We assume that all somatic practices deepen our awareness and experience of the body. This isn’t so. There are ways to remember and ways to forget who we are.
Embodied inquiry requires intention and desire and is often made significant by pain or difficulty.
I have studied with teachers who understood the body to be composed of both gross and subtle sensation. I have also been instructed to push and harden in pursuit of structural articulation.
Without the integration of breath — dynamic and responsive expansion and contraction — there can be little somatic intelligence.
Exciting is the possibility, for example, that there is more to yoga than the physical poses commonly taught in the West today. These spiritual and philosophical elements are integral to our understanding of the transformative qualities of embodiment.
These principles inform and deepen our capacity for change. They originate in the feeling-knowing body and must be experienced holistically from the inside out.