THE EMBODIED WAY

As an invitation into what has long been called learning to live as a body in full presence, this page explores the heart of embodied spirituality. Most of us spend our lives in our heads—planning for the future, regretting the past, continually labeling and defining everything we see. Because we can name something, we imagine we understand its essence. Yet in all this mental activity, we are often absent from the only moment we can ever live: the ever-present NOW.

The Embodied Way invites you to live not from this never-ending mental movement but from the deeper presence of universal intelligence. You are invited to learn how to be grounded in the present moment. One of the primary ways this is cultivated is through integrating the subtle body—your inner body of light that exists beyond form—with practices of deep somatic relaxation such as Yoga Nidra and body-scanning techniques.

Your body is giving you the right indication; the body is very wise. The mind is a very late arrival. The body has lived millions of years, it knows what is needed. – Osho

Embodiment draws you out of living solely in the head and invites you into the lived immediacy of spiritual truth. It calls you to embody insight and revelation rather than merely understand them intellectually. Embodiment also addresses what has been called spiritual bypassing—using spiritual ideas or practices to avoid difficult emotions, unresolved trauma, or essential personal growth. This includes numbing, detachment, and using spirituality as an escape rather than a doorway into wholeness.

When we allow spirituality to become embodied, the whole system becomes primed to express—primed to allow the Divine to move uniquely through us. The body is recognized as a temple of Spirit through which inspiration flows, and in this recognition we begin to embody the dance of the Divine.

This is not a fitness regime to make you physically strong, but a fitness for what I call Love’s Purpose. To be fit for Love’s purpose is to be grounded in an evolving sense of trust and belonging. You return home to your true Self, beyond the idea of yourself as a separate and isolated identity. As Eckhart Tolle writes in The Power of Now, embodiment and enlightenment are not an escape from the body but are realized through the body.

Once we open up to the flow of energy within our body, we can also open up to the flow of energy in the universe.
– Wilhelm Reich

The Drift Away From Spiritual Embodiment

Modern spirituality has drifted into the realm of the mind—floating somewhere “up there,” emphasizing transcendence and escape over embodied presence. Since the Age of Enlightenment, we have largely worshipped the intellect rather than the deeper KNOWING that arises through being. This has led to what many have called a kind of “normal insanity.” Embodied spirituality invites us back into the ground of the body, into sensation, and into the immediacy of being here and now. This is the foundation of authentic spiritual revelation.

ROOTED: A Practice of Spiritual Embodiment

I invite you to explore this grounded way of being through the collective practice I call being ROOTED:

• R — Return to the body
• O — Open to sensation
• O — Observe with kindness
• T — Trust your inner KNOWING
• E — Embrace silence
• D — Descend into presence

There is a paradox at the heart of descending into presence. The more we soften downward into the body—the more we trust the aliveness moving within us—the more awake we become. With rootedness in breath, sensation, and silence, we open into a greater spaciousness. The deeper we settle into presence, the more connected we become.