What is Somatic Meditation?

We all come to practice with questions, perhaps the most basic of which is “Why am I suffering?” We also come to practice with our private answers to that question, answers that involve blaming ourselves or others, or which catch us in endless cycles of hope and disappointment. These answers lie buried within our minds as grim unconscious beliefs,

“What is Somatics?,” Generative Somatics, accessed July 23, 2018, http://www.generativesomatics.org/content/what-somatics.

Deepening meditation and the physiological changes that accompany it require a body that works beautifully at all times. We must do what we can to make the body a good ally. We must give it what it needs: adequate sleep every night, wholesome, nourishing food in reasonable quantities, and lots of vigorous movement.

The practices that enable you to be present are practices that bring you back to the body and to what is felt through it.