Body&Being brings together my work as a somatic psychotherapist and movement educator. It explores what it means to become more fully human through embodiment, relationship, imagination, and the practices that help us find ourselves again.
Here, I’ll share reflections that come from working with clients, teaching workshops, and developing the structures I use in somatic practice. Some pieces will explore the tools I use within movement scores and embodied experiments. Others will trace the frameworks I draw from and blend, including Authentic Movement, Drama Therapy, Contact Improvisation, IFS, and mindfulness. I’ll also use this space to articulate the values that shape the work: radical humanism, play, creativity, agency, and the body as a source of wisdom.
I am beginning this Substack as a way to gather these threads over time and make the practice more visible, one reflection at a time
“It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child or adult is free to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”
Donald W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971.
Play is a clinical way of reclaiming range. It invites a person to experiment with less familiar forms of expression: a different voice, a new rhythm, an unfamiliar posture or gesture, a more direct impulse, a less managed way of being with another person.