Written by You have been performing magic with your body your entire life without calling it that.
The way you cross your fingers for luck. The way you rock when you are distressed without being taught to. The way your hands move when you are trying to explain something important. Drawing it in the air, shaping it in space as though the gesture is part of the meaning. The way you instinctively stretch your arms wide when something is joyful, contract and wrap inward when something is frightening. The way children spin, and jump, and move in circles, and nobody teaches them these things. They arise from the body’s own wisdom about what it needs to process experience.
The human body has always been a magical instrument. It is the original altar, the original ritual space, the original point of contact between the inner world and the outer one. Long before there were tools or traditions or words for what magic was, there was the body in motion. Dancing around fire,