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Geoffrey Samuel is Emeritus Professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. He is former joint editor of the journal Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity and director of the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR) International Research Network. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of religion in Tibetan societies, the historical development and contemporary practice of technologies of consciousness, the relationship between consciousness, body and materiality, particularly in relation to healing, as well as the history of meditation, yoga and tantra in India and Tibet and other Asian medical, health and yogic practices.

Books:
Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body
Edited By Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century.
Tantric Revisionings: New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion.
Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body

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Geoffrey Samuel is Emeritus Professor in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. He is former joint editor of the journal Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity and director of the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR) International Research Network. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of religion in Tibetan societies, the historical development and contemporary practice of technologies of consciousness, the relationship between consciousness, body and materiality, particularly in relation to healing, as well as the history of meditation, yoga and tantra in India and Tibet and other Asian medical, health and yogic practices.

Books:
Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body
Edited By Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century.
Tantric Revisionings: New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion.
Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body

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Kelly Lynch is a former professional dancer and physical theatre artist based out of Montreal (1991-2005). Kelly Jean Lynch (formerly Mullan) is presently a PhD student in Dance Studies at York University. Her Master thesis is from Skidmore College, The Art and Science of Somatics: Theory, History and Scientific Foundations, has been downloaded over 6,000 times. Kelly’s research has also focused on somatic education lineages of women practitioners from the late 19th century with a focus on the aesthetic dance performer Genevieve Stebbins. Kelly has publications in Currents: The Journal of Body–MindCentering Association; the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices; Feminist Modernist Studies; Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice and a chapter on physical culture inMindful Movement: The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action.

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David Lesondak, BCSI, ATSI, FST, VMT is an Allied Health Member in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). He serves as the Senior Structural Integrator and Fascia Specialist at UPMC’s Center for Integrative Medicine. He is a Board Certified Structural Integrator, Anatomy Trains Structural Integrator,  Frederick Stretch Therapist, Fascial Fitness Trainer, and Visceral Manipulation.

David is the author of the international best seller Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters, now in its 2nd edition. His follow up book, Fascia, Function, and Medical Applications was nominated for a 2021 British Medical Association award. David sits on the Executive Committee of The International Consortium on Manual Therapies.

He is the  host the podcast BodyTalk with David Lesondak https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bodytalk-with-david-lesondak/id1557630659
You can find out more about David at https://www.davidlesondak.com/

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Nick Matiasz is the Scientific Program Director for the Center for Contemplative Research in North America.

Nick received his Ph.D. in medical informatics from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied causal reasoning in neuroscience. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tufts University, where he performed interdisciplinary research in psychology and computer science. He has also worked in the Department of Neurology Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

He is currently an Electrical Engineering Associate in Strategic Initiatives at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, where he supports efforts related to renewable energy. He worked as part of a team that supported the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study (LA100), a landmark study that identified pathways for achieving 100% renewable energy in Los Angeles.

Please visit, https://centerforcontemplativeresearch.org

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Roger Jahnke, O.M.D. is a doctor of Classical Chinese Medicine with thirty years of clinical practice. He is the Founder and Director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi, and serves as a consultant to hospitals, social service agencies, and corporations in Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
He has authored several books including The Healer Within and his most recent book, The Healing Promise of Qi.  In 2005, Dr. Jahnke was appointed to co-convene a "National Expert Meeting on Qigong and Tai Chi" in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Blueprint for Active Aging.

To find out more about Dr. Jahnke, please visit www.FeeltheQi.com,  there you can find his books and programs.

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Susan Lowell de Solórzano shares her understanding of biotensegrity as developed over years of direct study with the concept's originator, Stephen M. Levin, MD, and makes biotensegrity accessible through experiential activities and exercises.

Susan Lowell de Solórzano has an MA, Human Development & Education with a focus on kinesthetic learning, she is certified as a Level III T'ai Chi instructor by the American T'ai Chi & Qi Gong Association, and is a certified FlexAware teacher. Since 2012 she has been an associate of Dr Stephen M Levin, originator of the theory of biotensegrity. Susan is a co-founder and Head Organizer, DC BIG (Washington, DC Biotensegrity Interest Group; est. 2012) and co-founder of the Stephen M Levin Biotensegrity Archive.

Ling to her book: Everything Moves: How Biotensegrity Informs Human Movement
https://uk.singingdragon.com/collections/author-susan-lowell-de-sol-rzano-pid-300255

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Jeando is a master Alexander teacher and historian. He translated all of Alexanders books into French. While working on these translations Jeando discovered that Alexander had studied the Delsarte method.  Jeando focused on this early work and created his own version of the Alexander Technique called the Initial Alexander Technique.

In this episode we discuss:
What is the Alexander Technique
Why the Alexander technique is not somatic
The origins of the technique 
FM Alexander & the Delsarte technique
Identity or ethos in movement

If you’d like to find about Jeando and his work you can visit his website initial-alexandertechnique.com where he publishes an insightful blog about the work and history of the method. For classes & private lessons with me please visit somaticprimer.com 

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Paulie Zink began studying yoga and martial arts as a teenager. While he was in college, he met a gung-fu master from Hong Kong named Cho Chat Ling.  Master Cho taught him  the Taoist arts of yoga and Chi Kung as a foundation for his martial arts training. Master Cho taught Paulie three distinct Kung-fu styles collectively called Tai Shing Pek Kwar ( Monkey kung fu).

For seven years Paulie Zink continued his daily intensive level of study with his master while he simultaneously developed his own art of Yin yoga. After ten years Master Cho declared Paulie to be his own master and his training ended. Paulie is the only westerner to be traditionally trained in the  art of Tai Shing Pek Kwar in a direct Chinese lineage from the arts’ originators.

Paulie entered in the solo “Empty Hands” and “Weapons” divisions of approximately one hundred martial arts tournaments from local to regional to national levels. He won the Grand Championship in all of them, often in both divisions. Master Zink’s tournament career culminated with him winning the Grand Championship at the Long Beach International Karate Championships three consecutive years. Master Zink has been inducted into three Martial Arts Halls of Fame. Master Zink has co-authored two books on Monkey Kung-fu.

As the founder of Yin yoga, he continues to evolve his Taoist art by adding postures, variations, and insights. Through many years of study, practice, and teaching he has developed the ancient Taoist tradition into his own distinctive and dynamic style.

In this episode we discuss

His early training with Master Cho

Developing and teaching Yin Yoga

His philosophy of movement and teaching

Studying animal movement as a form of training

And much more

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To find out more about Paulie please visit https://www.pauliezink.com.

Paulie's live competition where he preforms the money gong fu form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOvw1y26yFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2NCQJqDJuI&list=PL4fGB-EUUulGArDXktmZXXtzi8fd0UJIj&index=3

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Don Hanlon Johnson is a professor at CIIS in San Francisco and the founder of the first graduate degree program in Somatics. He is the author of a body of literature on the intersections among bodily experience, the natural world, spirituality, social justice, and health.

After studying and practicing the work of Ida Rolf, he founded the first masters degree program in Somatic Psychology. He was a professor in that program for some 30 years. He currently is teaching in newly launched Somatics emphasis in the doctoral program of Integral and Transpersonal Psychologies.

In this episode we discuss:
Importance of somatics
Divisions among somatic disciplines
The unfortunate Disembodiement of western academics
His relationship with Thomas Hanna and creating the somatic journal
Somatics and ethics
Somatics and consciousness
& much more...

To find our more about his work please visit https://donhanlonjohnson.com. If you'd like to find our more about my work or take lessons please visit http://somaticprimer.com. Please enjoy the show.

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