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All Senses, Touch and Breath

We are sentient beings living in a sentient world.

Exploring the senses
Embodied awareness can be cultivated through practice. Beyond mindfulness, we explore all of our senses as playful discovery and allow for our experience of life to magnify itself through our bodies. This progressively opens our awareness to the flow of aliveness and intimacy within us and everything we are in contact with. The practice is simple, yet inspires creativity for the ways in which we sense, both inside and out, physical and non-physical. With increased embodied awareness we are able to:
o Cultivate connection to our inner ‘knowing’ and self trust
o Hone inner intimacy
o Live more in the flow of life and aliveness within us as well as our environment
o Experience more presence
o Experience more clear, authentic communication with others
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The foundation of all relationship is touch.

Healthy touch
It is an essential key to connection, intimacy and vulnerability. To me it is the basis for how we move in the world… our bodies are always ‘in touch’ with our environment and others. Babies need it to thrive. Essential to the development of the nervous system and connection for healthy bonding, unhealthy touch and touch deprivation is common in our society whether or not we are in a relationship. Loving or friendly touch can slow the heart rate and decrease blood pressure as a result of mechanoreceptors that lie under our skin and are responsible for sensitivity and vibrational pressure. It sends a signal to the brain and onto the nerve bundles of the vagus nerve as well as stimulates the release of oxytocin (called the ‘cuddle hormone’) which makes us feel more trusting and connected.

Why self touch?
If you regularly touch or exchange hugs with others, the basic physiology is probably not surprising to you. I know that a hug or hand on my arm can feel so nurturing and just…. good. Plus emotions, such as sadness or grief can bubble up and flow as we are held, so hugs can be so healing! We need this connection with others and yet, it’s also vital that we cultivate it from within. The more we explore our bodies in a nurturing curious way, the more we are able to:
o ‘Hold’ ourselves for self discovery and healing
o Balance our emotional-mental-physical body
o Embody healthy boundaries, which allows for true intimacy
o Discover more freedom of movement and life in all areas of our lives

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Breath is life.

Breath work Beyond Breathing

Breath is a way of deep listening to our bodies. As a culture we know it as a focal point in meditation or active breathing techniques to move energy, release the old, feel aliveness, etc. Both have profound effects on us. Drawing from my somatic experience, these meditations are designed for deep connection to inner physical structures by sensing and therefore listening to these parts of us that each have their own personality and role. We can then begin to foster a conscious relationship to them for more balance and harmony.

Breath Themes
o Sensing the breath for deeper self-relationship
o Breath, the Eyes and the Spine
o Breath and the Viscera
o Breath and the Diaphragms
o Breath and the Butterflies - The Sphenoid and the Pelvis

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