What is Somatic Meditation?

Or: Will this form of exercise make me strong? Instead, we need to ask: How much somatic awareness can I maintain in any given position, movement, or activity? What sensory cues signal present space and time?

Let go of everything but your sense of you in your body. Find neutrality.

From a somatic point of view living any distance from our bodies is dodgy and the consequences harmful, even grave. Now we can scientifically ground, through technological advances in the emerging field of neuroscience, that distancing ourselves from our body places not only our physical health at risk, but our emotional health as well. Furthermore

Sensitive to the whole body In contrast to a concentration of the attention on a small area, another way of working is to focus primarily on the wider field of feeling of the whole body – the felt sense, the ‘texture’, ‘tone’, vibration, and energy of the whole space of the body – and to fill that space with an aliveness of awareness, of presence,