Finding Sitting

This video shows how we can work on posture playfully and deeply by very clearly connecting and interacting with the force of gravity, following our innate sense for balance rather than an external ideal. In this way, sitting becomes a living activity rather than a prescribed form.

A highlight of this video is seeing Charlotte Selver at 100 years of age participating gleefully.

I was not able to contact all participants to get their okay to be seen in this footage. At the time people signed a release form for use of their appearance in publications of the Sensory Awareness Foundation. I am using these videos courtesy of the SAF but this is not an SAF publication. If you see yourself and do not want to be seen, please contact me.

Inhabiting the Space You're In

We spend much time in spaces very familiar to us, our homes, our work place - as well as that space we call I – yet we are sometimes hardly 'in touch'. The focus of this class is to reconnect with the place we're in as well as with other 'things' inhabiting that place.   

This class was given by phone as part of the Sensory Awareness Foundation's Sensing Sundays series on January 24, 2016. The edited recording contains all the suggested tasks/explorations as well as illuminating reports from two participants.

In Touch but not Entangled

I led a phone session on the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day which centered on the question of the relevance of Sensory Awareness in emotionally difficult and stressful daily life situations. 
This inspired a "somatic meditation" on Thanksgiving Day's family challenges, and how our connection with the floor and gravity can help us to stay in touch but not entangled. 

Below are two versions of this session.

The shorter YouTube video version and the full session as an audio file.

I hope you will find them useful - even if you are not celebrating Thanksgiving in your part of the world. 

To participate fully you will need a chair and a mop. Alternatively, you can also use a broom or a simple stick. The mop adds a touch of strangeness which you may (or may not) enjoy. ;-)

A somatic meditation on Thanksgiving Day's family challenges and beyond. To participate fully you will need a chair and a mop. Alternatively, you can also use a broom or a simple stick. The mop adds a touch of strangeness which you may (or may not) enjoy. ;-) This is from a phone session on the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day which centered on the question of the relevance of Sensory Awareness in emotionally difficult and stressful daily life situations. This inspired a "somatic meditation" on Thanksgiving Day's family challenges, and how our connection with the floor and gravity can help us to stay in touch but not entangled.