“There is a point where, in the mystery of existence, contradictions meet: where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, but not.” - Rabindranath Tagore

"To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe."
- Eckhart Tolle

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” –Viktor Frankl

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At the stillpoint of the turning world, there the dance is.
And without the point
that stillpoint
there would be no dance
and there is only the dance.  - T.S. Eliot

What if stillness wasn’t the absence of movement — but the fullness of presence? What if mindfulness wasn’t a silent observer, but a body humming with aliveness?

Welcome to Embodied Mindfulness - a practice of waking up inside your own skin. This somatic approach to lively stillness has been developed by Jamie McHugh over the past 25 years.

Pause to remember your tender self.

Slow down to accommodate the speed of change.

And dance with your breath to uncover the spacious place of the still point.

"There’s a swing and sway in the breath that replicates the swing and sway of emotional and mental responses. People can experience their stories in a less emotionally charged way, find new pathways for problem solving, and find acceptance of their circumstances, without falling into the numbness of dull resignation or the problematic dynamic of impulsive reactivity. Embodied Mindfulness practices access the wisdom of the body, shifting that wisdom from the localized sensations of the movement of breath to the globalized array of choices available for change in one’s life."- Kate Cleary, Embodied Mindfulness practitioner, dance artist and poet

Embodied Mindfulness is an easily repeatable daily somatic sitting practice designed for the modern body/mind.

This approach highlights stillness by using focused somatic activities of breath, vocalization, self-contact, and movement to occupy the mind so the body can settle.

We explore and diversify the movement of breath while bringing attention to the comfort, support and ease of the body’s structure while sitting.

The bare bones attention we bring to the reality of being a body creates a sensate respite from the outer world. Repeated over time, respite becomes reality as the brain reconfigures its baseline, and more readily buffers our responses to stress.

Read about the theory of Embodied Mindfulness and its origins HERE

Attend an Embodied Mindfulness Online Series here

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Find Certified Embodied Mindfulness practitioners HERE

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Jamie McHugh

"We have a rich cross-cultural legacy of both contemplative and expressive practices at our disposal. How do we draw upon and update them to meet the conditions of the modern mind living in an industrialized body within an urban environment?" -Jamie