Energy & The Nervous System in Embodied Experience

These developments have had a significant impact on our facility, effectiveness and use of body oriented interventions facilitating our work with body and character structure, helping us to more rapidly and connect clients to their embodied experience, and allowing us to readily clear trauma responses from the nervous system. The results of this work have transformed the way we understand embodiment and how we practice bodyoriented psychotherapy. The emphasis in this approach on energy, consciousness and the experience of embodiment may seem peculiar to those whose view of the nervous system is drawn only from a biological view. But the energetic framework integrates well with our scientific view of the nervous system while also helping to better anchor us in the phenomenology of ourselves as embodied beings. Real, felt, embodied experience is what lies at the core of our work in body oriented psychotherapy. Energetic work with the nervous system gives us the tools to subtly but profoundly deepen embodied experience while revealing important insights into the energetic aspects of the nature of consciousness itself, the marriage of soul and matter, which is the nature our humanness.