Why are we working with the body ? 

Our history, our experiences and everything we go through are imprinted on our bodies. They leave their mark, evolve, transform and can manifest themselves in our sensations, our emotions, our postures, our breathing or the way we move.

Engaging in dialogue with our body — our soma — sometimes allows us to connect with things that words cannot capture. We open up another language through which our inner world can express itself, take shape and create meaning from what we feel in the present.

This process of listening the body is a learning process wich will gradually enables us to build bridges between our sensations, our emotions and our mind. We can learn to recognise the signals our body sends us to better understand our reactions and to develop a more trusting relationship with ourselves and more capacity of choices. From there, it becomes possible to question certain limiting beliefs and experiment new  path of responce into challenging situations.

Breath, movement, dance, imagination and touch can become points of support, tools for finding stable and grounding space where listening, exploring and be curious about our sensation rather then fear them is possible.

The core of these practices are deeply rooted from indigenous cultural heritage and wisdom. They invite us to move beyond a view of the body as a machine separate from the rest of the world, designed for production and profit. Instead, they open the way to an approach in which the body, emotions, mind, relationships and the environment are in constant dialogue – in stark contrast to colonial perspectives that separate, dominate and fragment our relationship with what's alife.

These binary views of mind/bodies have disastrous effects on our physical and mental health, both individually and collectively. Re-learning to feel whole and navigate complex sensations means reclaiming power through our capacity to connect with ourself, the collectif and beyond. It is a powerful political act.