Category: Somanautiko

Embracing the Sacred Symbol of the Chambered Nautilus

The Chambered Nautilus is a living fossil that has survived in Earth’s oceans for over 500 million years. After 12 months gestation, it hatches from an egg, already in a shell with four chambers (like the human heart), and slowly matures over 16 years. It grows a new chamber in its spiraled shell every time…
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09/03/2018 0

Exploring Uncertain Terrain

You want to feel more connected. There is something about how you feel in your life, in your body, in your relationships, that isn’t quite right–if only you had a way to describe this uncomfortable place. Perhaps you feel stuck and there is no sense of flow, or ease, in your life. Perhaps you are…
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05/22/2018 0

Change is the Only Constant

When we bring into movement what is bound or stuck, we have more choices. Having more choices increases the resiliency of our organisms. When we allow the innate intelligence of our body-mind to express itself through fluid movement, we increase our capacity to handle transitions and change. When our body-mind is allowed to move, there…
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03/20/2018 0

Finding My Professional Path

A knee injury I sustained in performance as a young dancer taught me intimately about the body’s amazing ability to heal itself from trauma, lessons only serious illness or injury can teach. It also awakened the life-changing question: “Why did this happen?” This insatiable inquiry led me to a desire to deeply study anatomy and…
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03/07/2018 0