The House, The Garden, and The Sky
- Brainz Magazine
- May 24
- 4 min read
Camilla Wellton, creator, mother, reality explorer, somatic educator and author is the founder of The Sensual Institute. She guides soul-led individuals in embodied transformation through the I AWAKE system, weaving depth psychology, somatic healing, and sensual intelligence.
Most self-help systems start with a structure. I started with a feeling. Because I wasn’t looking for another theory to explain myself. I was looking for a way back into my own body.
That’s how I awake began, not as a fixed plan, but as a slow return. A map that didn’t ask me to perform improvement, but to reclaim the parts of me I’d left behind.
Along the way, three worlds started to speak to me.
Not from a textbook.
From inside.
They became the foundation of everything I teach now.
Not because they’re clever. But because they’re true. Because they meet people where they are actually overwhelmed, tender, and trying to listen again.
These worlds are called The House, The Garden, and The Sky.
The house
The House is the symbol of your inner architecture, the shape your identity took in order to belong. It holds the roles you were praised for, the rules you followed to stay safe, and the beliefs you never chose but somehow built your life around.
Some rooms you’ve lived in for so long, you no longer notice their walls. Others you boarded up years ago, convinced it was safer not to visit.
The House invites a different kind of renovation. Not the kind that starts with shame. But the kind that begins with intimacy. With choosing to open a door. Sit with a memory. Listen for the part of you that never stopped waiting to be met.
The House isn’t a place to fix yourself.
It’s a place to remember who built the structure and to gently decide what you want to keep.
The garden
The Garden is where your emotions live. Not your thoughts about your feelings, but the actual raw, breathing currents of grief, joy, anger, softness, and longing.
It is the place in you that still remembers how to feel, even if no one ever taught you how to hold those feelings. It is the part that gets exiled in performance culture, in productivity loops, in families where sensitivity was too costly to keep.
The Garden doesn’t ask you to bloom on demand. It asks you to come sit for a while. To notice what’s dry, what’s tangled, what’s been growing wild in the corners of your chest.
When you tend to the Garden not with force, but with presence, it responds. Emotions once buried begin to speak again. Grief unfreezes. Joy returns in quiet shoots. And your heart begins to trust that it’s allowed to take up space.
The sky
The Sky is the realm of the mind, but not the racing thoughts or looping patterns. The Sky is the atmosphere that holds all of it. It’s the space behind your thinking. The breath behind the stories. The openness that lets you witness, instead of drowning.
Most of us live inside a storm we mistake for truth. We get so used to the weather patterns of worry, judgment, and inherited beliefs that we forget we can change altitude. We forget we can rise above and look again.
The Sky reminds you that you are not your thoughts. You are the one who sees them come and go. You are the one who can decide which clouds to follow and which to let pass.
And when you start to relate to the mind this way, not as a battlefield, but as a sky, you stop trying to control every thought. You start learning how to soften your grip. And the sky clears, slowly, beautifully.
Together, the House, the Garden, and the Sky form the foundation of the I Awake system. They’re not just metaphors. They’re living invitations. You don’t study them. You live them. You begin to notice where you’re standing on any given day, trapped in a hallway of old roles, curled around a feeling you’ve ignored, lost in a storm of old beliefs.
And then, you can begin to choose.
To come back to your body. To reorient to what’s real.
To speak to yourself from the inside out.
If your nervous system needs a place to land right now, soft, slow, and without pressure, then the podcast Notes for My Nervous System is waiting.
It’s my audio series of whispered reminders and tender check-ins. Made for moments just like this.
One last thing
This map wasn’t born out of theory.
It was born out of rupture. And the long, slow repair of coming home to myself.
If you’re in that place now, somewhere between lost and becoming, I want you to know: You’re not broken. You’re becoming aware.
The House. The Garden. The Sky. Three symbols. One homecoming.
Come as you are.
There’s nothing to fix.
Only something to remember.
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Camilla Wellton, Creator, Somatic educator, Founder and Author
She guides soul-led individuals in embodied transformation through the I AWAKE system, weaving depth psychology, somatic healing, and sensual intelligence.
