How to Stop Being Afraid of Your Body: Introducing Touch

How to Stop Being Afraid of Your Body: Introducing Touch

We experience our entire lives through the body — yet most of us learn to ignore it, override it, or fear it. This workshop is an invitation to come back into relationship with your own body through simple, guided experiences of touch, attention, and intention.

You don't need any prior experience or belief system to participate. Your body already has an innate intelligence that doesn't require mental understanding to function — but our thoughts and emotions still shape how that intelligence expresses itself. This workshop offers a practical, felt-sense way to explore that connection.

What we'll do together:

• A short grounding introduction to the ideas behind attention, intention, and awareness
• Hands-on experiential exercises — starting with an object, then your own body, then (with consent) a partner — to directly feel how intention changes the experience of touch
• An introduction to Abhyanga (Ayurvedic self-massage), including its history, practice, and everyday applications
• Small-group reflection and discussion to integrate what you notice into daily life