I love a good question. I also love the attentive space it evokes in me to come up with an answer.

And so with that, hopefully this is a win-win as I present to you five listener-powered inquiries, ranging across a decent spread of body-related topics, and my corresponding responses:

1. I practice massage and am “absorbing” other people’s pain. What do I do about this?
   
   
2. What is embodiment? What is the biggest obstacle to being more embodied in the world?
   
   
3. I’ve oscillated between self-obsession and self-loathing, and am slowly finding a middle ground. What’s a good way to facilitate this?
   
   
4. What’s the best way to walk: feet pointing forward or let them find their own way?
   
   
5. People involved in somatics, dance, yoga — all these people with incredible physical intelligence — are not actively engaged politically. With so much injustice in the world, how do we find ways to be actively create meaningful change?

Cheers, love, Liam

Living your body's intelligence ...

Oh, what that could mean! To get a feel for what it is, let's point to what it's not.

It's not blindly following every bodily desire that arises. (Only one donut orgy per month, alright?)

Nor is it forever perfecting your internal compass without moving in its direction, paralyzed by the potential — and inevitable — messiness of life.

It's something else, something that is both of these end ranges at the same time.

Pay attention, try, move, keep paying attention, refine, laugh and fail and fall and yet strive for a certain regality; this isn't child's play (unless, sometimes, it is) ...

We sure do hope you enjoy. Love, LB (+ BT)

PS if there's still space in our July 28 / 29 workshop in Seattle, you can find that out, and sign up, here.