What is 'the embodied present'?

What is 'the embodied present'?  any moment as it is experienced, met, engaged, apprehended through the lived experience of the body - our sensing feeling thinking breathing intelligently alive natures.  The body is always present.  It is a gateway for us (in the western world especially where we tend to be run by our thoughts) into the present, into what is present both within and outside of ourselves.  It is my intent in this blog to continue my own personal investigation of 'the embodied present', what it is to be present in an embodied way and the gifts and challenges therein; and what it is to cultivate an 'embodied presence' - a quality or state of presence that invites others into their own experience of the present.  I look forward to learning from any of you who may also be drawn to this inquiry.  This is my joy and what I seek to share in the world. Julia Smith, May 2008