About my work – Somatic Meditative Inquiry
As I’m given to imagine it, our modern world is essentially ambiguous. There are countless paths, philosophies and explanatory schemes, often contradicting one another while claiming some sort of superiority.
My work is especially suited to persons who long for a more harmonious and satisfying life, but who have not been able to find it within the context of more traditional certainties, structures and practices.
The heart of this work involves aligning with and attuning to the deeper and wider intelligence that pervades our lives, but that most of us touch only occasionally. This primordial intelligence, which is also the root of health, appears in many different ways: dreams, synchronicities, unexpected events and encounters, as well as in the joys and challenges of relationship, vocation and in illness, affliction and loss.
In this work we collaborate in listening to and feeling for the movement of this intelligence in any particular situation in your life. The approach is more contemplative than interpretive, opening ourselves to modes of knowing that are not primarily mental. This often involves us moving closer to discomfort rather than away from it. For there is often a hidden doorway in what we tend to avoid and fear, a passage into unimagined possibilities, expansiveness and real transformation.
It is my belief that the body, and sensate experience in particular, is an extraordinary vehicle for entering into relationship with this wider intelligence. In learning to bring awareness to the living body, we are able to get beneath the stories and other constraints of mental/ emotional consciousness and directly touch the wisdom that is present even in our afflictions and difficulties.
Though our sessions don’t follow a protocol, our task together is to discern, to listen to and feel the movement of this intelligence within your life right now. There is a range of practices that can enhance our explorations together These include work with breath, movement and sound. We’ll closely attend your dreams and learn to listen to symptoms with fresh ears. My sincere aspiration is to aid you in finding your own way to a life in harmony with this wider intelligence, and to help develop or refine practices that cultivate this relationship in an on-going and ever-deepening way.
