FIELD NOTES FROM THE BODY
For my latest reflections on embodiment and somatic practice, visit Field Notes from the Body on Substack. You can subscribe for free and receive the monthly offering, or pay a monthly or annual subscription for follow up material, access to my personal resources, and guided practices. Or, take a look at some evergreen offerings below.
Inside Out: moving from the organs.
Experiential, or embodied, anatomy is a somatic practice that asks us to gather information about our body systems and structures from our own direct experience. Compared to conventional methods of learning anatomy that rely on things like images, models, and dissection material, embodied anatomy asks us to investigate our anatomy as we ourselves experience it.
Developmental Movement: why reliving your baby-moves matters.
Infant developmental movement refers to a series of movement milestones that many of us passed through during the first year or so of our life, such as lifting our head from the floor, reaching for objects, finding ways to roll over, and managing gravity as we come to sitting, crawling and toddling. It is this process that also creates the waves of our spine and establishes the relationship of our limbs to our centre.
Somatic Practices and Yoga: mapping the bodymind.
When we situate our learning in our first-person experience rather than in the perspective of an external gaze or an internalised objective viewpoint, we enhance our understanding not only of our body, but of the many layers of our being..
Experiential Anatomy - what is it?
Experiential, or embodied, anatomy is a somatic practice that asks us to gather information about our body systems and structures from our own direct experience. Compared to conventional methods of learning anatomy that rely on things like images, models, and dissection material, embodied anatomy asks us to investigate our anatomy as we ourselves experience it.