Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 Somatic Spirituality
1 Somatic Meditation 9
2 To Be a Body 15
3 Consider Your Body's Mind 21
Part 2 The Six Core Somatic Practices
4 An Overview of the Somatic Protocols 31
5 Practice One: Ten Points 39
6 Practice Two: Earth Descent 57
7 Practice Three: Yin Breathing 65
8 Practice Four: Coming into the Central Channel 72
9 Practice Five: Whole Body Breathing and Rooting 78
10 Practice Six: Twelvefold Lower-Belly Breathing 89
Part 3 How the Practices Unfold
11 Intention, Attention, Sensation, and Discipline 99
32 Tension and Breathing 108
13 As the Practice Matures 121
14 How the Soma Protects Us and Supports Our Transformation 129
15 Paradoxes of the Soma 136
16 What the Body Knows 141
17 Making Sense of Ego and Soma 148
18 Changes in Our Ongoing Relationship with Our Body 152
Part 4 Final Thoughts
19 The Soma and the Human Genome 157
20 The Soma and the Cosmos 161
List of Audio Tracks 167
Notes 169
Index 173