The Art of Listening to your Body with Jin Ong

In this interview, Oni Blecher speaks with Jin Ong. Jin Ong is an Osteopath, Psychosomatic Therapist, Personal & Practitioner Coach. Jin lives and works with her partner and children in the beautiful lakeside town of Wanaka, New Zealand. In the recent years, Jin has moved from practicing solely as an osteopathic practitioner toward training individuals and practitioners on psychosomatics. Psychosomatic awareness is based from the theory that your stored emotions may result in adverse physical and psychological outcomes. With an ever broadening awareness around trauma resulting in physical outcomes or the memory of trauma being encoded in the viscera such as elaborated upon in Bessel Van Der Kolk’s book ‘The Body Keeps The Score’. Jin’s work focusses upon the link between the emotional and the physical and in this interview, we look at how that link can effect our way of looking at our body’s functionality, particularly in the pre conception, conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum stages of life. On the About page of Jin’s website; theartoflisteningtoyourbody.com, there is a short interview with Jin introducing herself and the work that she does. To receive a direct introduction from her, I recommend having a listen. A part of mine and Jin’s conversation covers infant loss, abortion and miscarriage. If these topics are sensitive or triggering for you or those around you, please listen with care. Enjoy this conversation !