I am currently training in Conscious Embodiment work with Wendy Palmer. The work at first hand seems so simple, almost too simple, but the more I work with Wendy, the clearer I see this work as quite profound.
Conscious Embodiment is just as it sounds...to be conscious of the feelings/sensations of an experience instead of cognitively understanding our experience. This is my own definition.
Life is just a series of very simple moments. And everything we need is right here, right now inside us. We don't need to acquire something from someone else...we already are what we think we need to become. And, no one can do it for us. But we can do it together, with friends, with other women, in community.
Through community we get to see our true nature more clearly, mirrored through our friends and loved ones. This true nature is sensing ourselves as conscious experience, not understanding ourselves intellectually. This is especially important as we re-discover our true nature as women. We aren't going to become acquainted with ourselves again without reacquainting with that which makes us female...our bodies.
Being conscious in the body means dropping down into our center, the core of our being. It's a process that requires coming inward to experience what is here in these beautiful female bodies we have been blessed to be born into.
In class last night with Wendy, we touched on what happens when we invoke a sense of internal respect for ourselves. We proceeded with an exercise using this idea. What transpired was pretty remarkable. When I generated a conscious experience of internal respect, my entire system became aligned and as a result of this alignment, much stronger physically.
What does this possibility hold for women? What if we were to find the place within ourselves where this internal respect already resides? And if we did that, what would happen if we could call on this internal respect as a place of strength?
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