‘Diverse bodies, diverse practices’ is a collection of essays from the somatic frontier. Within it’s introduction, an etymological imagining of a past view of the body…
“An older meaning of “body” in Anglo-Saxon carried this meaning. Bottich or bodig was derived from the term used for brewing vats, the containers in which spirits were distilled from grain and fruit… the word referred to the whole person within whom images, thoughts, values, words, speculations slowly emerge, purged of the weight of muscles bones, and intestines. “
Don Hanlon Johnson, diverse bodies diverse practices, pg. 10
A body, a distillery
A bodyworker, a mixing tool
Bodywork, transformation
somatically minded 