Embodiment Workshop II

Register through the Zoom link on this page. The form takes about a minute: name, email, and one real question — what challenge are you facing in your practice? Answer it honestly. Hour 3 is built from what registrants actually send. The Zoom link for the session arrives by email after you register.

Saturday, August 1 at 2PM EDT, live on Zoom, free. Three hours in three movements: a guided embodiment meditation to establish your honest posture (hour one), a presentation on disembodied nonduality as the central problem for modern practitioners (hour two), and live Q&A where we work through the challenges registrants bring (hour three). Led by John Le, with Frank Yang and Khan as co-hosts.

A place where you can sit undisturbed for an hour. Chair or cushion both work — the sit starts from contact with the ground, not from a prescribed shape. No technique prerequisites. The one thing worth bringing is the specific challenge you named when you registered.

Free, no catch. This is the second of three free events leading into Cohort 10 of the 90-Day Bootcamp, following Embodiment Workshop I on July 11 and leading into Public Practice Week August 17–23. The workshop is not a pitch dressed as a meditation — the three hours are the work itself. If the work resonates, the bootcamp is where it continues.

Embodiment is making contact with everything you already are — every thought, emotion, habit, and pattern you sense and hold — as it lives in the body. Not a state you achieve. A completeness you stop avoiding.

You can concentrate but you cannot feel your feet. You leave a sit calm and walk into the kitchen reactive. The body shows up as a problem to manage rather than the place experience actually happens. Dissociation, dysregulation, and ungroundedness are the signatures, on the cushion and in daily friction.

It matters, but not the way it is taught. The straight spine you force is a performance of what you think meditation looks like. Honest posture arises as a truthful reflection of what is going on inside. The question is not how to hold the body right. It is what it feels like to be held by the ground.

As holding patterns soften, the system redistributes tension it no longer needs to carry. Twitches are reorganization, not malfunction. Nothing to suppress, nothing to chase.

The ability to express and choose from the ground up. Gravity establishes your directionality; a grounded body yields to it instead of bracing against it. Being ungrounded is not a mood. It is a sign of disembodiment you can feel and work with directly.

Neither push through nor flee. Follow the breath to the edge of the sensation and remain there, gently, with clarity. Then get curious: what has this tension been protecting? Tension is adaptation, not failure. Treat it as a part of you that has not been heard, not a flaw to eliminate.

Respiration is gas exchange. Breathing is a whole-being act, a cyclic wave that reflects your attention, your tension, your posture, your relationship to this moment. That is why breath works as a diagnostic: it tells the truth about your condition before you do.

Neither suppress it nor obey it. Restlessness is signal: energy the system has been carrying all day, finally loud enough to hear. Stillness is not the absence of that movement. It is the ground that makes the movement visible. Follow the breath to where the energy actually lives and stay there with curiosity.

Check the body. Equanimity is full contact without reactivity: the signal is loud and clear, and you are not flinching from it. Numbness is the signal turned down — parts gone offline, feeling traded for quiet. If the flatness extends past the cushion into food, music, and people you love, that is not depth. It is armor that learned to pass as peace. The way back is contact, not more detachment. And if the loss of interest is persistent and heavy, that is territory for a professional, not more sitting.