Somatic Descent
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Shambhala Publications08/25/2020Pages: 192Size: 5.5 x 8.5ISBN: 9781611805666DetailsHave you ever had a “gut feeling” about a certain person or situation? Or a sense of intuition about how to respond to a particular challenge in your life?
There’s nothing magical or mystical about those kinds of scenarios. In fact, our body contains immense wisdom not directly available to our conscious mind, and it is continually communicating to us in the form of bodily sensations and intuitions. However, because most of us are so cut off from our somatic experience, we are quite unaware of this dimension of our body’s expression.
Through a meditation practice called Somatic Descent, Reginald Ray shows us how to connect with our body’s spontaneous intelligence and inspiration. In Somatic Descent we see that the wisdom of the body can be a guide in offering us specific and practical guidelines for our everyday life.
Includes a link to online audio recordings of the guided meditations found in the book.RelatedCheck items to add to the cart orAuthor BioDR. REGINALD “REGGIE” RAY is the cofounder and spiritual director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation, dedicated to the evolution and flowering of the somatic teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. He teaches in the tradition of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Reggie is the author of several books and audio programs, including The Awakening Body and The Practice of Pure Awareness. He makes his residence in Crestone and Boulder, Colorado.Praise"A guide into deeply integrative spiritual practice. With clarity and nuance, Ray shows us how to bring meditative awareness to the body and to listen to our most immediate and direct experience. His practice instructions are enlivening, pointing to the complete coherence of body and mind." —Diane Musho Hamilton, author of Everything Is Workable
"So many meditative practices take people away from the dark, juicy nether regions of their bodies. Using an ancient tantric practice, Reggie Ray leads us instead on a journey of exploration into our bodies and helps us communicate with the parts of us residing there that we often bypass through meditation. Through these embodiment practices we access surprising wisdom in addition to profound somatic spiritual experiences." —Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., developer of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy
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