▶ Ep 106: Transition Updates
Updates on the Liberated Being podcast and studio, and The Healing Arts Business Incubator at www.brookethomas.me/incubator
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▶ Ep 105: Terrain Medicine and Your Nervous System
Today I’m talking with Dr. Ginger Nash. Ginger is a naturopathic physician who has been in practice for over 20 years. Her practice centers around nutrition, herbal medicine and homeopathy, with a foc
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▶ Ep 104: Bringing Somatics to Schools with Emory M. Moore Jr
Today I’m talking with Emory M. Moore Jr. A health and fitness pioneer and innovator, he created the EM LifeWork TM & EM technique TM methods for holistic fitness, wellness and body harmony. Emory is
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▶ Ep 103: Co-Creating with Community with Brea Fisher
Today I’m talking with Brea Fisher. Brea is the founder of Quan Yin Gongfu and has spent the last 13 years dedicated to the disciplines of Qigong, Taiji, and Gongfu, drawing on focused study and knowl
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▶ Ep 102: My Experience of Where Trauma Met Awakening
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with David Treleaven about his book and training on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. If you missed that episode- it’s a good one- and you can find it in the podcast pl
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▶ Ep 101: Conscious Vibrational Leadership with Isha Vela
Today I’m talking with Isha Vela. Isha is a psychologist and somatic trauma professional who works as a somatic expressive coach with healers, weavers, change agents, bridge-builders, connectors, and
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▶ Ep 100: Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven
David Treleaven is a writer, educator, and trauma professional working at the intersection of mindfulness and trauma. He is the author of the acclaimed book Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and founder of
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▶ Ep 99: Uncovering Your Natural Awareness with Diana Winston
Today I’m talking with Diana Winston. Diana is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center and the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for
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▶ Ep 98: Reclaiming Ourselves
This is a practice-based episode that speaks more deeply to the issues that were brought up in the last episode, with Jane Clapp, about how social media is changing us. This is from the point of view
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▶ Ep 97: How Social Media is Changing Us with Jane Clapp
Jane Clapp is a mindful strength and movement coach, an embodiment educator and a Jungian analyst in training. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work that goes beyond mindfulness, to enme
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▶ Ep 96: Qigong and the Power of the Formless with Master Mingtong Gu
Today I’m talking with Master Mingtong Gu Named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress for Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Master Mingtong is on faculty for Esalen Institute, Om
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▶ Ep 95: Being Human with Betsy Polatin
Today I’m talking with Betsy Polatin. Betsy Polatin, is an Alexander Technique teacher, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and has her MFA. She is An internationally recognized breathing and movement
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▶ Ep 94: Resting in the Head and the Heart
This is a practice-based episode. We are so inundated with information all the time! Even information about being less conceptual and more embodied, as on this podcast lol. Within Liberated Being we a
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▶ Ep 93: On Creating with Liam Bowler
Liam Bowler is a teacher, bodyworker, and a somatic philosopher. He’s also the creator of The Body Awake podcast which, if you’re listening to this podcast, I can highly recommend! He is most recently
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▶ Ep 92: Advocacy Meets Embodied Healing
Today I’m talking with Caprice Taylor Mendez. Since getting her Masters from Harvard in education, administration, planning and social policy, Caprice has spent the last 30 years supporting social jus
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▶ Ep 91: Falling Open in a World Falling Apart with Amoda Maa Jeevan
This week’s episode is with Amoda Maa Jeevan. It is an outtake from a longer guest teacher gathering that happened with Liberated Being members on November 14th of 2020. We talked about her recent boo
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▶ Ep 90: From Body to Embody with Marika Baxter
Today I’m talking with Marika Baxter. Marika has a Masters of Science in Physical Therapy and for 17 years practiced as a physical therapist and Pilates teacher working in particular in the dance medi
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▶ Ep 89: Embodying Healthy Power with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Today I’m talking with Kimberly Ann Johnson. Kimberly is a Structural Integrator, a Sexological Bodyworker, a birth doula and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She is the author of the book The Fou
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▶ Ep 88: The End of Trauma with Steve Hoskinson
Today I’m talking with Steve Hoskinson. Steve is the founder of Organic Intelligence® (OI) and the nonprofit Organic Intelligence Outreach Institute. OI’s Human Empowerment And Resiliency Training (HE
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▶ Ep 87: Pleasure and Play with Constance Clare-Newman
Today I’m talking with Constance Clare-Newman. Over 30+ years of teaching embodiment, Constance has developed a trauma-sensitive, neuroscience-informed approach to embodiment practices that focus on w
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▶ Ep 86: Trauma and Anxiety are Really Strange with Steve Haines
Today I’m talking with Steve Haines. Steve has been a bodyworker for 20 years primarily in the field of craniosacral therapy. He is now a senior international teacher of craniosacral, and together wit
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▶ Ep 85: I Am My Ancestor's Dream Come True with Enroue Halfkenny
Today I’m talking with Enroue Halfkenny. Since 1993, Enroue has been a practitioner within the nature based, West African, Òrìṣà religious tradition of the Yorùbá people. He was initiated as a priest
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▶ Ep 84: Courageous Compassion with Laura Banks
Today I’m talking with Laura Banks. Laura is a Certified Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT) teacher through the Compassion Institute and Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Re
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▶ Ep 83: When Resilience Training Gets Really Real with Sarah Histand
Today I’m talking with Sarah Histand who is blending her worlds as a personal trainer, mental health counselor with a masters’ in social work, and an outdoor adventurer to become a mental health-infor
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▶ Ep 82: Expanding the Heart with Will Pye
Today’s episode is an excerpt from a longer guest teacher gathering with Will Pye that took place on October 27th of 2020 within Liberated Being. This is an especially practice based episode, and it i
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▶ Ep 81: Embodied Relating to Self, Others, and the World
This is a homeplay episode! In other words, it's a chance to be guided through some embodied practice. In this case, it's about inhabiting internal space so that we can relate to ourselves, others, an
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▶ Ep 80: Self-Love as a Language of the Body with Vanessa Scotto
This talk is an excerpt from a longer guest teacher gathering with Vanessa Scotto which took place on May 15th 2020. Vanessa Scotto may sound familiar to you- she is a very dear friend of mine the co-
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▶ Ep 79: Alchemical Resilience with Nkem Ndefo
This talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Nkem Ndefo which originally took place on September 24th, 2020. Nkem is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Res
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▶ Ep 78: Stories and Sensation with Pete Blackaby
In today’s episode this is a talk that is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Peter Blackaby which originally took place on August 28th, 2020. Pete Blackaby is a yoga asana teacher and oste
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▶ Ep 77: The Merging Pattern with Isha Vela
This talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Isha Vela that happened within the Liberated Being embodied practice community. It took place on April 6th of 2020. To give you some context
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▶ Ep 76: Moving to the HeartMind with Loch Kelly
This talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Loch Kelly that happened within the Liberated Being embodied practice community. It took place on April 27th of 2020. Just to give you a lit
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▶ Ep 75: Beliefs Are What Our Bodies Are Doing with Bayo Akomolafe
This talk is an excerpt from Bayo Akomolafe's guest teacher gathering on Liberated Being which took place on May 26th 2020. You can find more of his work at www.bayoakomolafe.net and more about the em
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▶ Ep 74: Rock My Soul with Jeannie Zandi
This talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Jeannie Zandi that happened within the Liberated Being embodied practice community. In this gathering, Jeannie brings deep embodied presence
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▶ Ep 73: Embodying Safety and Capacity
This is a recording of a free class that I taught on July 26th 2020. In the class I talk about why the ability to deeply experience and know safety is so foundational to any shift being able to take p
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▶ Ep 72: What is Embodiment?
As we all spend time at home these days, I've been reflecting on where Liberated Body took me. So I wanted to record an episode that traced that. It all boils down to one question I think: That questi
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▶ Ep 71: Living Your Body's Intelligence: A Homeplay Episode
This episode functions like a little embodiment gift, courtesy of myself and Liam Bowler, who is the creator of the podcast The Body Awake. It is also an appetizer, a teeny tiny appetizer, of our upco
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▶ Ep 70: The Farewell Episode
For the past 3 years I have talked with somatic visionaries about new paradigms of understanding about the human body- and today is the final episode of the show. I have had the great honor of explori
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▶ Ep 69: Posture, Perception, and Presence with Mary Bond
It is my great good fortune for this to be my second interview with Mary Bond. Mary has an MA in Dance from UCLA, and studied with, and was certified by, Dr. Ida Rolf, the originator of Rolfing Struct
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▶ Ep 68: The Realization Process with Judith Blackstone
Today I’m talking with Judith Blackstone. Judith is the creator of The Realization Process, which is an integrated approach to embodiment, psychological, relational, physical healing, and spiritual aw
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▶ Ep 67: Your Movement is Your Lived Experience with Peter Blackaby
Today I’m talking with Peter Blackaby who is the author of the book Intelligent Yoga which he is currently writing the 2nd edition for. Pete started practicing yoga in 1978 and began teaching in 1986.
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▶ Ep 66: Breath, Inquiry, and Individuality with Leslie Kaminoff
Leslie Kaminoff has been a yoga educator for the last four decades and is an internationally recognized specialist in the fields of yoga and breath anatomy. He leads anatomy and yoga methodology works
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▶ Ep 65: Personal Agency, Movement, and Teaching with Amy Matthews
Today I’m talking with Amy Matthews. Amy Matthews, has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Ed
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▶ Ep 64: Movement Matters with Katy Bowman
Katy Bowman is a biomechanist and the founder of Nutritious Movement. She is the author of several books including Move Your DNA, Whole Body Barefoot, and her most recent collection of essays, Movemen
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▶ Ep 63: Embodied Living with Mark Walsh
Today I’m talking with Mark Walsh, an embodiment specialist who is the creator of the Embodied Facilitator training, Integration Training, Embodied Yoga Principles, and Purpose Blackbelt. His work in
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▶ Ep 62: Beyond Anatomy
I’m talking with Leslie Kaminoff, Amy Matthews, and Peter Blackaby about our upcoming somatic symposium in New York this April called Beyond Anatomy. There is a vast amount of information about the bo
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▶ Ep 61: How Liberated Body Changed Me with Brooke Thomas
Bo Forbes turns the tables and interviews host Brooke Thomas with her own and listener questions. Brooke's personal path with her own body, how learning through the podcast changed the way she sees th
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▶ Ep 60: How Mindful Body Awareness Heals with Cynthia Price
I’m talking with Cynthia Price. Cynthia describes herself as a bodywork researcher, and is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Washington in the Biobehavioral Nursing Department. Her
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▶ Ep 59: The Architecture of Living Tissue with Jean-Claude Guimberteau
Today I’m talking with Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau. Dr Guimberteau practiced for many years as a hand surgeon specializing in microsurgical replantation and transplantation. He is the co-founder and f
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▶ Ep 58: Parkour with Julie Angel
Julie Angel received her doctorate researching Parkour, and she has a new book out, Breaking the Jump, which chronicles the birth of this movement. The book, and our conversation, wind up tackling the
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▶ Ep 57: Your Body Is Your Soul with Jaap van der Wal
Jaap van der Wal is a phenomenological embryologist who is looking for the soul via the embryo and teaches about this all over the world through his Embryo in Motion project. In our conversation today
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▶ Ep 56: Embodied Cognition and Its Effect on Health with Cathy Kerr
Cathy Kerr is the director of the Mind In Body Lab at Brown University. Her research focuses on whether brain rhythms underlying body awareness and movement are actively modulated by mindfulness and m
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▶ Ep 55: A New Paradigm of Anatomy with John Sharkey
In this episode I am talking with John Sharkey who is a Clinical Anatomist, Exercise Physiologist, and European Neuromuscular Therapist. He has developed the worlds only Masters Degree in Neuromuscula
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▶ Ep 54: The End of the Structural Model with Eyal Lederman
Dr. Eyal Lederman joins me to talk in particular about his papertitled “A process approach in manual and physical therapies: beyondthe structural model and his controversial view that thestructural m
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▶ Ep 53: Interoception in Practice with Bo Forbes
Bo Forbes is a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and Integrative Yoga Therapist. We’re following up on the last two episodes which are pretty interoception based- first with Will Johnson and then w
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▶ Ep 52: Interoception, Contemplative Practice and Health with Norm Far
Neuroscientist Norm Farb's research focuses on the intersection between present moment awareness and well-being. Today we are discussing one of his papers, Interoception, Contemplative Practice, and H
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▶ Ep 51: Discovering The Line with Will Johnson
Wil Johnson is the founder of the Institute for Embodiment Training. In today’s conversation we dove into what Dr. Rolf’s original concept of “The Line” was, and discuss its implications for both find
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▶ Ep 50: Stop Mindless Stretching with Steve Gangemi
Dr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, has ruffled more than a few feathers with his proclamations that stretching is for Bozos... these days he's tempered his statement to stop mindless stretching. H
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▶ Ep 49: Inflammation and Connective Tissue with Helene Langevin
Dr. Helene Langevin of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, University of Vermont College of Medicine, and The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine talks about her research on acupun
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▶ ep 48: Biotensegrity and Fascia Research Congress
I give my take on the 7th Biotensegrity Interest Group, the 1st Biotensegrity Summit, and the 4th Fascia Research Congress all of which recently took place in Reston, Virginia.
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▶ ep 47: Born to Walk with James Earls
James Earls, author of Born to Walk, takes a very whole system approach to understanding walking.We talk about how the whole body walks, different schools of thought that have looked at walking in “pa
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▶ ep 46: The Spark in the Machine with Dan Keown
Dr. Dan Keown, who is both a Western medical doctor and a Chinese medicine doctor joins me for a conversation about his book The Spark in the Machine. We talk about many of the crucial things that Wes
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▶ Ep 45: How We Form and Move with Joanne Avison
Joanne Avison, author of Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy, and Movement, talks with me about fascia and why it has been overlooked historically (which includes a fascinating tour through the history of anatomy a
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▶ ep 44: Stand Up Kids with Juliet Starrett
Juliet Starrett talks about the non-profit she and her husband Kelly have founded, Stand Up Kids, which aims to spread movement rich classrooms throughout the nation. They've started with their childr
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▶ ep 43: Making Classrooms Movement Friendly
I talk with Richard Brennan, originator of the School Chairs Campaign to make backward sloping chairs illegal, and Patricia Pyrka of Beyond Training about her week-long furniture-free experiment in he
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▶ ep: 42 Physical Disempowerment of Infants and Children with Kathleen
How have our advances physical disempowered infants and children? What long terms costs does that have? How might the epidemics related to poorly functioning nervous systems be linked to or influenc
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▶ ep 41: The Long Body with Frank Forencich
Frank Forencich and I talk about the long body. A Native American term about how we are massively connected with the biological and social world around us. Where does the human body begin and end? W
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▶ Ep 40: Navigating Pain with Neil Pearson
What is pain? Neil Pearson helps to clarify the assumption that all pain is directly correlated to tissue damage, why your brain is messing with you by creating pain in the first place (if it’s not al
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▶ Ep 39: Natural Born Heroes with Christopher McDougall
Christopher McDougall is talking about his latest book, Natural Born Heroes. We talk about this remarkable story of a band of resistance fighters on Crete during World War II, how they contributed to
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▶ Ep 38: The Bliss of Your Biology with Ged Sumner
Today's conversation is with Ged Sumner about his book Body Intelligence Meditation. - Is traditional meditation treating the body like a machine to be broken? - Is it therefore anti-body and therefor
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▶ Ep 37: Embodied Mindfulness with Jamie McHugh
Where are we teaching critical sensing skills (instead of just critical thinking skills)? What is true physical education? Are classical meditation forms incompatible with modern life and the modern m
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▶ Episode 36: Barbara Loomis: Uterine Wisdom
Barbara Loomis talks about the surprising symptoms that can spring from uterine malpositioning- urinary incontinence, constipation, fertility issues, and even knee pain with ovulation. We also talk ab
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▶ Episode 35: Dr. Stephen Levin: Biotensegrity
I am talking with Dr. Stephen Levin about what biotensegrity is, the many ways that we are not like skyscrapers, how the difference between the bicycle wheel and the wagon wheel can illustrate the co
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▶ Episode 34: Judith Aston: Our Relationship to our Bodies and Their Re
I talk to somatic pioneer Judith Aston about the Aston Kinetics paradigm and how it integrates seamlessly with other paradigms like yoga, Pilates, and personal training, how seeing the body is taught
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▶ Episode 33: Eyal Lederman: The Myth of Core Stability
Dr. Eyal Lederman talks about his paper, The Myth of Core Stability. We get into the assumptions that were pulled out of the research which have lead to the core stability model, how dividing muscles
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▶ Episode 32: Steve Gangemi: Raising the Bar for What “Healthy” Means
Dr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, is a chiropractic physician and MovNat certified trainer who is merging functional neurology and nutritional biochemistry into mainstream natural healthcare. We ta
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▶ Episode 31: Gil Hedley: Exploring Inner Space
Gil Hedley is an ethicist and anatomist who runs unique human dissection labsthat are much more about discovering the reality of our connectedness than about finding the separations between things. We
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▶ Episode 30: Carolyn McMakin: The Resonance of Repair
Dr. Carolyn McMakin talks about Frequency Specific Microcurrent, our bodies as electromagnetic systems, the history of electromagnetic medicine, and the dramatic results of Frequency Specific Microcur
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▶ Episode 29: Amanda Joyce: Parkinson’s Disease and Movement as Powerfu
Amanda Joyce talks about her work as a Parkinson’s Disease Movement Disorder Specialist. We get into how powerful movement can be, even in progressive disease processes, and Amanda also talks about he
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▶ Episode 28: Mary Bond: Posture is an Exploration
Mary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture, talks about how and why the word “posture” is problematic, how poor posture becomes chronic, what muscular armoring is and how it interferes with our fun
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▶ Episode 27: Michol Dalcourt: What Training the Whole Body Really Mean
Michol Dalcourt is the director of the Institute of Motion. He and I talk about what “farm kid fit” means and why it matters, how are we are upright if our bones don’t touch?, how fascia moves the bod
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▶ Episode 26: Self-Care, Movement Scavenger Hunt, Holiday Giveaway Spec
This being the week of Thanksgiving in the US, I am talking about Liberated Body’s self-care, movement scavenger hunt, holiday giveaway spectacular which kicks off on the facebook group (www.facebook.
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▶ Episode 25: Todd Hargrove: Pain Science and How to be a Happy Mover
Todd Hargrove is talking about what happy movers have in common, how learning better movement is more like sculpture than painting, the feather-ruffling information that posture does not predict pain
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▶ Episode 24: Jill Miller: The Roll Model
I talk with Jill Miller, co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the corrective exercise formats Yoga Tune Up and The Roll Model Method about her recent book by the same name (The Roll
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▶ Episode 23: Gary Ward: What the Foot?
I’m talking with Gary Ward who is the founder of Anatomy in Motion, and the author of the book What the Foot?. He talks about how Anatomy in Motion is based on understanding how the body moves- or wha
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▶ Episode 22: Anne Tierney: Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching
Anne Tierney and I talk about Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching,what the advantages are of this kind of eccentric training, why alleviating global imbalances is the name of the game, how all of this can l
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▶ Episode 21: Sayonara Short Hamstrings
This episode includes outtakes from interviews I did with Jules Mitchell, Dr. Dawn McCrory, Jillian Nichols, and Rachel Bernsen for the Liberated Body Guide to Short Hamstrings. We get into the what a
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▶ Episode 20: Katy Bowman: Move Your DNA
Katy Bowman, biomechanist and founder of Restorative Exercise talks with us about her most recent book. Move Your DNA. We get into what diseases of mechanotransduction are, the profound ways our envir
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▶ Episode 19: Constance Clare-Newman: Alexander Technique
Constance Clare-Newman and I talk Alexander Technique, the difference between un-doing vs. doing (or relaxing into expansive support vs. propping oneself up), tensegrity concepts, the support relation
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▶ Episode 18: Jonathan Fitzgordon: Psoas Release Party!
Jonathan Fitzgordon, creator of the CoreWalking Method, talks about the uniqueness of the psoas muscle, how its connected to trauma and uprightness, and how and why to release it. He also gets into ga
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▶ Episode 17: Bo Forbes: Mindfulness Expressed in the Body
Bo Forbes, clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and integrative yoga therapist talks about what Integrative Yoga Therapy is, interoception, relaxing rather than corralling into expansion, why vinyasa
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▶ Episode 16: Darryl Edwards: Primal Play
Darryl Edwards, founder of the Primal Play methodology and author of Paleo Fitness, talks about some of the research on inactivity, the subtle yet proliferating messages in our environment that warn u
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▶ Episode 15: Steve Haines: Body Maps and Interoception
Steve Haines talks about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted, interoception and why there is more pain in areas that we have less interoception about- o
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▶ Episode 14: Judith Hanson Lasater: The Power of Restoration
Judith Hanson Lasater talks about being one of BKS Iyengar’s first students and, especially in light of his recent passing, some of his teachings that have stayed with her the most through the years.
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▶ Episode 13: David Weinstock: Neurokinetic Therapy and Motor Control T
David Weinstock, founder of Neurokinetic Therapy, talks about motor control theory, how we create healthy and dysfunctional patterns, what our scars can tell us about ourselves, how eye movements faci
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▶ Episode 12: Valerie Berg: Structural Aging At Any Age
Picture the standard old-person shuffle that we have come to assume is the norm. Why do we assume this is what happens to a body over time? What are the beginnings of these patterns and how can we cat
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▶ Episode 11: Tom Myers: Mapping the Anatomy of Connection
Tom Myers, founder of Anatomy Trains and Kinesis Myofascial Integration, talks about the history of Anatomy Trains and how he came to chart connections through the fascial fabric, where Newtonian biom
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▶ Episode 10: Matthew Lacoste: Journeying Through the History of Massag
www.liberatedbody.com/matthew-lacoste-lbp-010 Matthew Lacoste of www.thetouchtrail.com talks about the epic journey that he is kicking off next month. He’ll be traveling the world following the histor
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▶ Episode 9: Jules Mitchell: The Science of Stretching
liberatedbody.com/jules-mitchell-lbp-009 I get a chance to talk with Jules Mitchell right after she turned in her Master’s thesis in the science of stretching. Jules’ work blends biomechanics with the
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▶ Episode 8: Nancy DeLucrezia: How Bodies Change
Nancy DeLucrezia, founder of Neuro-Structural Bodywork and of The Kali Institute, talks about the importance of connecting fascial release with neuro-muscular re-education, or how to address both the
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▶ Episode 7: Britt Johnson: Thriving From a Chronic Patient’s Perspecti
Britt Johnson of The Hurt Blogger talks about life with autoimmune arthritis, how movement helped her to rehabilitate her body, her work to facilitate more patient-centered care as a bio-consultant an
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▶ Episode 6: Matthew Remski: What Are We Actually Doing In Asana?
www.liberatedbody.com/matthew-remski-lbp-006 Matthew Remski discusses his WAWADIA (What Are We Actually Doing In Asana) Project. We get into if yoga was ever really intended as a physically therapeuti
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▶ Episode 5: Erwan LeCorre: Evolutionary Fitness
www.liberatedbody.com/erwan-lecorre-lbp-005 Erwan LeCorre, founder of MovNat, explains what natural movement really means: it is the movements our ancestors have been doing throughout the history of o
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▶ Episode 4: Eric Goodman: Resolving Back Pain
Eric Goodman talks about the major back surgery that was recommended to him at the young age of 25 when he was, to the outside eye, the picture of strength. He discusses how he rehabilitated his way o
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▶ Episode 03: Esther Gokhale: Primal Posture
Esther Gokhale dives deep into her anthropological view into human posture and how it affects the pain epidemic in this interview. We talk about the influence of the fashion industry, why sitting real
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▶ Episode 2: Wendy Powell: Let’s Stop Spot-Treating Postpartum Issues
liberatedbody.com/wendy-powell-lbp002 I interview Wendy Powell of MuTu System about why spot-treating postpartum issues like diastasis recti and pelvic floor dysfunction (or really any issue) doesn’t
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▶ Episode 1: Original Strength: Getting back to the beginning of moveme
liberatedbody.com/original-strength-lbp001 I interview Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert of Original Strength about why it’s a good idea for your body and your brain to return to some of the rocking, rol
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▶ Ep 72: What is Embodiment?
As we all spend time at home these days, I've been reflecting on where Liberated Body took me. So I wanted to record an episode that traced that. It all boils down to one question I think: That questi
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▶ Ep 71: Living Your Body's Intelligence: A Homeplay Episode
This episode functions like a little embodiment gift, courtesy of myself and Liam Bowler, who is the creator of the podcast The Body Awake. It is also an appetizer, a teeny tiny appetizer, of our upco
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▶ Ep 70: The Farewell Episode
For the past 3 years I have talked with somatic visionaries about new paradigms of understanding about the human body- and today is the final episode of the show. I have had the great honor of explori
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▶ Ep 69: Posture, Perception, and Presence with Mary Bond
It is my great good fortune for this to be my second interview with Mary Bond. Mary has an MA in Dance from UCLA, and studied with, and was certified by, Dr. Ida Rolf, the originator of Rolfing Struct
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▶ Ep 68: The Realization Process with Judith Blackstone
Today I’m talking with Judith Blackstone. Judith is the creator of The Realization Process, which is an integrated approach to embodiment, psychological, relational, physical healing, and spiritual aw
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▶ Ep 67: Your Movement is Your Lived Experience with Peter Blackaby
Today I’m talking with Peter Blackaby who is the author of the book Intelligent Yoga which he is currently writing the 2nd edition for. Pete started practicing yoga in 1978 and began teaching in 1986.
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▶ Ep 66: Breath, Inquiry, and Individuality with Leslie Kaminoff
Leslie Kaminoff has been a yoga educator for the last four decades and is an internationally recognized specialist in the fields of yoga and breath anatomy. He leads anatomy and yoga methodology works
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▶ Ep 65: Personal Agency, Movement, and Teaching with Amy Matthews
Today I’m talking with Amy Matthews. Amy Matthews, has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Ed
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▶ Ep 64: Movement Matters with Katy Bowman
Katy Bowman is a biomechanist and the founder of Nutritious Movement. She is the author of several books including Move Your DNA, Whole Body Barefoot, and her most recent collection of essays, Movemen
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▶ Ep 63: Embodied Living with Mark Walsh
Today I’m talking with Mark Walsh, an embodiment specialist who is the creator of the Embodied Facilitator training, Integration Training, Embodied Yoga Principles, and Purpose Blackbelt. His work in
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▶ Ep 62: Beyond Anatomy
I’m talking with Leslie Kaminoff, Amy Matthews, and Peter Blackaby about our upcoming somatic symposium in New York this April called Beyond Anatomy. There is a vast amount of information about the bo
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▶ Ep 61: How Liberated Body Changed Me with Brooke Thomas
Bo Forbes turns the tables and interviews host Brooke Thomas with her own and listener questions. Brooke's personal path with her own body, how learning through the podcast changed the way she sees th
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▶ Ep 60: How Mindful Body Awareness Heals with Cynthia Price
I’m talking with Cynthia Price. Cynthia describes herself as a bodywork researcher, and is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Washington in the Biobehavioral Nursing Department. Her
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▶ Ep 59: The Architecture of Living Tissue with Jean-Claude Guimberteau
Today I’m talking with Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau. Dr Guimberteau practiced for many years as a hand surgeon specializing in microsurgical replantation and transplantation. He is the co-founder and f
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▶ Ep 58: Parkour with Julie Angel
Julie Angel received her doctorate researching Parkour, and she has a new book out, Breaking the Jump, which chronicles the birth of this movement. The book, and our conversation, wind up tackling the
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▶ Ep 57: Your Body Is Your Soul with Jaap van der Wal
Jaap van der Wal is a phenomenological embryologist who is looking for the soul via the embryo and teaches about this all over the world through his Embryo in Motion project. In our conversation today
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▶ Ep 56: Embodied Cognition and Its Effect on Health with Cathy Kerr
Cathy Kerr is the director of the Mind In Body Lab at Brown University. Her research focuses on whether brain rhythms underlying body awareness and movement are actively modulated by mindfulness and m
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▶ Ep 55: A New Paradigm of Anatomy with John Sharkey
In this episode I am talking with John Sharkey who is a Clinical Anatomist, Exercise Physiologist, and European Neuromuscular Therapist. He has developed the worlds only Masters Degree in Neuromuscula
...
▶ Ep 54: The End of the Structural Model with Eyal Lederman
Dr. Eyal Lederman joins me to talk in particular about his paper
titled “A process approach in manual and physical therapies: beyond
the structural model and his controversial view that the
structural
...
▶ Ep 53: Interoception in Practice with Bo Forbes
Bo Forbes is a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and Integrative Yoga Therapist. We’re following up on the last two episodes which are pretty interoception based- first with Will Johnson and then w
...
▶ Ep 52: Interoception, Contemplative Practice and Health with Norm Far
Neuroscientist Norm Farb's research focuses on the intersection between present moment awareness and well-being. Today we are discussing one of his papers, Interoception, Contemplative Practice, and H
...
▶ Ep 51: Discovering The Line with Will Johnson
Wil Johnson is the founder of the Institute for Embodiment Training. In today’s conversation we dove into what Dr. Rolf’s original concept of “The Line” was, and discuss its implications for both find
...
▶ Ep 50: Stop Mindless Stretching with Steve Gangemi
Dr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, has ruffled more than a few feathers with his proclamations that stretching is for Bozos... these days he's tempered his statement to stop mindless stretching. He
...
▶ Ep 49: Inflammation and Connective Tissue with Helene Langevin
Dr. Helene Langevin of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, University of Vermont College of Medicine, and The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine talks about her research on acupun
...
▶ ep 48: Biotensegrity and Fascia Research Congress
I give my take on the 7th Biotensegrity Interest Group, the 1st Biotensegrity Summit, and the 4th Fascia Research Congress all of which recently took place in Reston, Virginia.
...
▶ ep 47: Born to Walk with James Earls
James Earls, author of Born to Walk, takes a very whole system approach to understanding walking.We talk about how the whole body walks, different schools of thought that have looked at walking in “pa
...
▶ ep 46: The Spark in the Machine with Dan Keown
Dr. Dan Keown, who is both a Western medical doctor and a Chinese medicine doctor joins me for a conversation about his book The Spark in the Machine. We talk about many of the crucial things that Wes
...
▶ Ep 45: How We Form and Move with Joanne Avison
Joanne Avison, author of Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy, and Movement, talks with me about fascia and why it has been overlooked historically (which includes a fascinating tour through the history of anatomy a
...
▶ ep 44: Stand Up Kids with Juliet Starrett
Juliet Starrett talks about the non-profit she and her husband Kelly have founded, Stand Up Kids, which aims to spread movement rich classrooms throughout the nation. They've started with their childr
...
▶ ep 43: Making Classrooms Movement Friendly
I talk with Richard Brennan, originator of the School Chairs Campaign to make backward sloping chairs illegal, and Patricia Pyrka of Beyond Training about her week-long furniture-free experiment in he
...
▶ ep: 42 Physical Disempowerment of Infants and Children with Kathleen
How have our advances physical disempowered infants and children? What long terms costs does that have? How might the epidemics related to poorly functioning nervous systems be linked to or influenced
...
▶ ep 41: The Long Body with Frank Forencich
Frank Forencich and I talk about the long body. A Native American term about how we are massively connected with the biological and social world around us. Where does the human body begin and end? Why
...
▶ Ep 40: Navigating Pain with Neil Pearson
What is pain? Neil Pearson helps to clarify the assumption that all pain is directly correlated to tissue damage, why your brain is messing with you by creating pain in the first place (if it’s not al
...
▶ Ep 39: Natural Born Heroes with Christopher McDougall
Christopher McDougall is talking about his latest book, Natural Born Heroes. We talk about this remarkable story of a band of resistance fighters on Crete during World War II, how they contributed to
...
▶ Ep 38: The Bliss of Your Biology with Ged Sumner
Today's conversation is with Ged Sumner about his book Body Intelligence Meditation. - Is traditional meditation treating the body like a machine to be broken? - Is it therefore anti-body and therefor
...
▶ Ep 37: Embodied Mindfulness with Jamie McHugh
Where are we teaching critical sensing skills (instead of just critical thinking skills)? What is true physical education? Are classical meditation forms incompatible with modern life and the modern m
...
▶ Episode 36: Barbara Loomis: Uterine Wisdom
Barbara Loomis talks about the surprising symptoms that can spring from uterine malpositioning- urinary incontinence, constipation, fertility issues, and even knee pain with ovulation. We also talk ab
...
▶ Episode 35: Dr. Stephen Levin: Biotensegrity
I am talking with Dr. Stephen Levin about what biotensegrity is, the many ways that we are not like skyscrapers, how the difference between the bicycle wheel and the wagon wheel can illustrate the
...
▶ Episode 34: Judith Aston: Our Relationship to our Bodies and Their Re
I talk to somatic pioneer Judith Aston about the Aston Kinetics paradigm and how it integrates seamlessly with other paradigms like yoga, Pilates, and personal training, how seeing the body is taugh
...
▶ Episode 33: Eyal Lederman: The Myth of Core Stability
Dr. Eyal Lederman talks about his paper, The Myth of Core Stability. We get into the assumptions that were pulled out of the research which have lead to the core stability model, how dividing muscle
...
▶ Episode 32: Steve Gangemi: Raising the Bar for What “Healthy” Means
Dr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, is a chiropractic physician and MovNat certified trainer who is merging functional neurology and nutritional biochemistry into mainstream natural healthcare. We
...
▶ Episode 31: Gil Hedley: Exploring Inner Space
Gil Hedley is an ethicist and anatomist who runs unique human dissection labsthat are much more about discovering the reality of our connectedness than about finding the separations between things. We
...
▶ Episode 30: Carolyn McMakin: The Resonance of Repair
Dr. Carolyn McMakin talks about Frequency Specific Microcurrent, our bodies as electromagnetic systems, the history of electromagnetic medicine, and the dramatic results of Frequency Specific Microc
...
▶ Episode 29: Amanda Joyce: Parkinson’s Disease and Movement as Powerfu
Amanda Joyce talks about her work as a Parkinson’s Disease Movement Disorder Specialist. We get into how powerful movement can be, even in progressive disease processes, and Amanda also talks about
...
▶ Episode 28: Mary Bond: Posture is an Exploration
Mary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture, talks about how and why the word “posture” is problematic, how poor posture becomes chronic, what muscular armoring is and how it interferes with our fun
...
▶ Episode 27: Michol Dalcourt: What Training the Whole Body Really Mean
Michol Dalcourt is the director of the Institute of Motion. He and I talk about what “farm kid fit” means and why it matters, how are we are upright if our bones don’t touch?, how fascia moves the bo
...
▶ Episode 26: Self-Care, Movement Scavenger Hunt, Holiday Giveaway Spec
This being the week of Thanksgiving in the US, I am talking about Liberated Body’s self-care, movement scavenger hunt, holiday giveaway spectacular which kicks off on the facebook group (www.facebook.
...
▶ Episode 25: Todd Hargrove: Pain Science and How to be a Happy Mover
Todd Hargrove is talking about what happy movers have in common, how learning better movement is more like sculpture than painting, the feather-ruffling information that posture does not predict pain
...
▶ Episode 24: Jill Miller: The Roll Model
I talk with Jill Miller, co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the corrective exercise formats Yoga Tune Up and The Roll Model Method about her recent book by the same name (The Rol
...
▶ Episode 23: Gary Ward: What the Foot?
I’m talking with Gary Ward who is the founder of Anatomy in Motion, and the author of the book What the Foot?. He talks about how Anatomy in Motion is based on understanding how the body moves- or wha
...
▶ Episode 22: Anne Tierney: Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching
Anne Tierney and I talk about Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching,what the advantages are of this kind of eccentric training, why alleviating global imbalances is the name of the game, how all of this can
...
▶ Episode 21: Sayonara Short Hamstrings
This episode includes outtakes from interviews I did with Jules Mitchell, Dr. Dawn McCrory, Jillian Nichols, and Rachel Bernsen for the Liberated Body Guide to Short Hamstrings. We get into the what a
...
▶ Episode 20: Katy Bowman: Move Your DNA
Katy Bowman, biomechanist and founder of Restorative Exercise talks with us about her most recent book. Move Your DNA. We get into what diseases of mechanotransduction are, the profound ways our envir
...
▶ Episode 19: Constance Clare-Newman: Alexander Technique
Constance Clare-Newman and I talk Alexander Technique, the difference between un-doing vs. doing (or relaxing into expansive support vs. propping oneself up), tensegrity concepts, the support relation
...
▶ Episode 18: Jonathan Fitzgordon: Psoas Release Party!
Jonathan Fitzgordon, creator of the CoreWalking Method, talks about the uniqueness of the psoas muscle, how its connected to trauma and uprightness, and how and why to release it. He also gets into
...
▶ Episode 17: Bo Forbes: Mindfulness Expressed in the Body
Bo Forbes, clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and integrative yoga therapist talks about what Integrative Yoga Therapy is, interoception, relaxing rather than corralling into expansion, why vinyasa
...
▶ Episode 16: Darryl Edwards: Primal Play
Darryl Edwards, founder of the Primal Play methodology and author of Paleo Fitness, talks about some of the research on inactivity, the subtle yet proliferating messages in our environment that warn
...
▶ Episode 15: Steve Haines: Body Maps and Interoception
Steve Haines talks about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted, interoception and why there is more pain in areas that we have less interoception about- o
...
▶ Episode 14: Judith Hanson Lasater: The Power of Restoration
Judith Hanson Lasater talks about being one of BKS Iyengar’s first students and, especially in light of his recent passing, some of his teachings that have stayed with her the most through the years
...
▶ Episode 13: David Weinstock: Neurokinetic Therapy and Motor Control
David Weinstock, founder of Neurokinetic Therapy, talks about motor control theory, how we create healthy and dysfunctional patterns, what our scars can tell us about ourselves, how eye movements fa
...
▶ Episode 12: Valerie Berg: Structural Aging At Any Age
Picture the standard old-person shuffle that we have come to assume is the norm. Why do we assume this is what happens to a body over time? What are the beginnings of these patterns and how can we cat
...
▶ Episode 11: Tom Myers: Mapping the Anatomy of Connection
Tom Myers, founder of Anatomy Trains and Kinesis Myofascial Integration, talks about the history of Anatomy Trains and how he came to chart connections through the fascial fabric, where Newtonian bi
...
▶ Episode 10: Matthew Lacoste: Journeying Through the History of Massa
www.liberatedbody.com/matthew-lacoste-lbp-010 Matthew Lacoste of www.thetouchtrail.com talks about the epic journey that he is kicking off next month. He’ll be traveling the world following the histor
...
▶ Episode 9: Jules Mitchell: The Science of Stretching
http://www.liberatedbody.com/jules-mitchell-lbp-009 I get a chance to talk with Jules Mitchell right after she turned in her Master’s thesis in the science of stretching. Jules’ work blends biomechan
...
▶ Episode 8: Nancy DeLucrezia: How Bodies Change
Nancy DeLucrezia, founder of Neuro-Structural Bodywork and of The Kali Institute, talks about the importance of connecting fascial release with neuro-muscular re-education, or how to address both th
...
▶ Episode 7: Britt Johnson: Thriving From a Chronic Patient’s Perspecti
Britt Johnson of The Hurt Blogger talks about life with autoimmune arthritis, how movement helped her to rehabilitate her body, her work to facilitate more patient-centered care as a bio-consultant a
...
▶ Episode 6: Matthew Remski: What Are We Actually Doing In Asana?
www.liberatedbody.com/matthew-remski-lbp-006 Matthew Remski discusses his WAWADIA (What Are We Actually Doing In Asana) Project. We get into if yoga was ever really intended as a physically therapeuti
...
▶ Episode 5: Erwan LeCorre: Evolutionary Fitness
www.liberatedbody.com/erwan-lecorre-lbp-005 Erwan LeCorre, founder of MovNat, explains what natural movement really means: it is the movements our ancestors have been doing throughout the history of
...
▶ Episode 4: Eric Goodman: Resolving Back Pain
Eric Goodman talks about the major back surgery that was recommended to him at the young age of 25 when he was, to the outside eye, the picture of strength. He discusses how he rehabilitated his way o
...
▶ Episode 03: Esther Gokhale: Primal Posture
Esther Gokhale dives deep into her anthropological view into human posture and how it affects the pain epidemic in this interview. We talk about the influence of the fashion industry, why sitting re
...
▶ Episode 2: Wendy Powell: Let’s Stop Spot-Treating Postpartum Issues
http://www.liberatedbody.com/wendy-powell-lbp002 I interview Wendy Powell of MuTu System about why spot-treating postpartum issues like diastasis recti and pelvic floor dysfunction (or really any issu
...
▶ Episode 1: Original Strength: Getting back to the beginning of moveme
http://www.liberatedbody.com/original-strength-lbp001 I interview Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert of Original Strength about why it’s a good idea for your body and your brain to return to some of the
...
▶ Ep 61: How Liberated Body Changed Me with Brooke Thomas
Bo Forbes turns the tables and interviews host Brooke Thomas with her own and listener questions. Brooke's personal path with her own body, how learning through the podcast changed the way she sees th
...
▶ Ep 60: How Mindful Body Awareness Heals with Cynthia Price
I’m talking with Cynthia Price. Cynthia describes herself as a bodywork researcher, and is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Washington in the Biobehavioral Nursing Department. Her
...
▶ Ep 59: The Architecture of Living Tissue with Jean-Claude Guimberteau
Today I’m talking with Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau. Dr Guimberteau practiced for many years as a hand surgeon specializing in microsurgical replantation and transplantation. He is the co-founder and f
...
▶ Ep 58: Parkour with Julie Angel
Julie Angel received her doctorate researching Parkour, and she has a new book out, Breaking the Jump, which chronicles the birth of this movement. The book, and our conversation, wind up tackling the
...
▶ Ep 57: Your Body Is Your Soul with Jaap van der Wal
Jaap van der Wal is a phenomenological embryologist who is looking for the soul via the embryo and teaches about this all over the world through his Embryo in Motion project. In our conversation today
...
▶ Ep 56: Embodied Cognition and Its Effect on Health with Cathy Kerr
Cathy Kerr is the director of the Mind In Body Lab at Brown University. Her research focuses on whether brain rhythms underlying body awareness and movement are actively modulated by mindfulness and m
...
▶ Ep 55: A New Paradigm of Anatomy with John Sharkey
In this episode I am talking with John Sharkey who is a Clinical Anatomist, Exercise Physiologist, and European Neuromuscular Therapist. He has developed the worlds only Masters Degree in Neuromuscula
...
▶ Ep 54: The End of the Structural Model with Eyal Lederman
Dr. Eyal Lederman joins me to talk in particular about his paper
titled “A process approach in manual and physical therapies: beyond
the structural model" and his controversial view that the
structura
...
▶ Ep 53: Interoception in Practice with Bo Forbes
Bo Forbes is a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and Integrative Yoga Therapist. We’re following up on the last two episodes which are pretty interoception based- first with Will Johnson and then w
...
▶ Ep 52: Interoception, Contemplative Practice and Health with Norm Far
Neuroscientist Norm Farb's research focuses on the intersection between present moment awareness and well-being. Today we are discussing one of his papers, Interoception, Contemplative Practice, and H
...
▶ Ep 51: Discovering The Line with Will Johnson
Wil Johnson is the founder of the Institute for Embodiment Training. In today’s conversation we dove into what Dr. Rolf’s original concept of “The Line” was, and discuss its implications for both find
...
▶ Ep 50: Stop Mindless Stretching with Steve Gangemi
Dr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, has ruffled more than a few feathers with his proclamations that stretching is for Bozos... these days he's tempered his statement to "stop mindless stretching". H
...
▶ Ep 49: Inflammation and Connective Tissue with Helene Langevin
Dr. Helene Langevin of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, University of Vermont College of Medicine, and The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine talks about her research on acupun
...
▶ ep 48: Biotensegrity and Fascia Research Congress
I give my take on the 7th Biotensegrity Interest Group, the 1st Biotensegrity Summit, and the 4th Fascia Research Congress all of which recently took place in Reston, Virginia.
...
▶ ep 47: Born to Walk with James Earls
James Earls, author of Born to Walk, takes a very whole system approach to understanding walking.We talk about how the whole body walks, different schools of thought that have looked at walking in “pa
...
▶ ep 46: The Spark in the Machine with Dan Keown
Dr. Dan Keown, who is both a Western medical doctor and a Chinese medicine doctor joins me for a conversation about his book The Spark in the Machine. We talk about many of the crucial things that Wes
...
▶ Ep 45: How We Form and Move with Joanne Avison
Joanne Avison, author of Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy, and Movement, talks with me about fascia and why it has been overlooked historically (which includes a fascinating tour through the history of anatomy a
...
▶ ep 44: Stand Up Kids with Juliet Starrett
Juliet Starrett talks about the non-profit she and her husband Kelly have founded, Stand Up Kids, which aims to spread movement rich classrooms throughout the nation. They've started with their childr
...
▶ ep 43: Making Classrooms Movement Friendly
I talk with Richard Brennan, originator of the School Chairs Campaign to make backward sloping chairs illegal, and Patricia Pyrka of Beyond Training about her week-long furniture-free experiment in he
...
▶ ep: 42 Physical Disempowerment of Infants and Children with Kathleen
How have our "advances" physical disempowered infants and children? What long terms costs does that have? How might the epidemics related to poorly functioning nervous systems be linked to or influenc
...
▶ ep 41: The Long Body with Frank Forencich
Frank Forencich and I talk about "the long body". A Native American term about how we are massively connected with the biological and social world around us. Where does the human body begin and end? W
...
▶ Ep 40: Navigating Pain with Neil Pearson
What is pain? Neil Pearson helps to clarify the assumption that all pain is directly correlated to tissue damage, why your brain is messing with you by creating pain in the first place (if it’s not al
...
▶ Ep 39: Natural Born Heroes with Christopher McDougall
Christopher McDougall is talking about his latest book, Natural Born Heroes. We talk about this remarkable story of a band of resistance fighters on Crete during World War II, how they contributed to
...
▶ Ep 38: The Bliss of Your Biology with Ged Sumner
Today's conversation is with Ged Sumner about his book Body Intelligence Meditation. - Is traditional meditation treating the body like a machine to be broken? - Is it therefore anti-body and therefor
...
▶ Ep 37: Embodied Mindfulness with Jamie McHugh
Where are we teaching critical sensing skills (instead of just critical thinking skills)? What is true physical education? Are classical meditation forms incompatible with modern life and the modern m
...
▶ Episode 36: Barbara Loomis: Uterine Wisdom
Barbara Loomis talks about the surprising symptoms that can spring from uterine malpositioning- urinary incontinence, constipation, fertility issues, and even knee pain with ovulation. We also talk ab
...
▶ Episode 35: Dr. Stephen Levin: Biotensegrity
I am talking with Dr. Stephen Levin about what biotensegrity is, the many ways that we are not like skyscrapers, how the difference between the bicycle wheel and the wagon wheel can illustrate the
...
▶ Episode 34: Judith Aston: Our Relationship to our Bodies and Their Re
I talk to somatic pioneer Judith Aston about the Aston Kinetics paradigm and how it integrates seamlessly with other paradigms like yoga, Pilates, and personal training, how seeing the body is taugh
...
▶ Episode 33: Eyal Lederman: The Myth of Core Stability
Dr. Eyal Lederman talks about his paper, The Myth of Core Stability. We get into the assumptions that were pulled out of the research which have lead to the core stability model, how dividing muscle
...
▶ Episode 32: Steve Gangemi: Raising the Bar for What “Healthy” Means
Dr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, is a chiropractic physician and MovNat certified trainer who is merging functional neurology and nutritional biochemistry into mainstream natural healthcare. We
...
▶ Episode 31: Gil Hedley: Exploring Inner Space
Gil Hedley is an ethicist and anatomist who runs unique human dissection labsthat are much more about discovering the reality of our connectedness than about finding the separations between things. We
...
▶ Episode 30: Carolyn McMakin: The Resonance of Repair
Dr. Carolyn McMakin talks about Frequency Specific Microcurrent, our bodies as electromagnetic systems, the history of electromagnetic medicine, and the dramatic results of Frequency Specific Microc
...
▶ Episode 29: Amanda Joyce: Parkinson’s Disease and Movement as Powerfu
Amanda Joyce talks about her work as a Parkinson’s Disease Movement Disorder Specialist. We get into how powerful movement can be, even in progressive disease processes, and Amanda also talks about
...
▶ Episode 28: Mary Bond: Posture is an Exploration
Mary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture, talks about how and why the word “posture” is problematic, how poor posture becomes chronic, what muscular armoring is and how it interferes with our fun
...
▶ Episode 27: Michol Dalcourt: What Training the Whole Body Really Mean
Michol Dalcourt is the director of the Institute of Motion. He and I talk about what “farm kid fit” means and why it matters, how are we are upright if our bones don’t touch?, how fascia moves the bo
...
▶ Episode 26: Self-Care, Movement Scavenger Hunt, Holiday Giveaway Spec
This being the week of Thanksgiving in the US, I am talking about Liberated Body’s self-care, movement scavenger hunt, holiday giveaway spectacular which kicks off on the facebook group (www.facebook.
...
▶ Episode 25: Todd Hargrove: Pain Science and How to be a Happy Mover
Todd Hargrove is talking about what happy movers have in common, how learning better movement is more like sculpture than painting, the feather-ruffling information that posture does not predict pain
...
▶ Episode 24: Jill Miller: The Roll Model
I talk with Jill Miller, co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the corrective exercise formats Yoga Tune Up and The Roll Model Method about her recent book by the same name (The Rol
...
▶ Episode 23: Gary Ward: What the Foot?
I’m talking with Gary Ward who is the founder of Anatomy in Motion, and the author of the book What the Foot?. He talks about how Anatomy in Motion is based on understanding how the body moves- or wha
...
▶ Episode 22: Anne Tierney: Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching
Anne Tierney and I talk about Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching,what the advantages are of this kind of eccentric training, why alleviating global imbalances is the name of the game, how all of this can
...
▶ Episode 21: Sayonara Short Hamstrings
This episode includes outtakes from interviews I did with Jules Mitchell, Dr. Dawn McCrory, Jillian Nichols, and Rachel Bernsen for the Liberated Body Guide to Short Hamstrings. We get into the what a
...
▶ Episode 20: Katy Bowman: Move Your DNA
Katy Bowman, biomechanist and founder of Restorative Exercise talks with us about her most recent book. Move Your DNA. We get into what diseases of mechanotransduction are, the profound ways our envir
...
▶ Episode 19: Constance Clare-Newman: Alexander Technique
Constance Clare-Newman and I talk Alexander Technique, the difference between un-doing vs. doing (or relaxing into expansive support vs. propping oneself up), tensegrity concepts, the support relation
...
▶ Episode 18: Jonathan Fitzgordon: Psoas Release Party!
Jonathan Fitzgordon, creator of the CoreWalking Method, talks about the uniqueness of the psoas muscle, how its connected to trauma and uprightness, and how and why to release it. He also gets into
...
▶ Episode 17: Bo Forbes: Mindfulness Expressed in the Body
Bo Forbes, clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and integrative yoga therapist talks about what Integrative Yoga Therapy is, interoception, relaxing rather than corralling into expansion, why vinyasa
...
▶ Episode 16: Darryl Edwards: Primal Play
Darryl Edwards, founder of the Primal Play methodology and author of Paleo Fitness, talks about some of the research on inactivity, the subtle yet proliferating messages in our environment that warn
...
▶ Episode 15: Steve Haines: Body Maps and Interoception
Steve Haines talks about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted, interoception and why there is more pain in areas that we have less interoception about- o
...
▶ Episode 14: Judith Hanson Lasater: The Power of Restoration
Judith Hanson Lasater talks about being one of BKS Iyengar’s first students and, especially in light of his recent passing, some of his teachings that have stayed with her the most through the years
...
▶ Episode 13: David Weinstock: Neurokinetic Therapy and Motor Control
David Weinstock, founder of Neurokinetic Therapy, talks about motor control theory, how we create healthy and dysfunctional patterns, what our scars can tell us about ourselves, how eye movements fa
...
▶ Episode 12: Valerie Berg: Structural Aging At Any Age
Picture the standard old-person shuffle that we have come to assume is the norm. Why do we assume this is what happens to a body over time? What are the beginnings of these patterns and how can we cat
...
▶ Episode 11: Tom Myers: Mapping the Anatomy of Connection
Tom Myers, founder of Anatomy Trains and Kinesis Myofascial Integration, talks about the history of Anatomy Trains and how he came to chart connections through the fascial fabric, where Newtonian bi
...
▶ Episode 10: Matthew Lacoste: Journeying Through the History of Massa
www.liberatedbody.com/matthew-lacoste-lbp-010 Matthew Lacoste of www.thetouchtrail.com talks about the epic journey that he is kicking off next month. He’ll be traveling the world following the histor
...
▶ Episode 9: Jules Mitchell: The Science of Stretching
http://www.liberatedbody.com/jules-mitchell-lbp-009 I get a chance to talk with Jules Mitchell right after she turned in her Master’s thesis in the science of stretching. Jules’ work blends biomechan
...
▶ Episode 8: Nancy DeLucrezia: How Bodies Change
Nancy DeLucrezia, founder of Neuro-Structural Bodywork and of The Kali Institute, talks about the importance of connecting fascial release with neuro-muscular re-education, or how to address both th
...
▶ Episode 7: Britt Johnson: Thriving From a Chronic Patient’s Perspecti
Britt Johnson of The Hurt Blogger talks about life with autoimmune arthritis, how movement helped her to rehabilitate her body, her work to facilitate more patient-centered care as a bio-consultant a
...
▶ Episode 6: Matthew Remski: What Are We Actually Doing In Asana?
www.liberatedbody.com/matthew-remski-lbp-006 Matthew Remski discusses his WAWADIA (What Are We Actually Doing In Asana) Project. We get into if yoga was ever really intended as a physically therapeuti
...
▶ Episode 5: Erwan LeCorre: Evolutionary Fitness
www.liberatedbody.com/erwan-lecorre-lbp-005 Erwan LeCorre, founder of MovNat, explains what natural movement really means: it is the movements our ancestors have been doing throughout the history of
...
▶ Episode 4: Eric Goodman: Resolving Back Pain
Eric Goodman talks about the major back surgery that was recommended to him at the young age of 25 when he was, to the outside eye, the picture of strength. He discusses how he rehabilitated his way o
...
▶ Episode 03: Esther Gokhale: Primal Posture
Esther Gokhale dives deep into her anthropological view into human posture and how it affects the pain epidemic in this interview. We talk about the influence of the fashion industry, why sitting re
...
▶ Episode 2: Wendy Powell: Let’s Stop Spot-Treating Postpartum Issues
http://www.liberatedbody.com/wendy-powell-lbp002 I interview Wendy Powell of MuTu System about why spot-treating postpartum issues like diastasis recti and pelvic floor dysfunction (or really any issu
...
▶ Episode 1: Original Strength: Getting back to the beginning of moveme
http://www.liberatedbody.com/original-strength-lbp001 I interview Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert of Original Strength about why it’s a good idea for your body and your brain to return to some of the
...