Ep 09 The Wisdom of Your Intelligent Heart: A Conversation About Healing with Susan Stenson, BodyTalk Practitioner
Release Date: 07/22/2022
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info_outlineJoin me for a fascinating conversation with Susan Stenson about healing, the mind/body connection, death, grieving, chronic pain, stress reduction, and the modality of BodyTalk!
Susan wears many hats: BodyTalk practitioner, poet, artist, gardener, Mama and Nana.
Having spent forty years in Victoria, Canada, she now lives in the Cowichan Valley with her husband, the novelist, Bill Stenson.
Through BodyTalk, Susan supports her clients in discovering the open door that is their very own intelligent heart.
Susan's website: www.bodytalkvictoria.com
Resources mentioned in the episode:
Reiki Can't Possibly Work. So Why Does It? By Jordan Kisner. The Atlantic (April 2020).
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/reiki-cant-possibly-work-so-why-does-it/606808/
Wikipedia: Quantum Entanglement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
Study: Evaluation of BodyTalk, a novel mind-body medicine, for chronic pain treatment (UCLA, 2014)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uRIqGtvc9KEOwyONnJNDCEmHpu10A22Y/view?usp=sharing
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