WHAT IS YOUR BODY’S LIVED EXPERIENCE?
Embodiment.
Meaning, what postures or positions are you assuming on a daily basis? Are you sitting at a desk for 6-8 hours a day? Are you lifting heavy boxes or people (hey, hey, mamas, dancers, cheerleaders, and the like)? Do you spend an hour commuting to work in heavy traffic? Have a job that requires you to stay hyper-alter to keep you safe?
It's not often we think about the affect our day-to-day activities, or even our state of being, has on our bodies. Most of our efforts in life, as we know it, are outward projecting. It's only in the past few decades that we've returned to the wisdom of the body to observe, learn, grow, and find homeostasis.
As a physical therapist, this was the piece of the puzzle that truly changed my client's experience of efficient or inefficient function in their bodies. So I created a program focused around THIS integral aspect of healing and health called embodiment. THIS is where we start —and this is where we will return over and over.
Welcome to the Body School, I'm so happy you're here!
In the above example, we note that the body’s experience with these “habits” are pain-producing. However, looking closely you see pain is a byproduct of a dysfunctional loop —a response to a system under duress. Historically, therapists focused their interventions on the painful site (CIRCLES), going so far as to attempt to strengthen an inflamed, repeatedly stress and disadvantage muscle. Pain is a call to action, not a course to follow.
Within a functional approach, Functional Manual Therapy® (TRIANGLES), we greet pain with curiosity rather than fear and cast our efforts wide looking for dysfunction and inefficiency in the system as a whole.
As a system, every part of our being, is in a natural state of motion. Our bodies, our cells, are in continuous regrowth and genesis. We now recognize that we cannot go years, months, weeks or even days without checking in on our bodies.
Embodiment is integral in maintaining this connection with our bodies —staying present, creating a safe space to explore the body and these graded shifts evolve within ourselves.
At the Body School, we use the tools of breath and movement to create regular and meaningful experiences of embodiment, repeatedly bringing the experience inward, back to the body. From an intention of integration, we’ll guide your body back to efficient function and teach you how to maintain a vibrant and healthy system.
Together we will change the relationship you have with your body. Are you ready?