What is Embodied Practice?
Embodied practice is a process of cultivating conscious embodiment in your daily life. The techniques are experiential, often non-verbal and consciously tap your cellular intelligence.
In our workshops and courses you will grow capacity to include what you hear, sense, touch, feel and imagine as well as what you say and think when you are engaged in the things that interest you. Over time, you develop an eloquence with the full scope of your intelligences, so that you can intentionally access more of what is available to resource you in the moment. Oh and did we mention embodied practice - feels really good!
“I wan’t to get ‘out of my head’ and ‘into my body!”
We are hearing this everywhere. People sense there’s something about embodiment that’s important but don’t know where to start. Starting is not as hard as you might think - you actually already have what you need, there’s just a little reframing involved. Your head and body are not separate so ‘getting into your body’ is more about being in the whole of you.
Rather than thinking about yourself in parts, which leads to experiencing yourself in parts…
What would happen if you started to consciously experience yourself as an integrated whole and approached things from this perspective?
Check out our interactive Embodied Practice Manual…
It’s a somatic wellbeing quest in pixel and cell - an evidence-based experiential site designed by us as an interactive embodied practice manual. Treat it like a self-paced course and cultivate your embodied home practice.
You Are integrated & innately creative
From the particle to the cell, to the organism, to the system, human and planetary environments are a living, integrated creative process. Growing an embodied practice is about coordinating with the innate intelligence and creativity alive in your cells. It helps you attune to life as an integrated creative process and be more present to the things you care about.
Here at Live Particle you can learn to move, sound and sense in your own way. Embodied Practice is in the same field as mindfulness meditation. It brings breath, movement and the kaleidoscope of all your senses to the fore while tapping the intelligence alive in your cells.
Shift your mood, change your state & ignite your creativity.
Modern neuroscience has born out that moving keeps you moving and sounding moves you on the inside which brings balance, health and creativity to your life. So often we are disconnected from our direct sense of being alive. An Embodied Practice can help you self-regulate, self-soothe whilst simultaneously boosting your creativity which can make you feel more healthy, happy & alive.
Growing a personalised embodied practice invites the ‘feel-good hormones’ such as dopamine, endorphins & serotonin into your daily experience. You’ll also boost your immune system, lubricate your joints and strengthen your bones, while refreshing your focus & supporting your endurance. Who wouldn’t want that?
If we are to sustain ourselves and in turn our world, then right now we need a circuit breaker. Embodied Practice is a unique personalised tool that can be the circuit breaker you need. Focusing on sensation and attuning to the live interface of how your senses meet the world at a cellular level, can suspend exhausting habits of ruminating on the past, worrying about the future. It can also counter feelings of stagnation and lethargy.
Embodied practice generates ‘Live Knowing’
Live Knowing is the activated or practical form of knowledge brought about through first-hand experience. It is a tonic for creativity and future sustainability. Through an experiential, multi-sensory, movement-based approach, utilising crafted haptic/kinetic tools, you will grow your embodied presence and build a practice for sustainable living. This is how you can activate and engage the life that animates you and relate to others and the world with your unique insight, knowledge and capacity.
Through this embodied approach to education Live Particle is pioneering a radical way of living and learning. Embodied Education will hopefully serve as a model for a different and more appropriate kind of education as we face the challenges of the 21st century.