Energy medicine is in some ways very basic to all experience and yet it is something that is quite difficult to speak about.
The very idea of “contemplative” psychotherapy may invoke some cognitive dissonance.
Queering/querying the body provides a means for disrupting social norms of the body; not by expanding the repertoire of socially acceptable bodily expressions, but by working to disable the act of body norming itself.
Some dimensions of safety which yoga can provide include grounding, boundary-making, and internal core support.
PTSD is a body/mind illness diagnosed in military and civilian populations worldwide.
The language of image is one we speak every night as we dream. It just takes a little prompting for us to be able to develop our latent facility with this language. Simple questions, such as “What does this image remind you of?” open the messages from images in powerful ways.
Kulreet Chaudhary is a medical doctor who integrates the contemplative teachings on sound into her medical work.
In an increasingly media-based industry, yoga teachers have come to represent the physical elite. Instagram, Facebook, websites, newsletters thrive on images of impressive physical feats and physiques.
Attaining your highest-possible level of brain health requires an approach that includes psychospiritual development, which in turn, will open up new levels of awareness and vitality.
Nkem is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context.
Françoise Bourzat has been bridging the divide between western psychology and indigenous wisdom in collaboration with healers in Huaulta de Jiminez, Mexico for the past 30 years.
Each time someone takes a deep breath, they are using their physiology to overcome the residual effects of trauma and stress.