"The more awareness we have, the more choices we have."

 

This conversation is a continuation of one my friend Heather and I started the other night about one of my favorite topics -- somatic intelligence, or body awareness.

Heather is the perfect person to talk to about this because she is a dancer, a dance teacher, and just as passionate about body awareness as I am.

In this episode, we discuss several pieces of what it means to hold our body as a home for our worth, the maturing process of learning to befriend and listen to our body, and how increasing our awareness of our body increases our choices. I loved all of this and you can expect more episodes on this topic -- I think it's endlessly interesting.

  Show notes

• What somatic intelligence is and why it matters (4:30)
• The power of body awareness Heather has learned as a teacher versus a student (7:18)
• How our choices increase as our awareness increases (14:22)
• How our bodies teach us about our worth (20:27)
• What Heather has noticed about teenager's connections to their bodies and worth (25:08)
• What it means for our bodies to be homes for our worth (32:55)

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Jamie Baker episode on somatic intelligence
• Susan Bauer's Embodied Teen course
• Cally Flox's Teacher's Guide to Resiliency Through the Arts
• Danielle Doby
• Sensing, Feeling, and Action by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

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