Body and Somatic Traditions
On how consciousness is always embodied, perception is the body's own encounter with the world, and why Western philosophy asked the wrong question about mind and matter
Body and Somatic Traditions
On how the unconscious lives in the body as chronic muscular tension, and why genuine psychological transformation requires dissolving the armor we hold in our flesh
Body and Somatic Traditions
On how trauma lives in the nervous system as frozen survival responses, why talk therapy alone cannot reach it, and the somatic practices that allow the body to complete what danger interrupted
Body and Somatic Traditions
On how the body holds knowing that precedes and exceeds language, why successful therapy works through felt sensation rather than interpretation, and the teachable method for accessing this pre-verbal intelligence
Body and Somatic Traditions
On the breath as the unique voluntary gateway to the involuntary nervous system, and how conscious breathing traditions from pranayama to holotropic work exploit this bridge to alter consciousness and heal
Body and Somatic Traditions
On the Body, the Western Tradition, and What the Split Has Cost Us