Sometimes strong movements arise and people fear they will injure themselves. On rare occasions, people may incur minor bruises but we have never heard of serious injury arising from surrenderwork. Stiffness sometimes comes up too, but this might happen when there are no outer movements at all.  So, although it is possible to hit yourself against a hard object or find yourself with a stiff neck, 99.9% of the time, if you surrender, your system seems to know what it is doing.

It is common to experience pain after a session. This might happen a day or two after a practice and does not normally last for more than three days. This is because the body stores emotional and physical traumas.  In surrender, the system starts to self-regulate.  Old traumas begin to come to the surface and these are experienced as physical, and sometimes mental, aches and pains.  Sometimes old illnesses and injuries reappear as layers of armour and numbness drop away.  It can seem like a backward step but it is actually uncovering injuries that never properly healed. 

It could be. As your system wakes up and starts to re-sensitise, toxins come to the surface and this might show up as a cold. This is fairly common.  Some people celebrate strong reactions to the practice as they see it as getting rid of rubbish! This can be a useful way to see it.

You can do surrender practice when you like. There is no rule. You might do it every day for a while and then want a break and come back to it when you feel the desire. Once you are familiar with the practice, you can follow your sensitivity and do it when you would like. Alternatively you can set it as a regular practice and discipline.

This is up to you. We recommend that you practise for a minimum of 10 minutes and a maximum of 90. Alternatively, you can allow the practice to guide you. It will come to a natural end which you will learn to recognise.

Any time but best not on a full stomach as free movement will be restricted. It is also very good to do in the evening as an end to the day.  

Sometimes movement takes the form of a busy mind.  Nothing to do; let it be.

It is good to surrender to something higher than yourself; this works for many people.  This could be God, the Divine, Truth, your higher self.  

You can do surrenderwork before another practice such as sitting meditation or yoga. It can free the mind and body and make these practices easier. But it will not work to combine them because surrender is surrender and focus is something else.

Surrender is the other form of meditation but much less well known than the kinds of mindfulness generally taught. However, most, if not all, religious/spiritual traditions have some kind of surrender practice at their core; in some traditions it is seen as devotional or a surrender to the Divine. Most of us, at some point, will benefit from a mindfulness practice to quiet the mind, broaden our awareness and experience the reality that we are not our minds or our bodies.