In this episode, I talk with Tone about the longing to come back, to ourselves, to the body. 

Tone Gilje is a Rolfer, Continuum teacher, Psychodrama therapist, Fascial Flow teacher, and Buteyko.

From her website: 

"In the years that have passed, I have researched and explored what it is I am, in relation to myself, others, to the larger world around me, and to the cosmos, so that I can more and more become who I am. (This is a journey of formation that takes ever-changing form.)

In this process, the body is and has been the starting point; it is the one who is always with me and with whom I must relate.

It is our tool through life and also reflects for better or worse the story we all carry with us, not only our own but also the historical events and patterns of the past in family, relatives, and society.

How to live a good life and not be too bound by history, if history becomes a hindrance that hinders exploration and new discoveries, contact with resources, more choices?

The body we have today is the result of a long development process - an evolution, but it is not "fully developed", our organs, our structure, all the systems in the body are changing and relate to the challenges it is exposed to and what the need is. So how to facilitate this development process, not stop and stiffen in a too defined form, with too narrow a framework, but be open to what is possible, creative and promotes development.

Today, the societal and perhaps more than ever environmental challenges we have are a burden, but also an opportunity and challenge to find new answers and solutions. How can we adapt to these changes, without taking the body and the resources that are there on the team?

The curiosity about what lives in the body and how to get to these resources is one of my "fads", which has driven me further. It has caused me to have explored, experienced, and studied various methods of coming into contact with what has not yet been discovered, visible, and used through the body.

As you may have realized, I have many questions, and am constantly looking for more!"

You can find Tone in www.tonegilje.no

In this episode we talk about Voice Dialogue, working with symptoms, and with the selves within us.  

Judith Hendin, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized somatic therapist, teacher, facilitator, innovator, and author in the field of body psyche consciousness. 

Find more about Judith in www.consciousbody.com

In this talk, we explore the connection between resilience in adulthood to co-regulation and bonding in early childhood. 

Theo Kaiser is a Rolfer, Osteopath, craniosacral therapist, Polarity therapist, SE - somatic experiencing practitioner, Integral somatic psychology, Bioenergetic psychotherapy, Bodynamic - somatic psychology practitioner. I've known him from my education in the Bodynamic system and I really enjoyed doing this talk and now share it with you all. 

Enjoy. 

You can find Theo at www.kaiser-tagungshaus.de/uber-uns/theo-kaiser/

Acroyoga for me was in a way my first door into the somatic field. The partner acrobatic practice brought to me a lot of reflections on the way I relate and communicate with myself and with others. 

In this episode, I talk with the beautiful Julia Weis on Yoga, Acroyoga, bodywork, relationships, and the somatic field. 

Where you can find Julia? 

IG - @julia.swadharma

We live in a world that so often separates our bodies and our hearts/minds.

When we hurt in our bodies,

we go to a physical therapy

and leave our emotions

and life experiences out the door.

We do the same the other way,

when we are hurt emotionally,

we so often seat and talk about our experiences and

leave our bodies out of the door.

I'm Dana, I'm a somatic psychotherapist who specializes in work,

and support women who experience chronic pains and symptoms to reconnect their bodies and move freely in their bodies and in their lives.

I'm a chronic symptom thriver myself as well,

and that was my long way here to this passion, curiosity, and profession in the somatic field.

In this space, I hope to normalize our human experiences of pain, discomfort, transformation, growth, and healing.

Through human stories, and practices so you can take them with you to your everyday life.

I believe our bodies speak to us,

they are storytellers.

They hold the memories of what we have forgotten,

they hold what we were afraid to express.

Would always love to receive your experiences of listening -

rate, review, and share.

One nice long, full, nourishing breath,

and let's start.

Dana