# somatic (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover somatic. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Architecture of Transformation: When Performance Refuses to Let Us Go](https://nspmotion.com/the-architecture-of-transformation-when-performance-refuses-to-let-us-go/) _2026-08-14 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ We’ve all left a theatre feeling pleased, maybe even delighted, and yet somehow untouched. The lights came up, we clapped, we went for a drink. The evening worked. But then there are those other performances—the ones that settle into our musculature, that shift how we read a simple walk down the street, that resurface days Continue reading The Architecture of Transformation: When Performance… ## [When a Performance Changes the Room: Entertainment vs. Transformation](https://nspmotion.com/when-a-performance-changes-the-room-entertainment-vs-transformation/) _2026-08-07 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ We’ve all been there. Sitting in a theater, or standing at the edge of a makeshift stage, and feeling the work wash over us. Sometimes it’s a delight—a slick, well-oiled diversion that earns a round of polite applause and leaves us exactly as we were. But other times, something else happens. The lights shift, the Continue reading When a Performance Changes the Room: Entertainment vs.… ## [How Somatic Practices Change the Way We Think About Space and Time](https://nspmotion.com/how-somatic-practices-change-the-way-we-think-about-space-and-time/) _2026-08-03 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ We usually treat space and time like fixed coordinates—neutral containers we move around in. But spend an hour inside a somatic practice, and that assumption starts to unravel. The room hasn’t changed size, yet it can feel vast or suffocating. The clock ticks at the same rate, but a single exhale can stretch into something Continue reading How Somatic Practices Change the Way We Think About Space… ## [How the Choreographic Score Betrays the Body It Tries to Preserve](https://nspmotion.com/how-the-choreographic-score-betrays-the-body-it-tries-to-preserve/) _2026-07-28 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ We have all watched a performance we could not describe. Not because it was obscure. Because the knowledge it produced was sitting in our muscles, not in our language. We left the theater knowing something about weight, about duration, about the precise moment a body s relationship to gravity shifted — and we could not write Continue reading How the Choreographic Score Betrays the Body It Tries to… ## [What Happens to a Movement When You Give It a Name](https://nspmotion.com/what-happens-to-a-movement-when-you-give-it-a-name/) _2026-07-14 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ I once watched a dancer learn a phrase without knowing what it was called. She moved through it with a quality I can only describe as inquiry—each transition carried a question, each weight shift felt provisional, as though her body were asking the floor something and waiting for an answer. Then the choreographer said, casually, Continue reading What Happens to a Movement When You Give It a Name… ## [When the Body Becomes a Clock: Somatic Time and the Spaces We Inhabit](https://nspmotion.com/when-the-body-becomes-a-clock-somatic-time-and-the-spaces-we-inhabit/) _2026-07-11 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ We’re handed a geometry of time that’s mostly linear and external—calendars, deadlines, the relentless forward march of seconds on a screen. But the body keeps a different kind of time. It pulses, contracts, releases, and remembers in spirals and waves. Somatic practices—from the subtle floor work of Feldenkrais to the breath-led movement of authentic qigong—don’t Continue reading When the Body… ## [The Body as Clock: How Somatic Practice Reshapes Space and Time](https://nspmotion.com/the-body-as-clock-how-somatic-practice-reshapes-space-and-time/) _2026-07-08 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ There’s a moment—maybe in a long-held stretch, or during the slow, deliberate unfurling of a Feldenkrais lesson—when the clock’s hold just… dissolves. The minute hand on the wall still twitches forward, sure. But your internal chronometer has slipped its gears. You’re no longer measuring time in ticks and tocks. Instead, you’re tracking the rise and Continue reading The Body as Clock: How Somatic… ## [The Body’s Cartography: How Somatic Practice Reshapes Our Sense of Space and Time](https://nspmotion.com/the-bodys-cartography-how-somatic-practice-reshapes-our-sense-of-space-and-time/) _2026-07-06 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ We treat space like it’s a given—a neutral container we pass through, a backdrop. And time? Time is the metronome, the ticking clock, the schedule we’re always chasing. But lie down on a floor and pay attention for a while, and those certainties start to dissolve. The floor becomes a conversation partner. A single breath Continue reading The Body’s Cartography: How Somatic Practice Reshapes Our… ## [The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practice Unfolds Space and Time](https://nspmotion.com/the-bodys-clock-how-somatic-practice-unfolds-space-and-time-2/) _2026-07-05 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ There’s a particular silence that settles in when you stop arranging your body and start listening to it. Not the hollow silence of a room, but the dense, humming quiet of your own presence—blood moving, balance making its tiny adjustments, the weight of your bones finding the floor. In somatic work, this silence isn’t a Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practice Unfolds Space and… ## [The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practices Reshape Our Sense of Space and Time](https://nspmotion.com/the-bodys-clock-how-somatic-practices-reshape-our-sense-of-space-and-time-2/) _2026-07-03 · Marvin Gardner · Nspmotion – Ideas & Analysis_ There’s a moment in a Feldenkrais lesson when the teacher asks you to pause. You’ve been tilting your head, tracking the weight shift through your pelvis, the way your breath catches in one rib. Then stillness. And in that stillness, the room feels different—wider on one side, closer on the other. The clock on the Continue reading The Body’s Clock: How Somatic Practices Reshape Our Sense of Space… ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rWJGag20IwAV) _2026-07-03 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [Is the Body Presentient?](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2026/4/28/is-the-body-presentient) _2026-04-28 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ In tests it seems as if the body responds to unpredictable events BEFORE they happen? What is going on? ## [Even Buddha had a Bad Back: A quick skim through causes of ill health ](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2026/3/5/even-buddha-had-a-bad-back-a-quick-skim-through-causes-of-ill-healthnbsp) _2026-03-05 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ The causes of ill health stretch back through time. ## [When it comes to somatic empathy, touch is special](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2025/9/23/when-it-comes-to-somatic-empathy-touch-is-special) _2025-09-23 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ How touch enhances somatic empathy ## [HUMANITY?](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2025/6/15/humanity) _2025-06-15 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ There is a controversial idea that empathy is actually quite selfish. But I if you look deeper, this idea comes from an overly individualistic perspective. ## [A Shift to Holistic Medicine?](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2025/4/11/a-shift-to-holistic-medicine) _2025-04-11 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ It seems that medicine is finally shifting away from assuming the body is an organic ‘machine’. Functional medicine has arrived. ## [The Problem with Empathy](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2024/3/31/the-problem-with-empathy) _2025-02-13 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ The word ‘empathy’ is riddled with assumptions. What are we talking about? ## [Simulating Other Selves](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2025/2/10/simulating-other-selves) _2025-02-10 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ Emotions and pain spread rapidly between us without our knowing. When we notice that we are sharing how others are feeling we can call this ‘somatic empathy’ ## [The Advantage of Having a Body?](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2024/12/28/the-advantage-of-having-a-body) _2024-12-28 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ The board game GO is the hardest in the world. A competion between AI and human Lee Sedol, the best of the best, reveals how much we humans use somatic empathy to help us read other people. ## [Feedback Loops](https://www.cindyengel.com/blog/2024/10/31/feedback-loops) _2024-10-31 · Cindy Engel · Blog/Articles - Cindy Engel_ To understand how hands-on bodywork can influence a person’s emotional, physiological and mental state, we need an appreciation of feedback loops.