I grew up with an emphasis on academic study and used logical rational thinking to navigate my way through life’s ups and downs. These tools were ineffective in dealing with my worries and stress. Everything I couldn’t solve spiralled round in my head with no clarity. My body seemed to become a mesh of knots and headaches that shut me down with fatigue for days.
A one-day workshop with Mark Walsh, founder of The Embodiment Conference, showed me one vital missing link and I was caught: I remembered that I am a body and I value the pleasure I get from movement and awareness. I committed to the Embodied Facilitator Course. I learned awareness and choice, to open, relax, to be whole and integrate my mind and thoughts with my body, emotions and spirit.
I learned to come into relationship with all that lives in me and with the world. I am reminded that my capacity for presence in everyday challenges is enriched by daily practice. Has your cultural learning drawn your attention more towards the head?
It’s the perfect opportunity to come home to your body.
I’m speaking about ‘Transforming trauma history in the present via Embodied Nonviolent Communication into individual and collective grieving, softening and unifying‘.
“I cannot trace my origins back more than two generations, since records don’t exist for my enslaved relatives and their prior connections in India and Africa will remain a mystery. My curiosity about my own trauma history and my despair about acts of racial antagonism, of all confrontation using anger to harm other people, draw me to sew a tapestry of hope via Embodied Nonviolent Communication.”
Could we ripple compassion through people we have contact with, collectively grieve for all our losses and nurture ourselves collectively with love for all our needs?
