When You Don’t Know What You’re Feeling

What happens when you don’t know what you’re feeling?In this episode, we talk about one of the most universal experiences in bodywork: uncertainty.We explore how the language of sensation develops over time, what it means to perceive something subtle without necessarily knowing what it means, dynamic stillness, intuition versus projection and how experience can make us more comfortable with the unknown rather than more certain of everything.We also talk about the pressure practitioners can put on themselves to know... to identify, interpret and explain what’s happening beneath their hands. And what becomes possible when we let some of that go.And in the spirit of the conversation, we leave in our own uncertainty and mistakes. Including Jamie realizing, in real time, that she has been confidently calling the “therapeutic pulse” by the wrong name for years (turns out, practicing for a long time doesn’t mean knowing everything). Maybe that’s part of the point.And somehow we end up discovering that in another life, Jamie would like to be a professional longboarder and Kari would be a forensic pathologist. Naturally.So pull up a chair and join us at The Bodyworker’s Table.