It didn’t arrive all at once.
It revealed itself slowly, through movement, stillness, and long periods of not knowing.
In the spaces between gestures, in the quiet after an exhale,
something began to form, not as a method, but as a way of relating.
The word soma comes from the Greek, meaning “the living body.”
Thomas Hanna used it to speak of the body not as an object, but as a subject:
a sensing, knowing, alive presence.
This perspective changed everything.
It invited a different way of being with the body, with experience, with life itself.
Somatic work, for me, is not just therapeutic.
It’s a practice of attention. A form of craft. A quiet art.
It’s the ongoing effort to notice, to meet what arises, to move with care and respect.
Not to fix, not to perform, but to reconnect.
And then there is wonder.
That sense of curiosity that doesn’t demand answers.
The softness that comes when control gives way to listening.
Wonder reminds me that presence can be enough. That not knowing can be fertile.
It makes room for exploration, for expression, for surprise.
SomaWonder isn’t a system or technique.
It’s not something to package or teach in a single form.
Some days it’s lying on the floor, tuning in.
Other days it’s dancing, writing, crying, or simply breathing through uncertainty.
Sometimes it’s relational. Sometimes it’s solitary.
But it always begins in the body, in sensation, in the willingness to feel and respond.
This is how I live now.
This is how I stay connected in movement and pause, in listening and response.
And it’s from this place I offer space to others.
Not with conclusions, but with invitations.
To be with your own process. To meet your body as it is.
To return to what is already here.
No destination. Just an unfolding.
A continuous process of coming back, again and again, to the present moment.
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