For three years, we’ve been meeting once a month, generally the first Saturday at 11-12:30 Mountain Time. Now we are regrouping and looking at the schedule. To hear about scheduling, join our mailing list!
Embodiment practice is a way to access our innate well-being. You can do it right now. Pause. Feel your breath. Open to your breath. Notice any tension in your body. Open to your body. Give your breath and your body permission to do what they want to do right now.
After that, check in, do you feel a little bit better?
If you want to do more, join us for the embodiment gathering soon!
We feel our bodies and practice opening to body-centered awareness. From there we open our hearts and let that energy go out and connect to the world, the universe, and universal consciousness. We are the universe. We are not separate from the universe in any way.
Then we share with those that are present in the gathering. Human connection is so essential right now. Please consider joining us. All are welcome!
Embodied Spirituality
Embodied Spirituality is a growing body of work that marries embodiment and spirituality. Many approaches to yoga, meditation, contemplation, nature-based spirituality, and even aspects of all the major religions can be included in embodied spirituality.
For most of my career I focused primarily on the body and psychology, developing Body-Mind Psychotherapy. In my private life, I focused on meditation and spirituality. Finally with my book, Heart Open, Body Awake, I came out of the spiritual closet.
Embodiment includes the full spectrum our beings: physicality, emotions, society, politics and spirituality. How do we go through the body to spiritual connection? Embodiment begins with respect—respect for our physical experience which includes emotionality and rationality. Respect naturally leads to connection to nature. In embodied spirituality we see the continuity between the earth and all its life forms, humans and the whole universe in its physical and spiritual dimensions.
So much of organized religion developed around controlling and subduing our bodies and our emotions to grow spiritually. Embodied spirituality embraces the awakened body, emotional awareness, relationship, sexuality, family life, and political activism.
Many approaches to embodied spirituality emphasize the heart. The heart is the gateway to so much of our spiritual potential. In our approach, as explicated in Susan’s new book, Heart Open, Body Awake: The Four Steps of Embodied Spirituality, the spiritual heart and the actual physical heart are recognized as an inseparable unity. In fact, the book explores how all of experiential anatomy can be an essential part of the spiritual path.
Embodied Spirituality emphasizes the individuality of each of our paths. It is an approach that supports you rather than dictates particular forms or beliefs. You can use your study of embodied spirituality to bring more body, emotion, nature, and relationship to your personal spiritual path.
Embodied Spirituality Curriculum
- Embodiment Practice is a simple awareness, movement practice that can be done in a group or on your own. You can learn this through the Embodiment Everywhere! video series.
- Embodied Meditation is a body-centered approach to meditation that can be integrated into your established practice or practiced on its own.
- Heart Pulsation Meditation as delineated in Heart Open, Body Awake.
- Big Heart/Small Heart
- Interaction Cycle
- Circular Attunement
- Dynamic Compassion
- Full Awareness
and more . . .
Embodied Spirituality Video Offerings available now:
- Embodiment Everywhere!
- Crown of Awareness – Recorded Retreat/Practice Support
- Embodied Spirituality Recordings People are using these over and over again as guided meditation supports.
