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What is this new embodied Enlightenment?

What is Enlightenment? What is enlightenment? Modern science called itself the age of enlightenment. The enlightenment they spoke of was intellectual not spiritual. It was the creation of scientists and philosophers, who called themselves Natural Philosohers. They repeatedly found tremendous wisdom and power in their use of reason and mathematics, writing book after book and establishing ever…

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The revolution that starts from within:

the importance of understanding our own anatomy. The body is self reproducing, self organizing and self healing. The human body does all of this, but not without self-awareness. If animals are able to renegotiate many forms of even quite dramatic trauma that occur in a natural environment, shouldn’t the same be true for us? Wouldn’t a large part of that necessary somatic self-awareness simply…

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Muscle Salon with Muscle Monk.

90 minutes of gentle movement meditation once a month. A healing, sensual, and playful excursion into the world of biomechanical enlightenment. A sacred setting with honor and safety, the Muscle Salon is meant to be a place for sensitive reconnection with our bodies. We will be exploring our deepest core anatomy and developing new inner resources. As a Musclemonk, the Muscle Salon is part of my…

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Title:The Anatomy of Self Awareness

An Anatomical Description of Trauma Response: Three Bones Theory and the Sensory Stations of the Deep core. Biography: Jim Freda is a structural bodyworker and somatic social theorist focusing on the historical and cultural determinants of anatomy. Abstract: The human body is self-reproducing, self-organizing, and self-healing, but not without self-awareness. My argument is that there is a…

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knowing the body: abstract reason vs direct experience

Through my entire life I was never interested in American or Western history. I studied the history of Japan and Korea at Columbia and then for eight more years at UCLA. That was a long time ago, but I have been thinking more about the body and I have returned to history. However I have become a kind of somatic historian. I have been researching the shoulder very deeply, and my hypothesis…

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