BODY LAB: Your Embodiment Leads to Self Awareness (Full Class)

from the body lab archives, original class 9/26/21

Hello friends ~ How is your body doing today? Can you pause and really check please?

Ok, wanna start now? Bring your attention to breath and softening your jaw, chest and butt  before you start this class. Close your eyes and sigh out. Feel for space?

In this class I give you a way to melt your back armor, we do some esoteric Qi Gong yin building practices to support us for Fall, how to ground from our feet and pelvis to support us for while we running, performing etc. I also casually about talk products I like but I'm not necessarily suggesting them as I'm not a fan of wasting money on things you won't use but students do often ask me what I use other than Tune Up Balls for self care.  So, I do introduce a few but the real point of me mentioning self care products was to make one point and that is this:

BRING YOUR INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING

I am kinda shouting this. haha. With enthusiasm not anger. :)

You have endlessly been hearing me mention mindful movement, conscious embodiment, follow pleasure, get spacious internally, Wuji, trust your self resourced sensations to guide you, etc...

These are not new age concepts, we are wired to do this. 

Here is wikipedia's explanation for those who like to unpack everything as I do:

Interoception is contemporarily defined as the sense of the internal state of the body.[1] This can be both conscious and non-conscious. It encompasses the brain's process of integrating signals relayed from the body into specific subregions—like the brainstem, thalamus, insula, somatosensory, and anterior cingulate cortex—allowing for a nuanced representation of the physiological state of the body.[2][3] This is important for maintaining homeostatic conditions[4] in the body and, potentially, facilitating self-awareness.[5]

Our body is so cool isn't it?

Be well,

Rie

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