Welcome to Embodied Witnessing
a relational orientation to awakening
When you come home to yourself you come home to all of life.
"We know too much about trauma not to take care of the legacy
<of individual, ancestral and collective trauma>
that we were born into.”
-- Thomas Hübl
Embodied Witnessing Practice ...
- Expands compassion and brings us into relation with all parts of our S/selves with heartfulness, compassionate inquiry, and respect.
- Is grounded in an understanding of interconnection which honors the dignity, essentiality, and interdependence of all beings, human and more than human.
- Cultivates both descendance and ascendance, aligning with a felt sense of integrity known in some traditions the river of life through the spine.
- Includes interpersonal relating, sensing, and group "we space" practices.
- Connects internal and external awareness practices to harmonize inner-outer coherence.
- Is an ongoing moment-to-moment practice. Since life is a movement, embodied witnessing is a practice of attuning and flowing with the inner movements, also known as the Dao.
- Deepens presence which includes noticing when we experience more or less spaciousness without making that wrong.
- Supports our recognizing how we are relating mindfully, heartfully, and body-fully in the moment - when we are flowing, freezing, turning towards or turning away from our experience.
- Creates a felt sense of connection and resourcing.
- Disrupts trauma-based ideals such as hyper-individuality, shame- and pride-based identifications, perfectionism, scarcity, systemic white supremacy, dangerous world, extractive capitalism, and anti-Indigeneity.
- Awakens us to new possibilities and perceptions.
- Creates a foundation for embodied social justice.
