Embodiment is the art of shifting how you orient yourself

It’s the movement from living in your head—where the mind tries to manage, control, and make sense of everything—into the felt, lived experience of your body. Into your life, just as it is. So much of our culture teaches us to override, analyse, or improve. Even within “body practices,” the mind often remains in charge—tracking, observing, evaluating. But embodiment doesn’t ask you to do more. It invites you to let go. To soften. To stop trying to figure it all out. This work isn’t about fixing or upgrading yourself. It’s about returning to the quiet, steady truth that your body already knows how to be. It knows how to feel. It knows how to heal. You don’t need to understand your nervous system or learn about energy systems in order to feel whole, safe, and deeply at home in yourself. If your mind is drawn to those things, let it explore them with curiosity—but not as a substitute for what you can only experience through your body. And if you’ve been engaging in somatic practices that ask you to witness or track your experience from the outside, know this: those approaches may support awareness, but embodiment asks for something deeper. It’s not about watching yourself. It’s about being in your experience—without needing to narrate or interpret it. This is the journey of returning. Of allowing the body to lead. Of coming back, again and again, to what is felt, honest, and alive—right now. Welcome to a different way of being. One that begins exactly where you are.