The body is our portal to the present moment. The body only exists in the here-and-now. Any time our thoughts fly back into the past or forward into the future, we leave the body’s sensate experience of the world. We become dis-embodied.

Sages teach that if we want to recover our deepest vitality - if we want to truly shine - we need to recover our sense of being alive in our bodies in the here-and-now. We need to return to the intelligence and wakefulness that pulses through every cell within. We can’t just think our way into feelings of wholeness and wellbeing.

And so in this gentle movement practice - as in all of our explorations - we use the body as our home base. We return to our senses, to experiencing the world through bone, muscle, breath, sound, sight, skin. We remember how to feel our way into life, in addition to thinking our way through. Not only does this cultivate a quality of wakefulness, but also it brings us back to the deep ease of wholeness and balance. We return home, both in the body and in the greater world.

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