Heart Open, Body Awake

“In Heart Open, Body Awake, Susan Aposhyan personally guides us along a path she knows well—a path that can awaken us to our own essential nature. The four steps of embodied spirituality that she shares are quite simple and easy to understand. The questions for the reader are also simple. Do you want to wake up to who you truly are? Do you want to recognize and support the essential nature of others? Do you want to engage in a practice that will help you feel the wonder, pain, and joy of living and the peace and release of dying? If this is your desire and your path of inquiry, reach out and take hold of this book. Susan is offering a valuable guide to embodiment practice.”—Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Developer of the Body-Mind Centering® Approach to Movement and Consciousness

“With authenticity and grace, vulnerability and kindness, Susan Aposhyan weaves science, body, relationships, and so much more into an especially friendly volume that takes the reader on a journey of personal discovery and expansion. Simple practices peppered throughout the book allow us to pause and experience the wonder of her essential concepts in our own bodies. Reading Heart Open, Body Awake feels like being held, as if the book were wrapping its arms about the reader to gently coax into bloom our natural impulse for deep, connected spiritual embodiment. This treasure is Susan’s wise and unique gift to the world—it will change you if you let it.”—Pat Ogden, Founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institutes

“This gorgeously written guidebook is filled with fascinating insights and enriching meditations from a perspective that integrates science, psychology, and spirituality. Shimmering with clarity, Heart Open, Body Awake deepens our sense of connection and wonder with the world around us and within us.”—Ralph De La Rosa, author of The Monkey Is the Messenger and Don’t Tell Me to Relax

Susan Aposhyan is an accomplished meditator and psychotherapist, recognized as a leading figure in somatic psychology. Her journey began as a professional dancer in New York during the 1970s, where she discovered Body-Mind Centering and became a devoted student of Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen.

In the 1980s, Aposhyan joined the faculty of Naropa University, where she founded and directed the Body Psychotherapy graduate program. She subsequently developed her distinctive approach, Body-Mind Psychotherapy, which is considered exceptionally body-based due to its integration of human anatomy, physiology, neuroscience, evolutionary science, animal ethology, and developmental psychology.

Aposhyan is the author of Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration and Human Development and Body-Mind Psychotherapy: Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications. Based in Boulder, she conducts programs and retreats globally and is a frequent speaker and keynote presenter at various conferences.

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