On today's episode, Luis is joined by HLN co-teacher Camille Leak, and Rebecca Dollard and Janell Flores Bolte, graduates of the most recent Embodied Practitioner slow groups, to share their experiences in the container. 

They discuss:

• what's been internalized by the idea of the "right" way to run a business
• working with capacity vs. desire within a business
• the wisdom of slowness
• being held as a practitioner who holds space for others
• charging the rate you need to support your practice and capacity

You can find the podcast episode Luis referenced here: [Ep. 76] Navigating Capacity & Desire: How To "Stop Self-Sabotaging" w/ Luis Mojica

The next Embodied Practitioner slow group starts in January 2024, and is a 6 month container to dive deeply into the nuance of the topics explored in this episode. To learn more, join the waitlist, and apply, click here.

You can learn more about Camille's work here: https://www.realtalkbravespaces.com/

You can learn more about Rebecca's work here: https://www.the-motherhood-mentor.com/

You can learn more about Janell's work here: https://www.janellfloresbolte.com/

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode, Luis is joined by Zach and Steven, his co-facilitators, and graduates of the most recent Embodied Masculinity slow group, to share about their experiences around masculinity, sexuality, emotions, social conditioning and more.

They discuss:

• talking about puberty with other men, through a somatic lens
• the loneliness of puberty
• regaining the ability to be with other men in an emotional way
• unshaming, and moving through stuck places with mentorship, respect, and understanding
• uncoupling masculine nature from self-hatred
• overcouplings with power and domination 
• nourishing the feminine and masculine energies together
• uncoupling masculine from man and feminine from woman

The next Embodied Masculinity slow group starts in January 2024, and is a 6 month container to dive deeply into the nuance of the topics explored in this episode, in a group men's space. To learn more, join the waitlist, and apply, click here.

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode Luis talks about navigating gender dysphoria without an urgency model. He speaks directly from his experience of gender dysphoria as an intersex person.

Some of the topics he discusses are:

• how gender dysphoria doesn’t always go away, but we can change our relationship with it
• how gender dysphoria is a spiritual experience
• tending to the rupture of how the mind sees and treats the body
• some of the additional roots of gender dysphoria: cancer, medical treatment for certain illness, puberty, and aging
• social constructs and gender roles

Luis brings his usual curiosity and nuance to the way we experience our bodies, from an animistic and somatic perspective.

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode, Luis speaks with Buck Angel: human rights activist, speaker, and innovator.

Buck shares his story of growing up biologically female, the ensuing internalized body dysmorphia, and the external transphobia and homophobia.  He talks about the wisdom of suffering, and how he was able to use pleasure as a doorway to healing.

Buck's unique life experience taught him how to build capacity to love the body you have, even when it's one you dislike. He shares his story so it can be a resource for people who are trans, people who work with trans youth, or any person who experiences body dysmorphia.

For more information about Buck, visit: https://buckangel.com/

For more information on Luis' work, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode, Luis discusses the many forms body shame can take, and how prevalent it is. Luis shares about his own experience, as well as highlighting recurring themes of body shame that he witnessed while working in private practice.

Some of the topics include:

• the noticing of differences between bodies vs judgement 
• the relationship between your conscious mind and your spirit
• how we internalize others judgements
• that our bodies are not fixed states

The episode concludes with a somatic practice.


You can register for the upcoming six week course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course-sign-up

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode, Luis is joined by Kat Kruse, a somatic coach, writer, and practicer of Embodied Thinking.

Their conversation began when Luis had said that “our thoughts [are] the most impersonal and unoriginal things,” during a Holistic Life Navigation meeting, and Kat immediately disagreed.

Kat shares how conceptualizing the mind as an alienating, mean thinking machine is part of the problem, and what reinforces the negative concept of the mind.

They discuss:

• inherited thoughts vs. the personal intimate experience of thought
• the process of embodying thoughts 
• how concepts have somatic consequences
• the role of the mind in the creative process 

For more information on Kat's work, visit: https://www.katrinkruse.com/en/

For more information on Luis' work, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

Today's podcast episode is a replay from the “Trauma Rewired” podcast. Hosts Jennifer and Elisabeth discuss the following topics with Luis:

• Fawn response from a neurosomatic perspective
• Shame as a protective mechanism and how to reframe it 
• How to become self-aware of your fawning
• Differentiating between sexual fawning and arousal
• Finding compassion during healing

You can listen to more episodes of the Trauma Rewired podcast here:
https://illuminatedwithjennifer.libsyn.com/

You can register for The Somatic Experience here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatic-experience

You can join the waitlist for the upcoming six-week course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today’s episode, the HLN team talks privilege, and brings nuance to the complex topic.

The discuss:

• privilege vs. privileges
• the assumptions behind privilege and marginalization
• bringing curiosity to the experience
• orienting to ourselves first
• how context impacts marginalization, and how it can be fluid
• how shame and guilt are unhelpful to everyone
• how performative allyship is a form of fawning

The process of making the unconscious conscious, as with all somatic practices, applies to noticing our privileges and marginalizations as well.


You can register for The Somatic Experience here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatic-experience

You can join the waitlist for the upcoming six-week course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode, Luis is joined by musician, producer, and sound healing practitioner Evan Glenn Adams. They discuss Evan's solo music project Heavybird (@heavybirdmusic), and his newest album, "a lit candle in an empty room." The album was written during the pandemic as a way to understand and process his personal experience, with the hope of it connecting with other's experiences as well.

They discuss:

• using songwriting as a way to navigate and process trauma
• the ways music has affected their lives
• music as a communal experience
• the differences between performing shows and offering sound healings

You can find Heavybird's music here: https://heavybird.bandcamp.com/

You can register for The Somatic Experience here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-somatic-experience

You can join the waitlist for the upcoming six-week course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode, Luis and Karen discuss how perfume and other chemical fragrances effect our bodies. Since they can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin, many of us are constantly bathed in them: either in our home, our workplace, or out in the world.

In this episode, we cover the ways that the body reacts. Perfumes and other synthetic fragrances:

• Stimulate a physiological hormonal response
• Can change the expression of DNA, and turn on and off genes
• Are more damaging and pervasive to the human body than microplastics (which often get more attention)
• Can worsen symptoms of illnesses caused by high estrogen levels

Luis and Karen also review some simple-to-implement suggestions on how to get started on the journey of detoxifying your body and home.

For more information on Karen's work, visit: http://www.karenhurd.com/

Check out some of our previous episodes with Karen:

• Ep. 8 Healing Your Body With Beans (feat. Karen Hurd)
• Ep. 19 Caffeine & Adrenaline (feat. Karen Hurd)
• Ep. 34 How Dairy Affects Your Body (feat. Karen Hurd)
• Ep. 56 How Sugar Affects The Body (feat. Karen Hurd)
• Ep. 95 Beans: How They Create Life & Heal Trauma (feat. Karen Hurd)

Register here for the upcoming August 9th webinar, "Supporting Boys Through Puberty: Navigating P*rnography, Hormones & Isolation".

Learn more and register for the weekend at Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/luis-mojica/creating-safety-within/

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You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new

Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book

You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]