Wisdom is Collective

What’s in a name?

I want to introduce the concept behind this practice’s title and what drives this form of bodywork practice.

Imagine there is a giant beach ball with different color panels. You and a group of others are all standing nose to nose with this ball and don’t have any prior knowledge to what this object is. You can’t see anything except the color and texture right in front of you. You might make assumptions about what the object is based on too limited of information. However, if you discern with the rest of your group the information that they have collected based on their own experience, you might be able to put it together collectively that the object in front of you is indeed a beach ball.

This analogy is similar to that of an elephant. If you are all blindfolded and touching different parts of the elephant, you might not immediately judge what is you are indeed touching.

All of that to say, we need each other. Even within one individual, you need all of your “parts.” This includes physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components to inform your identity and space in the world.

Sometimes, those parts might feel disconnected. The way our world works requires most of us to be on high alert almost all of the time.

This practice is built in a way that encourages you to slow down, to take care of each part of the whole, listen to your own collective wisdom and the wisdom around you.