What is Embodied Stoicism?

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
Epicetetus

In the modern day we are quick to learn something in the mind and think we've done the hard work. We are quick to try to apply ideas from the top-down, whipping ourselves like task masters.

This is a modern phenomena inherited from self help culture, not the approach of ancient wisdom.

If anything is going to be truly helpful, we have to learn how to live it.

Some place in us - in our life force - is already seeking out the good, already magnetized towards something more meaningful and real. Something is already hungry for excellence.

Stoicism can be more than our own pedanticism or disconnected intellectualism.

It can be truly generative. Truly embodied.

It can be liberative and an expression of wholeness itself.

This project is committed to the embodiment most authentic and traditional stoicism, and yet, unafraid to incorporate modern terminology, tools, modalities, and practices to assist on the path.

Not lost in pedantic traditionalism, but also honoring the depth of understanding that the Stoics expressed. Not playing the game of modern picking and choosing to suit our lifestyle or personality, yet able to capture the benefits of modernity and cross modalities.

This project is about a genuine path to embodiment. A genuine path to recognizing the benevolence and goodness that is inherent in life. To going beyond the fancy rhetorical pomp of repeating Stoic lines, and coming into a lived experience and embodiment of them.

To truly learning to learn to live from this more connected, natural, and resourced place as the core of our practice, the core of our lives. What an undertaking. Perhaps, the only thing truly worth doing.

“Quit your books - no more desiring: this is not your gift”
(Marcus Aurelius)

About the Author

Taylor has studied and practiced intensely with a variety if wisdom and embodiment traditions. He studied for many years in different Buddhist schools, with teachers and living communities. He has also studied leading modern somatic therapeutic styles, learned from different Shamanic teachers and earth based traditions, and has delved deep in to body based practices, most especially movement practices. He has has an appreciation for western modalities such as the Enneagram, the mythic-poetic, and Jungian ways, and western philosophical that offer genuine embodied pathways for living well in them modern day. He is currently studying with two teachers with connections to ancient yogic lineages as well as western traditions.

Taylor came upon Meditations in high school, and has felt resonate with Stoicism throughout his whole life. He hopes to draw from his diverse contemplative background to create a powerful invitation to embody stoicism.

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