The Taste of Aliveness

A 2-hour Online Somatic and Art Journey into Taste, Pleasure, and Aliveness through Somatic Art Practice®, Body-Mind Centering®, experimental artmaking, and sharing.

“What if your hunger, that force that beckons you to the ice cream aisle, was the misunderstood sage of your body, rattling its cage inside the fortress of your soul?”

— David Bedrick

Exploring food, creativity, and body wisdom through somatic art and inner dialogue.

This immersive workshop offers a space to explore your relationship with taste, nourishment, and inner experience—not as a problem to fix, but as a doorway into greater aliveness, creativity, and self-understanding.

For anyone drawn to sensory exploration, embodied creativity, or reconnecting with their inner voice through food and art.

Drawing from somatic art practice, body-mind centering, and gentle psychological reflection, we’ll use food as a medium to connect with the body's deeper intelligence, the voices within us, and the sensory richness of being alive.

You’ll be invited to engage in a variety of embodied practices: mindful tasting, breath and movement work, expressive art-making, and reflective partner dialogue. The aim is not to analyse or judge, but to listen—curiously, gently, and creatively—to the messages of your body and the stories your parts carry.

What We’ll Explore Together:

• Breath, tongue, and belly practices to deepen awareness of internal sensations

• Somatic art and movement as a way to express and integrate inner voices

• Guided writing and food mapping to uncover emotional and sensory patterns

• Mindful eating to awaken playfulness and presence

• Inner dialogue and witnessing to bring clarity and compassion to the parts within you

There’s no “right” way to be here—only an invitation to come closer to yourself.

Recording of the live workshop on July 3rd, 2025

Contribution: €30 for replay, sliding scale for live participation

What to bring:

2-3 favourite foods/flavours

Kitchen pigments, foods that can be used as paint and any paper

Notebook and pen

Curiosity

The recording does not include the sharing and final discussion part to preserve privacy.

Why Experience Somatic Taste Work?

Taste is more than flavor — it's a portal into choice, sensation, memory, and meaning. In this workshop, we use taste as a way to reconnect with the body’s innate intelligence and creative energy.

• Your tongue is a sensory organ of pleasure and discernment. Anatomically linked through fascia to the heart, pelvis, and feet, it’s deeply connected to your sense of grounding, joy, and vitality. When you engage it mindfully, you awaken the possibility of full-bodied presence.

• Taste reveals your inner landscape. How you respond to certain foods—what you crave, avoid, savor, or judge—can reveal the voices within you. These aren’t just preferences; they are parts of you that carry history, emotion, and unmet needs.

• Choice begins in the mouth. Taste and smell are primal, instinctive ways of deciding what belongs inside you. They reflect your boundaries, your desires, and your capacity to take in nourishment, not just physically, but emotionally and energetically.

• Aliveness comes through integration. When you can witness your cravings, your control, your pleasure, and your resistance with compassion, you begin to reclaim your wholeness. This work is not about “fixing” how you eat—it’s about listening to what your body truly wants, and allowing all parts of you to have a voice.