The Embodiment Project

We start with a body connecting practice, then explore how that sense of self connection can survive connection with the world and the challenges it brings us.  An important internal journey that includes insights from indigenous shamanistic practitioners on the relationship between the individual and community and the relationship to the natural world as related…

What do you notice in this moment?  So often, when we pay attention to our body we prepare it, fix it.  In this excerpt from the Embodiment Project we explore what it’s like to just explore the body as it is in this moment. You can find out more about the Embodiment Project at SomaticsInstitute.com

Focusing on body sensation can help you find yourself in your tissues.  But too much information, perhaps from physical pain or emotional distress, shows the importance of finding surfaces to help locate and ground yourself. In this week’s practice we explore the relationship between inner sensory experience and the balancing awareness of surfaces that help…

Another short (about 18 minute) meditation on how breathing and sensing interact with each other.  It’s one of those ‘skills for life’ that can be helpful any time. As you may know, these podcasts are tidbits from the ongoing Embodiment Project.  There’s lots of videos, audio and other resources, and a weekly Zoom meeting. Check…

Today’s podcast comes from an Embodiment Project class conversation.  I answer student questions, giving examples of how movement helps us connect with ourselves and others. I also give some examples from my personal and clinical practice. You can find out more about the Embodiment Project at www.SomaticsInstitute.com

Here’s a new series of practices for 2021.  At just under an hour, they will ask a little more of your day than the 10 minute meditations but I think you’ve find they are subtle, powerful, and worth it! You can find out more about the Embodiment Project, and our new Inhabit Yourself Workbook at…

Today, I’m bringing you another contribution from the Project’s weekly seminars.  For those of you who are used to a taste of the seminars in the form of 10 minute body meditations, today’s offering is the full meal deal, at 45 minutes long it’s a rich mix of science and embodiment practices, a deep dive…

Breath is the bridge between body and mind.  It helps us locate sensations and more deeply connect with the the community conversation that is our lived experience.  This 16 minute practice from the Embodiment Project will help you develop the skills to locate your self…just a little bit more…within the world of that body community.…

Conclusion The body’s needs for release can never be fully fathomed by the rational mind, it must be felt, and brought to life in expression.  Only then will the wounded body and being release to a new relationship with life.   If you would like to find out more about my exploration of deepening our…

Coming Home Learning to relate to pain seems to be the source from which healing comes forth in bodywork.  In fact, there is every indication that much of our continued experience of pain is bound up in the very tension that holds it. We continue our metaphorical journey through myth…with a tasty dollop of psychology…