Owning Our Body

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As I watch my daughters, I am touched by how they move and how they are into their bodies in a very different way.

One is truly a joyful little girl, she’s always moving (which is a challenge at lunch or dinner time!), she walks to the couch backward, she spins around as she reads a book, she stands on one foot to put her shoe on, and she jumps up and down eating her snack.

The other one is quieter in how she inhabits her body, in how she experiences its space and fluidity. She explores how to move from a room to another without making a sound, swiftly blending with the air and suddenly appearing next to me. They both dislike clothes and are more comfortable living in the softness of their glowing skin.

I feel so privileged to be a witness of their experimentations and discoveries, of how they grow up, how they explore their goofiness, sadness, joy, astonishment. I can see how, day after day, they step more into their personalities and into their bodies, and learn how to own both. I can see the bones of strong will, the skeleton of soft-heartedness, the speed of movement of the curious and adventurous heart, and the quiet turns and flexible bends of the creative soul.

The way we move, the way we hug, the way we dance our life is so much about discovering who we are and is so revealing when we have the space to be ourselves. It feels true, it feels like a continuity of what is deep inside of us, this “authentic me” is integrated with all aspects: body, mind, heart, spirit. And for those of us who were not given that space as a child, we can find it now. We can find it anytime because we are still growing in that same body. The bones we have today are the same ones we were born with. It is never too late to own your body because you are living in it, it is right there, and it is not going anywhere else. To be able to own your body, and integrate who you are into that physical space, and feel – at last – that you can explore again, learn, and feel fully present, reclaim that simplicity that healthy children have to be themselves.

This is what I want to cultivate in me, and help others find.
This is why I created Woman Embodied: a program to re-connect, to find the truth of who you are, and embody it in your bones.

If this makes you say “yes” inside, join me and a small group of women in this adventure. It is an exploratory process, a learning path, and it leads to only one place: You.

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