Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

As a foundation for a contemplative life, the body can both literally and metaphorically help us wake up.

Breathing, sensing, and moving—the ways we know our body—carry tremendous contemplative potential, and yet, we so often move through our days unaware of or in conflict with our physical selves. In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in. Each chapter offers insights and practices that help us recover our lost physical wisdom—to integrate our bodies with mindfulness, to deal with emotions, and to develop attuned relationships. Bodyfulness inspires us to reclaim a body-centered contemplative life and challenges us to harness our potential to effect social and personal transformation in this body now.

• Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy
• Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions
• The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness
• Your Body is Your Brain: Leverage Your Somatic Intelligence to Find Purpose, Build Resilience, Deepen Relationships and Lead More Powerfully
• Trauma and the Unbound Body: The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness
• The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
• Playing With Movement: How to Explore the Many Dimensions of Physical Health and Performance
• Heal the Body, Heal the Mind: A Somatic Approach to Moving Beyond Trauma
• Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice
• Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity