Somatic Pain Management - Intro to Moving into Core Intelligence
Somatic Resilience
Pain: Your Body Keeps the Score investigates somatic practices that alleviate pain and increase awareness of the intelligence of your own body and how to use it. The current sick-care system is light years behind the curve in the healing of musculoskeletal pain. Pain is a feedback loop that the system doesn't want you to pay attention to. They want you to cover it up using some kind of a product, medication or surgery. It's all about the bottom line. So how could you learn to respond? It requires neurological reeducation: refining skills you have innately. This is a podcast about taking...
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ATM Feet - Recovery After Surgery
Somatic Resilience
You don't have to have had a hip replacement or a knee replacement on one side for this to be a valuable lesson! For some, a strain or injury is the issue. For others, the gradual decline of aging has affected foot mobility. After 25 years of helping people regain function with musculoskeletal pain, I can attest to the fact that everyone looses mobility in the lower legs and feet over time, even if active. After 45 or so, this leads to compression of the venous supply which impairs circulation. Most people are unaware that it's not just the heart that is responsible for circulation: the...
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New Year Meditation 2024
Somatic Resilience
Grounded, clear space for a new world: one that is a manifestation of peace. Connect to the earth, experience the sacred essence rising within you, nourishing, healing, clarifying...Open the heart and the pineal gland, so that the bounty of peace on earth rains down like a waterfall. There are only two responses; all emotions can be reduced to a choice between love and fear. Choose love. Deliberately. It's the routines you create for yourself that act like compound interest day after day, until over time, you find your experience of life is one of greater peace and appreciation.
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iRest the Polarity of Overwhelm
Somatic Resilience
Living in times of excess: when all seems unstable, change is constant, and the need to hold it all together dominates along with constant distraction of focus, there is great need for clarity and calm. Renew your energy and equanimity, even in the face of overwhelm, learning to deliberately rest and ground yourself in that middle ground which stands at the center of any polarity. What comes and goes is temporal, yet when you deepen the connection with expansiveness, you discover that which is constant, always with you, and never goes away.
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iRest Awareness in Well-Being
Somatic Resilience
This restorative meditation is based on a blend of ancient wisdom and modern science: Yoga Nidra and psychology. "Yoga Nidra" translates as "Lucid Dreaming." It's a way to harness Right Use of Will to move into Conscious Contact with the benevolence of Universal Mind. iRest is based in the Non-Dual Truths of Advaita Vedanta which dissolve the bonds of egoic perceiving. I have also integrated an emotional clearing process based on the Marriage of Spirit, which is a path to the reconciliation of opposites. All together, these powerful practices entwined free the Shadow to facilitate living from...
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Meditation 012023 iRest in Pure Perception
Somatic Resilience
Lie down, relax, clear mind and emotions of old baggage. It's time. If life of late has left you feeling slightly diminished, take a moment for yourself. iRest is a special kind of meditation, done lying down. It allows you to clear the slate. In the same way that the dishes accumulate, and the laundry piles up, the emotional baggage of traumatic times clutters up the mind with memories. If the last little while has not been an accumulation of good memories especially, give yourself a good half hour of restful time to release the old and make space for new experiences and new perceptions. ...
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ATM Centered Stability 3
Somatic Resilience
Moshe Feldenkrais wrote, "The widening of awareness through movement is a learning process that has been used ever since the first cell took on a membrane, becoming an individual needing to direct itself." In this lesson find stability in the ease of how you can extend yourself into the world using your entire spine releasing limitation of the neck and shoulder. Expand the self image of what it means to be centered for a new sense of spaciousness within.
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ATM Jaw - Voice - Neck Activation 2
Somatic Resilience
The experience of life comes through the body; hence the need to "embody" experience. When you get in the habit of tuning yourself out, be it through injury or trauma, it's much easier to get injured in the future. In this lesson, learn how to use your head and jaw in novel ways that confound the organization of old patterns of bracing which cause neck pain and inhibit spontaneity. How do you regain spontaneous insight and inspiration when you live as if trapped by pain? ATM teaches you to move through it to the other side: to a new version of yourself.
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ATM Jaw - Voice - Neck Activation 1
Somatic Resilience
Moving into a new freedom in your neck by activating the jaw, using the voice, which is a "constraint" that provokes you to use your diaphragm and abdominals. The diaphragm is a thin skeletal muscle that sits at the base of the chest and separates the abdomen from the chest. In the interest of bringing yourself into a greater sense of aliveness, discover how the pelvis affects mobility as you go up the line. If you have a four inch roller, that's helpful, but this lesson can be done with or without one.
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ATM Core Body Intelligence 5
Somatic Resilience
It's easy not to notice that mobility has diminished drastically over time when there are movements that you just never do anymore. Check out where you have blind spots about easy mobility by revisiting how babies learn to craw. You may find there are a host of ways you used to move that are all within what should be your normal range of motion that remind you of some lost, more nimble, more spontaneous version of yourself. But all is not lost! These lessons are, without comparison, the best way to restore ways of being with yourself and your body that your remember as easy, free and...
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If life of late has left you feeling slightly diminished, take a moment for yourself.
iRest is a special kind of meditation, done lying down. It allows you to clear the slate. In the same way that the dishes accumulate, and the laundry piles up, the emotional baggage of traumatic times clutters up the mind with memories. If the last little while has not been an accumulation of good memories especially, give yourself a good half hour of restful time to release the old and make space for new experiences and new perceptions.
For many, the distractions of life have become endless. Mindlessly wafting from one obligation to another, brain fog abounds. Take this moment to regroup. Set an intention to release the old habits of mind that no longer serve you. Clearing the slate allows for a fresh start each day.
A cluttered mind and a heavy heart is not a great way to live. Instead, discover the restfulness of abiding in pure perception without thought. Creating this kind of space allows more room for spontaneous inspiration to come to you. It opens space for a wonderful continuous interaction between you and Universal Mind.