From a press release:
Asheville-based Embody Well-Being’s founder Renée Eli will share her research about the body as a gateway to human flourishing in a series of community dialogues this spring through the Sunday Salon Series on March 15 and 29 and April 12. These intimate dialogues will provide opportunities for mutual, open-ended exploration of how we might flourish in these times. Participants will discover embodied practices that support this shared exploration on human flourishing. For more information about Eli’s work or to register for the upcoming community dialogues, visit www.embodywellbeing.org or contact Renée Eli at info@embodywellbeing.org or 828-506-5600.
Eli has been awarded a doctoral research fellowship from the Esalen Institute’s pioneering Center for Theory and Research in California. Eli’s work builds on Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy’s The Future of the Body project, an ongoing study of human nature’s capacities for transformation and exceptional functioning. Eli’s research, as well as her private practice with individuals and healthcare practitioners, focuses on the body as a gateway to understanding how humans embody well-being and wholly flourish. Through an ongoing dialogue with their own bodies and in their relationships with others and the natural world, Embody Well-Being clients learn to claim their natural capacity for flourishing. “I am deeply honored to have the support of Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research for my research on embodiment, the body, and the innateness of flourishing,” Eli shares. “Murphy’s landmark work invites us to consider the body as central to transformation of human nature through, what he refers to as the ‘integral development’ of our intrinsic bodily capacities,” Eli explains. “Murphy powerfully reintroduced the body as essential for understanding consciousness and human transformation after centuries of all but philosophical neglect of the body.”
Embody Well-Being offers deeply personal and professional mentoring and integrative education and training for individuals and health-care providers to nurture well-being and flourishing. Services include embodied mindfulness practices of awareness and presence to cultivate a gentle, playful and purposeful relationship with our whole being.
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