The critical thing to remember is that acceptance embraces the moment, the body, the mind, and the experience for what it is. It doesn’t try to change it at that moment. This acceptance creates an emotional platform in which changes can be internalized for the better.
Embodied attunement is the ability to experience in our bodies emotions in the bodies of others. The article explores how…
Work with the body during an emotional experience has to able to undo the body’s defenses against emotions and make them easier to access for processing. It also has to be able to manage the extreme stress and dysregulation in the body so that the emotional experience is more bearable. At the same time, it has to ensure that the body is not excessively regulated so that the very emotional experience one is working with is not destroyed.
In the Realization Process, we discover the ground of fundamental consciousness by inhabiting the internal space of our body.
This paper introduces an interdisciplinary approach to diversity and anti-oppression work grounded in research and designed for use by social workers, counselors, educators, and other human service professionals.
I hypothesize that the search for “the universal, “the humanistic,” or “the biological” as a through-line of body-mind investigation, has encouraged a mono-cultural approach to somatic pedagogy and to the promotion of the field.
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.
Body Norms, Body Shame, and Social Power It has been argued that the more marginalized and subordinated a social position…