Writing Through Your Body
in the end, your own soma is the best and only resource. Anything and everything else is just helpful ways of getting you in touch with the soma, and putting you in a position to listen clearly and without interference to what it’s telling you.
River Kenna • What is Somatic Meditation?
For me, somatic work has been about relearning and reconnecting to the wisdom and life in natural forces. That what is most alive leads to opening, creating, change. That in the destruction of something lies a whole new world of possibility—a place where patterns can finally become unhinged and there’s space for something new to take its place.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Lightness and grace are dynamic expressions in motion, that is, 360 degrees of experience, as felt on the occasion. It gets quite tricky in a movement classroom to work on still frames in an analytical, two-dimensional format. It leaves the movement centre disengaged. This is the body language seeking to be heard. It speaks for itself in a sense. I
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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
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