how you want to care for yourself afterwards. > [[Continue: Practical Guidelines->Guide7]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines7.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### Practical Guidelines Come sober, not under the influence of alcohol, drugs or shamanic plant medicine. Eating light food or fasting beforehand will help you to feel the energies more clearly. Please come in comfortable clothing and without wearing any perfume, so that we can experience each other naturally. If you would like to experience the safety, clarity and comfort first before including touch, you are welcome to come for a talk-only meeting first. After a somatic exchange, journaling, gentle movement, or a quiet walk in nature can help you process and integrate your experience. > [[Continue: The Nature of the Work->Guide8]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines8.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### The Nature of the Work This somatic exchange is an opportunity to experience heart-based trust, regulate your nervous system, balance your energies, learn to forgive and receive safe human closeness. It is not psychotherapy or medical treatment, nor is it a substitute for professional trauma therapy when needed. It is not a hidden dating service, nor an opportunity to start an affair: transparency and integrity are core values. > [[Continue: Open Up Your Heart->Guide9]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/guidelines-images/guidelines9.png', alt: 'Guidelines for Sharing Human Medicine'} ### Opening Your Heart Over time and with practice, you may wish to share hand-holding or hugging meditations with others you trust, always with clear agreements in place. You are invited to observe how these somatic exchanges transform your daily life, relationships and emotional capacity to open your heart more fully each day. > [[Continue ...->Experience]]

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{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/journey3-images/handholdingwithnils.webp', alt: 'Holding hands with Nils at Finca Sanuela'} ## Experiencing Human Medicine At Finca Sanuela in Tenerife, you can explore this somatic exchange in a safe and supportive setting. Think of it as your personal space for transformation, growth and opening up your heart energetically. > [[Get in contact with Nils->Contact]] > [[Other interactive journeys from sanuela.org->OtherJourneys]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/journey4-images/healingtouchrecap.webp', alt: 'Scenes from the interactive Healing Touch journey'} This interactive journey invites you to free yourself from cultural conditioning about authentic closeness. What if we acknowledge our fundamental need for conscious, caring touch as part of being human, and see holding hands and longer hugs not only as romantic gestures? We will explore the balancing and healing effects on our nervous systems and auras through practices like heart-centred breathing and hugging meditations, viewing them as energetic medicine that can lead us to self-LOVE, balance, and wholeness. > [[Start the Healing Touch Journey->https://sanuela.org/Healing-Touch.html]] > [[More interactive journeys->OtherJourneys2]] > [[Experience human medicine at Finca Sanuela->Experience]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/journey5-images/companionrecap.webp', alt: 'Scenes from the interactive Energetic Heart & Soul Companion journey'} In this interactive journey, we explore what it means to become an Energetic Heart and Soul Companion and provide a safe space for emotional healing and balance. It is an invitation to those who feel called to offer their presence, heart and hands as human medicine. This path goes beyond techniques, emphasising the personal, intuitive transformation needed to hold a high-frequency space without fixing, to remain heart-centred in vulnerability, and to offer touch as a sacred, still presence rather than a performance. Explore how this extends into everyday life as well, deepening friendships, partnerships, and your own sense of connection and trust. > [[Start the Heart & Soul Companion Journey->https://sanuela.org/Heart-Soul-Companion.html]] > [[More interactive journeys->OtherJourneys3]] > [[Experience human medicine at Finca Sanuela->Experience]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/journey5-images/lovenetworkrecap.webp', alt: 'Scenes from the interactive Network of LOVE journey'} What if your heart didn't have to fit into a box? This interactive journey invites you to discover the vision of a stable Network of LOVE, where deeply nourishing affection is shared among trusted souls with full awareness and consent. Explore the loving space between 'just friends' and 'romantic relationship'. Take a look at essential skills like honest communication, emotional self-regulation, setting allowances and boundaries, or how to work with jealousy as a shared responsibility. Examine your own comfort levels with holding hands or having cuddle friends, and start building an abundant, resilient ecosystem of LOVE and care. > [[Start the Network of LOVE Journey->https://sanuela.org/Network-of-LOVE.html]] > [[More interactive journeys->OtherJourneys4]] > [[Experience human medicine at Finca Sanuela->Experience]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/journey5-images/soulfamilyrecap.webp', alt: 'Scenes from the interactive Soulfamily Community journey'} Take this interactive journey and imagine life beyond the traditional family model. Discover the concept of a Soulfamily Community, where three to six trusted souls live together as a chosen family with shared values. This offers daily togetherness, emotional safety, and mutual support beyond the limitations of a single partnership. Explore how such a community thrives, from heart-centred trust practices and shared living spaces to value-based agreements and consent-based decision-making. Whether you feel called to raise children with multiple adults or simply long for deeper belonging and care, this journey shows a path towards a more connected and abundant way of living. > [[Start the Soulfamily Community Journey->https://sanuela.org/Soulfamily-Community.html]] > [[More interactive journeys->OtherJourneys5]] > [[Experience human medicine at Finca Sanuela->Experience]]

{embed image: 'https://www.sanuela.org/journey5-images/fastingrecap.webp', alt: 'Scenes from the interactive Fasting journey'} What are we really hungry for? This interactive journey explores the deep connection between food addictions and unmet emotional needs like loneliness, lack of physical contact and disconnection from our hearts. It reveals how substances such as caffeine trigger anxiety in our nervous systems to create alertness, while sugar and wheat numb the deeper longings that only LOVE and authentic presence can truly satisfy. Fasting is presented as an invitation to stop avoiding our feelings and finally acknowledge what lies underneath. The journey shows how cleansing the body enables you to receive deeper nourishment from nature, others and the astral realms. You will learn to work with waves of cravings and emotions through heart-centred practices, gradually experiencing more intuitive clarity and a heightened energetic perception. > [[Start the Fasting Journey->https://sanuela.org/Fasting.html]] > [[Start the Healing Touch Journey->https://sanuela.org/Healing-Touch.html]] > [[Start the Heart & Soul Companion Journey->https://sanuela.org/Heart-Soul-Companion.html]] > [[Start the Network of LOVE Journey->https://sanuela.org/Network-of-LOVE.html]] > [[Start the Soulfamily Community Journey->https://sanuela.org/Soulfamily-Community.html]] > [[Get in contact with Nils->Contact]]