The Embodied Mind Hub

A 20-min bodyscape an inquiring practice to notice the body.

Once you are familiar with basic breath awareness practices, another powerful meditation practice involves expanding the field of awareness to include sensations within the body. This can include awareness of sensations in various parts of the body. Sensations might include feelings of pressure and temperature at the points of contact of the body with the floor, tingling, itching, pulsations, aching, warmth or coolness anywhere in the body, the possibilities are endless.

During this meditation you are invited to practice mindfully inquiring into where you feel the breathe in the body and tune into sensations in the body. This practice explores embracing sensations as they arise in the body in order to ground ourselves in the here and now.

Audio movement sessions can deepen the sense of how you move. This movement class uses exploratory movement and guided attention to evoke new neuro-muscular patterns, reducing pain and tension and improving your coordination, flexibility, focus and balance. We strive to be stronger and more fit, often without concern for the quality of our movement. Sometimes we even assume we should be in pain.The costs of exercise and even day to day movements without awareness range from simply not enjoying ourselves, to being held short of reaching our full potential, to mild or even serious injury. During this practice your attention will be directed to particular things you feel as you move and this can be the key to positive change  :  your sensations are actually more important for enhancing how you move than the movement themselves.