Cultivating Your Innate Biointelligence

After 40 years of teaching, I am clearer than ever that true learning does not happen from the outside in. True learning doesn’t come from an informational download or from proclamations of “the truth”. True learning is transformational, and it comes from deep personal exploration in the partnership of well-traveled guidance and wisdom. To be transformed is to emerge with an expanded awareness, a clearer vision, a renewed sense of oneself, and our relationship with our living environment. When we shift our attention to nurturing awareness, rather than getting our clients “to do it the right way”, we create a safe, empowering, illuminating space for them to discover the real possibility of an embodied approach to movement in their lives.

My vision is founded on studies with treasured mentors who taught from a coordinated trinity of body, mind, and spirit. Principles of practice, rather than exercises, live for them in a much larger vision that cultivates our inner wisdom, our ability to self-heal, and our ability to reconnect with the vital forces that constitute our true nature. Standing on the shoulders of this embodied legacy, we will ground ourselves in deep roots of sound, breath, and movement, nourished by universal principles that form the foundation of all great bodymind disciplines. This will form the context for our deep dive into our natural, primal way of moving, honoring the uniqueness of each participant.

To bring forth this vision, we will first learn to distinguish between: re-examining the current way we assess anatomical problems from a biomechanical “pieces and parts” approach, as distinct from a biointelligent “whole body living architecture” perspective. This will give us a unique portal into the body’s understanding of itself in relationship with the gravitational field. This whole body approach invites us into a dynamic exploration of the true nature of how we develop and move. This contextual way of seeing, sensing, and touching will challenge everything you think you “know” and empower your personal practice and teaching in inspiring and profound ways.

Perhaps more than anything else, my journey has brought this realization: one can “master” every move of advanced exercises and know how to teach them, yet still come up far short of making the kind of lasting and profound impact possible in our visionary work.

For without the ability to create space, to get underneath the conditions, circumstances and mindsets that stop us and our clients, such that an opening is created that propels us/them to grand, new possibilities, we will not have mastery. Because mastery is not just about lighting up a room, but the ability to light up another, in essence, “to pass the torch” of possibility, where little or none was seen before.

Marry this with a deep understanding of the principles and practice of an embodied approach to movement and life, and then you have real mastery. This is what lights me up, empowering people to discover their own true voice, their “inner mastery”. This is the “container,” so to speak, within which my 3CoreConnections Embodied Awareness perspective lives.