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Catarina Forte joins us from Italy. She is a prominent Feldenkrais Practitioner who comes from a family of Feldenkrais Practitioners (The Method). Catarina pioneered the work on the island of Sicily when she established herself in practice and research in Palermo. It's a rich lineage that she and her family have pioneered. She generously shares her story with us.

Our conversation turns to how Somatic Mindfulness impacts interpersonal relationships. In her characteristic directness and honesty, Kim shares from her personal experiences and well as how she's integrating this work in her professional practices as a massage therapist and sound healer.

More podcasters' back stories and wish list for upcoming seasons.

Meet Kim Dietz from Wisconsin. Kim's background in healthcare led her, naturally, to massage. She shares some of her struggles and inspirations with Somatic Mindfulness with clarity and acceptance.

Meet our hosts and our Executive Producer. This engaging conversation will give you some more of the backstory about the players involved in the creation and production of our show.

SEEDS is a podcast about a set of somatic touch principles that we call Somatic Mindfulness and how it is changing the practices and lives of LMTs and practitioners.  Each episode is a brief conversation with someone who has adopted these principles sharing how it’s affecting their work and their views about massage and life.  Truly a seeker of every kind of therapy to help her overcome her routine, crippling, chronic pain, Dawne gained personal healing through this work. Her own journey has been the source of empowerment to her work as a somatic therapist. Dawne's advice to other therapists:  "Touch safely!"

Hosted by: Madelana Ferrara & Richard Mack

Portraits of the Pioneers is an in-depth look at those who have been actively involved in the exploration, development, and practice of somatic touch therapy.

This episode introduces Linda's recent book - which fulfills the work and wishes of her dear, belated mentor, Louisa Silva - offering a "very different view" of how to use touch to work with children with autism. "Touch," says Linda, "is the basis to create the pathway that opens sensory doors."

The protocol helps children normalize a self-regulatory process that can help them manage stress behaviors. Linda is a teacher with a capacity to elegantly convey complex thoughts that are accessible to all.

Hosted by: Anna Marie Bowers Richard Mack

SEEDS is a podcast about a set of somatic touch principles that we call Somatic Mindfulness and how it is changing the practices and lives of LMTs and practitioners.

Each episode is a brief conversation with someone who has adopted these principles sharing how it’s affecting their work and their views about massage and life.

Meet our guest, Dawne, an incredible practitioner who has demonstrated how using the principles taught in Somatic Mindfulness can radically transform a life. Hear her story of commitment to use these principles in her own life with great success. Dawne coined the term we have come to use: "Mental Health Through The Body!"

Hosted by: Madelana Ferrara & Richard Mack

Portraits of the Pioneers is an in-depth look at those who have been actively involved in the exploration, development, and practice of somatic touch therapy.

Learn about who Linda's mentors were and how they influenced her journey. From Gerry Costa to T. Barry Brazelton and Stuart Shanker, to Louisa Silva... In this episode you will learn so much about the neurobiology of infant/mother connection and infant/father connection to the biology of emotional regulation and how touch brings the brain back to its regulatory potential. 

Linda's philosophy is that civil societies begin with how we treat our infants and infant/parent relationships. Child development & self-regulation are foundational to all future growth.

Hosted by: Anna Marie Bowers Richard Mack

Portraits of the Pioneers is an in-depth look at those who have been actively involved in the exploration, development, and practice of somatic touch therapy.

Meet Linda Garofallou, a pioneer whose brilliant, humble, incredible story began with a unique, holistic therapeutic skincare specialty, and ended up in a world of hospitals, AIDS and drug-addicted babies and their mothers. Through this journey, she learned incredible things about babies, mothers, emotional regulation, and touch.