Self Connection & Embodied Presence - by Lillian Kemanis

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Self Connection & Embodied Presence

With Lillian Kemanis

This introductory guide gives you the foundational principles of somatic practice and explores what it means to engage the body as a source of knowing. You’ll learn how to cultivate self connection and embodied presence through somatic attunement, directing attention, and feeling sensation. Here you will be invited into a deeper relationship with your body — not as an object to fix, or a tool to use…but as an intelligent, living system to listen to. This course includes one lecture on the foundations of somatic practice and two guided experiences to help you begin slowing down, and sensing into your embodied experience.

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Meet your Teacher

Lillian Kemanis
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Lillian Kemanis is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist, yoga instructor, performance artist, and holds a master's degree from University of Central Lancashire in Dance and Somatic Well-being: connections to the living body. Her work honors the body as a sacred source of inner knowing, emphasizing sensation, attention, and perception as gateways to presence. Through embodied practices, Lillian invites you to gently reconnect with your deeper self—awakening physical presence, emotional clarity, and intuitive wisdom. Her approach weaves somatic therapy, creative expression, and contemplative awareness to support healing from within.

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3 Days

125 students

5.0 stars

15 min / day

Authenticity

English

Lesson 1

Somatics 101: Self Connection & Embodied Presence

This lesson introduces the foundational principles of somatic practice to support self-connection and embodied presence. Drawing from both experiential and philosophical roots, you’ll explore how somatics helps us attune to sensation, shift our inner orientation, and develop a relationship with ourselves and the world around us that is compassionate, curious, and rooted in lived experience. Whether you're new to this work or revisiting the basics, this session offers a clear and grounded entry point for integrating somatic awareness into your daily life.

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Lesson 2

Awakening Exteroception

In this guided practice we will play with the sensory system of exteroception. Exteroception is the way we sense our external environment through our traditional 5 senses – eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin. The objective is to build your muscle of attention and grow the ability to both direct attention to take in sensory information, and also notice what sensations draw your attention, or grab your attention to it. This is a way we can engage with our direct environments with embodied presence and create a sense of connection. You may notice that by attending to your embodied experience might also facilitate a sense of groundedness, centeredness, and visceral connection.

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Lesson 3

Awakening Interoception

In this guided practice we will explore our internal senses, or our interoception. This is how we receive signals from our body that communicate our internal state, including basic cues such as hunger or pain, as well as, nervous system and emotional states. Learning to bring greater awareness to our internal sense can help us with emotional regulation and understanding our needs.

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