Embodiment

Somatic practices relate to the body by attuning to and tracking the “just noticeable difference” (Dunlea) in our experience of ourselves.

The simple act of attunement—of offering our curiosity—to the most subtle of sensations in the body creates space for movement, for newness.

Each time we attune to our experience of our bodies, we tap into the part of our psyche that is capable “transforming events into experiences.” (Hillman)

Each pause, each gentle inquiry of awareness, each budding curiosity about our own matter weaves a thread in a growing tapestry of secure attachment to the innate wisdom of our own matter.

As we gently work with our experience of our own bodies, we realize that there is something *much* deeper than our waking consciousness that is aware of us, that is, in fact, holding us in its awareness.

To attune to body is to experience the reality that we exist in the mind of matter. It sees you, and is containing your lived experience. “The body keeps the score.” (Van der Kelk)

You experience something of secure attachment. You know you exist in the mind of body, that “something knows you better than you know youself.” (Hollis) And part of that something is the wisdom of soma, of matter, mater, mother.