Inside Your Living Body Map

Dear wild-hearted wanderer,

Where do you go when you don’t know where to go?

Pause here for a moment and really feel that question in your body. What does it stir up in you? What sensations do you notice? What is your body telling you?

I’ve been deep in a process that’s teaching me something profound about presence, embodiment, and the quiet wisdom of our bodies. Creating the very first Your Living Body Map has challenged me on what it truly means to live in the body and I think some of these discoveries might ripple into your own journey too.

Here’s what I know: Your Living Body Map is not your typical Human Design analysis.

It’s something much more alive and sacred. And I wanted to take you behind the scenes into what it actually feels like to create one so that you can see how this process is designed to bring you back to your body, not just your mind.

Ultimately, I’ve discovered these 4 distinct phases: exploration, contemplation, integration, and, finally, weaving.

It all starts with the exploration of your map. This phase is really about sitting with your bodygraph and noticing what emerges based on what you’ve told me in your application form. It’s about me listening to you and transmitting what wants to be heard through the map.

When this part feels complete, I move to contemplation phase. This is the space that I absolutely love being in. This is spaciousness embodied. This is me trusting the process. This is where your living myth emerges.

I could be on the bus to work and something just clicks into place. A word from a song or a podcast episode provides the missing piece to what I’d been contemplating. Or I could be watching an episode of my current TV series (it’s Dawson’s Creek, in case you were wondering). The way a character acts deepens my understanding of a part of your bodygraph and how it actually might express itself.

I am completely immersed, even when I am going about my day, this part of the process is slowly humming in the background.

The third phase is a little more practical and driven by your bodygraph elements through the lens of nervous system. This is the integration phase. This is where the structure of your YLBM really comes into being.

I draft out the different sections and I start to think about the design elements.

How do I want to translate it all into a visual language?
What’s the flow I want you to follow?
What are the main themes that need to be expanded on?

One thing is clear, this is not your typical HD report or reading structure. Yes, I definitely weave in your important and prominent Human Design elements — and you learn about what these elements mean — but my aim is not to offer you information only. The way I approach it is to help you explore and embody how your energy wants to be expressed so that you can actually implement it and live a life that feels more you.

This map is to help you come back to your body when you don’t know where else to go.

And the final phase is the weave. This is the part where I sit down and weave all the different threads together. I write and edit what I’ve explored and discovered so that it becomes something coherent and cohesive for you to explore, play and experiment with.

I must say, this phase is turning out to be the most time-consuming, and the one I seem to be resisting the most. Perhaps that’s my perfectionist showing itself? Because this is the part of the process where I create the container that holds your living myth. It’s the final push of giving birth to something new that will now live outside of you, independently. It’s the part where I let go of all the different possible versions and make it what it wants to be in this moment in time. And trust that this is the one.

Honestly, creating this map feels less like writing and more like midwifing. Each one is a sacred unfolding of someone’s living myth. I finally understand the weight of it.

I wanted to share this because so often we only see the surface of things. But behind each YLBM is a long and slow unfolding. It’s a conversation I have with someone’s design, their body, their mind and their soul.

I’ll be taking September to travel, reflect and spend time with family, so applications for YLBM are now open for October. If you’re curious to hear the story your body is longing to tell, I’d love to journey with you then.

I’m curious: how did this letter land with you? What part of this process felt alive in your own experience? If you feel called to share, I’d love to hear from you.

Sending you a deep and nourishing breath,

Silvia