The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world within itself ~ Henry Miller
BODY OF WONDER — A Practice of Wonder, Flow, and Embodied Life
BODY OF WONDER combines 30 + years of traveling the world, being with the creative genius of nature, water, wave forms, movement, stillness and contemplative experiences, combined with studies in the healing arts, movement and wellness field. When we pause for a moment and tune into the gift of life all around and within us – we get an inkling of the vastness to explore. There may be a sense of wonder, perhaps awe for the sublime that is creation.
The meaning of the body is beyond a literal understanding of ourselves as anatomical structures. The nervous system is only one way to recognize the experience of being alive. Body can be conceived as an emergent interrelational process of experience. This encompasses individual and collective engagement with the full expression of life, a deepening into a broader sense of being.
We are the infinite expressing in ongoing flowing artistry.
As fluid beings we are a dynamic embodiment of indivisible Wholeness. Our bodies just like the Earth are primarily made of water. It could be said we are one body with the earth. Life on earth itself emerged from water originally. We were created and formed within the amniotic waters of the womb. From being surrounded in water, to being primarily water inside ourselves – we have a direct biological organismic experience of fluidity through our own waters and that of the earths. We can access direct knowing of our bodies as primarily fluid – water and therefore wave potential, which is flow.
BODY OF WONDER explores our existence through various awareness approaches and embodiment practices such as NAIO™, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy that support knowing our inherent Unity and developing a further sense of creativity, connection, wellness and growth – the flow of wholeness.
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in…If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.” ~ Rachel Carson
What This Work Is — Somatic Practice, Embodied Learning, and Relational Inquiry
BODY OF WONDER fosters the emergence of natural curiosity by exploring new possibilities and reclaiming the knowing of ourselves as an evolutionary impulse — as the flow of life, as Creation’s ocean.
Personal sessions and workshops in NAIO™, Somatic Movement and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy engage us in a fluid discovery of our being.
These practices support a deepening of embodied awareness through the development and refinement of bioception* — our capacity to sense, perceive, and relate from within the living body as it participates in the living world.
Bioception includes and integrates perceptual processes such as proprioception, interoception, neuroception, and exteroception, along with the many ways we sense, feel, and relate that support creativity, freedom, peace, and a deeper sense of belonging.
As primarily fluid beings, we can move beyond patterning, habits and limitations just like the water we are and discover new ways of expressing our life’s meaning.
Through embodied awareness and relational presence, this work invites a remembering of our inherent connection — to ourselves, to one another, to nature, and to the living world.
Bioception
* Bioception is a term coined here to describe the body’s holistic, relational capacity to sense, perceive, and organize experience — integrating interior awareness and participatory perception within the living world.
Explore More
Please visit Retreats & Workshops pages for different classes, workshops and retreats.
Visit NAIO™ Practitioner Training Programs at NAIO International.
Online Practice (Emerging)
BODY OF WONDER is in the process of developing an online, asynchronous somatic practice — a space for exploring embodied awareness, creativity, and our living relationship with nature over time, supported by optional online and in-person meet-ups.
This practice will offer gentle guidance, experiential invitations, and reflective invitations that can be engaged with in your own rhythm, while remaining connected to a shared field of inquiry and presence.
Water is life.
It is nourishment.
It is whole, integrated, and resonant.
It is in the plants and trees,
the rivers and the oceans,
the air we breathe,
and throughout space.
Water is everywhere.
It is a mysterious bridge
between formless and form,
the intangible and the tangible —
and best of all, it is inside.
All of us.
It is us.