applied somatics
for higher
unlearning
as_hu is a container for embodied self-inquiry, operated by you, facilitated by jerome austin bwire.
the work only goes as far as you do (or do not) take it.
there is no diagnosis, no pathologizing. this just speaks to the tender and unruly human condition.
we might wanna close the gap between functioning and feeling at ease.
regardless of how successful one may or may not be at asserting their will onto the world, the cognitive mind is still operating within a larger system it appears to control.
the body is not a static object; it is self-regulating, adaptive, and quietly intelligent. so the cognitive mind may do as it pleases, but it, too, exists within what is already unfolding.
as_hu helps place cognition back into a context through the application of psychosomatic tools:
nervous system literacy
classical yoga modalities and sādhana-based practices
breathwork and breath awareness
fascial maneuvers and myofascial techniques
nutrition, ritual, and daily rhythm
all in the service of re-establshing our seat in the body’s direct knowing, unlearning what no longer serves us. it’s hard because by design, it appears we know a lot.
here’s a little box to submit your email if you’re curious and want to be informed when we can explore this together. i’ll be opening these containers in small waves.
anything after this is just depth and jargon, but fun to chew on.
if you are human, odds are that around the age of two, the brain developed useful tools such as language, including concepts like i, me, mine. as social animals, the organism develops pattern recognition, learning quickly: what gets approval, what gets rejection, what keeps it safe, what makes it belong.
over time, the nervous system builds strategies—pleasing, performing, controlling, overworking, shrinking, proving.
then comes relative moral socialization.
these strategies were shaped over millennia. now some get gold stars, others get categorized as moral failures.
the human organism now lives inside a social reality beyond its capacity to process. unwittingly, the social animal built itself a structure that outgrew its original purpose. and now the structure is what we serve—rather than a structure that supports our coexistence and mutual thriving.
inside that structure is a very active “i” story:
“i” go to work so “i” can pay the bills, and “i” hate “my” co-worker. “i” realize it’s because “they” remind “me” of “my” ex, who reminds “me” of “my” [insert early caretaker figure]. so “i” go to therapy, which didn’t really work. plus “they” stopped taking “my” insurance, so “i” started doing jiu jitsu. it’s fine, but “i” can’t stick to a routine, which makes “me” feel bad about “myself.” so “i” doom scroll at night comparing “myself” to all the other well-curated avatars on my ig feed, and “i” now find “myself” reading the words on this website.
the experience of reading these words is more actual than the idea that there is a person doing the reading.
all the while, this body carries on breathing.
self-inquiry creates a paradox. to use the self to look at the self is like asking a fish to point to water.
this paradox exists only in thought.
the fish says wtf is water?? all the while, those gills keep extracting all that dang oxygen. the fish can’t point to the water, and the body carries on breathing.
what as_hu is proposing is simple: you don’t have to do anything. not because you’re opting out, or “letting go,” but because there is no you to do anything anyway. so why not have fun witnessing it all unfold?
