Where’s your body? Can you feel it? Is it still there?! Life is full. There’s so much to plan and think about. We can go hours without feeling a single breath or footstep. Can you relate? By getting lost in our thoughts we over-identify with a limited sense of “self” and therefore suffer. We will explore the body as a distinction to thinking and see what freedom lies there.
With Nina La Rosa recorded on June 19, 2022.
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