The body as an instrument of knowing

Our language is filled with terms like “I knew in my gut” or “that gives me chills.“

These phrases point at the inseparable connection between heart, mind, and body.

I’ve been exploring creative movement since early childhood. For more than a decade I’ve been learning to deliberately cultivate a still point within, where my awareness attunes to somatic cues.

I am on a journey to integrate somatic intelligence alongside mental and emotional ways of knowing, and to share this with others. This is helpful and important, because the story-making mind alone is a little bit famous for distortions and projections. In contrast, the body does not lie.

I’m committed to many ways of knowing, being, and doing, because cognition alone is a cheap trick. If we could think our way through, or even rely solely on our emotions, the whole experience of life would not include the astoundingly awesome gift and burden of having a soul and a conscience experiencing life through and as a body. Embodied life, leadership, and decision-making is a profoundly different experience. An upgrade.

Incorporating the body as a tool of knowing, being, and doing, vastly enhances life and work. And you don’t have to twirl around the boardroom to do it. No matter what chaos happens around us, we can each find and nurture our still point within, using the body's language to inform and enrich our lives.