When I say aliveness, what do I mean? Aliveness is the opposite of numbness. It is the full capacity for responsive sensation, encapsulating the entire range of the human capacity to feel, from grief to joy. Aliveness is sensuality, eroticism, connection with the natural world around us, with people and with community. It is a…
Tag: Embodiment
Wholeness 101: Beyond Gender and Identity
Wholeness 101: Beyond Gender and Identity A 6-Week Online Group Coaching Experience for members of the Trans/Queer/GNC community Co-Hosted by Ilana Grostern and Zoë Galle.Thursdays 6-8pm EST, running from May 11 thru June 15. Register here. Beginning with an overview of The Art of Living Body First and the relevance of the philosophy to the…
Wellness is Incidental
My biggest existential coup is that my sucking, cloying attraction to social media has vanished. I have written in the past about leaving Facebook. This may be another one of those posts – only time will tell. But I know something is different, so I am writing from where I find myself. Something has fundamentally shifted and this I can’t deny. This is key, this shift. This is more incidental wellness.
The Body Barometer
While I do bill myself as a somatic coach, I also operate with the understanding that we didn’t grow up knowing how to use our entire beings to be well in the world. The fact is that it’s not the mind alone that informs us of how we are. It’s the bodymind that exists in…
The Value of Neutrality
My most revelatory moments seem to come when I’m on a walk. The first time I truly embodied rapture, I was walking down a busy metropolitan street listening to music, and had to look down to see if my feet were still touching the earth. For a moment, I felt perfectly suspended between heaven and earth,…
Hishtavut, Revisited
An oldie, but still me. It’s been an astonishing realization as of late that instead of moving with the chaos into more chaos of my own I am instead connecting more and more deeply with a neutral experience of myself and the world. This is the state that we know as equanimity. Sometime mid last…
Oversharing on the Internet to Prove a Point
This was a text I sent out with my last email, so it’s a few weeks old. Gosh, what a whirlwind last three weeks. Today is the first day that I feel balanced, grounded, refreshed, and resourced, and I’m going to tell you why I’m sharing this with you. Often, when getting to know a…
Guided Self-Noticing
An Exercise in Tuning in to this Moment through the Body This is a technique I use to guide my clients into attuned connection with their bodies, bringing attention to the connection with the physical nature of the world around them. We end by focusing our attention between the eyes and tasking the mind to…
Ilana Grostern Coaching 