The Body Manual: For Your Own

I’ve been sitting with the idea of holding circles.

Something about the body.
Something about the body as a living, sensing embodiment.
Something about body–mind–soul… spirit… what I feel more drawn to call beyond.

I don’t fully know how I’m called to offer this.
There’s a lot of ambiguity and uncertainty in the air.

When I first received osteopathy, I was surprised by how someone who had just met me could know my body — could feel and understand it better than I could, even though I’d lived in it for over twenty years.

Then another question immediately occurred to me:
How did I never learn this?

I had never learned how to feel, sense, or understand my own body in this way.
It had never been taught — or perhaps I had never learned it.

That realization surprised me.
It felt fundamental.

So I spent many years following that question.
Learning to feel.
To sense.
To listen.

In essence, that’s what I want to share.

I’m interested in how the body expresses what words cannot.
How healing — how wholeness — can unfold from within, even when it isn’t obvious on the outside.

The story — the language — of the body is real and honest.
Truthfulness matters.
The truth, and the nuance, of what the body knows.

What does it mean to listen to the body?
How do we listen to its wisdom?

Perhaps it’s as simple — and as complex — as listening to something subtle, primal, mystical, and yet deeply real.

So real that I almost feel I can grasp it in the air.