One of the greatest injustices of our time is a collective lack of embodied literacy; many of us don’t know our way around our own bodies.  There is great potential:  Bridging factual knowledge and physical experience, we can learn where our hip joints actually are, or how our spines function, in order to move with greater ease and prevent degeneration.  We can help ourselves heal by touching places that hurt.  We can learn to find where physical and emotional trauma has gotten stuck in our bodies, and we can unstick it.  In my classes and movement therapy/bodywork sessions I often find myself joking with people that “we never learned this stuff in kindergarten.”  Why not?

I think our (dis)embodied injustice cuts across the intersections of race, class, and gender differently from some other prominent injustices of our time.  Technology and financial wealth has not favored physical experience, often separating rather than connecting people with their physical being.  If you’re reading this you’re probably ahead of the curve, at least in terms of curiosity.  Clearly I’ve enjoyed the tremendous privilege of conscious and focused study—that has takes resources many do not have access to.  Yet, I hold that we are all indigenous to our own bodies for this lifetime.  We belong here.  The primary source material is inside each of us, and people have been bodies for countless generations.  

And, if you want some support on the path toward embodied justice, please give me a call.