The Body Deva: Working with the Spiritual Consciousness of the Body Kindle Edition

Full of how-to advice on working with your body's natural processes and written for anyone interested in healing and shifting their consciousness.The body has an intelligence of it's own...and many of us have been fractured by abuse or neglect or trauma. Even small traumas can create wounds that cause pain, distress or difficult harmful patterns. We self-sabotage or just make unhealthy choices because of these wounds. If you want to do the work...this path to awaken and become a mature conscious adult is magical, but warning it is not easy! Getting to the root of issues is the key. Mary's book is full of ways to do this. I love that it is straightforward without a lot of fluffy difficult hard to wade through language like I have found in many spiritual books. This is like a great craft or DIY book...you have to do the work, but here are comprehensive detailed instructions on how to do it and encouragement to help you be successful. I haven't seen advanced information on this topic anywhere else. I highly recommend any and all of Mary's books. She is the "real deal" and has very generously shared her knowledge with the world in this and her other books.

This is an extraordinary book and it's hard to provide the reader context for it because our only thought in the west about meditation is sitting silently and having a blank mind. I find we are quite disconnected from our body and most of us really don't even have the concept that our bodies holds a great deal of knowledge and intuition just as our minds do. This is the first book I have ever been introduced to that provides the tools for us to start to unlock the knowledge that we all walk around with in our bodies but are completely cut off from because we have never learned how to listen to our body consciousness All the answers to life's really big questions like what is my life's purpose, Who am I and what am I meant to do and be in this world are held with in the body . Yet no one has ever provided the tools for us to retrieve that information until Mary's book. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz who at the end of the story learns that all along she had the power she just never knew it this book will teach the practitioner that they hold all the answers within their own body consciousness. That they can trust and learn from this body consciousness and not need to look externally for validation.

I am working with addiction and this book has enabled me to see it from a far more compassionate lens then I have before, as it has kindly helped me to unveil the myriad traumas from individual to archetypal levels that create imbalance.However, this book is applicable to anyone and everyone. Even if you are an emotionally sound athlete who has never been sick a day in your life, as Mary says there is always room to grow and to learn how to embody (and help others embody) your humanity. It contains resources that highlight how to address some of the indviidual causes of both individual and societal illnesses. I especially enjoyed reading about how to heal cultural stereotypes, as that is often written off by many people as something to be suppressed rather than to be worked with.This book is absolutely fabulous. Thank you Mary for making this available!

I think what I appreciate most about Mary's writing is that she takes topics that might feel "out there," or esoteric, and writes about them in pragmatic, grounded language. This means that while this book is about finding spiritual guidance via your body's sensations, it's not all airy fairy vortex new age language. She does such a masterful job of writing about abstract ideas in such accessible ways. For those of us on the more secular side of the woo-woo spectrum, it's extra appreciated.

I stopped to write a review and I am only 24 pages in. It’s like all the years of gathering spiritual tools has been perefectly woven into simple words that give so much detail to clarity. It’s like my soul is hearing what it already knows, enriching and comforting.

The practices in this book are simple yet profound, straight-forward and effective. I feel that I could easily work with this book for years and continue to delve more deeply. I've worked with other body based healing/ clearing practices for years, and this book feels like one of the most approachable and comprehensive resources I have found on the subject, covering everything from beginning to advanced considerations. Would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to take responsibility for their own healing and wellness.

If you have the courage to listen, it works. I can’t recommend it enough.

I have many of Mary Shutan's books and have enjoyed them all. She is very straightforward and clear, which I really appreciate. Her ability to describe spiritual experiences and how to communicate with the body's spiritual, physical, mental and emotional aspects is not found anywhere else, in my opinion.

I have been following Mary's work for some time now, on her blog, courses and other books and her way of teaching and techniques are simple and effective. In this book she talks about the body's natural healing forces and intelligence, and how you can tune in to it for your own healing (and for others). Thanks to this guidance I've been able to shift deep difficult emotions relatively painlessly and that has opened my body up to more flow, freedom and ease. What I also like about Mary is that she is very discerning and encourages you to be very discerning yourself when practicing.This book is absolute gold dust to anyone in healing or spiritual arts.

This is a really good book! I’m only on chapter 2 because I’ve gone back and read over chapters 1 and 2 twice. It’s simple in essence, and profound in application, so I was able to connect with the Body Deva right away, but I wanted to go back and take it all in a second and third time. It’s important stuff here, and even though I’ve been working with several somatic/spiritual practices such Demon Feeding and Focusing, The Body Deva takes this work to a new level. AND a level I’ve been touching on in my own practice, but not fully getting to. Mary’s devotion to detail fills in all the gaps and brings new possibilities to the table. Today, for example, I just got back from a kayak on a windy ocean. On the way home, it was going to be a slog and I was thinking “oh I’m going to exhaust myself and strain my muscles.” Then I thought of the Body Deva. So I went inward and asked her if she could help me locate a way to paddle that wouldn’t exhaust or hurt me. Immediately my stroke changed, everything got soft and fluid and I made it home with ease and pleasure. She bypassed my head!! This has never happened, I’m used to thinking my way through problems, even though I know that doesn’t work, I can’t help it. I haven’t gotten to all the emotional and ancestral clearing yet, I know that’s going to be life changing. Thank you Mary! This is such necessary and joyous work!

This has been one of the most helpful and practical books I have discovered on a long journey.