Embodied Living

Beginnings, againAs I begin this journey towards a doctoral education, I recall not only the questions that are driving me down this path, but also the junctions before the questions even occurred to me.  An imperative as strong as mine must certainly be karmic.Today, I am compelled to seek intellectual answers for questions I have encountered while working with people’s bodies.  I want to know how massage and touch figure into development, learning and healing.  I have seen it in many permutations.  From this work, I believe that body, mind and spirit are one.   I think that somewhere in our modern construction of personal and societal reality, we have separated.   I believe the power of touch is transformative and can bring us back to a place where deep learning can occur.  My work as a massage therapist has been a personal journey of finding my own way home, home to my body.But life is a circle.  So as I re-invented myself to become a bodyworker and find my way back to my own body, I will  now revisit the intellect that once was my primary domain.  With the help of experience and awareness, it is my intention, this time, to take my whole self along for the ride.  September 17, 2007