When we look at transformation from an embodied approach, we say: A person has transformed when their ways of being, acting, and relating are aligned with what they most care about—even under the same old pressures.

When we are discovering our resilience and then cultivating it, we want to do this with all of ourselves—thinking, emotions, sensations, actions, and how we relate.

Embodied healing means we can make choices based on what we care about, rather than react from survival strategies, even under the pressures of living, loving, and social justice work.

The word somatics comes from the Greek root soma, which means “the living organism in its wholeness.”

We need to learn both to trust ourselves and callings deeply, and to educate ourselves to see the social conditioning that may be built into our desires and wants. Whom and what do our longings serve? Whom might they be impacting in a negative way?

FMS took hold, got media coverage, and started reversing delayed discovery laws, again silencing the wave of collective awareness.

Somatic awareness involves learning to both pay attention to, and live inside of, our sensations and aliveness.

Once the notion of an inner animating principle was dismissed, a vigorous, reductionist quantification of the material world began.

We are electrical systems. Electrical systems need a ground. I’ll often think of the pelvis and lower body this way, as our ground for aliveness and energy. The more we can live inside of the pelvis and lower body, the legs and feet, the more experiences, vision, and energy we can ground. When these lower parts of ourselves are accessible, we can d