The appearance of each new shape is another incarnation. Each of our bodied selves is a distinct self, and has its special feelings, needs, images, actions, and a consequent world view. Throughout our lives we form bodies appropriate to the age we are. A somatic-emotional approach offers a way to work with the feelings and challenges of each emerging shape. The work of organizing and disorganizing these changes is profound.
New shapes brings their own archetypal images and dreams of the future body.
Somatic work begins with discovering our individual patterns of self use and the emotional body states that give us a primary reality. With this self knowledge, we learn to grow an interior presence, to be grounded in ourselves, and to sustain our process in relationship to others. Growing ourselves, then, is not a state of mind but a state of the somatic entity. Stanley Keleman has been practicing and developing somatic therapy for over thirty years and is a pioneer in his study of the body and its connection to the sexual, emotional, psychological and imaginative aspects of human experience. Through his writings and practice, he has developed a methodology and conceptual framework for the life of the body.