Embodiment in Action: Live Sessions on Tap!

Want to participate in or witness a one-on-one embodiment session?

Some years ago, I led a small experimental yoga therapy supervision group.

Each time someone presented a clinical case, we engaged in an embodied approach to hearing the case, processing our bodies’ responses to it, and mining our bodies’ wisdom together in the service of the yoga therapy client.

I loved that group; it’s been on my mind a lot lately.

An analogous experiment that can be adapted for the Substack mediu, has percolated in my awareness for a while now. And today I suddenly thought, “If not now, when?”

These are turbulent and threshold times in the world. As one of my favorite writing editors, the amazing Joelle Hann, recently commented, “How not to be alarmed?”

Now more than ever, it feels critical to learn from and alongside one another about what embodiment looks like in action, especially in its social context. (The individual approach to embodiment can flatten its aliveness, and replicate dominant cultural patterns.)

My vision looks something like this: You write in with an issue that’s challenging you, one in which you don’t want or need more therapy, and one in which you’d like help apply embodied wisdom.

In other words, what does embodiment look like in action?

Think Esther Perel, but embodied, and with a social context.

Submissions for live sessions will be reserved for paying subscribers, but everyone can listen to the recording of the session when I release it here.

I can likely fit in one of these per month.

Since it’s an experiment, we’ll be growing it together in public.

Interested in a live session or in hearing the recording of a live session here on Substack? Drop me a line in the comments below and let me know what you love (or don’t) about the idea.

And if you’re a paying subscriber and would like a session, please both drop a comment below and follow the instructions (also below).

Blessings,

Bo

(P.S. I know it’s been a while; an article has been in the works and will come out soon.)

Me guiding a connective tissue session at a Yoga Journal Conferece. Photo: Tony Felgueiras

Instructions:

• Wite to Julie, at support@boforbesyoga.com

• Include the email through which you signed up as a paying subscriber on Substack

• You submit an issue you’d like to work on, with enough specifics about the issue for us to gauge how we might work together

• You include how you envision embodiment applying, what you’ve tried, and where you’ve gotten stuck

• You stipulate that you know this isn’t psychotherapy, but rather a form of embodied coaching

• If we choose your issue, we set up a 40-minute Zoom session live

• We record the session

• You get one copy of the recording to keep forever

• We release the audio of the recording here on Substack

• Please note: First priority will be given to paying subscribers who follow these Instructions.

• If we choose your issue, you’ll be asked to sign a release form

• Note: Please don’t subscribe for the sole purpose of obtaining a session; we’d prefer to start with current subscribers, or those supporting my work for other reasons; thanks in advance for respecting this boundary.