How to know if you’re cut off from your body
Even as embodiment professional, I find myself losing touch with my body regularly. Hardly surprising really given the world we live in – so I should probably cut myself some slack. What I do find helpful is noting certain things that indicate it’s time to log off, get my yoga mat out, or just slow […]
The Stupidest Things Smart People Often Do
think being cognitively smart is what counts not rest over-analyse have good ideas, but don’t take action ruin relationships by being right waste time on Facebook, being clever make lists ?
A bodymind education
I can imagine a world where bodymind education is a normal part of growing up; where embodied systems such as yoga, martial arts, meditation, trauma release etc are taught as standard in schools, and everyone has access to the benefits of them; where everyone – not just an elite who can decode the jargon and […]
The 10 laws of being a body
1. Context Our current situation, relationships, culture, disposition and the environment are all embodied. We are layered adaptations to context and history. 2. Comfort The body reveals what’s familiar. We feel “at home” in what we have practised, and it feels easy. 3. Joy Delight reveals what’s needed or longed for. 4. Holography The body […]
Warning: embodiment geek post
It’s obvious to most of us that we empathise with other people and can “catch” their moods. If you’ve ever, say, sat next to that angry guy on the train or been infected by the joy of children, you know that. This (mirror neurone activated?) effect is a part of how teaching yoga (or whatever) […]
The simplest embodiment technique
Notice how you’re being, then choose how to be.
Sometimes when I come back to my body and breath, I feel so sad.
Sometimes when I come back to my body and breath, I feel so sad. I whisper, “I’ve missed you darling. I’m so sorry to ignore you. Thank you so much for still being here, my lover. I’ll never abandon you again.” And we embrace and it’s beautiful and she holds and heals me like no […]
As I travel home from Moscow…
Many of us have felt like we don’t matter. That we’re not wanted. That we don’t have a right to even exist. That we have no safe home. Even with my confidence and bravado this is true for me at times, for students with abuse histories and difficult personal backgrounds it’s usually true, and it’s […]
Keep it simple in 2018
Let’s keep it simple. Top tips for coming home to the body in 2018: Spend ten minutes each morning sitting still noticing your breath Do any kind of yoga a couple of times a week Eat when you’re hungry and rest when you’re tired (I know this one might sound simple but it’s profound) Spend […]
We are not made of flesh and bone
We are not made of flesh and bone; we are made of love and loss. The body is not meat; it is an autobiography. The pieces of the body are pieces of the soul – those that have touched us and those who have hurt us, places we have been and people we have cared […]