A Ride the Wave class with Mariane Karou exploring what it means to lead from a fully inhabited body. Embodied leadership, as she frames it here, rests on three pillars: presence, compassion, and initiation. The practice moves through each in turn — dropping into the heart and breathing into all that is alive there, opening to the full range of feeling as the ground of compassion, and then awakening the pelvis and pelvic floor as the vital energy center that makes action possible.
Partnering work deepens the experience: giving and receiving touch, learning to lead yourself into being supported, and discovering that receiving is its own form of leadership. The class closes with a meditation on your own capacity to lead — not the absence of imperfection, but the willingness to keep moving into whatever is needed, whether you feel ready or not.
