The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion
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The nature of our life energy, however, is to circulate in an unbroken cycle of forming and reforming; it’s life’s impulse to continuously move through the cycles of birth, growth, fruition, completion, and renewal. In counterpoint, the culture shuts this energy down through an egregious disregard for the wisdom of the body. Our institutions have f
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The contemporary phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty characterized his thinking as a philosophy of the lived body or the body subject. Key to his analysis was the notion of embodiment, which draws a distinction from the objective body, which is regarded solely as a physiological entity, and the phenomenal body, which is not just any body, or simp
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In contemporary speak the soma is often referred to as the living body in its wholeness; somatics, then, is the art and science of the soma.
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Somatic Coaching is also distinct from mind-body-spirit coaching in that it doesn’t see these three domains as separate but the human form as the unified space in which humans act, perceive, think, feel, sense, express emotions and moods, and live their spiritual longing. In this interpretation the body is the energetic space where we build trust a
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Stepping into our body can quickly reveal a deeply ingrained fear of uncertainty, the resistance to letting go to something larger than our self.
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Choice follows awareness. The more aware we are, the more choice we have.
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Somatic practices allow insights to become muscular commitments to action. A practice is a conscious choice we make so our behavior and actions becomes part of who we are. Underlying the practice is a narrative we have about why we’re committing to this practice. In other words if someone asked us why we’re committed to a certain practice we would
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Over the course of his work Geoffrey began to see that the question wasn’t “why” is something the way it is, but “how” is it the way it is? When we see how something is constructed we can see what it has served, but more importantly we can see how to dismantle it if we so choose. The how perspective gave him much more power in observing himself and
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When our energetic pattern is expressed over time it becomes a character trait, a fundamental aspect of our personality, a visible way of being in the world. As the rhythm of our energy shapes us an identity is formed that opens and closes possibilities.
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