Soma - BodyTalks: Recent Episodes
Dana Biechonski
Step into my somatic world.
The somatic world is so unknown to many people out there, while so many can have tremendous benefits out of it. In this podcast, I invite my teachers, colleagues, and people to talk about it and about themes in the field - our bodies, pain, emotions, posture, movement, relationships, nervous system, and much more. I'm Dana. In the past nine years, I move, study, and work in the somatic field.
Welcome, I'm happy you are here.
I know this theme will trigger some, but in my social media scrolling I keep seeing these messages:
"Let go of shame". Well, I actually think shame is essential!
Join me to learn the somatic psychology perspective, and why we should embrace our shame.
Please share with me your thoughts :)
Dana
In this episode, I speak and elaborate on a theme I talk about quite often in my content and clinic.
Beneath any defensive behavior or movement pattern there is a pain experience that needs to be met to be transformed.
Join me.
Does our movement practice draw us closer to or further from our inner experience?Movement has always been an integral part of my life. We all recognize the impact movement has on feeling better and its general effect on mental health.But does it bring us closer to, or take us away from, our inner selves?
After such a long time, it feels so good to be back.
Many women come to my practice with a lack of connection and understanding of their inner experiences.
Their emotions, sensations, needs, and heartfelt desires feel distant to them. We spend hours building this bridge back. Many of them hold the belief that it's not important – not important what they want, think, or feel.
"It's so important,
YOU ARE important,"
I often reply.
I got this question recently from a client and I thought it was worth sharing it here as well.
My answer is partly based on The Bodyknot - a communication module from the Bodynamic system I simply love,
It made so much order and sense in my personal life and experience, and I use it, in many ways, with my clients.
In this link, you could find a graph for the short version of this module.
https://www.danasclinic.com/post/how-to-manage-a-trigger
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I'm thrilled to share with you all this talk.
Gina has been a significant step in my own personal journey in the somatic field and the one that turned it into a professional journey.
Gina Ora Yoli studies dance/ performance/ choreography (B.A) and completes a Master in Expressive arts and dance movement psychotherapy. (M.A BC-DMT). She has been an art and movement psychotherapist for 30 years and facilitating Authentic Movement since 2000. Gina's work has included psychiatric (Harvard teaching hospital, McLean), educational, and social service settings. She has been in private practice since 2009.
Gina's passion led her to explore how movement, expression, healing, and spirituality converge. This led her to the island of Java, Indonesia where she studied with meditation and movement masters. The practice of Authentic Movement provided Gina the perfect container in which to explore embodied consciousness within the freedom of movement.
Gina is an ongoing student of Non-Dualism and Shamanism, integrating into her body of work.
She was born in the U.S, raised in Jerusalem, and is currently a resident of the Fruska gora, Serbia.
Witnessing FB page -
https://www.facebook.com/mudancer9/photos/?ref=page_internal
The field of birth psychology is growing fast. There is more and more research on this period of our lives and its effect on our body and life later on. I invited Kate White, a passionate practitioner in the field, to talk and share with me, with us, from her world.
Kate's websites:
https://www.ppncenter.com/
http://www.belvederearts.com/
And Facebook links:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/638658896294459
PPN Healing Online
https://www.facebook.com/groups/349739782685001
A talk for every mother!
What's the connection between our pelvic floor and integrity?
links to Julia course -
- Jade Egg PLUS Course 30%
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What is Fascia? What it has to do with chronic pain syndrome?
And what is the connection of it to stress and emotions?
Satyarthy has been my teacher for many years now, he is the creator of MER - myofascial energetic release.
He has vast experience in bodywork, fascia, SE, and holding spacious spaces for deep and transformational processes.
In this episode, I talk with Tone about the longing to come back, to ourselves, to the body.
Tone Gilje is a Rolfer, Continuum teacher, Psychodrama therapist, Fascial Flow teacher, and Buteyko.
From her website:
"In the years that have passed, I have researched and explored what it is I am, in relation to myself, others, to the larger world around me, and to the cosmos, so that I can more and more become who I am. (This is a journey of formation that takes ever-changing form.)
In this process, the body is and has been the starting point; it is the one who is always with me and with whom I must relate.
It is our tool through life and also reflects for better or worse the story we all carry with us, not only our own but also the historical events and patterns of the past in family, relatives, and society.
How to live a good life and not be too bound by history, if history becomes a hindrance that hinders exploration and new discoveries, contact with resources, more choices?
The body we have today is the result of a long development process - an evolution, but it is not "fully developed", our organs, our structure, all the systems in the body are changing and relate to the challenges it is exposed to and what the need is. So how to facilitate this development process, not stop and stiffen in a too defined form, with too narrow a framework, but be open to what is possible, creative and promotes development.
Today, the societal and perhaps more than ever environmental challenges we have are a burden, but also an opportunity and challenge to find new answers and solutions. How can we adapt to these changes, without taking the body and the resources that are there on the team?
The curiosity about what lives in the body and how to get to these resources is one of my "fads", which has driven me further. It has caused me to have explored, experienced, and studied various methods of coming into contact with what has not yet been discovered, visible, and used through the body.
As you may have realized, I have many questions, and am constantly looking for more!"
You can find Tone in www.tonegilje.no
In this episode we talk about Voice Dialogue, working with symptoms and with the selves within us.
Judith Hendin, Ph.d., is an internationally recognized somatic therapist, teacher, facilitator, innovator, and author in the field of bodypsyche consciousness.
Find more about Judith in www.consciousbody.com
In this talk, we explore the connection between resilience in adulthood to co-regulation and bonding in early childhood.
Theo Kaiser is a Rolfer, Osteopath, craniosacral therapist, Polarity therapist, SE - somatic experiencing practitioner, Integral somatic psychology, Bioenergetic psychotherapy, Bodynamic - somatic psychology practitioner. I've known him from my education in the Bodynamic system and I really enjoyed doing this talk and now share it with you all.
Enjoy.
You can find Theo at www.kaiser-tagungshaus.de/uber-uns/theo-kaiser/
Acroyoga for me was in a way my first door into the somatic field. The partner acrobatic practice brought to me a lot of reflections on the way I relate and communicate with myself and with others.
In this episode, I talk with the beautiful Julia Weis on Yoga, Acroyoga, bodywork, relationships, and the somatic field.
Where you can find Julia?
IG - @julia.swadharma