Embodiment
Method
A practical system for cultivating coherence in everyday life.
The Method
Embodiment is the practice of renewing intimacy with yourself, moment by moment — so that clarity, connection and coherence become part of how you live.
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The Em-bodi-ment methodology breaks this practice down into three simple steps.
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Receive and Recognise Inputs — attuning to the information and influences that enters the body system.
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Sense and Experience — understanding how physiology and lived experience shape what happens within us.
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Stay Present and Integrate — Remaining intimately present with what is alive, allowing experiences to organise and integrate.
Why Embodiment?
Life is continually shaping us through movement, relationships, thoughts, emotions and the environments we inhabit. Much of this happens before we consciously recognise it. When we lose contact with these influences, we can become reactive, disconnected and overwhelmed.
Embodiment restores that contact. It helps us recognise what is shaping us, remain present with what is happening, and allow our different intelligence systems to organise with greater clarity, connection and coherence.
The Em-bodi-ment Method turns this natural process into a practical three-part framework that can be experienced, trained and applied in everyday life.
Step 1. (Em)-bodi-ment
The "em" stands for what information goes "into" the body; and there are four categories of information and energy that we learn to attune to through the Method.
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Movement — information generated through posture, movement, breath and physical organisation.
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Meaning — information shaped through attention, memory, belief and interpretation.
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Connection — information exchanged through touch, expression, relationship and social cues.
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Biology — information received from light, temperature, food, sleep, chemistry and the wider environment.
Step 2. Em-(bodi)-ment
The "bodi" represents two inseparable dimensions of embodied reality: what is happening in the body, and how what is happening is experienced.
Physiology Reality — describes the biological processes continuously shaping our state, through nervous, endocrine, metabolic and circadian systems.
Experienced Reality — describes how life is sensed and lived from within, through physical sensation, thought and meaning, emotions and vitality
These two intelligence systems are not separate, they form a continuous feedback loop. What happens physiologically shapes our experience reality, and what we experience creates measurable physiological change.
As part of our embodiment journey we want to become intimate with this relationship, rather than living from either layer alone.
Step 3. Em-bodi-(ment)
“Ment” represents how intimately we can remain present with what is happening.
As we remain present and aware, the system can organise and integrate information without needing to consciously control the process.
The more fully an experience can be met and stayed with, the more completely it can be integrated — cultivating coherence.
We explore and expand this capacity through four trainable dimensions: Time, Space, Tension and Intention.
Cultivating Coherence
Coherence is not a state, it is a practice of relating to each moment.
Through movement, meaning, connection and biology, the Embodiment Method trains us to widen our range, deepen our intimacy with experience and support integration through time, space, tension and intention.
As this capacity grows, clarity, connection and freedom become less like temporary experiences and more like embodied qualities of how we live, move and relate.
This is what we cultivate through our retreats and trainings, at different levels of depth, practice and professional application.
Em-bodi-ment Pathway
Experience Embodiment
Festivals and Retreats
Enter the work through guided journeys, movement, connection and transformational experience.
Learn the Method
The Em-bodi-ment Method Training
Develop fluency in the structures, dimensions and practices of the complete em-bodi-ment method.
Teach the Method
Transformational Facilitation
Learn to hold safe, coherent spaces and authentically guide meaningful embodied transformation.
Jonny's classes and events are like dance understood as a life philosophy, they are a 'whole' experience, including body, mind and soul.
Britta
19 April 2021
I am so glad Jonny showed me the approach of intertwining dance, emotional work and spiritual practice. I have grown so much in the last years and Jonny has played a big part in this path.
Jana Rüedi
18 November 2023
Jonny has an amazing way to teach: Not only is he very clear about technique and structure but moreover dance as energy of life - allowing deeper connection to my person, resourcing myself and understanding my self better when dancing.
Thomas
24 April 2021