Somatic Acts: Invitations into Embodied Experience

Somatic Act 34
Inside a Water Droplet

Sound design by Lee Berwick

Allow for at least 30 minutes. You will need a comfortable place to rest, water and four large yet thin, soft plastic bags such as ziplock that can be sealed and are about 10.5 by 11 inches, gallon-size. Fill one large plastic bag halfway with warm water and seal by tying, taping, or ideally ziplocking. Place and enclose this plastic bag into another plastic bag and seal to prevent water leakage.

This Somatic Act can be done as a solo, a duet or in a group. If done as a duet or group, you can gently place waterbags on each other.

Begin by lying down, placing one water bag under the head like a pillow. Gently place the other water bag on the center of the body (belly, chest area). You may also hold it with your hands. Throughout the audio, you are invited to touch and move the water bag to rest on different areas of the body that are easy to reach.


Can you step inside a water droplet?

Can you allow it to hold you,
                  comfort you,
                      nourish you,
                          from all sides.

Can you rest here for a moment
and let the universe open from inside out.

We are all made of water
                   one drop at a time

                   each day – another drop
                        like a quiet pool.

Can you hear the water calling you
                   calling you home –

                       drop by drop
                            tear by tear
                                 filling the oceans inside you

                                      just
                                           for
                                               a moment.