Knowledge grounded in bodily experience

Knowledge grounded in bodily experience encompasses everyday life's uncertainty, ambiguity & messiness. Such a way of knowing resists the Cartesian mind-body split that underlies the colonialised mindset & the glorification of objectivity.

We all occasionally have a bodily sensation that's meaningful. Maybe you have a bad feeling about someone, butterflies in your stomach, or you just 'got out of bed the wrong side this morning. These sensations are often what we call a 'felt sense', and they hold embodied knowledge about how things are for you right now.

The Felt sense is the physical place where we locate what the body knows. Once we realise that we have access to this knowing in our bodies, we can learn to cultivate it. We can practice directing our attention to it. We can develop a way of attending to ourselves that can guide us during acts of creativity.

Even though the initial experience often comes as a discomfiting one, we can learn how to welcome and cultivate it rather than avoid it, how to use our body as a touchstone, a guide, that can inform us if the work we are creating makes sense in the ways we want it to. Relying on the body's wisdom, we can set up a creative rhythm & find our stride.

This is the beauty of true somatic work. It supports learning to know yourself through the felt sense; A first step toward healing trauma and reclaiming parts of ourselves that might have been dissociated, frozen, numb or fawned out. Eventually, a potential doorway to your freedom, to follow your desires, pleasure & joy grounded in body wisdom, a deep connection to self, your environment and the weaving of life itself.