Bert Bennett has an embodied way of being he refers to as vertical (as distinct from horizontal). The more I explore this, the more wisdom I discover. Embodied **connection** with gravity (and environs–grounding, extension, flow), **feeling** (in the chest, empathy, fear, care,…), and **cognition** (thinking, language, narrative, stories believed-lived-told). These three anatomically stacked ways of being in the world are at their best when each is in play and given primacy **from the ground up**.