Hey , someone asked me this question last week: “What is this embodiment really? What does it really mean to embody something“?
And so I went into the rabbit hole 🐇 on a quest through the mytho-somatic lands of the Bodyverse. Gathering insight and listening through stones and clouds… Wanna come with me?…
But first…
This is where we pause…
This is where I invite you to widen and dissolve into a whole-body-exhale and allow for your fluid body to spiral down and be taken by your ever-present loving friend – gravity -… dissolve and remember all that was dismembered…
There is just you, this moment, and this space.
Your Body.
The Body through which all sense impressions of Life pass and all experiences filter and pattern themselves out.
One enters the Bodyverse not to escape things. One enters to see things exactly as they are.
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As usual, my invitation for you, as you read this, is to feel for any recognition on the Body-level, instead of vigorous mental sense-making.
Here, in the Bodyverse…
Embodiment is not about sitting at home feeling comfortable in your Body.
Embodiment is not about dancing beautifully and gracefully.
Embodiment is not about feeling good all the time.
Embodiment is about having a deeply felt internal somatic experience that is in-tune with the greater somatic cycles of Nature itself.
Embodiment is about having a somatic experience of polyrhythmic harmony. The puls of vital forces. The tidal motion of the Breath of Life. The dynamic stillness below.
Embodiment is about cultivating Presence that raises the permission level in the room without you having to say a word.
Embodiment is Shapeshifting.
Our Bodies learn through rhythmic repetition, through the time it takes to weave information through our tissues. Things get embedded in the Bodies through shapeshifting. We learn by becoming the World around us. By shifting our shape.
This is embodiment – the actual somatic process of becoming the thing we want to know. Without loosing the sense of Self. This is true Somatics. Wizardry…
Shapeshifting is fundamental to our biology.
We shapeshift in the womb.
We shapeshift depending on our roles throughout the day.
We shapeshift with every breath.
Yes, every breath is a shapeshifter.
The key to connecting to the World is unlocking the shapeshifting potentiality in the Body.
In order to know we awaken sense faculties.
In order to know we must attune and feel.
Breathe, shapeshifter.
Sense, shapeshifter.
Through your Body.
There is just you, this moment, and this space.
Your Body.
To be continued…. On shapeshifting and trauma.
