Our body is a source of truth and the precondition for reality and experience itself.

Direct, embodied experience is indispensable for understanding the mind.

Psychology is (or should be) the science of direct experience.

Embodied experience is the nondual position for understanding the mind.

We place an emphasis on mind as embodied, social, and cultural.

Embodied psychology has emerged, in part, as a response to the prevailing view of psychology which has lacked deep transdisciplinary scientific conceptualizations of thought, motivation, organisms, and persons as living systems.

Embodied approaches are integrative approaches to treating the whole person as they exist in their lived experience.

Our approach is framed by understanding that mind, thinking, and emotions are organizationally embodied by deep, ongoing natural processes spanning brain, body, and the social world.

These processes are best understood as dynamical living systems—our view of the embodied mind as realized in the dynamics breaking across the boundaries of brain, body, and world.

it’s a state of being.

It’s not just something to be used, but a home to experience, exploration, and education.

At the heart of embodiment is just what you hear: the body. But not just any body—your body.

Being embodied rests on the idea that you ARE your body and your body is YOU. 

An alternative to the dominant cognitivist tradition. Our mind and cognition cannot be confined inside our brains but span the brain, body, and the natural and social world.

Modern, ethical psychotherapy is interdisciplinary and embodied:
A transdisciplinary approach to embodied psychotherapy highlights the importance of understanding how various systems in the body interact with various systems in our lived experiences to influence and co-create our mental health.

Embodied approaches address not only our ability to think about ourselves, but our ability to feel ourselves.

Being aware of both has the potential to improve well-being, relationships to others and improve our capacity to achieve and accomplish what we want in our lives. When we aren’t able to focus on ourselves by thinking and feeling and can only look outside – either by avoidance, choice, stress or trauma – our lack of embodied awareness can impair other bodily functions.

Embodied awareness comes in many forms. It can be restorative, exploratory, and experienced through movement of the body, breath and images.

Therapy, like the mind and brain, works through a fundamentally embodied process. Current research supports understanding the brain as designed for social engagement and that an embodiment practice is a social practice. We believe that our current symptoms and individual self-focus are reflective of the collective need to reunite the body and the mind and bring more focus on the systemic relationship culture, environment and the change process itself.

We are embodied in everything we do, think, say and feel. Our minds are how they are because they are embodied. Our symptoms of insomnia, stress, irritability, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, depressed feelings are embodied.