Embodied Witnessing Practice:

• Expands compassion and brings us into relation with all aspects of our wholeness with heartfulness, innate dignity, and compassionate inquiry.
  
  
• Transforms stress and balances being and doing, supporting sustainability.
  
  
• Strengthens emotional literacy and recognizing how we are relating mindfully, heartfully, and body-fully in the moment - when we are flowing, freezing, overthinking, turning towards or turning away from our experience.    
  
  
• Matures capacity to harvest the message of each emotion, creating emotional freedom from old patterns.
  
  
• Refines interpersonal relating, sensing, and group "we space" practices.
  
  
• Opens moment-to-moment practice of attuning, discerning, and flowing with the movement of life through us, also known as the Tao.
  
  
• Deepens presence which includes noticing when we experience more or less spaciousness without making that wrong.
  
  
• Connects us with our central channel, a felt sense of integrity and creativity known in some traditions as the river of life through the spine.   
  
  
• Creates a felt sense of connection with our inherent value, resourcing, recharging and trusting life.
  
  
• Increase capacity for presence within conflict, and for being with chaos in a way that awakens new perceptions and possibilities. 
  
  
• Harmonizes inner-outer coherence.
  
  
• Grows a foundation for embodied social justice and disrupts trauma-based ideals such as hyper-individuality, shame- and pride-based identifications, perfectionism, scarcity, systemic white supremacy, dangerous world, extractive capitalism, and anti-Indigeneity.
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• Grounds an understanding of interconnection which honors the dignity, essentiality, and interdependence of all beings, human and more than human.  

​Somatic awareness—which means paying attention to your felt experience in your body--
​is beautifully described by Judith Blackstone:  

"This innermost core of the body feels like the center of our being.  It feels like we are living in the center of all our experience as a witness and completely immersed in our life at the same time.  In this subtle core, we gain our deepest perspective on our environment (because we are perceiving it from the distance of this innermost core of ourselves) as we experience oneness with our environment.  The subtle core of the body also integrates all of the qualities and functions of our body and being.  When we live in the subtle core, we can think, feel, and sense at the same time.”