Sensory Awareness

There are no structured movements, guided images, or breathing exercises. The teacher outlines experiments in which you can become aware of sensations.

This somatic practice is an inquiry into experience. You let yourself be with what you are doing. For example, standing. What sensations do you feel when you stand? How can you stand without effort? You can study to sense spontaneous readjustments of weight and balance.

Through this exploration you can learn how you restrict and hinder yourself. You do not attempt to change but let change occur naturally by letting your body assert its needs. You come to full presence, aiming equally at inner openness for your own life processes and at sensitive contact with the environment.

You can find a sense of what it is like to be on the way, to approach and arrive, not just to reach a goal. It requires patience, an interest in exploration, and a willingness not to make an exercise or let thinking crowd out sensing.

For more information, see The Sensory Awareness Foundation.

Return from Sensory Awareness to Somatic Education.