Podcasts by The Body Awake

The Vagus Nerves and the Social Nervous System with Stanley Rosenberg — ep 37 from 2018-05-16T17:50

I was quite excited when Stanley agreed to this interview. His book on the autonomic nervous system — including but not limited to the vagus nerve — includes detailed anatomy and self-help exerc...

Online Embodiment and Curating Virtual Space with Lisa Elliott — ep 36 from 2018-04-17T19:49:03

Join Lisa Elliott and I for a dive into the inner workings of someone who, in my experience, curates beautifully a space often known for its disembodiment and unkindness: a facebook forum.

Effortless Attention: A Guided Meditation from 2018-04-03T20:45:09

By listener requests, and my delight in the fulfillment, here's one of what may be a few led meditation / awareness / embodiment exercises.

Questions, feedback, requests: please do shoot ...

Being a Good Student — ep 35 from 2018-03-31T20:37:29

It used to be: good information was hard to find; good teachers and teachings were rare. The onus, in many ways, was on the teacher.

Now, of course, that’s still true in a certain respect...

15-min Neurosensory Meditation with Irene Lyon from 2018-03-15T17:59:50

Enjoy :)

Irene Lyon Returns for More on Perception, Intuition and Raising Our Kids Well — ep 34 from 2018-03-15T17:55:11

Welcome back to Irene Lyon for our second chat on TBA. We pick up largely where we left off from our Listen

Water, Muscles and Light as Energy with Gerald Pollack — ep 33 from 2018-02-28T19:55:09

Gerald Pollack has spent more hours studying water and the nature of muscle contraction than you've spent doing just about anything. He's a very bright, kind and well-seasoned scientist with a l...

Seeing Inside a Body with Alexander Tsiaras — ep 32 from 2018-01-31T21:41:20

Alexander Tsiaras is a modern-day Renaissance man who's been called the "Leonardo Da Vinci of the digital age." He's a scientist / artist behind a new look at human anatomy, and it's pretty revo...

Healing Wants to Happen: Pre- and Peri-Natal Somatics with Kate White — ep 31 from 2018-01-10T20:10:24

Kate White is an expert in the autonomic nervous system, with heaps of experience — both intellectual and that kind of knowing that sits in your guts and is felt — in the world of being born, at...

The Heart of Movement, Teaching and Learning's Never Ending Path with Jill Miller — ep 30 from 2017-12-12T20:03:07

Jill Miller and I range from yoga to biomechanics to humility and hubris to Jill's recent hip surgery, her old teachers and the beauty, pain and wisdom that can come from growing up. About halfw...

Embodied Movement, Politics and Doing Your F#@*ing Work With Mark Walsh — Ep 29 from 2017-12-05T17:15:14

Are less-embodied movement practices good gateways into a deeper practice, or are they doing more harm than good? Are all movement practices really created equal, or are some better than others?...

Tom Myers on Being in the Body Business, Movement and the Disease of Feeling "Other" — ep 28 from 2017-11-28T18:55:42

Tom Myers returns to The Body Awake for our third interview. And like the other two but with new territory, Tom's experience and wisdom that came t...

Fireside Chat: Housekeeping with LB - ep 27 from 2017-11-15T21:03:01

Housekeeping

💛 a new home for my writing: the written word right here at TBA

💛 notes on my physical training, and follow up from the 50K race

💛 the traje...

Having a Body, Being a Body with Brooke Thomas — ep 26 from 2017-10-28T19:13:22

What a joy to get to chat with Brooke Thomas, whose latest project, the Liberated Body podcast, may be familiar to some listeners here. Brooke and I talk about the subject/object parado...

Stack Your Bones&Posture Beyond Effort with Ruthie Fraser — ep 25 from 2017-10-10T17:52:13

"Posture" is such a loaded word for so many of us. It often evokes a sense of not "doing it right" —> lazy shoulders, computer slouch, etc. This kind of thinking might be useful in some circumst...

Season 2: Guidance, Orientation and Embodiment from 2017-10-04T17:34:28

We're back! Here's a 20-min intro to Season 2 of The Body Awake. 

So lovely to be back with you; thanks for being here.

Liam Gets Interviewed — by Suzanne Astar — ep 23 from 2017-06-21T17:51:21

This episode — in honor of wrapping up Season 1 of The Body Awake — the tables turn on your host and Liam gets interviewed. It's a peek behind the scenes, both of the show and of the he...

Transmission, Concurrence and Poetry with Lauren Christman — ep 22 from 2017-05-16T19:50:05

Since the show's earliest inception, I knew I wanted to interview Lauren for The Body Awake. When the time was right, I asked, so glad she agreed. Lauren was my main teacher in helping ...

Continuum, Streaming + the Nature of Perception with Susan Harper — ep 21 from 2017-04-25T17:02:53

"Too often we have the industrialized, mechanical model applied to a body. It's too reductive for something that's really a streaming ..."

We're so blessed to have Susan Harper as our gue...

Nerve + Fluid Alignment, Layers and Embryological Development — ep 20 from 2017-04-12T20:31:48

An anatomy lesson with an immediate application, if you want to look for it, around earlier / deeper barriers.

We look briefly at the 3 primary embryological layers and their respective t...

James Hamblin on Medicine, Myth and the Nocebo Effect — ep 19 from 2017-03-14T19:24:41

James Hamblin, MD, is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. His writing and videos have been featured in The New York Times,...

Tom Myers on Fascia, Movement, Trauma, and Integration of All That and More from 2017-02-21T19:51:52

By popular demand, and my own great interest, Tom Myers returns to The Body Awake for a second interview.

In this second round — see episode 5 for the first — we cover:

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Somatic Experiencing, Early Trauma and Vagus Nerve with Irene Lyon — ep 17 from 2017-01-31T20:44:47

Somatic Experiencing is, in some ways, just like it sounds: a direct experiencing of the body and its sensations....

Training to Run 50K, and Reflections for Teaching — Ep 16 from 2017-01-11T21:14:41

Here's the breakdown for my first, signed-up-on-a-whim 50 kilometer mountain run training plan:

*** This should be fun. (If it's not, it's time to modify accordingly.) ***

*** I wa...

Ep 15: Hakomi with Donna Martin from 2016-12-20T17:30:49

Donna Martin came highly recommended to me from several Body Awake listeners. She's deeply trained, and trains others, in the realm of Hakomi, an approach to psychotherapy that's rooted...

Ep 14: Studying Mind-Body Awareness with Cynthia Price from 2016-11-26T23:28:23

This episode we get to spend time with someone who's dedicated a lot of her life to the study of Body Awareness, and how this awareness can — really, actual...

Ep 13: Our Physical + Energetic Anatomy with Tias Little from 2016-11-10T18:30:14

This episode came with a little note through the airwaves that said: "Get this one out there, right now."

And so I heed.

Tias Little is an extraordinary yoga teacher, and you'll ge...

Ep 12: Investigating — and Calling BS on — Neutral Pelvis and Spine from 2016-11-02T16:32:09

This episode is a shorter, in-between-isode where I share some thoughts on an oft-heard term in functional fitness circles everywhere: the "neutral pelvis" and "neutral spine."

The gist i...

Ep 11: Tantra, Healing Trauma and the Teachings of Nature with David Cates from 2016-10-24T03:56:32

David Cates is a tantra teacher ... sort of. (That's actually the first thing we get into in the interview: defining terms.)

What that means for YOU, whether bodyworker or yoga teacher or...

Ep 10: Humans Are Not Broken with Angelo Coppola from 2016-10-03T16:42:51

This is really a show about one of my favorite topics: HOW to think about learning about your body. (Are we being dogmatic or really open to learning new information? Plus a hundred other nugget...

Ep 9: My Month Without Coffee: An Experiment from 2016-09-15T18:25:20

The technical ins and outs, in the supportive bed of philisophical treatise, of my month without coffee: Why I did it, why I tried and failed before, what support I had this time, what I noticed...

Ep 8: Embodied Awakening, and the Art of Suffering Skillfully with Tobin Giblin from 2016-08-22T00:08:10

How much suffering and pain — physical or otherwise — is necessary in this lifetime? What role does our will, our longing, to transform play in how we move through that pain? Is moving through p...

Ep 7: Research, Truth and Owning the Subjective Experience with Mike Hamm from 2016-08-07T20:11:28

Today I chat with Mike Hamm: a bodyworker who's well steeped in current research around bodywork and massage therapy and, most importantly for me, a bright a...

Ep 6: Anatomy 301: Beyond Lever-and-Pulley Biomechanics from 2016-07-22T16:52:21

In today's short episode, we talk 3 truths in anatomy that take us beyond simple lever-and-pulley mechanics when visioning the body: how tissues slide, how muscle contraction doesn't ju...

Ep 5: Human Evolution, the Artistic Scientist and KQ with Tom Myers from 2016-06-21T19:28:27

This episode, I interview guest Tom Myers of Anatomy Trains. Tom is probably best known for his work detailing the anatomy of myofascial connections, and th...

Ep 4: Elasticity, Rebound and Spring in Your Step from 2016-05-26T15:39:50

This week is an in-between-isode,* taking a pause from interviews to bring you this news flash: you know that feeling when your step is light and springy, a...

Ep 3: Yoga, Zen and Reality As It Is with Djuna Mascall from 2016-05-18T17:50:25

I'm here with yoga teacher extraordinaire (my words, not hers) Djuna Mascall as we talk dedication, Zen, yoga and its commodification. All part of the contin...

Ep 2: Contact Improvisation and Deepening 1% Every Year with Martin Keogh from 2016-05-18T15:34:37

Contact Improvisation is a form of dance that is unscripted, multi-variable, and rich in information we can glean about the body. In this interview with Martin Keogh, we dive into Contact, and h...

Ep 1: Groundwork and Guiding Principles from 2016-05-18T14:20:51

Our very first show, laying out some guiding principles we'll tend to follow in our exploration of the human body.