ABSTRACT
Training in mindfulness places a great deal of emphasis on learning to be with direct experience as it arises in the body. With the teacher's support participants are engaged during the practices and the dialogue that follows in identifying precise places within the body where sensations are arising and in describing the sensations themselves. This is the starting place for understanding the nature of direct experiencing and for learning to re-inhabit the body. The body is the most accessible ground of our direct experience in the present moment (Welwood, 2000).
