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somatic movement education: a form of meditation for the active life.

I started meditating with Zen during my training with IOKAI Shiatsu. The two ideograms forming the character “IO” come from an old Buddhist Sutra. “IO” means “the King of Medicine”: the One who understands the root of disease, knows how to cure it and gives his life to doing so, keeping sickness forever at bay. You could say this is a dream we can all share: to be happy, … [Read more...] about somatic movement education: a form of meditation for the active life.

experience a private sessions in somatic movement education.

What is it about?! Somatic movement educators and therapists, Mark Taylor and other BodyMindMovement practitioners  work with individual clients to create the conditions in the body and mind for internal transformation and healing processes to take place. Attending to a client's fundamental health, rather than a specific pathology, we assess the flow of movement and … [Read more...] about experience a private sessions in somatic movement education.

simple yet powerful idea of “yielding”

Before the classes, I felt my body is out of alignment all the time.  I tried so hard to correct and reduce the pain and cope up with all the injuries. After the two classes, I was amazing by the simple yet powerful idea of “yielding”.  I have to say since then, this has became a great tool for me. My body seemed registrar the idea of yielding, no matter walking, standing, … [Read more...] about simple yet powerful idea of “yielding”