Sheltering-in-place has also been a profound practice of present-moment awareness, that reminder that wherever we go (or don’t go), there we are-- sensations, emotions, mind chatter, all included. And, understanding how our own nervous systems respond to stress is key to meeting this moment with wisdom, rather than just from our wiring.

As I moved through life, I found myself yearning for a deeper experience of embodiment, and I knew there were parts of myself I wasn’t accessing through more conventional talk therapy. Following a near-fatal car crash in 2017, I turned to somatic therapy, knowing that there was trauma from that experience that I needed to literally move and process in my body. For me movement is therapy and therapy is movement.