Emotional Qualities are related to mood. The way we move informs the way we think and feel. Conversely, how we activate our energetic output, is often governed by our mood. ...
My teacher Peter Madden was fond of saying “Awareness is the first step to change.” He also pointed out, only we can make the connections for the change to occur. ...
Most of us in this confused and brutal world try to carve out a private life of our own, a life in which we can be happy and peaceful and ...
“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.” Lao Tzu (c.604 – 531 B.C.) In the somatic explorations I do ...
In my latest explorations with balls, I have been combining elements of Bartenieff Fundamentals™ with elements of Body Mind Centering ℠. I use ideokinesis to make connections to them and ...
In my last few articles on being Somatic, I have been sharing how our sensations relate to and increase bodily awareness. We have looked at weight flow as a way ...
Somatic work is a way of connecting on a deep internal level to understand and know ourselves from a sensing place. In the last two newsletters we explored the proprioceptive ...
Embodying Movement: 3 Explorations of Weight Flow “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” Kahlil Gibran In ...
One of the most frequent questions I receive is “What is Somatics?” So here is my explanation. The Western world’s non-medical qualitative exploration of the relationship between body and mind ...
Five ways to awaken your Kidney Consciousness so you can walk, run, balance, and climb stairs, with deep vitality and fluid ease. . . . our external skeletal-muscular system guides ...