4 Practices to Build Body Awareness

practice two, Body Scanning

Lisa Patrell
6 min readMar 8, 2024

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Body awareness can become one of your superpowers. Body Scanning is a technique to apply situationally once the skill of tuning into your body has been rooted in your Yoga Nidra practice.

Here is the link to the first practice: Yoga Nidra.

Acquiring body awareness is a prerequisite to mastering Subject mode, an empowering way to perceive and interact with everyday life. Here is the link to an earlier article exploring Subject versus Object modes.

My first encounter with body scanning was in a Hendricks Institute couples workshop decades ago. Katie Hendricks led us, the parents of our children’s playgroup, in an experience the Hendricks refer to as body intelligence to gain a broader sense of consciousness.

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Lisa Patrell

I am too old to be new, but not so worn that I cannot regard life anew in poetry. Other hours I hold space for people transforming & do things for our planet.