There’s a moment, usually in the first ten minutes of a floor-based session, when the ceiling starts to feel further away. The room hasn’t changed. My back has. As the spinal muscles slowly unspool and the psoas gives up a fraction of its lifelong clench, the vertical axis I thought I knew gets renegotiated. The… Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practice Rewires Our Sense of Space and Time

We usually treat space as a box and time as a straight line. The room is a fixed container. The clock ticks forward, indifferent. But lie down for a Feldenkrais lesson, sink into Body-Mind Centering, or follow an Authentic Movement impulse, and those certainties start to wobble. The wall hasn’t budged, yet the space between… Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practice Unfolds Time and Reshapes Space

Before the body does anything, it is already named. In Trajal Harrell’s Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at The Judson Church, a performer enters not as a dancer but as Butoh Voguer, or as Judson Dancer, or as a figure pulled from the ballroom floor and the experimental stage simultaneously. The name arrives before… Continue reading What a Body Is Called Before It Moves: Naming as Choreographic Argument

There’s a moment, often somewhere in the middle of a long-held stretch or a breath that barely makes a sound, when the room starts to feel different. The walls stay put. The floor doesn’t move. But the feeling of the space shifts. It stops being a box you’re standing in and becomes something you’re moving… Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practices Change the Way We Feel Space and Time

We treat space and time as fixed coordinates—a room is a room, a minute is a minute. But step into a somatic practice and that tidy grid starts to warp. The floor becomes a field of vectors. A single exhale can feel like a slow tide, even when the clock insists it was four seconds.… Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practice Rewires Space and Time

The first time I truly felt my shoulder blade, I was thirty-two years old, lying on a wooden floor in a converted Berlin warehouse. The instructor had us place a small, folded blanket under our thoracic spine, arms extended to the sides, palms up. She said, “Wait for the floor to answer.” For long minutes,… Continue reading The Gravity of Stillness: How Somatic Practices Recalibrate Our Sense of Space and Time

There’s a moment in a long-held stretch—say, a deep lunge where the hip flexors start to tremble—when the usual signposts of time just fall away. The second hand on the wall clock seems to hang there. The mind, which had been dutifully counting breaths, finally gives up. What’s left is a raw, immediate negotiation with… Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practice Rewires Space and Time