Radical Bodywork Anthology Inner-view Questions
Answer as many as you wish. Suggestions of additions and alterations welcome.
Personal Body
- What is your body history (any experiences that deeply informed your body sense, eg. injury, OOBEs…)?
- What was your process of recognizing yourself as a body person/radical body (investing a lot of time into the body and related arts)?
- What brought you to bodywork?
- What impetus caused you to innovate? When/How did you realize your work was new?
- What aspects of your personal history do you surmise strongly contributed to your creation of this work?
Aspects of Personal Style / Flavor
- What modalities inspire your practice?
- How did you initially become attracted to this style?
- What are the cornerstones of your radbodywork practice?
- What are some words and phrases used to describe your work? How would you describe it to a neophyte? To a fellow radbodyworker?
- What keeps you creating?
- How is your practice evolutionary?
- What do you wish you would have known starting out?
- How can I learn this modality?
General
- What positives does getting regular radbodywork contribute to life? Any negatives (addiction)?
- How would you describe the current touch culture of the mainstream?
- What was the mainstream touch culture like in the past? Where do you see it going in the future?
Community
- Describe the community surrounding this work.
- What would the world look like is everyone was introduced to this work?
- What are some things the community is doing incredibly well in? What are our growth edges?
- What would the most vibrant expression of the radical bodywork community look like? What is holding us from this?
Recommendations for others
- What do you wish everyone knew who was coming into a session with you?
- What can people do to prepare themselves for body literacy?
Future
- Where do you see the future of your style of work heading?
- How would our society differ if everyone was a proficient radbodyworker?
- What is the future of bodywork overall (and specifically radbodywork)?
Wild Card
- What question do you wish I would have asked? What is your answer?
- If you had one wish to be granted a somatic superpower ( super skill with your body) what would you ask for?