The Spacious Body | Abigail Rose Clarke

This week we’re hanging with Abigail Rose Clarke, an author, artist, and somatic facilitator. Tasha’s been a fangirl of her Instagram for ages, so this one’s a long time coming. Abigail’s approach to the somatic lives in a sweet spot: grounded by science and expanded by magic and art.

Case in point: her new Body Oracle Deck that is 80 cards of juicy art and body-based invitations, anatomy, and enchantment 😍🔮✨

Our jumping-off point today is the interstitium — a network of fluid-filled space in the body. It was discovered only recently, once imaging technology finally got good enough to see tissue as it really exists in a living body, instead of squished flat under a microscope. It turns out that this space makes up about 20% of your body. You are, quite literally, one-fifth space!

What does that revelation mean for us?

It means we get to reimagine the body and reconnect with it in a truer way. From something that is solid, fixed, and defined to something that is fluid, spacious, porous, and alive. Closer to how the body actually feels from the inside.

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We talk about:

- The interstitium: the spacious 20% of you that you’ve never thought about

- The difference between identifying with the “hard mass” of the body and attending to its fluidity and space instead

- Reframing bipolar rhythms, grief, and other hard states as expansion and contraction rather than pathology

- Why “unhooking” the frontal lobe, even for a minute, can shift the whole nervous system

- Abigail’s new Body Oracle Deck, and why a deck can live with you in a way a book can’t