Ali Tataryn is a counselor, somatic educator, and coach who guides clients through somatic-emotional release and helps them map their internal emotional landscapes for healing and self-development. 

She is the founder of Relational Dojo, a welcoming space where kind humans come together to co-create curious and courageous conversations. Ali is also the co-founder of Sacred Somatic Events, a sober somatic dance experience that warmly invites participants into full-spectrum self-expression.

Her primary training is in Counseling, Expressive Arts, and Somatic Education. Ali has completed over 260 hours of Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training and is a trained as T3 Circling Facilitator through the Integral Center. 

She is also a meditation teacher certified under Upasaka Culadasa and Junpo Roshi, with extensive personal practice in the Namgyal-Kagyu tradition under teachers such as Lama Lodro, Lama Sidney, Lama Rodney Devinish, and her mother, Dr. Darlene Tataryn. Ali proudly collaborates with her father, clinical psychologist Dr. Douglas J. Tataryn, facilitating and coaching through his Bio-Emotive Framework.

In this episode, we explore Ali’s journey growing up with parents deeply immersed in emotional and spiritual work, her path as an actress and how acting became a form of spiritual practice, navigating identity as an artist, the Bio-Emotive framework and the art of emotional processing, how relational, emotional, and spiritual work come together and so much more. 

🔗[Links & resources] 🔗

• Ali’s personal site
• The Bio-Emotive Framework
• Follow Ali on Substack
• Follow Douglas Tataryn on Substack
• How to Process Emotions with Douglas Tataryn on the Elevating Consciousness Podcast
• Diane Musho Hamilton
• Leonard Cohen
• What is Circling by Artem Zen

🕰️[Time stamps] 🕰️

0:00 - Introduction 
4:00 - Growing up with cycle breakers 
7:06 - Good enough parenting and an imperfect life
10:08 - Navigating the self vs other polarity 
16:18 - How does a bodhisattva deal with a narcissist?
22:00 - Reconnecting to the good, true, and the beautiful 
24:50 - Acting as a spiritual practice vs acting as a career 
37:45 - Becoming aware of suffering 
40:27 - The thin line between awakening & Psychosis
44:25 - Navigating identity as an Artist 
57:02 - The Bio-Emotive Framework & the art of emotional processing 
1:08:07 - Emotions are not logical but they are lawful 
1:10:57 - Balancing intellectual with emotional and relational development 
1:15:49 - Circling (relational work) vs emotional processing vs deconstruction 
1:31:43 - What is between me and love/truth?

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