Bodywise Studio vs Reclaim Yourself

Welcome to Bodywise by Claudia Germuga — your digital sanctuary of mind-body workouts + embodiment rituals designed to spark inner and outer transformation. Bodywise is a mindful movement and somatic healing modality created to foster your most attuned and intuitive relationship with exercise. This space is meant to be your home base – where we are never *just working out* but rather, blending the educational and the experiential into a mind-body experience that enhances the way you relate to and inhabit yourself on and off your mat. Bodywise was developed to flip the script on rigid exercise regimens in favor of centering the question: What will nourish me today? By prioritizing attunement to the body and inner experience, learn to intuitively offer yourself rituals that promote harmonious health, self-empowerment and trust in your individualized wellbeing routine. Inside the studio you’ll discover an abundance of sequences developed to strengthen your body, expand your awareness, and liberate your authentic self-expression. With techniques ranging from resistance training, pilates, and embodied movement to breathwork, meditation, and well-being you’ll cultivate a movement practice that feels medicinal, no matter what feeling or circumstance may be unfolding for you. Break up with restrictive and rigid wellness routines that keep you feeling stressed or stuck and nurture a truly harmonious relationship with your being. Awaken your felt sense, become fluent in your body’s language, and develop your ability to find home within yourself. Are you ready to become Bodywise? LIVESTREAM CLASSES Interactive, livestream classes offered each week to cultivate presence, body awareness and athleticism alongside a safe and heart-centered community in Bodywise’s signature class formats: Embody, Sculpt, Sweat, Glide and Condition. ON-DEMAND Access to skillfully guided classes with a growing library of 250+ mind-body workouts and embodiment rituals, ranging from resistance training and pilates to breathwork, meditation, and more restorative well-being techniques. New content added weekly. SYNC MOVEMENT + YOUR MENSTRUAL CYCLE As a menstruator, hormones (and therefore mood and energy levels) are constantly fluctuating throughout the month. Cycle synching your movement practice is an excellent way to attune with your cyclical nature + honor your body. All Bodywise practices are categorized based on the phases of the menstrual cycle. Start to find your own rhythm and optimize your hormones by sweating during your Follicular Phase, channeling your power in the Ovulatory Phase, grounding and slowing down during your Luteal Phase, and replenishing during your Menstrual Phase. WEEKLY GUIDES   Two curated pathways of recommended classes are released weekly to support your movement practice. Choose the (Expansive) Guide when your energy is high and you’re looking to expand your limits or choose the (Nourishing) Guide when your body is asking for practices that feel more medicinal. ABOUT CLAUDIA Claudia is a New York City based movement instructor and certified breathwork + meditation facilitator. Her career as a professional contemporary dancer alongside her studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative Somatic Therapy have made her a lifelong student of the body, ignited her exploration of holistic + somatic healing, as well as shaped her devotion to sharing the ways our physiology often reveals our psychology. Deeply passionate about translating the subtle language of the body and expanding clients’ body literacy, Claudia empowers and educates those on the journey of reclaiming body trust, finding mental and physical flow, and feeling radically at home within themselves. “Claudia is such a bright, brilliant guider! Her classes test your strength while also giving you permission to listen to your own body and needs. Love her energy!” “Challenging and exciting. Stimulating on all levels!”

If you survived abuse, you already know that the damage didn't stop when the abuse did. You escaped, but you carried something with you — an identity that isn't yours. The way you shrink in rooms. The way you apologize for existing. The way you freeze when you should fight. The way you fight when there's no need. The way you manage everyone's emotions at the expense of your own. None of that is you. That's what was installed in you by people who used fear and intimidation to allow them to inflict their abuse without challenge. "Reclaim Yourself" is a daily practice tool built for trauma survivors. It works on a simple and powerful principle: the identity and emotions your abuser imposed on you can be rejected, and the identity that is actually yours can be restored. HOW IT WORKS The app has two lists you look at every day. It should be at least a morning routine. The first list is "That's Not Me." These are the emotions, behaviors, and identities that were forced on you. Things like freezing under pressure, people-pleasing out of fear, apologizing for having needs, tolerating treatment you would never inflict on someone else, and so on. You read each one, and you say in your head — forcefully, aggressively, and without apology — "That's not me." The second list is "That's Me." These are the qualities, emotions, and ways of being that are authentically yours. The ones you admire. The ones you would have lived if no one had threatened you for becoming them. You read each one and you say with full confidence and aggression — "That's me." The app comes with default lists based on the most common patterns trauma survivors experience. You add your own. You remove what doesn't apply. You build lists specific to your story. JOURNAL YOUR RECOVERY Tap any statement in either list to journal on it. Write about how it showed up in your day. Write about the moment you caught a forced identity operating in your body and rejected it. Write about the first time you assumed your real identity and meant it. This is your private record of taking your life back. VISUALIZE WHO YOU ARE BECOMING Save images that represent who you actually are — the person you are restoring. Look at them before you walk into a meeting, before a difficult conversation, before any moment where the old identity tries to show up. Physical visualization is one of the most effective tools for overwriting the neural pathways that trauma carved. UNDERSTAND WHY THIS WORKS The Insights section explains the psychology behind the app. Why your body still hurts after you escaped. Why your abuser's moral framework was built for their benefit and was never meant to apply to them. Why what you admire is the clearest signal of your true self. Why the forced identity fights back when you try to kill it — and why you shouldn't hold back. BUILT FOR SURVIVORS, NOT PATIENTS There is no login. There is no account. There is no backend collecting your data. Everything you write, save, and build in this app stays on your device and nowhere else. Your recovery is not content for someone else's database. There is no gentle hand-holding. This app speaks to you the way a survivor needs to be spoken to — directly, fiercely, and with the understanding that you are fighting for your life. Because you are. It cannot be that you were born to be abused and die. That cannot be your whole story. You have to live. FEATURES 1. Default lists of common trauma-imposed identities and authentic affirmations 2. Add, edit, and personalize both lists to your specific experience 3. Journal on any identity statement to process how it shows up in your life 4. Save inspiration images that represent who you are becoming 5. Watch short clips on trauma recovery and identity restoration 6. Read the psychological framework explaining why this approach works 7. Daily reminders to practice before you face the world 8. Fully offline — no accounts, no cloud, no data collection 9. Export and import your data anytime