For this journey you need a theory, a map that tells you where you are with the client and keeps you from getting lost. And you need a portmanteau of techniques—exercises, meditations, experiments, explorations—ways to help your client become at ease with unfamiliar terrain of herself. In this post I’m sharing my map.

Your “perceptual tensegrity” can improve your balance when you practice yoga. It can activate your core in Pilates. It can keep you from tripping when you walk down the street. Because awareness of space outside the body creates more space inside the body. One result is that your muscles are then arrayed to best advantage for efficient coordination.

Twenty years ago I took a basic course with the Bodynamic Institute. What I like about this approach to body/mind correlation is that I can feel the reality of it in my body.  Other groups’ formulations often feel more cerebral than physical.