Embodiment sessions
We can no longer afford to be alienated from the body.
re-investing in the built-in technology of our own bodies
We are in a moment in which massive resources are being invested into technologies that pull us further away from our bodies, from the Earth, and from each other. Neither our bodies nor this planet are Other, an inconvenience, or a problem to solve. If we try to dominate or ignore them, they will only scream louder.
Our bodies are naturally equipped with so many inspiring and incredible capabilities, so many inner technologies to keep us (all) well. They contain and disseminate so much information and power. But we're not taught how to listen to or interpret what they're trying to tell us, and at an extreme, we don't even identify with or feel our bodies. This is not a functional state to live in, as we're seeing reflected on both a personal and collective level.
Naming the inner worlds we were taught to ignore, together
So what do we do? How do we repair this disconnection? How do we come back into actually being our bodies, all parts working together seamlessly as a team?
Part of the reason we struggle to understand the body is because we don't have language to describe what it's doing. Every day we experience thousands of internal sensations that we don't have words for. We don't talk about them because we don't know how, and so they remain in this purgatory of unused information, dense and heavy. Hundreds of shades of numbness, of flavors of tired, a spare pang of pain or sudden shortness of breath, the slightest shiver, all trying to indicate to us the exact nutrient, experience, type of rest we need. And there they stay buried and unused as we push on with the parts of our day that we do understand. All day long the body is communicating, and we are doing an embarrassingly bad job of responding.
So what do we do? We skill-build, and we do it together. Language creation is a social process. We accompany each other in the tiny micro day-to-day experiences of having a body, we shift our attention inward, and we take very seriously what we perceive. We treat the body as an authority again, and we become a student. We remember how to take notes. We begin to put words to the wealth of sensations that we usually gloss over. Once we know how to listen, we follow the guidance our body is providing. And in doing so, we take our own lives back. We become embodied people with access to incredible tools, rather than empty vessels walking around lost and confused. (Where are we, anyway, when we're not in our bodies?)
Embodiment sessions
I combine my infinite respect for the body with highly developed perception, reflecting back to you what I'm sensing, and inviting you to sharpen your own tools of inner navigation too. We develop practices for self-study and re-invest in what's crying for our attention. We get the alienated parts of ourselves back into conversation, and build tools for practical embodied capacity.
The body is far less intimidating in good company.