Our postures, breath, sensations, movements tell our stories. Our bodies carry the history of our relationships and the cultures we participate in. We are shaped by our life experiences and to move, breathe, and sense is to be alive and be free.

Through life we learn what movements and sensations feel right, keep us protected, and help us feel we belong. Our body memories may have kept us safe through different forms of trauma. The intelligence of our body help us deal with pain, sufferings, loss, social oppression. However, we can find ourselves tense, disconnected, shut down, numb, shrinking, unbounded, or overwhelmed by body sensations that prevent us from feeling centered in our bodies, relationships and life’s purpose.

Working with the body experience gives us the possibilities to find new ways of feeling, sensing, and moving. It allow us to release and heal the shapes that no longer serve us. These somatic openings make room for more joy, pleasure, and resiliency to move towards the life and the world we want to create. Life is movement. Being able to move like we long for is freedom.

“When you inhale and when you exhale, breathe the possibility of another world into the 37.2 billion cells in your body until it shines with hope. Then imagine more.” ~ Aurora Levins Morales