TONGUE - 3-Part Somatic Series

Tongue ~ TEANGA

Join me in this 3-part, bilingual series of somatic journeys into the origin & organs of language, exploring the way in which our bodies and the cultivation of somatic awareness can support the remembrance of our mother tongue.

An teanga i mo bhéal

The tongue in my mouth

Shapes sounds that become language

Guttural, palatal, raw expressions of truths & inner experiences that live in bodies & hearts, once again sensing & shaping themselves into mirrors of the land.

Ag aithint an náire a mhaireann ann

Recognizing the shame that lives there, as a precursor to attempting to ‘learn’ anything, we must first give space to the bodies’ held experiences and associations with speaking, voicing, expressing, as well as understanding and being misunderstood.

Through accessing the soma, the soft, felt-sense experience of the body, we can begin to shift how we experience the necessary ‘not-knowing’ that comes with reclaiming a language, and drop instead into the space of deep listening in which the words live.