If you have some experience with shamanic journeying, drumming, or dropping into trance with the help of music, you may have a good idea of where this is going.

If you don’t have those experiences, try turning on a song that makes you want to move your body. Turn it up loud, pay attention to the movements it elicits, move with it.

Now, replay the song, but this time arrange yourself in a comfortable meditative position, sitting or lying down. You may move your body subtly, but more than that—pay attention to the inner movements the music creates. What is happening in your torso? Your limbs? Your heart? Can you feel energetic movement, desire, emotions? Are there images or impressions rising to the surface?

Note all of this, allow yourself to explore it. Journal about it. Sense into what new aspects of the soma are revealing themselves, and how you might like to explore them.

The possibilities of the soma are endless, and certain types of exploration open up possibilities that are less likely to open in other explorations.

Music opens up more energetic and vibrant aspects of the soma that are often lost in the silent stillness of meditation. Exploring this is well worth your time.

Other exploratory tools that pair well with somatic awareness and somatic meditation include: singing, exercise, eating, prayer, yoga, and writing poetry. Welcoming new activities to resonate in the soma is always a worthwhile exploration.