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Why embodied wisdom cannot be captured in language

I learned meditation from my teacher's breath patterns and hand gestures but now I am trying to teach my daughter through words and it feels completely hollow.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to translate somatic knowledge into conceptual understanding strips it of its essential aliveness.

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