SOMATIC & ENERGY WORK

Not everything we feel begins with a thought.

Sometimes the body notices before the mind understands.

The Vigyan Bhairava Tantra describes 112 ways of entering meditation through breath, sound, sensation, attention, space and ordinary moments of life.

BEYOND THE STORY

The body is part of the conversation.

We often try to understand what is happening by thinking about it.

There may simply be tightness in the chest, heaviness, restlessness, warmth, a change in the breath, or a feeling that is difficult to name.

Rather than immediately trying to explain a sensation, we can notice it.

Where do you feel it? What happens when you stay with it? Does it move, change or remain the same?

Sometimes staying with the body brings us closer to an emotion, memory or belief. Sometimes it doesn’t.

We don’t need to assume that every sensation has a hidden meaning or that the body is giving us an answer.

We notice before we interpret.

WHAT WE MIGHT NOTICE

We don't have to know what an experience means before we become curious about it.

Tightness, warmth, heaviness, tingling or something difficult to name.

Where it moves freely. Where it becomes shallow. Where it changes.

An impulse to shift, stretch, turn away, come closer or become still.

What appears when we stay with an experience without immediately explaining it.

A subtler sense of expansion, contraction, aliveness or stillness that we may notice.

The body doesn't have to give us an answer.

A PERSONAL NOTE

For a long time, like many people, I thought understanding something meant being able to explain it.

But the body often seems to work at a different pace.

I might notice a tightening, a change in my breath, an urge to move, or simply a sense that something has shifted before I have any words for it.

What I have learned through my own practice, and through sitting with others, is not to rush in and decide what that sensation means.

Sometimes a story emerges. Sometimes an emotion appears. Sometimes there is simply a sensation that changes when we give it our attention.

I find there is something valuable in allowing that uncertainty.

We can listen to the body without asking it to prove anything.

Not everything needs to become a story.

YOU CAN BEGIN HERE.

You can come with a question, a feeling, a pattern you keep meeting or simply with the sense that something needs attention.