ON THE MEETING PLACE OF SOMATICS AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS—

The invitation is present now, to write, word upon word, or paint, color upon color, or dance, gesture upon gesture, the sensations traced in your body's memory or arising, now... you are full of all you have lived, and what you are living. Being poetically open now to the present moment of flow can be felt implicitly, held in the knowing of your cells, or can be expressed explicitly. There is something of a tacit orientation and understanding that expression is an extension of your comprehensive sense of perception, which is, in turn, a part of the collective sense organ of existence... 

Expressing, explicitly, in gesture, word, paint, sound with the intention that it carry the vibration of your experience is part of the creative act of becoming. Also of sharing, of amplifying, of making seen, felt, heard. It is a mirror, not only of your inner experience but a mirror to the collective, to the other who is in you. We see ourselves through each other and are invited to move more deeply into the wonder of it all. 

Being present. Your presence in the present moment. So simple, so mysterious. It's about being here, where your senses are alive, where you are alive with the rest of existence. You are an expression of the whole, of what has been, of what is, and what will be. You are a mirror and a co-creator of the matrix of being, universal intelligence as it may be expressed through each individual. 

Expression becomes part of the collective soma, as the message of what is is sent into the collective tissue-soul-perception where the very process of sensing and expressing is a function of intelligence—the collective sensing and expressing (communicating) enhances the intelligence, the elegance, and the beauty of the whole. 

—Lorena Wolfman