Fabula: Fabula means story. The Cambridge Dictionary defines story as: A description, either true or imagined, of a connected series of events”. Human beings package information and create meaning through stories. Before the written word and the development of the press, storytelling was the primary way of how we transferred information. But storytelling has never disappeared -it´s deeply engrained in our DNA. Every person has a narrative, or story, that we are living in. It consists of events that have happened to us, ideas we have, feelings, beliefs, ideas and values all packed into a perceived reality. We define ourselves in language such as “ I am lazy” “I am this or that”. These stories become ingrained in us and begin living their own lives – especially if were not aware of them. We engage in “musts”, “should´s” or “dont´s” that we have inherited from family, friends as well as society and the culture we are living in. Sometimes, we get stuck in those stories of what we should be doing and who we are.

Embodiment: Embodiment means to manifest – to make visible, tangible, and real. To give form to something that is abstract. An embodied story is a story that not only lives in our minds, but also in our soul and in our body – it´s a story that manifests our true and whole self through and in our bodies as well as the words and narratives that we tell, spoken or written. We can tell stories either through movements, the transfer of sensations, as well as through spoken and written words. This is essentially what dancers do – they dance a story. But we can also see this in everyday life. Have you ever looked at a person’s posture thinking “wow they look really insecure”? Well this is how our bodies, how our nervous systems become part of our stories. In order to fully become empowered and to find change, we have to step into our bodies, both through stillness and in movement to unravel the old stories, and begin to build a new one.