In short, this immersive is built on three pillars:

1. Experiencing rhythms through the tissues and flows of your own body in movement.

2. Self touch.

3. Practicing supporting these rhythms by intuitive bodywork, both giving and receiving.

1) Experiencing in your own system first

We need a deep resonance with the unseen undertow. Our bodies are in constant inner movement. The way different systems and tissues move are varied and often multi-layered. When we move our bodies in somatic exploration we practice to get to know the movements of the currents of fluid, electrical impulses, stagnant or free fascia and muscle to name a few of the undertow rhythms.

Perhaps we can name things separately (Jedi level), however, most often we feel into many different rhythms and flow at the same time. We meet the information we receive with a playful attitude of safe exploration within the own body system, both giving more containment (clearer directionality) and more space (creating less pressure and increasing circulation).

Self experience comes first, but will not be the only valid experience we base our hands on work off. In sharing of the experiences we gain more understanding of the variations of different individuals and how the psyche and mind follow these rhythms in multitude of variation.

2) Self touch

Placing our hands on our own body creates a dual experience of inside/outside experience simultaneously. It can be more confusing than working on another body. However, we need to test the different ways of using the rhythms on our own body first to get to know the techniques before we start practicing on others.

3) Hands-on bodywork through intuitive touch

Intuitive touch leans on full confidence in the self-organizing and self-healing capacity of our body-mind. Under the right circumstances, fluidity and containment find greater harmony, allowing for the release, or the stability needed for healing and restored functionality. Intuitive touch demands something from the practitioner, it asks for you to step outside your regular approach and apply a method that to another person, may at first seem like no method at all.

Your main skill to strengthen is trust.

Trust in how you receive information from another body through multiple senses. So much will stand in the way of clear perception. How someone looks or carries themselves, facial expression, culture differences, what they are wearing, how they move, all your prejudices to body types, looks, smells, textures and so on will be there to feel through. As we explore meeting someone else through all our senses, some pathways will open more clearly for you and some might stay unavailable. Personally I rely on the felt sense through my hands and on images that pop up for my inner sight. This communication is wordless for me, but for someone else the information may be taken in through the senses and translated to words and thought, or to sound. The variation is endless.