THE GIFT OF SENSITIVITY
THE GIFT OF SENSITIVITY
For those with a high sensitivity in the feeling body,
the intensity of the inner realms can be overwhelming.
In a world that harshly judges feelings,
it’s easy to believe we are too much,
too sensitive, too intense, too dysregulated —
or that we must be deeply traumatised.
For those who drown in relentless tides of sensation,
therapy and spiritual practice often fails us.
Unable to reach the core of our experience,
we search endlessly within, for the cause of our wrongness.
But what if we’re asking the wrong question?
What if we’re collectively misperceiving feelings?
So conditioned to fix, analyse, and eliminate them,
it never occurs to us to welcome them —
an intelligence we are yet to learn how to receive.
What if your heightened sensitivity is a skill?
Gifting you with increased specificity.
Access to a different mode of knowing.
What if the esoteric maps of Tantric somatic teachings
are a language you can actually feel?
WHAT IS THE SHADOW?
WHAT IS THE SHADOW?
What if the feelings we reject are not our demons?
What if they’re doorways to wholeness?
Portals to misunderstood, un-lived experience.
What if these feelings aren’t actually personal?
What if they’re not you, or the result of your childhood?
If we seek their cause, we circle endlessly in the tip of the iceberg,
unable to reach the unseen forces beneath.
Forces that we call the unconscious:
the engine room of our emotional lives,
compelling us into action before we even know it.
These forces are invisible to most.
But for the highly sensitive feeler,
they are the sensations and vibrations
we constantly feel — and incorrectly name.
Our current paradigm pours petrol on the flames.
If, however, we learn to shift the habit of attention,
a new inner landscape reveals itself —
one that we can finally begin to receive.
MASCULINE TILTED CONSCIOUSNESS
MASCULINE TILTED CONSCIOUSNESS
At the heart of Tantric teachings lies a simple truth:
we are woven from a fundamental polarity of energies —
electric (masculine) and magnetic (feminine).
Together, they weave the vibrational pulse of existence.
Yet our imbalance is so ancient, we believe it.
We revere our capacity to pierce into experience,
to know it, master it, and transcend it.
And we fear, demonise and dismiss the other,
as lazy, erratic, wrong, unclear.
We strive and effort,
we blame and judge —
without even knowing we’re doing it.
So familiar is this vertical reach for transcendence,
that we unknowingly recreate our suffering.
In Tantric practice, we enter the subtle body,
not to control, but to allow these energies to move freely.
As we finally make space for every exiled drop,
the depth of this judgement is revealed.
Our innocence is illuminated,
directly in the body.
THE SENSATES
THE SENSATES
This realm of experience is subtle,
but there are certain Highly Sensitive People (HSP’s)
for which this terrain is vivid.
They are the Sensates: energetic, somatic sensitives.
Or what I call the Hyper-Feelers.
But they are often unaware of their skills.
Thinking is not their dominant way of knowing.
Instead, they navigate through inner atmospheres —
sensations, contractions, vibration, unease.
They consider themselves too intense.
That it must be insecurity, anxiety, or CPTSD.
And because of their constant inner work,
many become the wounded healer.
Yet what moves inside them is an intelligence.
A realm that is communicating.
A realm they must learn to navigate, trust and receive.
A very different way of knowing.
HUMILITY
HUMILITY
Deep within us all lies a hidden fear —
a trembling sense of separation from Oneness.
A terror so raw, it manifests into form,
appearing as real.
A shadow we spend our lives running from.
When we meet it through the lens of the personal.
the judgement and contraction intensify.
But when we turn toward it as a collective misperception,
something entirely different begins to unfold.
As we offer safety to the distress we all reject,
the nervous system softens,
and we begin to sense its innocence.
“Sweetheart, my darling, I am so sorry —
Forgive me! I know I misperceive you.
Show me how to be with you,
so you may be at ease in my presence.”
We are lost in unconscious judgement and fear.
Until we learn to trust the darkness,
until we learn to rest inside it,
what is rejected remains perpetually hidden.
The journey of wholeness is downward, into our humanity.
The journey of immanence is the return to the lost feminine.
We create safety for all that has been rejected —
not to fix it, not to change it,
but to welcome everything home.
BEFRIENDING DARKNESS
To meet the feelings we resist,
we must enter the realms where they are hidden.
A terrain so soft — so unfamiliar —
it feels as though we are doing nothing.
The feeling realm is a direct path
to the vibrational nectar of our Being.
Instead of rising toward the light,
where we ignore or transcend feelings —
we descend into the restful depths
where we can finally receive every drop.
Darkness moves differently to light.
FEELING WHISPERERS
Feelings are like wild stallions,
refusing to be controlled, tamed or blamed.
When met with judgement and resistance,
they buck against the injustice
of the misperception that inhibits them.
Welcome them with love — beneath the story —
and their magnificence will be revealed.
These feelings aren’t you.
You came in with them.
They’re more collective than individual —
the feelings we collectively misperceive.
How you meet them shapes how they respond.
RELAXATION IS KEY
ABOUT ME
After a lifetime of psychotherapy and meditation, I lost faith in healing. No matter how many therapy sessions, trainings, or retreats, the core intensity of my shame and worthlessness persisted. I was a psychotherapist who no longer believed in therapy.
In this darkness, I stumbled upon Tibetan Tantric somatic meditation. At first, it simply brought relief. As I learnt to rest into the vibration of essence, these somatic maps began to give me a precision of inner navigation that rewrote everything.
It didn’t just shift how I saw trauma — it gave me a way to dial down the intensity of my feeling body. For the first time, I could meet my experience with ease.
There was nothing wrong with me — it was sensitivity. What I had mistaken as trauma was, in fact, condensed energy. I could lovingly receive what had always misperceived as terrifying.
“I am so grateful for this work, which to me feels so radical: a calling into being and feeling deeply in resonance with the aliveness of the world. Lorella’s guidance is refined and exquisite“
EV
Somatic Psychotherpist
“Words fall short to express my gratitude for Lorella and what she brings into my life. Nowhere else have I seen such masterful shepherding of inner processes for highly sensitive people who want to move beyond the therapeutic relationship.“
MJ
Empowerment Coach
““I have learnt so much that has changed my life forever. Initially I found it challenging to put my ‘story’ aside and start paying attention to the quality of my emotions, perceptions and subtle feelings. Now I have a jewel of knowing that will always stay with me.“
MW
Psych Nurse
“I have been listening
to the love songs of
Form longing for formless.
What are these energies
Undulating through our bodies,
Pulsing us into action?
And this “matter” out of which
our forms are made –
What are these dancing particles
Of condensed radiance?”
— Lorin Roche
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