Sensory Awareness offers a way to rediscover our natural birthright: that deeper felt sense of authenticity, aliveness and connection, most commonly embodied in childhood.
There is a unique form of mind/body re-education that focuses on direct sensory experimentation and practice to help us become more fully present and alive.
In Sensory Awareness classes and individual sessions students are guided in developing the capacity to more deeply sense and respond to the organic realities of the moment. That is, to the ongoing dynamics of gravity, breathing, balance, energy, touch, movement, and more. Exploring deceptively simple sensory experiments, habitual thoughts and tensions can gradually melt into the background as we become more truly sensible and more grounded in the present. Gradually through such work we can embody more physical and emotional ease and authenticity in everyday life.
Similar in aim to many types of meditation and mindfulness practice, this study was developed in Europe over many years and later brought to the U.S. and popularized by Charlotte Selver, and has touched the lives of thousands. For over 60 years its students have found this life affirming work to provide valuable health enhancing benefits for body, mind and spirit.
After teaching almost up until the very end of her life Charlotte Selver passed away in 2003 at the age of 102. Her valuable work lives on through the educational materials and projects of the Sensory Awareness Foundation and through the many approved teachers of the Sensory Awareness Leaders’ Guild world wide.
“...your own breathing can teach you how to sit. And it can teach you how to run. And it can teach you how to dance. And it can teach you how to make love. And it can teach you anything in the world. In other words, the source of information is really in you. But it's often sleeping. Sensing is to wake up for this possibility of really coming in touch with our inner informer, so to say.
What we are doing (in this work) seems so physical. It isn't. It's just to wake up.”
...Charlotte Selver, excerpt from Reclaiming Vitality and Presence
2010 Sensory Awareness Workshop Retreat:
This year's workshop will be held on August 6-8 at Vallombrosa Retreat Center.
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The mission of the Sensory Awareness Foundation:
To strengthen the capacity for authenticity, presence and responsiveness through the practice of Sensory Awareness and thereby contribute to a more caring and connected world.
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