Sensory Awareness offers a proven way to revive greater aliveness and presence.
Developed in Europe over many years and later brought to the U.S. and popularized by Charlotte Selver, this unique form of mind/body re-education has touched the lives of thousands. For over 60 years its students have found this life affirming work to be helpful for stress reduction, for expanding human potential, as well as for promoting other health enhancing benefits for body, mind and spirit.
Similar in aim to many types of meditation and mindfulness practice, Sensory Awareness guides us in rediscovering our deeper organismic authenticity as well as in finding a greater sense of peace. Its primary focus lies in the progressive cultivation of fuller embodied awareness and fuller being through actual direct experience.
As offered in a class setting or in individual sessions this self-empowering work guides students in more keenly and deeply sensing and responding to the tangible realities of the living moment (breathing, balance, energy, weight, touch, movement, and more). Through the process of being led in simple sensory experiments habitual thoughts and tensions recede more and more into the background as we become more sensitized and more in the moment. Students find that gradually through such work it is possible to embody more physical and emotional ease, presence and vitality in everyday life.
After teaching almost up until the very end of her life Charlotte passed away in 2003 at the age of 102. Her valuable work lives on through the educational materials and projects of the Sensory Awareness Foundation and through the many approved teachers of the Sensory Awareness Leaders’ Guild world wide.
“…your own breathing can teach you how to sit. And it can teach you how to run. And it can teach you how to dance. And it can teach you how to make love. And it can teach you anything in the world. In other words, the source of information is really in you. But it's often sleeping. Sensing is to wake up for this possibility of really coming in touch with our inner informer, so to say.
What we are doing seems so physical. It isn't. It's just to wake up.”
…Charlotte Selver, excerpt from Recliaming Vitality and Presence
The mission of the Sensory Awareness Foundation:
To strengthen the capacity for authenticity, presence and responsiveness through the practice of Sensory Awareness and thereby contribute to a more caring and connected world.
Foundation Address and Phone Number
Late in 2008 we moved to our new address in San Rafael, California. If you have not done so already please note that our new address, fax and phone are as follows:
Sensory Awareness Foundation
23 Wallace Way
San Rafael, CA 94903
USA
(415) 507-0996, fax is the same number.
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Charlotte Selver, still teaching at age 101.