Bodify

Vocabulary cross-reference: see also the Bodify entry in /glossary.md. This page is the practice; the glossary entry is the vocabulary discipline.

What it is

A short, intentional move: drop into the body, right now. Notice what is here. When an emotion is present, let the body express it physically so the cycle can complete.

The curriculum uses bodify as a verb throughout — “Bodify current state,” “Bodify a persona you’ve discovered,” “Bodify one withhold through your body.” It is the practitioner’s habit of not staying in the head about it. If the practice is happening, the body is involved.

Bodify is closely paired with — and largely a synonym for the entry move of — sew. What makes it a named practice in its own right is the expression half: bodifying does not stop at noticing sensation; when an emotion is present, the body is invited to move, sound, exaggerate the felt experience so the cycle can finish (see experiencing-your-feelings).

The move

1. Drop in. Stop, breathe, notice the body now. What sensations are present? Where? (See sew — the S.)
2. Name what is here. Sensation first, emotion if present.
3. If emotion is present, let the body move. Exaggerate the sensation. Sound it. Move it. The body knows what to do; the practice is permission, not technique. (See experiencing-your-feelings — “can you exaggerate that sensation/movement?“)
4. Stay until the body signals completion. The face changes, the sensation softens, an openness arrives.
5. Notice what is present now.

Where bodify is the cue

• Opening a session or meeting. Bodify your current state. The move that drops everyone present out of head and into shared body awareness before content begins.
• Inside a tool. Bodify one withhold. Bodify the persona you discovered. The cue to actually feel and express what was just named, rather than discussing it.
• Mid-day check-in. Solo. Bodify now. The micro-practice that interrupts a day spent in the head.

Why this matters

“We can consciously regulate our molecules.” (Bruce Lipton, quoted in the curriculum.) The capacity to drop into the body and move what is there is a human superpower most people do not know they have. Bodify is the cue word for actually using it.

Why a separate page (not just a glossary entry)

Bodify is both vocabulary and a small standalone practice. The vocabulary discipline lives in /glossary.md so that other pages using the word use it consistently. The practice lives here so the practitioner has a single page to point to when they want to teach the cue to someone else, or look it up themselves.

Facets served

• facet-translating-body-wisdom — bodify is the verb of this facet.

Related principles

• principle-2 — translating the body’s wisdom.
• principle-3 — the practice as presencing via SEW.

Related tools

• sew — the structured form of the same move.
• experiencing-your-feelings — the depth practice when bodifying surfaces emotion.
• emotional-cycles — the shape the body is being allowed to complete.

Source and attribution

Primary source: raw/2025 ILC Version AT Master Curriculum.docx.md. The verb bodify is used as a session-opening cue throughout the 13-week Level 1 curriculum and across the Level II Six-Facets ongoing structure.

The curriculum references a handout “Why bodify?” — needs-export as a separate asset when the team is ready.

Status notes

canonical — new page 2026-05-24 from the ILC master curriculum. Filed as both a tool page (this) and a glossary entry (in /glossary.md) per team decision, so the discipline is enforced as vocabulary across the wiki and the practice has a navigable home.

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