human ingenuity: felt sense of being
A few months ago, I met Matt Sanford through a presentation at the Trauma Research Foundation. This yoga teacher fascinated me immediately. A wheel chair user, paralysed from the chest down since a car accident as a teen, he developed a felt sense of being. And despite warnings from medical professionals who thought he might become psychotic (how can he perceive where he can’t feel?), he persisted as a yoga student, practitioner and now teaches adaptive yoga dealing with trauma. Tonight, I listened to his latest youtube video for 30′ and – found myself calm and centred where I had been agitated and insecure before. I try keep the awareness alive during my modest yoga stretches, and it was certainly good to get a refresher tonight.

– shared this in a fb-group with, among others, trauma-survivors and added the comment: Can you imagine what would have been lost had Matt followed the advice from medical staff…
Barbara S said this on May 31, 2021 at 13:56 |
PS his web presence is so sophisticated that any attempt to embed something bigger and better into my post led to chaos, due to my lack of IT-skills.
Barbara S said this on May 31, 2021 at 13:58 |