“The notions of learning and teaching in the realm of bodily sensing, bodily self-regulation, and bodily expression have few points of contact in our culture with the notions triggered by the word "academy": places of intellectual life, institutions of guardians and stewards of the sciences and arts of a society. "Somatic academy": it sounds pretentious, like the assertion of an inherently contradictory territory, an impossible place, a utopia. But we have all been to this impossible place, we carry it within us, we are this utopia. For the body experienced as the medium of life - the body -, is our first academy.”

Marion & Kai / Founder Somatische Akademie