first let's clear up a common misconception, mind is not just in the head/brain. mind is all throughout the whole body. ok now that we cleared that up let's get into how the subconscious is actually the body.

 

what we do in repetition, becomes our habits. our habits then become the auto-pilot or default behaviors in our lives. let's use a simple example; driving a motor vehicle, most of us do not have to think through every movement and every step required to safely navigate the road.

 

that is because after we learned to drive (through practice and repetition) our sub-conscious eventually took over the coordination tasks of driving. freeing up the conscious mind for more attention intensive tasks or to wonder into our imaginations and do creative stuff. the body memory or subconscious is doing the majority of the "coordination thinking", because the sub-conscious IS the body memory.

 

knowing this, we can use somatic movement and dancing to discover what's become auto-pilot within our body's memory and our lives to...