The Untamed Body

Culture lives in our bodies.  Our habitual patterns of moving, breathing and living inhibit and restrict creativity, choice and freedom.  

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We live in a culture that prioritises muscles over bones.  We have learned to brace and hold our muscles which prevents us from dropping into the support of bone and ultimately earth.  Our muscles work over time to compensate for the absence of earth and bone holding.

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Much yoga, breathwork and movement practices simply overlay more tension, doing and performance onto already exhausted muscles causing further constriction.  What is needed is something far more radical than more doing.   An undoing, unlearning, unraveling.  As Gabrielle Roth said, a letting go of letting go.  

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When we stay long enough in the stillness, when we can bare to meet our fear, the unknown, the apparent emptiness, we meet ourselves more fully, more authentically.  When we drop into bone, soften into the support of the earth -  breath, space and choice naturally arise.  Not from the doing but the undoing.

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This is slow work, soul work.  It is radical resistance to the current culture of harm that would keep us striving, achieving and ultimately dying a death in life.  It is medicine for these times, a descent through our bodies to the River Beneath the River where we can finally come home.

 

I offer The Untamed Body Classes for All Bodies and Wild Womb Women at the Humble Hub, St Leonards.  See Events page for more details.