Maybe you are someone whose stress levels have not actually gone up in the last weeks. If that’s you, that’s wonderful! For, me, though I don’t overly have reasons for my anxiety and nervousness to increase, I have still been feeling this at times. At times I wonder whether it is even my anxiety that I am experiencing or whether it is more my picking up on a sense of collective angst; an increase in the overall level of tension in society at the difficulty of less contact with others and the uncertainty of the future that every single one of us is facing. Either way, it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that I do my utmost to keep my own system regulated, calm and vibrant. Here are two reasons why a movement practice is a powerful tool to do exactly this.
Develop Your Leadership (Executive) Presence: Using the Wisdom of Your Body
Ruth explains in fifteen minutes why working via the body is a powerful way to develop your leadership (executive) presence.
Why Optimal Team Performance Depends on Developing Somatic Intelligence
As ongoing research emerges looking more closely at how human beings perceive, think and act we are learning that these systems - of perception, thought, decision-making, action - are utterly interconnected with our felt (embodied) experience.
Writers, researchers and trainers leading the field of organizational health and leadership are putting the pieces together for how these new understandings inform and enhance team and leadership development. One of the bold new statements emerging is that not only do we need to consider and include our emotional selves in these processes but that the sensory component of feeling (AKA somatic intelligence) is a key part of this. Developing it can support you and your team to be in more enjoyable, functional (profitable) states more of the time.
Twelve Principles for Powerful Somatic Practice
Over my decades of experience as an athlete, professional dancer and practitioner of meditation, I have come to realize several key ingredients that deepen the potency and impact of somatic practice. Take a look at these foundational ways of relating to your embodied experience, bring them into practice and begin to feel the full magic of somatic practice unfold for you firsthand.
The Power of a Bow: Priming All Parts of Your Brain for Meaningful Action
The wonder of movement is that it connects with and impacts both our limbic and reptilian brains. In this practice, when you connect the movement with your intention, you are allowing the impact of your intention to resonate through not just your thinking mind but the whole of your human self. In this post we explore the power of the bow as a means of powerful communication outward and inward.