The Awakening Body: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life

A senior Buddhist teacher offers six fundamental body-based meditation practices that show the reader that enlightenment is as close to you as your own body.


Many of us experience life through so many conceptual filters that we never recognize the freedom and joy that are inherent in us—and are in fact the essence of who we are. We can grow old not realizing that one of the most powerful tools to escape the painful knots we tie ourselves in is, literally, at our fingertips: our body. 
 
Here, Reggie Ray cracks open the shell of the mind-body dichotomy and presents six fundamental body-based practices that connect us back to who we really are. These practices cut through the mental fabrications through which we experience our world and lead us directly to the richness of living a fully present, embodied human life.

Includes a link to free downloads of recorded guided practices.

• Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body
• The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Awakening the Sacred
• Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity
• Indestructible Truth: The Living Spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism (World of Tibetan Buddhism, Vol. 1)
• In Touch: How to Tune In to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust Yourself
• Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body
• The Posture of Meditation
• Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet (World of Tibetan Buddhism, Vol. 2)
• Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
• Finding God in the Body: A Spiritual Path for the Modern West