Our body keeps the score.

The Felt Wheel

Our ingrained mental constructs are hosted by our bodies.

We release the calcified residues that impinge upon our physical health.

Body Meditations

We practice direct experiencing without interpretation. We do the Rest Stop with emphasis on a full body scan. Other meditations emphasize visualizations of your body filled with light and love, body with no boundaries, empty body, etc.

Slow Awareness

We unite awareness and movement through slow practices such as Feldencreis, Alexander Method, and Clinical Somatics. We gain a deeper and stronger connection with our bodies, retraining the nervous system to overcome chronic holdings.

Intuitive Movement

Allowing spontaneous impulses to guide us, we follow the body’s desire to break out, reach out, call out. Boxing, Freeform Yard Work, Dancing, Interpretive Yoga. We watch where our body takes us, expressing and releasing our inner states.

Team Work

Through massage, body work, and other somatic therapies we receive touch or guidance for accessing deeper feelings. In intuitive movement classes or anything team-building and physical, we gain courage from the energy of the collective.

From caught up in stories to Real Human Presence

We start with being numb and shut-down, or the opposite: indulging in emotionality. Harnessing our blindspots instead of being run by them leads ultimately into a complete transformation of our pain into Radiant Wellness.

The Felt Wheel is best undertaken and understood with guidance. Read about the progression from trapped-in-stories to experiencing our pain as another powerful doorway to consciousness.

  • When self-images dominate our mind, our feelings are either shut down or we are caught in a loop of emotionality about things we can’t control. They are two sides of the same coin: numbness or indulgence.

  • While we practice in the Written, Verbal, and Visual Wheels we are naturally feeling what comes up. These Wheels are designed to break up our stories to access the felt sense beneath them. This is the bulk of our practice for a while. Its enough!

  • Here we exercise a genuine physical release of the pain behind our stories, like opening a pressure valve on broiler. “Hitting the gold mine” of underlying energy brings some freedom. It surrenders the pent up grasping of self-image and accepts the level of reality seen so far. It may be accompanied by crying, noise-making, physical work or exercise (non-structured.) It’s best if it comes naturally.

  • It’s crucial to have another person hold space for us, allowing the release of pain and/or harnessing of it. We need someone who understands and is not afraid of heavy emotions.

  • We allow the feeling to expand while we surrender to it. We sit with it until it becomes something else. It doesn’t dissolve or go away: it is actually energy, and we are holding it in a furnace of attention to transform our experience of it. Our visceral interpretation of it changes.