Coming Back to Embodiment

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 11 a.m.

We often hear meditation described in terms of mindfulness. But Buddhist teacher and writer Martin Aylward playfully offers bodyfulness as an alternative. In his latest book, "Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness," Aylward invites readers into their own embodied experience, offering what he calls \u201ca guidebook for an embodied life.\u201d In today\u2019s episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle\u2019s editor-in-chief James Shaheen and co-host Sharon Salzberg sit down with Aylward to discuss the power of embodied attention, how the pandemic has changed our relationship with our bodies, and how we can work with physical pain and discomfort in our practice.