POSES Vocabulary

The 8 Senses: Your Tools for Perception

  • Eyes, vision, image, light, shadow, reflex

  • Ears, sound, hear, listen, waves, music

  • Tongue, mouth, food, ingestion, digestion, desire

  • Nose, breath, inspiration, memory, air

  • Skin, hands, matter, temperature, massage

  • Heart, mind, gut, clairvoyance, imagination, wisdom, perspicacity, insight, energy, electricity, power, energy

  • Balance, movement, flux, support, axis, motion, shapeshifting, reflex, body in space, proprioception

  • Consciousness, internal sensations such as hunger, tingling, pain, tension, sense of self, common sense, belonging, responsibility, integration, incorporation, embodiment.

Presence is a sensory experience. When we engage the sensory system, we escort the nervous system out of abstraction and back into reality.