The practice of radical and reverent embodiment

"Radical embodiment" means that we will not just talk about the body; we will allow ourselves to go into the unknown -- into movement, into an array, a spray of expressions, feelings, breathing that span the range from energetic to bored, movement from slow to super fast, no thinking to a precisely detailed thinking.

"Reverence" means that I do not hold the sessions as if they were games to play. I hold them in the deep spirit of believing that knowledge rises up through our cells through our body and expresses itself through all cells, all movements, all breath, all meditations and all thoughts.

Christine ColeAugust 16, 2020Comment

Solving through movement

Wow! Even as somatic explorers we tend to avoid really really allowing our body to engage and grapple with an issue to eventually solve it. The body moving process is different than the planning mind. It has a different rhythm and engagement -- it's rough and tumbly or scribbly; it has pauses and accelerations; multiple attempts and diversions -- maybe a nap! -- it’s honest, good effort.

I'm just coming out of an exhilarating Muscle module. I've been teaching BMC and SomaticBODY training for the last 25 years. Muscles are at the core of movement; and most of the brain developed to refine movement and thus our ability to act in the world. As I'm teaching and watching the students grapple with developmental movement and the awesome challenges of embodiment, well: I got it. I got it again and so fully what it means to be alive in motion.

Christine ColeMarch 12, 2020Muscles Comment

Why Somatics are a powerful tool for community building

Not only can we discover aliveness in our own tensegrity, our inner guiding strength, we can also learn how to connect into the web of community.

Tuning into our ligaments brings us into inner balance & to the aliveness of our constantly moving and interrelating architecture

Our vocal cords are ligaments. Just as they create sound - all of our ligaments together tune and act as a radio receiver and sender of vibrations in relation to our environment, nature, objects and people. Take a moment to meditate in this RESONANCE.