We’ve all been there. Sitting in a theater, or standing at the edge of a makeshift stage, and feeling the work wash over us. Sometimes it’s a delight—a slick, well-oiled diversion that earns a round of polite applause and leaves us exactly as we were. But other times, something else happens. The lights shift, the… Continue reading When a Performance Changes the Room: Entertainment vs. Transformation
How Somatic Practices Change the Way We Think About Space and Time
We usually treat space and time like fixed coordinates—neutral containers we move around in. But spend an hour inside a somatic practice, and that assumption starts to unravel. The room hasn’t changed size, yet it can feel vast or suffocating. The clock ticks at the same rate, but a single exhale can stretch into something… Continue reading How Somatic Practices Change the Way We Think About Space and Time
How the Choreographic Score Betrays the Body It Tries to Preserve
We have all watched a performance we could not describe. Not because it was obscure. Because the knowledge it produced was sitting in our muscles, not in our language. We left the theater knowing something about weight, about duration, about the precise moment a body’s relationship to gravity shifted — and we could not write… Continue reading How the Choreographic Score Betrays the Body It Tries to Preserve
What Happens to a Movement When You Give It a Name
I once watched a dancer learn a phrase without knowing what it was called. She moved through it with a quality I can only describe as inquiry—each transition carried a question, each weight shift felt provisional, as though her body were asking the floor something and waiting for an answer. Then the choreographer said, casually,… Continue reading What Happens to a Movement When You Give It a Name
When the Body Becomes a Clock: Somatic Time and the Spaces We Inhabit
We’re handed a geometry of time that’s mostly linear and external—calendars, deadlines, the relentless forward march of seconds on a screen. But the body keeps a different kind of time. It pulses, contracts, releases, and remembers in spirals and waves. Somatic practices—from the subtle floor work of Feldenkrais to the breath-led movement of authentic qigong—don’t… Continue reading When the Body Becomes a Clock: Somatic Time and the Spaces We Inhabit
The Body as Clock: How Somatic Practice Reshapes Space and Time
There’s a moment—maybe in a long-held stretch, or during the slow, deliberate unfurling of a Feldenkrais lesson—when the clock’s hold just… dissolves. The minute hand on the wall still twitches forward, sure. But your internal chronometer has slipped its gears. You’re no longer measuring time in ticks and tocks. Instead, you’re tracking the rise and… Continue reading The Body as Clock: How Somatic Practice Reshapes Space and Time
The Body’s Cartography: How Somatic Practice Reshapes Our Sense of Space and Time
We treat space like it’s a given—a neutral container we pass through, a backdrop. And time? Time is the metronome, the ticking clock, the schedule we’re always chasing. But lie down on a floor and pay attention for a while, and those certainties start to dissolve. The floor becomes a conversation partner. A single breath… Continue reading The Body’s Cartography: How Somatic Practice Reshapes Our Sense of Space and Time