Holistic Life Navigation

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

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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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/

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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)

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode, Luis follows up with Camille about her experience with Khadija in the NICU and how her body was, and is, responding. Camille shows us firsthand what it looks like to use somatic embodiment practices to prevent serious overwhelm and potential traumatization.

They discuss the following practices and topics:

· choosing what to attune to vs. bypassing and toxic positivity 

· orienting to the present, and using the present as a resource

· pendulating during intense experiences

· how sitting with sensation and tracking the charge can uncover story 

· tending to sensation after the moment of rupture 

Camille talks about the difference between being calm, and being present and embodied, and how they’re not always the same thing. She also highlights how nutrition can be supportive to the nervous system during emotionally intense times, specifically by avoiding sugar and caffeine. 


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

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today’s episode, Luis discusses an often-requested topic: navigating panic attacks. 

Luis shares his personal experience with panic attacks, starting at the age of sixteen, that lead to multiple hospitalizations, and tests that yielded no clear results. By learning a somatic approach, Luis has been able to prevent them before they happen, through understanding that panic attacks are an electrical charge that overtakes the body's systems.

Luis discusses how daily embodied practices can help prevent or alleviate panic attacks, as we learn to notice our own body's signs of a fear response .

The episode concludes with Luis guiding us through a somatic practice.

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

You can learn more about the six week course, and sign up for the waitlist, here:
https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

This is a bonus episode which features an interview with Luis and Jaguar Mary X. 

They had Luis on their program called Midday Medicine Journey. It's a live, public radio out of Kingston, NY. You can find the entire episode here.

For more information about Jaguar Mary X, visit:
https://www.kaliartproject.com/

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]

On today's episode, Luis speaks with Sophie Strand, self-described writer, compost heap, and neo-troubadour animist.

Together they explore identity as a strategy: sometimes useful, sometimes not, but never the truth. Often when there is low capacity for ambiguity, the identity is the strategy born from that, fueled by desire for stability.

Luis and Sophie discuss:

· not getting trapped in the idea of self, and leaving openness for fluidity and change

· the mythical and animistic experience of nature and trauma

· the restricting idea of “normativity”

· the atomized self vs the communal experience of life

· shifting focus from destructive to constructive behaviors, from isolation to relation


You can learn more about Sophie's work here:
https://sophiestrand.com/

You can learn more about the six week course, and sign up for the waitlist, here:
https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course

For more information about Holistic Life Navigation, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

You can read more about, and register for, the Navigating Weight & Body Image With Somatics webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/weight-and-body-image-webinar

You can register for November's Community Somatics here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/community-somatics-november

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

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

Questions? You can email us at [email protected]