Repair of traumas, whether 'physical' or 'psychological' is enhanced by permitting our innate powers of recovery to operate. In non-directed body movement, we explore the ways we impede, often unknowingly, full recovery, and we discover how to facilitate healing, maintain health and increase awareness.
Most physical activity is directed body movement.
A non-directed body movement session can start by standing erectly. As we feel a resistance to this directed posture, we begin to let go and experience how we stand without direction. The resulting movements are spontaneous and unpredictable, akin to the positions and patterns assumed during sleep. A typical response may be a twisting of the hips or shoulders, a drooping of the head, a sensation of pain from an old and presumably healed injury. These feelings are not suppressed but encouraged, and lead to further non-directed movement.