Join the UZAZU Embodiment Practice Group

Let's assume you know UZAZU's nine Modes (at least at a basic level, seeing as that's a prerequisite for joining this practice group). You can name them, recognize them, find your way into their postures, and have a basic or even developed sense of what each one is about and why you might want to practice it.

But how much of that knowing lives directly in your body — and how much still resides in largely your mind?

Even after years of embodiment practice, a surprising amount of our process is still mentally driven. We're enacting an idea of Sponge, narrating our way into Bridge, thinking our way through a transition. Meanwhile, the deeper physical layers — the ones actually shaping our emotions and our thoughts — are just along for the ride.

Round 7 of our UZAZU Embodiment Practice Group is about exploring these layers directly.

This round is about the physicality of UZAZU — not the concept of embodiment, but the lived, physical, bottom-up reality of it. What does Sponge actually feel like in the tissues of your body? What shifts through your spine, your breath, your visual field as you move from Sponge toward Cradle? What happens in that threshold space where you're arriving at a Mode but haven't quite landed yet?

These are the kinds of questions we'll be working with — not conceptually, but through movement, attention, and guided physical exploration.

Why this round is different:

In various ways, each prior practice group round has started with a psychological or life-context frame and worked toward or with the body.

Round 7 reverses the direction. The body gets the fullest attention (it needs and deserves this!). The more we discover how our history, conditioning, habits, energies and impulses are living at the more concrete physical level of our being, the more we can meet and embrace ourselves naturally. We experience being in our full authenticity, deeply integrated and with better support for our ongoing growth and development.

Indeed, the physical-level invitations and implications of practicing UZAZU can change your experience in ways that more mentally-driven 'enactments' of UZAZU can't reach. When we attend to the more concrete,'earthy' details we so often gloss over — the curvature of the spine, how our eyes make contact with the world, the many micro-movements that accompany every shift between Modes — something opens up that more conceptual engagement simply can't touch.

What We'll Explore Together:

Over eight sessions, we'll develop a more grounded, physically detailed relationship with the Modes and the transitions between them:

• The embodied reality of each Mode — what it actually looks and feels like at the level of the body, not just the mind. Anatomy, weight, breath, posture, gaze, etc. — the quality of physical presence in each Mode, with careful attention to details we might habitually miss.
• What happens between Modes — the threshold-transition spaces, the arriving-but-not-yet-landed moments, the physicality of the state-shifts that carry you from one pattern to another
• Bottom-up movement practices — letting the body's deeper layers inform and lead, rather than cueing Modes from the top down
• Physical perception skills — learning to notice and work with details like spinal organization, visual and proprioceptive orientation, and the various micro-awarenesses in the body that shape your inner state

Whether you've practiced all nine Modes for years or you're still finding your footing, this round meets you where you are. We'll be working at the physical level — the kind of detail that deepens no matter how many times you've moved through these patterns.

Eight live Friday sessions begin April 24 (10:00–11:15 AM ET), with recordings available in 24 hrs, if you miss a session.
Early-bird pricing is $150 (or 3 × $55); regular pricing is $175 (or 3 × $65).