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What is Somatic Meditation?
Our two-way meditation, then, is truly radical psychotherapy - psychotherapy so deep that overt and particular results may be very slow indeed to surface. Nevertheless, when sufficiently persisted in, it is sure to yield - more as a bonus than an expected reward - quite specific improvements in that “outer” scene, in the problem-ridden realm of our
... See moreDouglas Harding • On Having No Head
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Meditation Practice
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comMeditation is sitting silent and motionless. Meditation is everything that happens in your consciousness while you’re sitting silent and motionless. Meditation is creating a witness inside you who monitors the whirlwind of thoughts without being swept away by them. Meditation is seeing things as they are. Meditation is detaching from what you call
... See moreEmmanuel Carrère • Yoga: From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY
Broadly, somatics is a field of study and practice concerned with holistic body-centered approaches to assist people in experiencing and transforming the self through awareness relative to the living world, the environment, and others.
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
Somatic holiday grounding hack:
As family triggers arise, or when you anticipate them coming, drop your awareness into your back body (a core Hakomi practice). Feel your upper back meeting the chair, the sensations of fabric against your midsection, your lower back and sit bones rooted in your seat. Rest here. Notice the endless space behind you.
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As family triggers arise, or when you anticipate them coming, drop your awareness into your back body (a core Hakomi practice). Feel your upper back meeting the chair, the sensations of fabric against your midsection, your lower back and sit bones rooted in your seat. Rest here. Notice the endless space behind you.
The... See more