In this class you’ll explore the living relationship between the face, eyes, nervous system, and inner body awareness. Through the lens of somatic education and biodynamic osteopathy, Brian will guide you into a new way of understanding vision — not as something separate from the body, but as part of your whole embodied field of perception. You’ll discover how interoception — your ability to sense the body from the inside — can help you become more aware of the Health already present within you, and how this inner awareness can support your eyes, your nervous system, and your overall wellbeing.

Most of us have been trained to look for what is broken, painful, or failing. We scan the body for problems. We measure ourselves against external standards. We tighten around symptoms and without realising it, we often reinforce the very patterns we are trying to heal. But the body is not only a collection of symptoms. It is a living, intelligent, self-regulating system. And when we learn to perceive the body differently, we begin to participate in healing differently.

The eyes are not isolated organs, they are extensions of the brain, the nervous system, the spine, and the whole body. They respond to stress, safety, breath, posture, emotion, light, attention, and internal state. When the nervous system contracts, vision can narrow. When the face hardens, the eyes often strain. When the breath becomes shallow, perception can become fixed. When we feel safe, supported, and internally connected, the eyes can soften, widen, and receive more of the world.

In this class, Brian will show how the eyes are deeply connected to the body’s inner landscape — and how changing the way we sense ourselves can change the way we see. Interoception is your capacity to feel the body from the inside. It includes your awareness of breath, heartbeat, tension, ease, temperature, movement, emotion, sensation, and subtle internal rhythms. But interoception is more than body awareness. It is a form of inner perception. When refined, it can help you:
● Sense where the body is organising around stress
● Notice where the nervous system is bracing
● Feel the difference between strain and ease
● Reconnect with the body’s inherent intelligence
● Support self-regulation from the inside out
● Bring a softer, wider awareness to the eyes and face

Brian teaches that there is always more Health in the body than distress. Even when pain, fatigue, tension, or visual strain are present, there is still an underlying intelligence working to restore balance. In biodynamic osteopathy, this is sometimes understood as the body’s inherent treatment plan — the deeper organizing principle that knows how to move toward coherence, integration, and repair.

During this free class, you’ll learn how looking for the Health can shift your nervous system, soften patterns of strain, and open a new relationship with your eyes. You will be guided through a somatic practice where you will be invited to soften the face and eyes, sense the body from within, explore how the eyes connect to the whole body, and begin to experience vision as a living, embodied process

In this experiential teaching session, Brian will share how somatic awareness, interoception, and biodynamic osteopathic principles can help you access the healing forces already moving within your body. You’ll learn why the eyes can be understood as part of a larger field of perception — one that includes the face, brain, spine, heart, breath, fluids, and nervous system. You’ll also discover why inner vision and outer vision are more connected than we often realize. As you learn to sense the body with more kindness, precision, and curiosity, you may find that the eyes begin to soften, the breath deepens, and perception becomes less effortful. You’ll leave with a new understanding of vision — not only as something you do with your eyes, but as something your whole body participates in.

To register click this link: https://livingsomatics.as.me/

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