Desperate to find a way to interact with life, catching glimpses in sports when movement and space seemed to bend, seemed tactile and plastic. Not knowing my place or how I’d find my way, I longed for something real with which to commit my awareness. Knowing somehow and yet isolated, I ventured through high…
Tag: dance
The Embodiment Podcast: Episode 187 Zen Body with Corey Hess
Here is an interview Corey did with Mark Walsh on The Embodiment Podcast. Thanks for listening! Enjoy! Please share it! https://embodiedfacilitator.com/187-zen-body-corey-hess/?fbclid=IwAR3-rb3SnFXDG6oBxQddWhLgYsrksEDBkaQeMRn_J_c0HuM5S26zXtbiRbM
Receiving
“Receive.” “Receive”. “We become like a great mountain” Over and over the Roshi would tell us this. Many people want to know how to have ease in their bodies. Many of my friends, clients, zen friends. Someone tells them to put their pelvis in this position and that does not feel good. And so they…
Body as Bones in a Leather Bag of Water: Exploring Noguchi Taiso
There are countless techniques to control the body, to master the body, to shape it to our will in order to find health. This post is about a type of exercise and opening to a way of being which looks at the body in a different way. It emphasizes letting go of control, effortlessness, feeling…
Zen Embodiment’s 5 Most Popular Blog Posts
Thank you for reading my blog! Below are the all time most popular posts. Breathing from the Belly: Tanden, a Great Rolling Ball Describing Traditional Rinzai Koan Training A great love affair Just standing around Zhan Zhuang, Standing Like a Tree Breaking Through: Sublime and Natural These are not necessarily my favorite. I will do…
Walking Emotional Energy Fields
We are walking emotional energy fields. When I came back from Japan, and Teresa was pregnant with Rose, we were living on a little herb farm in a cottage. Some friends from the monastery were visiting one evening, and we were talking about what was next in our lives. For me, it was a moment…
Simple Tips: Finding Joy in Daily Practice
My hope is to inspire people to find a way to daily enjoy engaging with their unique inner process. I’m talking about sitting down and feeling our bodies and being present. Or maybe, for some, it could be standing still. Or even with very simple movement. But to find a way to make it their…
Standing the in the Dark, Giggling
“Always now – just now – come into being. Always now – just now – give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.” Soko Morinaga Everyone wants to figure everything out. Everyone wants to have the real true thought to explain our lives with meaning. Most of us want some extreme, an absolute, to…
Letting the Body Fully Express
Doing internal energy work throughout the day can be really simple. We can ask ourselves, “How is my body trying to fully express itself energetically right now?” Our bodies are like kinked hoses, and we are kinked where we are mentally and emotionally stuck. Allowing the body to fully express this energy means learning to…
Zen as Primordial Dance Training
Zen for me was like encountering some carnal primordial dance training. The whole life was a choreographed dance. We came to the training, confused, awkward, couldn’t get ourselves going in one direction. We were scattered, lost. And then we’d see someone wash their bowls, and it was like the world turned to flame, witnessing…
