The Body and Non Duality: Returning Through the Body

Let’s begin.

Our natural state is one of openness, fluidity and non-identification.
Before the name, the story, the conditioning, the preferences and repulsions, there was a raw, unfiltered, uncensored, free flowing awareness that was able to express itself in the most intimate and spontaneous ways.

Somewhere along the way, this seamless awareness that was once free flowing began to contract. This contraction and concentration of awareness marked the beginning of physicality and duality. Our ability to concentrate awareness into a single point of focus created a sense of narrowing, a kind of density that eventually took shape as what we now call my body, my personality and my life.

 The first traumas, conditions, and experiences of separateness began with the body. From there we continued our creation by dividing an in here and out there experience, a self and a world, a me and everything else. Our lives have become serious, and the body, which was once a pure expression of life itself, has become something to manage, control and survive. Rather than enjoying our creation, we find ourselves trying to survive it.

 The body as a doorway to non-duality – if the body is the doorway, the entry point, then you must walk through it and back the way you came.

 The body is not a mistake or an obstacle. It is the most direct doorway back to the uncensored, non-dual recognition of self. The contractions, emotions, survival instincts (fear) that brought this organism into existence must be systematically dismantled, through somatic work, to allow this shaky foundation to give up its holding and survival.

When we consistently do this it begins to reveal the same openness and fluidity that existed before the sense of separation appeared. The body becomes a bridge between the seeming individual and the vastness that holds everything. Within this process, the birth of functionality, health and sanity is born. Through the body we can enjoy all expressions but with a deep knowing of who we are and what is truly here.