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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

Growing with our bodies, all of us find ourselves at one time violated or wounded by this world in difficult ways, and still we live and breathe in this touchable, sensual world, and through trauma, through grief, through recovery, we heal in order to be touched again in the right way, as the physical consecration of a mutual, trusted invitation.

The body often contains emotional truths that words can too easily gloss over.

You may not be accustomed to using your body as a way of “knowing.” But when you take a moment to contemplate this, you will notice that all of the truly meaningful insights, ideas, and emotions you have had have come from a deeper place inside of you.