by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Arms, Body, Feet, Gravity, Movement, Other, Proprioception, Self, Sensory, Space, Touch, Vestibular System
This week’s sharing on #somawithDaphneandLucy: YOUR SELF IMAGE.How long are your arms? How wide is your chest? What does it mean to straighten your knees? And how accurately are your answers meeting your physical reality?.It almost comes as a surprise,...
by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Body, Cells, Fluid, Gravity, Mind, Movement, Nervous System, Non-linear Movement, Other, Safe, Self, Sensory, Space, Spiral, Vestibular System
This week’s sharing from #somawithDaphneandLucy : MOVEMENT VARIABILITY. Life is Non-Linear. To be relational to our environment and sustainable in mind-body, we train our reflexes to respond rather than react. Non-linear, multi-planar, 3-D spiralling...
by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Awareness, Body, Fluid, Gravity, Joints, Movement, Nervous System, Organs, Other, Proprioception, Self, Sensory, Space, Vestibular System
Proprioception and kinaesthesia, is the sense of our body position and movement in relationship to gravity and space. It is sometimes described as the “sixth sense”. Proprioception is mediated by our vestibular system, proprioceptors, nerve endings...
by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Awareness, Embodiment, Interception, Nervous System, Other, Self, Somatic
In somatic sensing practices, we learn to hold attention both within and without. Through interoception we inquire into our biological processes and how we are showing up in the world.The embodiment of this dual awareness in somatic practices helps us cultivate...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Awareness, Body, Breath, Curiosity, Embodiment, Grounding, Mind, Nervous System, Other, Polyvagal Theory, Safe, Space, Touch, Yoga
Yesterday I taught a class at the Special Needs Foundation in Koh Samui. This facility helps to support kids and teenagers who are on the autism spectrum. When I started the class, this young Thai boy was slumped face-down on a yoga mat, he refused to make eye...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Body, Embodiment, Exploration, Homeostasis, Limbs, Mind, Other, Self, Somatic, Yoga
On 29 December 2018, I received a phone call that changed the world I knew forever. My father passed away, without warning… Everything around me crumbled in that instance. I felt my limbs went numb, and I stood frozen looking at the phone in...
