somatics & embodiment

As if your life depends on it, because in a way it does:

Take walks through the woods and bathe in sunlight. Watch the moon change phases and listen for shifts in the wind. FEEL your own patterns and how they interact with everything around you. Shake. Roll. Dance. Fight. Fuck.

(For the love of God.)

I need to have a lot more respect for non-linear processes. If I think my problem is in the head, I’m going to work with the head, because that’s the linear, logical way to approach it. But it’s not the way that worked. I fixed my head by diving into my body.

As I spend more time practicing with the energy body, I’ve come to primally trust it as the compass of my deepest intuition and discernment, uncovering the path by following resonance . It allows me to be brave . By trusting in my body’s innate capacity for wisdom and well-being, it stretches my courage to intensify my compassion , building my stre... See more

the most fruitful exercise seems to be when you’re able to rest your awareness in your torso (especially the gut and the heart) and simply stay there. Be with the gut. Be with the heart. Allow whatever wants to happen to happen.

this feels connected to why I prefer sensory- and qualia-based healthcare approaches. like, people """"""could""""" spend hundreds of hours learning how to review (often shoddy) academic papers or they could learn to detect the felt sense of illness & remedy

Whether we are aware of it or not, we step into any situation tuned in to some mood, a tone or frequency . When I act from contraction in my body – a clenched heart or a dense heaviness in my belly – I am often caught up in webs of stories (“I am scared, I feel resentful”) that limit the arena of my choice-making. Harmonizing the energy body is to ... See more

Seishin, a teacher at Willow, describes how the growing capacity to access the ever-present abundance and fulfillment in our own bodies means that it becomes easier to let go of what is harmful to us and the planet . We rely less on the numbing and addictive pleasures of late Capitalist society – a beef burger, carbon-intensive vacation travel – th... See more

it really is possible to massively reduce psychological/emotional suffering a.k.a what your interiority feels like all day long it’s not twitter hype, there are many ways to get to it, and it’s worth endlessly talking about so everyone who wants emotional wellbeing encounters it