Embodied Words
Here, you will find inspiration, meditations, poetry, music, musings, articles and up-to-date research, relating to embodiment & somatic movement, to accompany you on your own journey of self-discovery.
Mother’s Love
I called and you came but my face I hid afraid of what you might see my love, my fear the tears of pain at forgetting. As a mother her child you undressed me back to wild roots and bones the stones...
An Chailleach ag damhsa sa Ghaoth
(The crone dancing in the wind) And now she wears her evening gownof orange, brown and goldoh, how the light infuses herwith beauty of ages old. Not for her the brazen lightof Summer's loud...
Embodied Soul – A Poem
I am not your building to burn A scaffold of bones to lay bare A collection of muscles to toil and turn Take you from here to there. I am your Temple, glorious, whole, Made from the clay of the...
What is Somatic Movement?
Somatic Movement provides a perfect vehicle for the observation of long-standing patterns. ‘Soma’ is the Greek word for body and so, the word ‘Somatic’ refers to the body. Starting with the...
What is Embodied Soul?
Embodied Soul is a journey back to wholeness and health through self-discovery. The vessel for the voyage is the physical body, from which, the realms of mind, emotion and spirit can be explored....
Time to Change: Whispers from the Goddess
She’s crashing in my ears againbleeding onto the shorewho thought of her as quiet and peaceshould think that way no morewere they to hear her antics nowin the wildness of her roar.In gusts and...
Meditation on a Stick
The moment defined in a single stickall that exists, contained in this one thingthat is no thing really, in a world of skewed values. Separate from its treehow could it be anything otherthan a...
Another Day In Paradise
Love finds me here at the beach near paradisewhere the waves teach me to breathe in and out. Silence finds me here on the sand near the shore where the grains...
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