Your Body Is Not An Adversary, It Is Home with Abigail Rose Clarke

What if coming home to your body feels unfamiliar because you were taught to see it as something outside of you?In this episode, Ailey sits down with somatic educator, author, and artist Abigail Rose Clarke to explore what embodiment actually is beneath the noise. Not a concept to master, but a practice of curiosity, presence, and relationship rooted in lived sensation.We talk about what pulls us away from ourselves, from objectification to self surveillance, and the cultural belief that the body is something to fix. Abigail offers a powerful reframe: the body is not against you, the body is you.From there, we expand into ecosomatics, exploring how connection deepens when we remember we are part of a larger living system. Through breath, sensation, and the senses, she offers grounded ways to return to the body.We also challenge the consumer driven version of wellness and the idea that embodiment is about optimisation. Instead, this conversation invites a more relational and collective approach to being human.If you are longing to feel more connected to yourself in a real and lasting way, this conversation offers a place to begin.In this episode:0:00 Welcome To In This Body8:20 Returning Home After Disconnection15:45 Ecosomatics And Earth As Home24:01 Senses As A Way Back33:42 Why Embodiment Is Political37:06 From Self Optimisation To Liberation40:08 The GROWL Method Explained45:55 A Daily Grounding PractiseLearn more about Ailey Jolie:Find: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: [email protected] follow along with the In This Body podcast:Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: [email protected]