Learn to flourish in your body by connecting to the resources that already exist in and around you. Being embodied means learning to sense, tolerate and move with all that we feel. We are capable of feeling so much!!! Feelings include body sensations, emotions, thoughts, life energy, and our responses in relationship. Learning to move mindfully with all that can expand your capacity to meet the complexities of modern life.
Embodied Movement is a practice that nurtures freedom, connection, and creative self-expression at the most fundamental level.
People who are embodied are just like the rest of us - with more of our natural strengths and fewer of our limitations. They are confident, insightful, capable of intimacy and community. They remind us that the world can be a magical place, and that people in motion are capable of incredible things.
Are you curious about your embodied capacity?
In life, each day can inundate us with information, responsibilities, and crises. It is easy to get overwhelmed or feel out of balance.
We can get lost in coping. We may get tense, space out, overeat, medicate, and double down on work to catch up.
I have learned to work with and through these things and many others - to find a larger resourced perspective. Embodiment practices have taught me how to tolerate and enjoy being myself and have given me countless transcendent, soulful and ordinary "ah-ha" experiences.
I can support you.
There is a Lojong slogan in the teachings of Buddhism that one of my favorite teachers, Pema Chödrön, often talks about:
Train in the Three Difficulties
These three steps are closely related to this wisdom.
Are you feeling numb? Flat ?
Are you not feeling anything at all?
Are you longing for more life energy?
Are you wanting to feel more inspired?
PAUSE
Take 3 Deep Breaths
Break the habit of disembodiment by doing something, anything physical.
Make a promise to yourself to increase your capacity for embodied awareness, movement and feeling.
Sign Up for a Program. . .Perhaps?
Keep following your body sensations. What makes you feel more alive? More connected?
Keep orienting and re-orienting yourself in that direction.
Make Embodiment Practices an Everyday Commitment
After decades of work in the field, I joined with a group of highly experienced and like-minded professionals and teachers to co-found Open Floor International.
I am proud to call Open Floor and its community of teachers and volunteers, my working home.
Open Floor International is a global nonprofit organization that supports people who are committed to using embodied movement and dance to foster more authentic, emotionally intelligent, and resilient individuals and communities.
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I acknowledge the indigenous Esselen Tribe of Big Sur as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which my family lives today.
I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
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