Body of Wonder — A Somatic Ecological Practice of Wonder, Flow, and Embodied Life
Body of Wonder is a somatic ecological practice created by Prue Jeffries. It brings together more than 30 years of travelling the world, living in close relationship with water, waves, movement, stillness, creativity, contemplative experience, and the healing arts.
This work arises from a deep relationship with the creative intelligence of nature — with water, body, breath, movement, perception, image, touch, and the living world. When we pause and tune into the gift of life within and around us, we may begin to sense the vastness of what is here: wonder, awe, mystery, relationship, and the sublime artistry of creation.
The meaning of the body extends beyond a literal understanding of ourselves as anatomical structures. The nervous system is one way to recognise the experience of being alive, but body can also be understood as an emergent, relational process of experience — a living field of sensation, perception, movement, memory, imagination, creativity, and participation.
We are the infinite expressing in ongoing flowing artistry.
As fluid beings, we are dynamic expressions of indivisible wholeness. Our bodies, like the Earth, are primarily water. Life on Earth emerged from water, and each of us was formed within the amniotic waters of the womb. From being surrounded by water to being water within ourselves, we carry a direct biological and organismic experience of fluidity, wave, rhythm, and flow.
Body of Wonder explores this fluid existence through embodied awareness, somatic practice, movement, touch, contemplative inquiry, nature connection, and creative expression. This work is informed by NAIO™ Holistic Awareness Process, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Craniosacral Biodynamics, Somatic Movement Education, Continuum, water-based practice, and ecological inquiry, while developing as Prue’s own distinct body of work.
What This Work Is
Body of Wonder fosters natural curiosity, embodied awareness, and a deeper relationship with ourselves as expressions of the living world. It invites us to sense the body not as a fixed object, but as an unfolding, relational, creative process — as life moving through us.
Personal sessions, mentoring, workshops, retreats, and emerging online practices may draw from NAIO™, somatic movement, craniosacral-informed practice, water-based awareness, contemplative practice, and creative inquiry.
These practices support the 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 subtle ways we sense, feel, respond, imagine, and belong.
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 larger ecology of life.
Bioception
Bioception is a term coined here to describe the body’s holistic, relational capacity to sense, perceive, and organise experience — integrating interior awareness and participatory perception within the living world.
Body of Wonder Practice Pathway — Emerging
Body of Wonder is developing an online, asynchronous somatic practice pathway for exploring embodied awareness, creativity, fluidity, nature connection, and our living relationship with the world over time.
This pathway will offer gentle guidance, experiential practices, reflective invitations, writing, creative inquiry, and optional online and in-person meet-ups. It can be engaged in your own rhythm, while remaining connected to a shared field of practice, presence, and inquiry.
Rather than a fixed method or single lineage, Body of Wonder offers a living approach to sensing, moving, breathing, relating, and becoming — through the body as nature, the body as water, and the body as a participant in the larger ecology of life.
Explore More
Visit the Retreats and Workshops pages for current classes, workshops, immersions, and retreats.
Visit NAIO™ International for NAIO™ Practitioner Training and certification pathways.
“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
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.