Welcome to the Body
By Matthew Budd
We are trapped, all of us, in a 300 year old way of thinking. During the 17th century science began, scientific thinking. People began to think of how to understand an objective world, a world of things. One of the things to be understood was the body.
The brilliance of the human mind produced the fruits of discovery that we now call modern medicine and science. The body can be seen as another thing to be understood and worked on. So enters modern medicine.
Now we are beginning to understand life, and the body, in a much bigger context. The physical body is also capable of generating a set of functions that we call mind, including emotions, memories, and a buried unconscious heritage from lives gone before us. We call this archetypal memory.
Moreover these functions called mind, and the body that generated them, are a unity- one thing, not a crowd, just one thing. So memory and emotion show up in the muscles, bones, and organs AND actions of the muscles, bones and organs CHANGE our minds. This is what a unity is.
At the Retreats we learn in this new and growing awareness, the awareness of Unity. We work psychologically, emotionally and spiritually, but also somatically, on the body, to discover and change.
In this edition of the newsletter several members of our team will describe how they direct their talents to body learning in the service of our healing.