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    Slay in the Spirit: Dancing My Queer Dharma

    It was a hot summer evening in rural Garrard County, Kentucky. I watched as what appeared to be an elderly…

    By Christopher Walling
    #Psychology #Yoga

    The Anxious World: A Physiological Exploration of an Embodied Perspective

    Our primary stress comes from living in shame and fear, often resulting from misidentification with the image/objective world, and often with the past traumas and experiences where we were forced to react to ordinary situations in survival mode.  

    By Chris Walling
    #Cultures #Practice

    Working the Land, Working the Self: Understanding Healing and Embodiment Through Diverse Traditions

    What is the story you tell yourself about who you are? Is it true? Is it time to change the story you carry within to align with your inner truth?

    By Chanda Williams
    #Philosophy #Practice

    What is it Like to Be a Human?

    In this article, I’ll use somatics, radical embodied cognition, ecological psychology, and my personal practice of nondual animism to root out the unexamined use of dualistic philosophical paradigms including Cartesian dualism, traditional cognitive science, and the ideas that underpin popular interpretations of the simulation argument.

    By Rebekah Nagy
    #Polyvagal Theory #Resilience

    Yoga Therapy and Polyvagal Theory

    In this article we build on these frameworks, and propose a model of yoga therapy that converges with Polyvagal Theory (PVT). PVT links the evolution of the autonomic nervous system to the emergence of prosocial behaviors and posits that the neural platforms supporting social behavior are involved in maintaining health, growth and restoration.

    By Marlysa Sullivan
    #Interdisciplinary #Psychology

    Gut Microbiota-brain Axis

    The latest research showed that changes in gut microbiota could affect the brain’s physiological, behavioral, and cognitive functions.

    By Hong_Xing Wang
    #Practice #Psychology

    In Pursuit of Resilience

    The brain is the central organ for adaptation to experiences, including those we call “stressors,” that are capable of changing brain architecture as well as altering systemic function via the neuroendocrine, autonomic, immune and metabolic systems.

    By Bruce S. McEwen
    #Pedagogy #Psychology

    Feeling Safe is the Treatment

    As I read the ‘Handbook’ I was reminded that trauma and abuse need to be understood from a biological perspective and not solely from behavioral, sociological, and psychosocial perspectives.

    By Dr. Stephen Porges
    #Psychology #Research

    Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Trauma

    Trauma impacts much more than just our thoughts and actions. Trauma is far-reaching and systemic—it cuts us to our bones.

    By Albert Wong
    #Interdisciplinary #Spirituality

    The Connective Tissue of the Cosmos

    Fascia, long ignored as just excess flesh to be cut away in search of the “stuff that matters”, like muscles, bones, ligaments, and veins, is now being acknowledged as considerably important to a holistic understanding of functional anatomy.

    By Jacob Kyle
    #Psychotherapy #Research

    Psychotherapy for Your Body: The Role of Somatic Psychology Today

    Somatic psychotherapy—also called body psychotherapy—focuses on the complex and profoundly powerful connections between body and mind and how those connections affect how we process and recover from trauma and other emotional distress.

    By Chris Walling
    #Interdisciplinary #Psychology

    Light and Sound

    Energy medicine is in some ways very basic to all experience and yet it is something that is quite difficult to speak about.

    By Isa Gucciardi
    #Practice #Psychology

    Contemplative Psychotherapy: The Art and Science of Sustainable Happiness

    The very idea of “contemplative” psychotherapy may invoke some cognitive dissonance.

    By Joe Loizzo
    #Healing #Interdisciplinary

    VR and Somatic Inquiry: Visualizing or Somatizing Balance?

    What is the link between Ideokinesis (and the many derived somatic approaches that use it) or other forms of visualization within somatic movement and VR?

    By Martha Eddy
    #Interdisclipinary #Psychology

    The Transforming Brain in Yoga Practice

    The central mystery of human life is consciousness.

    By Julian Walker
    #Philosophy #Psychology #Research

    Positive Neuroplasticity: The Neuroscience of Minduflness

    The function of the nervous system is to process information, and the brain is constantly changing – both functionally and structurally – due to the information coursing through it.

    By Rick Hanson
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