Beginner's Body

Writing on bodywork, breathwork, sport and psychology.

Alongside my practice I write about bodywork, breathwork and the nervous system. Sign up for my mailing list — my writing covers a range of themes including sport and psychology. Below are some quotes that continue to inspire me to learn more about the body — its functions, its forms and its rhythms.

“What is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes… If there is in you something bad or sick or unsound, let it inwardly be and breathe. That’s the only way it can evolve and change into the form it needs.”
— Eugene Gendlin

“When you touch the person you are with, that’s the moment in which the person feels himself. He then knows what’s going on inside him, what he’s like — a kind of knowledge that precedes thought.”
— Ruthy Alon

“The only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.”
— Bessel van der Kolk

“There is already so much narrative in our body…. so many gestures and postures that come with their own story, their own emotion.”
— Crystal Pite