Writing Through Your Body
Gestures and sounds emanate from the body into language and thinking. With language incarnate we live consciously in time and rhythmically with others. Our embodied life extends into a horizon of possibility in which the past is history in our flesh, the present is the center of being and action, and the future is the trajectory of our felt imagina
... See moreRichard Strozzi-Heckler • The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader
As you increasingly honor the body’s sensations, you increasingly understand them to constitute a language of thought that is distinct from how the head knows. What the body knows is based on a patient clarity that enables you to act from the whole of your being. But that knowing is inaccessible—and may as well not exist—when it’s been eclipsed by
... See morePhilip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
the sum total of our history lives in our body. This certainly is not a new idea in psychology or philosophy, but somatics reveals that this history literally resides in our tissues. It’s more than a philosophical concept; we can experience our history as it lives in our muscular, organ, and nervous systems, and how it becomes explicit in the world
... See moreRichard Strozzi-Heckler • The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion
The pleasure and pain that emanate from my body are uniquely mine and no one else’s and they establish not just a sense of ownership but a sense of being. I am a person by virtue of the fact that I am located in my body and nowhere else, and that body has a historical and physical location from which I can identify myself within the world. To parap
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