Embodied Frictions

How to be embodied in an increasingly disembodied world?

For many years I have nursed a curiosity about alternative methods of thinking and feeling embodiment. After decades spent in studios with mirrors and the silent vow to eliminate every part of my life that took away from my ability to focus on becoming faster, leaner, stronger, I have been unfolding my roots toward a more polyphonous embodiment – one that takes into account the nourishment and needs of a body that engages creatively with all of life, not just the parts of life that can be transmuted and formed into some semblance of performance. One that follows me when I am alone, when I am with loved ones, when I pray, when I learn and study, when I talk to the plants and trees that border the land I live on.

It is very recent in our human history that we have prioritized ethics of disembodiment, thinking