Returning Home to Our Bodies -The Book
Abigail Rose Clarke is a writer, somatic educator and artist. She’s been teaching somatics internationally since 2011. Her book,Returning Home to the Body: Reimagining the Relationship Between our Bodies and the World will be released in January 2024.
Learn more here:
https://www.abigailroseclarke.com/
ABOUT RETURNING HOME TO OUR BODIES
A body-based healing model that interrogates what we’ve been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body—and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices.
Pushing back against a consumerist, pleasure-centric somatics industry that privileges product over process, Abigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self, nature, and community.
Combining the rigor of the scientific method with the poetry and lyricism of movement and somatic studies, Clarke’s somatic learning system—The Embodied Life Method—centers the body as a guide through today’s most seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, reclaiming the body as a source of liberatory comfort in times of great uncertainty and yet, possibility.
With tools and practices to help us better understand and dismantle the many ways our bodies are weaponized to serve domination systems, topics covered include:
Harnessing the vitality of curiosity and experimentation
Using nature as a guide to possibility
Embracing the necessity of difference
Exposing the lie of universal isolation
Dismantling the fallacy of hierarchy
Uncovering the truth of endless capacity
Awe as a driving force for transformation
With methods honed over decades of inquiry, teaching, and practice, Returning Home to Our Bodies provides a lucid, body-based model of healing and restoration—one that imagines a world beyond systems of domination, marginalization, and isolation to nurture embodied, whole-community liberation.
Show Notes:
“anything that happens to any part of me is going to have an effect on the whole of me”
“somatics is an invitation to return to the whole of ourselves”
“you’re in a body that’s having a valid experience”
“look through to see where the body wants some attention and see what the body wants to share”
“this doesn’t have to make sense… we’re in the realm of poetry”
I don’t need to know. I need to notice. (I can notice)
“most emotions are a cocktail of various emotions”
“we’re a culture that doesn’t have a lot of experience holding grief”
Excerpt Reading, Chapter 8- For when the heart is breaking
There’s a miracle inside of us. Everything we need is happening inside of us.
Reconnect to what it feels like to have a loving release- like we do with our breath.
“the body is a source of incredible comfort, but perfection is a myth”
