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
The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practice Unfolds Space and Time
There’s a particular silence that settles in when you stop arranging your body and start listening to it. Not the hollow silence of a room, but the dense, humming quiet of your own presence—blood moving, balance making its tiny adjustments, the weight of your bones finding the floor. In somatic work, this silence isn’t a… Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practice Unfolds Space and Time
The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practices Reshape Our Sense of Space and Time
There’s a moment in a Feldenkrais lesson when the teacher asks you to pause. You’ve been tilting your head, tracking the weight shift through your pelvis, the way your breath catches in one rib. Then stillness. And in that stillness, the room feels different—wider on one side, closer on the other. The clock on the… Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practices Reshape Our Sense of Space and Time