
Psychokinetics

Clearing away stress and holding patterns in hands-on processes is a major purpose of listening through touch. Flow repatterning of movement, finding easy developmental pathways through matching, and then providing guidance, depends on sensitivity to touch and movement. One cannot repattern movement without first finding what patterns are present t
... See moreCatherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
If Darwin was right, the solution requires finding ways to help people alter the inner sensory landscape of their bodies. Until recently, this bidirectional communication between body and mind was largely ignored by Western science, even as it had long been central to traditional healing practices in many other parts of the world, notably in India
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
We don’t usually stop to ask what we are aware of when we move, but we can do this as a matter of choice. When we pay attention to our movement and notice what happens, we are moving consciously. We may even unravel habits we want to change. Our everyday movements are mostly habitual and thus within our bodily range of what phenomenology’s founder
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