EMBODIMENT
In Venezuela chaca chaca means "to have sex."
I was at the All American Laughter Yoga Conference in 2011 in Pasadena, CA. During my presentation, a Laughter Yoga Leader from South America said, "Be careful doing the "Shakha Sign" in Venezuela. It means "Let's get busy." Sex of course, is a vital and fundamental process of life. As I was formulating the meaning of "Shakha" as it was forming around me, I decided to focus beyond the sexual act to the fuller concept of embodiment.
“Embodiment can be simply defined as living life informed through the sense experience of the body.”
Embodiment is a verb. The act of expanding one’s self awareness to include the felt experience of the body, such as sensory, sensational, emotional and physical experiences, and incorporating that information into one’s overall conception and conduct of themselves, their identity, beliefs, behaviors, and ways of being.
We cannot begin to reign in our madness until we recover what the body knows and learn to accord
with it. To feel and surrender to that accord is to flood the emptiness of our lives with the experience
of the present – the only true way to begin to harmonize with the world.
I was at the All American Laughter Yoga Conference in 2011 in Pasadena, CA. During my presentation, a Laughter Yoga Leader from South America said, "Be careful doing the "Shakha Sign" in Venezuela. It means "Let's get busy." Sex of course, is a vital and fundamental process of life. As I was formulating the meaning of "Shakha" as it was forming around me, I decided to focus beyond the sexual act to the fuller concept of embodiment.
“Embodiment can be simply defined as living life informed through the sense experience of the body.”
Embodiment is a verb. The act of expanding one’s self awareness to include the felt experience of the body, such as sensory, sensational, emotional and physical experiences, and incorporating that information into one’s overall conception and conduct of themselves, their identity, beliefs, behaviors, and ways of being.
We cannot begin to reign in our madness until we recover what the body knows and learn to accord
with it. To feel and surrender to that accord is to flood the emptiness of our lives with the experience
of the present – the only true way to begin to harmonize with the world.