MOVING LANGUAGE
Language is everywhere. What if we could realise how it affects us — and learn how it might guide us back toward a felt sense of wholeness?
Click on the image to read these articles—in Dutch. They Appeared in the May ‘26 edition of the Dutch magazine InZicht.
Moving Language is ongoing, participative research — shaped through years of travel, writing, and lived inquiry.
Drawing on my work as a linguist, writer, and researcher of the nature of reality, I explore how language is not a neutral tool to describe reality, but shapes how we experience reality —how we feel, move, and relate.
Join me for a Moving Language week at Amiglia, where I introduce the principles of Moving Language: a practice that lifts the veil of language and brings us back to a direct experience of ultimate reality.
Open to linguists and language lovers, writers and poets, meditators and contemplatives, dancers and movement practitioners, ecologists and nature-connected people, seekers interested in consciousness and perception.
Towards a direct experience of reality
Moving Language is a verb-oriented language mode that loosens the traditional subject-object structure embedded in many Western languages. Drawing from linguistic relativity, Indigenous knowledge systems, the theoretical work of David Bohm, and phenomenological insights from thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and David Abram, it proposes that a shift in how we speak can lead to a shift in how we perceive reality. Moving Language is an invitation to experience ourselves not as separate agents acting upon a world of objects, but as expressions of one undivided movement. Through grammatical reorientation and poetic practice, Moving Language encourages deeper ecological and spiritual awareness, and a renewed sense of reciprocity with the more-than-human world.
An easy way to start using Moving Language?
As you go through your day, try to focus on movement rather than on the separate objects you see. Yesterday, I went for a walk and said to myself: walking is happening (through this body). I heard all kinds of sounds—birds, flowing water: listening is happening, chirping is happening, flowing is happening. I actually had some pain in my back: feeling is happening. As I walked, I experienced how I was constantly pushing against the earth, but the earth was also pushing against my feet: pushing is happening. A fresh breeze stroked my cheeks: blowing is happening, stroking is happening, feeling is happening. I was actually very tired, but by letting everything simply happen and allowing the ‘I’ to dissolve, this so-called body became lighter and started moving with more ease and grace: swaying is happening. Barking is happening, growing and blooming is happening, unfolding of the road is happening, shining of the sun is happening… I landed in an experience of one undivided unity of interflowing movements. Light and free.
Moving Language Meditation
Moving Language Meditation
You can practice this meditation anywhere, as long as you won’t be disturbed for about thirty minutes. Following this meditation will bring you closer to a direct experience of reality, to undivided wholeness. You can do this meditation as often as you like — each time, you will realise a little more how Moving Language shifts your awareness. It may also inspire you to use Moving Language in your own way at other moments, helping you remember your true nature.
You may practice this meditation either sitting down or while walking. Headphones are recommended.
The ‘I’ dissolves
Isn’t it strange that we say things like ‘I breathe’, ‘I sleep’, ‘I feel’, ‘I love’, ‘I long’, ‘I am’?
As if we could decide not to breathe, not to sleep, not to feel, to long, to love, or to be.
Breathing—like all the other movements—just happens.
There’s no need to claim these as our actions.
No need to separate the ‘I’ as a subject living in a world of separate objects.
In Moving Language, we say ‘breathing happens’ or ‘breathing is breathing’.
We see there is only one interconnected movement taking many shapes.
And we can simply let it happen—be part of it, be carried by it,
and let the separate ‘I’ dissolve.