Embodied Self-Awareness Sharing

Each one of us has the innate ability to embody self and develop a sense of awareness of our body, mind and emotion. It is the basic core of human nature. However, due to the advance growth of technology and constant busyness, we often lost touch with our basic. Running the embodied self-awareness sessions, it is a time and space for the participants to be in touch with the basic: body, mind and emotion as well as having fun and exploring creativity in movement, art and music. The nature of the sessions is to develop a non-judgemental attitude towards self and not to avoid what may come forth in exploring ourselves and embody them. As Alan Fogel has explained, 'Embodied self-awareness involves being in a subjective emotional present... ..., without judgement and without trying to escape from it.’(The Psychophysiology of Self-awareness, 2009). Thus, as I reflected upon what is the purpose of these sessions, I have written a poem on it.

“A time for yourself,
A space to explore,
To feel, to move, to flow, to listen,
To embody the whole you,
In connection with
Your body, mind, emotion and spirit."
~ Elizabeth Rutten-Ng 

I hope that the sessions will lead the participants back to basic, and rediscovering the innate ability of self-awareness and especially a time and space for oneself to be free, to be where they are at, to play, to have fun, and to move.  A time just by being with oneself, in body, mind and emotion. One can be surprised that a simple movement even it is basic and done many times, is always a different experience when we are open to what it may bring us. The reason is that our journey is ever constant moving, changing, and always in a process. We grow, we change, we evolve! That's the beauty of who and how we are!

P/s: Embodied Self-Awareness has evolved from two parts: feet and body, in the future, it will be developed into a continuous sessions with themes. You can view the feedback and art pieces in the sharing of process by the clients.