Heart Open, Body Awake: Four Steps to Embodied Spirituality [Paperback]

The human heart forms the essential link between body and spirit. In Heart Open, Body Awake, master somatics teacher Susan Aposhyan presents a simple yet richly detailed four-part practice to experience this link in all its unfolding wonder: opening our hearts, feeling our bodies, allowing ourselves to move and be moved, and connecting with the world in its fullness. Aposhyan weaves together insights from a range of scientific, psychological, and spiritual traditions to present a practical path toward embodied spirituality. Beautiful anatomical illustrations help readers to visualize the body systems, processes, and movements described in the book. Through the practices offered in Heart Open, Body Awake, your sense of spiritual wellness can become as near and palpable as your sensitive, beating heart.“In Heart Open, Body Awake, Susan Aposhyan personally guides us along a path she knows well—a path that can awaken us to our own essential nature. The four steps of embodied spirituality that she shares are quite simple and easy to understand. The questions for the reader are also simple. Do you want to wake up to who you truly are? Do you want to recognize and support the essential nature of others? Do you want to engage in a practice that will help you feel the wonder, pain, and joy of living and the peace and release of dying? If this is your desire and your path of inquiry, reach out and take hold of this book. Susan is offering a valuable guide to embodiment practice.”—Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Developer of the Body-Mind Centering® Approach to Movement and Consciousness

“With authenticity and grace, vulnerability and kindness, Susan Aposhyan weaves science, body, relationships, and so much more into an especially friendly volume that takes the reader on a journey of personal discovery and expansion. Simple practicel#