23/03/2026
Interoception, proprioception, coenesthesia,kinaesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthetics, corporeality, felt sense, tacit knowledge, body awareness, body consciousness, somatic awareness, body connection, lived body, subjective body…
Conceptualising the feeling of being a body in the world (let alone measuring it in its holistic form) is like trying to grasp smoke. The literature is pretty fragmented, and embodied research, whilst certainly gaining more traction in the field of psychology, seems to hit an invisible wall whereby it can’t quite capture the essence of embodiment, despite the ‘knowing’ that it’s fundamental to our health.
As a researcher it’s a methodological headache, but as a practitioner it kinda means nothing because that essence, that knowing, is expressed, felt and transmitted within and between bodies. Yes, words and metaphors help us to point towards sensory potential, but the knowing is in the embodied experience. It’s pre-linguistic, ephemeral, and resists being ‘known’ in an intellectual sense.
I absolutely LOVED teaching this weekend for The group energy was 👌 We sensed and felt our way through time and space, within and between ourselves. And now I’m trying my hardest to put my academic hat back on and return to my embodiment ‘studies’. The irony is REAL! 😂
