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What is Somatic Meditation? - by River Kenna - Inner Wilds

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Modern meditation tends to stay where we live: in the head. There's a better way.

Is there something that you barely think about, that’s so natural and obvious to you that it hardly merits mention—but when you let it drop in conversation, others tend to find it novel, strange, or at least somewhat interesting? For me, that’s somatic meditation. I’ve talked about it on Twitter, in my course, in previous articles, in my sangha, and some of the common responses are things like “What’s that?” “Is that different from [x type of] meditation?” “Oh that sounds intriguing, where did you find that?” So I’m writing this article to lay out the story of what I mean by “somatic…

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