Writing and the Body in Motion Quotes

“Somatic awakening opens us to feeling, sensing, and taking action. It allows us to abandon old ways of behaving that may be outdated or no longer in our best interest and to adopt new ways more aligned with personal values and well-being. A body in touch with its own being is alive to the moment and open to shedding old skin for new, aware, too, that such shedding, a dynamic process of our aliveness, is taking place subcutaneously regardless of our approval.”
― Cheryl Pallant, Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice

“We cannot step into the same river of our body twice.”
― Cheryl Pallant, Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice

“Writing is a path of knowing, a process of cognition, an act of being and becoming. The flesh gives voice to sing or rant, a verbal dance of cells, atoms, energy, intention, and attention.”
― Cheryl Pallant, Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice

“Words are felt bodily presences. They take up residence in our connective tissue, in the inner sanctum of our cells and the rapid fire of neurons. They await our grasp and their play upon the page. They await our writing, our consideration and gaze. They want to be touched by writing and partake in one form becoming another form, a flesh body shedding a skin for a text body.”
― Cheryl Pallant, Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice