Julie Jewels Smoot

The title The Body Chooses When reflects the understanding that many processes within the nervous system happen in their own time. Awareness arrives when it arrives. Rest emerges when it is possible. Sensations surface when enough safety exists to notice them. The body is not withholding. The body is not resisting. The body is not failing.

The title Tremor and Release reflects the understanding that the body has many ways of responding to stress, activation, and recovery. Not all release arrives through words, insight, or conscious decision-making. Sometimes the body participates in its own process through sensation and movement. Within The Body Kept the Record, this recording explores the relationship between activation and settling without assigning meaning to every experience.