Many of us have learned to understand ourselves primarily through our thoughts. We analyze, reflect, and try to “figure things out.” While insight can be valuable, it often doesn’t reach the places where stress, trauma, and long-held patterns actually live, in the body. The practices I use are based on Judith Blackstone's Realization Process, somatic therapy practices, and Psychic Psychology practices, as taught by John Friedlander. The gentle, embodied meditation practices