Just as the wetlands lie between land and sea, so too our self perception and body meet in the fluidity of our imagination.

Somatic psychology is a rich expression of the continuum between body and mind or body and perception. From this perspective, the body is the ground of our experience and psychology becomes the interpretation of our felt sense. There’d be no psychology without a body.

“We can change our experience by having support for our felt sense and the ability to make new choices. If there’s one thing many of us can agree on, it’s that we could all develop greater resilience. To do that we have to become aware of the interpretations of life that currently inform us. And know that with awareness, mindfulness, and gentleness, we can choose again.”

Psychologist Daniel Goleman suggests that 90% of our emotional communication is non verbal. This for me begs the questions: “If most of my emotional communication is non verbal, then where does it live in me?

Not too long ago I received a call that a friend’s spine was collapsing from advanced osteoporosis.

I arrived at the hospital the next day, when she and her doctor were consulting on a procedure that injects cement into the vertebrae, to rebuild the structure.

“That’s not normal….do you do yoga or something?!”

Once, while at a sporting goods store looking at a floor to ceiling wall of shoe inserts, I squatted down to get out of the way of others and get a better look at the merchandise.

“Oh! Is there something inside my body I should be paying attention to?!”

Someone asked me that in a movement class once. Their question was funny and honest.

In “The Psychophysiology of Movement: The Lost Art of Sensing the Body” Dr. Alan Fogel begins:

“Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They have forgotten the secret knowledge of their body, their senses, their dreams.” (Lame Deer & Erdoes, 1972, p. 157)