Dyana’s Blog
Dyana’s writings about life, her teaching and learnings
The Symphonic Body
Reflections arising from a Somatics Practice Part 3 – The Symphonic Body The skeletal structure of the body is an intriguing confusion of so many curves and angles and knobbly bits. In particular I find the pelvic bone almost impossible to visualise internally – it...
How much of my body is my friend?
Reflections arising from a Somatics Practice Part 2 – How much of my body is my friend? When I started somatics I was stunned to realise that I couldn’t directly sense much of my physical body. I didn’t have any direct feeling for it at all. This was after a lifetime...
My Relationship to My Body
Reflections arising from a Somatics Practice Part 1 – My relationship to my Body Do I see it simply as a body-vehicle I can use to do what my mind wants? Is it something to manipulate according to my will and ideas and desires. Is this body a source of pain or...
Awakening the Sacred Body
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a teacher of and writer about Tibetan Bon and Dzogchen. He is Tibetan and grew up studying in India. I have been reading his books avidly over the last month, with a couple more about to arrive from Book Depository. On a recent short retreat...
The Five Elements
It’s easy for me to forget that I have been made up out of the elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air, space. I forget that if I am to understand myself, I need to understand the elements that are forming me. My relationship to the natural world is much more...
Why I love Somatics
Finally, after almost a lifetime of yoga practice and study, I came to Somatics. I had struggled with a broad variety of different ideas about how yoga should be practised. A lot of the instruction seemed contradictory and hard to clearly embody. I kept forgetting...
Self Comes to Mind
Antonio Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind What I found so fascinating about this book was Damasio’s idea that our self evolved first of all as a clever way to organise information from the body and respond to it effectively. A self begins to consciously experience the...
