Bodyhood

Bodyhood illuminates the ways in which women perceive and express their somatic spirituality. Women experience Bodyhood by:

• Using ritual as a form of embodied prayer
• Using the body to connect spirit and earth
• Trusting corporeal wisdom

Using ritual as a form of embodied prayer

"I understood the power of ritual to connect one to everything in the cosmos and I just felt powerfully free and connected… I think that moment was probably the beginning of my own sort of spiritual journey..."

Using the body to connect spirit and earth

There are times, usually in nature or ritual, when I can feel my spirit embodied. It feels like a holy-woman has borrowed my body and is looking out my eyes. I feel so incredibly grounded in my body, in my womb center, so ancient and at the same time so transcendent.

Trusting corporeal wisdom

“I trust my body more than I trust my mind”, “I followed the signals in my body”…

Pain sometimes directs attention back to the body and its wisdom:

"I was so ill I felt like I needed something huge to happen to me so that everything in my body would be so rearranged so that I would come out this different person…”

The feeling of rightness is a common phenomenon, described as
“something resonating in my body”, “my intuition and inner voice” and “the difference between a head-knowing and a womb-knowing”

I think there is a process of coming into an embodied spirituality. There is a certain substance that layers up inside of you as you come into an awareness of that innate calling of your own life, your own moment, your own body, the ground you're standing on, that is very empowering.