MindBody Studies

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…

— Interactions with Pentecost Wind is seen or heard when it makes contact with objects.  The Queer functions similarly.  Movement…

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

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.  

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?

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.