I’ve taken this class three times and it remains the most profound, illuminating and inspiring workshop I’ve ever taken on any subject. It is a workshop that relates to anything human- be it anatomy, health, movement, and spirituality. Each time I’ve taken this class I gain a new understanding of the body, what lives inside it and what it means to be human.  Being witness to and participating in the dissection of a human form is to contact the parts- the layers- of ourselves that we don’t see everyday. We feel our hearts beat, but do we know what a heart really looks like? To me, the human heart doesn’t resemble anything like the classic heart shape we see around Valentine’s Day. Holding a dissected heart in my hand, appreciating its weight, examining the skin around this magnificent organ was a portal into my own heart center and for a brief, glorious moment in the cadaver lab, I experienced the vitality of my heart from its interior. I feel blessed to have connected with my heart in the way that I did and as a result, I became ambitious to experience similar intimate connections with other internal places in my body. Unfortunately, the connections have not been made so easily. Even after holding a human brain in my hands and running my fingers along the delicate spinal cord- I still couldn’t kinesthetically find my pineal gland. So, without being too attached to the outcome, I’ve set that intention for next class…