Embodiment Coaching & Classes
Are you in your body? Are you conscious of it, and its workings, and its condition? Do you know what it needs to be healthy? Do you know how to take care of it when something hurts?Are you enjoying your animal self: playing, having fun, listening to your body's needs for basic rest, hydration, nutrition, and movement. Alive, vital, aware, grounded, expanded.
Being in the body comes naturally to us: it's what we're born to be: conscioiusness in a body. But it's also natural that when we experience pain, we withdraw our conciousness from that area as a protective measure: it hurts a lot, an I don't want to deal with that right now. So we literally remove our awareness from that area. Our scraped knee. Or our bruised elbow. Perhaps our banged head, or our broken heart. It's natural, it's a form of protection in a physical world that is often less than perfectly welcoming. Life deals us blows, and sometimes they hurt too much for us to deal with, and so we put them away. The memories; the feelings. All these parts continue to function: the knee still walks, the elbow bends; or it doesn't (and that's something else). But there's a memory there of pain, and we don't wan to feel that pain. But we must.
Feeling one's inner pain -- allowing one's self the gift of letting go and just feeling what's there. Letting yourself sense into what's happening in the area. Physically, what's happening with the bones: are they relaxed, and in a comfortable position. Is the tissue connecting close to your bones relaxed? Just feel into the space where the tissue connects to the bones, and ask yourself, "what would half the effort be?" And feel the answer in your body. Breathe. Be with it. And again ask yourself, "what would half the effort be?" of holding on to this area, or anywhere else in your body.
Breathing into pain is the way to be with it. First, ground and open. Feel the roots of you merging with the soil of the planet, like the roots of af a huge, healthy tree. Feel the roots grow into your trunk, and feel the energy of earth and wood spreading up into branches and leaves open and expanded into everything. Grounded and open.
And now get in touch with the part of you that doesn't change. The part of you that has been there from the beginning of your life; the part of you that is aware of everything going on around and within you. The part of you that wintness ithe input of your body's senses -- and the input of your mind. Just, consciousness. That which is always and ever aware. Isness. Being. The Tao. The Holy Spirit. That thing we all know and have a name for -- even if the names we use sound different to one another.
Consciousness is what unites us, because at the deepest root, it is what we are. So the purpose of this class, and of this coaching, is to help you have more consiociusnesss in and of your body -- and better skills at taking care of it. If you want to know more specifically the kinds of things we'll be doing (dancing, yoga, shaking & jiggling, calisthenics, self massage, partner massage, guided visualizations, meditation. Embodiment: consciousness in the body.
Supressed memories come to us in surprising fashion, and can leave us indelibly changed.
Being in the body comes naturally to us: it's what we're born to be: conscioiusness in a body. But it's also natural that when we experience pain, we withdraw our conciousness from that area as a protective measure: it hurts a lot, an I don't want to deal with that right now. So we literally remove our awareness from that area. Our scraped knee. Or our bruised elbow. Perhaps our banged head, or our broken heart. It's natural, it's a form of protection in a physical world that is often less than perfectly welcoming. Life deals us blows, and sometimes they hurt too much for us to deal with, and so we put them away. The memories; the feelings. All these parts continue to function: the knee still walks, the elbow bends; or it doesn't (and that's something else). But there's a memory there of pain, and we don't wan to feel that pain. But we must.
Feeling one's inner pain -- allowing one's self the gift of letting go and just feeling what's there. Letting yourself sense into what's happening in the area. Physically, what's happening with the bones: are they relaxed, and in a comfortable position. Is the tissue connecting close to your bones relaxed? Just feel into the space where the tissue connects to the bones, and ask yourself, "what would half the effort be?" And feel the answer in your body. Breathe. Be with it. And again ask yourself, "what would half the effort be?" of holding on to this area, or anywhere else in your body.
Breathing into pain is the way to be with it. First, ground and open. Feel the roots of you merging with the soil of the planet, like the roots of af a huge, healthy tree. Feel the roots grow into your trunk, and feel the energy of earth and wood spreading up into branches and leaves open and expanded into everything. Grounded and open.
And now get in touch with the part of you that doesn't change. The part of you that has been there from the beginning of your life; the part of you that is aware of everything going on around and within you. The part of you that wintness ithe input of your body's senses -- and the input of your mind. Just, consciousness. That which is always and ever aware. Isness. Being. The Tao. The Holy Spirit. That thing we all know and have a name for -- even if the names we use sound different to one another.
Consciousness is what unites us, because at the deepest root, it is what we are. So the purpose of this class, and of this coaching, is to help you have more consiociusnesss in and of your body -- and better skills at taking care of it. If you want to know more specifically the kinds of things we'll be doing (dancing, yoga, shaking & jiggling, calisthenics, self massage, partner massage, guided visualizations, meditation. Embodiment: consciousness in the body.
Supressed memories come to us in surprising fashion, and can leave us indelibly changed.