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The Practice of Somatic Living
by Jivasu MD
The Practice of Somatic Living explores life through the intelligence of the body.Each episode examines human experience from a biological and nervous system perspective, how we perceive, react, learn, and change.Rather than ideas or beliefs, these conversations focus on direct observation: what is happening in the body, how it shapes our identity, and how awareness of these processes can lead to real transformation.Through dialogue with Dr. Jivasu, this podcast brings a clear, grounded understanding of life as it is lived, within the body itself. Visit: www.somapath.org
Episodes
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5 Stages of Enlightenment: From Identity to Non-dual Awareness
What are the five stages of enlightenment—and why doesn’t the final stage bring the process to an end? Dr. Jivasu maps the journey from a healthy identity to non-dual awareness and the continuing enlightenment of the body. In this conversation with Matt, Dr. Jivasu challenges the familiar idea…
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Can a Therapist, Coach, or Guru Truly Transform You? | The Practice of Somatic Living
Can another person truly transform you—or can they only support, guide, and point toward change? Dr. Jivasu explores the difference between temporary relief and the deeper, body-based transformation described in Soma. Therapy, coaching, retreats, books, and teachers can offer valuable support.…
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Why Does Love Fade? Will it become something deeper?
Why does love feel extraordinary at first and why can that intensity begin to fade? Matt and Dr. Jivasu explore attraction, habituation, self-knowledge and what love may become after the initial spark changes. In this episode, Dr. Jivasu offers a Soma perspective on why we fall in love, how an...
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How to Raise Happy, Healthy Children in a Turbulent World
How do we raise children who feel grounded when the world around them feels increasingly unstable? Matt and Dr. Jivasu explore why children may need both a secure nest and the freedom to grow wings. In this episode, Dr. Jivasu describes a Soma approach to raising happy, healthy and whole…
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Can Trauma Lead Us To Transformation?
Can trauma become more than a source of pain—and point toward transformation? Matt and Dr. Jivasu explore trauma, anxiety, the mind–body connection and what it may mean to reconnect with life through the body.In this conversation, Dr. Jivasu shares the Soma perspective on how trauma and...
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Your Energy Isn't Gone, It's Scattered
Most people trying to fix their energy are working on the wrong problem. They are not running out of energy, their energy is intact. It is fragmented across dozens of roles, drained by psychological thoughts that repeat like parasites, and invested in everything except the place it needs to go.…
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The Life You're Living — Was It Ever Really Yours?
Most people live inside a frame handed to them before they turned nine. In this episode, Dr. Jivasu explains the neuroscience behind it: 90% of brain growth is complete by age nine, which means early childhood experiences — nourishment, trauma, encouragement, conditioning — are wired into the…
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Why Thinking Keeps You in Conflict - and What Ends It
J. Krishnamurti said thought creates division — and where there is division, there is conflict. In this episode, Dr. Jivasu maps the biology behind that claim: why psychological thought splits both mental space and time, why mindfulness as commonly practiced doesn't escape the problem, and how…
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Your Destiny Is Embedded in Every Cell of Your Body
Most people confuse destiny with determinism — as if accepting it means surrendering control. Dr. Jivasu inverts this completely: it's society that reduces your freedom, not destiny. In this conversation, he traces the biological roots of destiny from star dust to single cell to the unique...
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The 5 Layers of Self That Yoga Never Taught You
Most people come to the question "Who am I?" from the top down — aiming straight for consciousness, the infinite, the supreme self. Dr. Jivasu says that is exactly why so many seekers spend decades going in circles. In this episode, he maps five distinct layers of self — from healthy somatic...
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Reverse Chronic Stress
Dr. Jivasu walks through what stress actually is — a life-saving biological response built into the body across millions of years of evolution — and why the version most adults are carrying now is nothing like what evolution designed. Acute stress saves your life. Eustress, the positive kind,...
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Death Is Not the Absence of Life — It's Its Own Presence
Dr. Jivasu walks through the central problem of being human: that we're the only animals self-aware enough to know we will die — and the only ones unable to accept it. Plants and animals don't carry death anxiety because they don't carry an autobiographical self. We do. From age 2 or 3, the brain...
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Anger is a Beautiful Emotion
Anger isn't the problem. Accumulation is. Dr. Jivasu walks through the neurobiology of anger as a healthy, protective, primary emotion — and explains why what we call "anger problems" are almost always accumulated anger being projected onto the wrong moment. He lays out the five-step Soma method...
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What Is Missing From Yoga?
Why your yoga practice isn't transforming you — and what would actually have to change for it to work. Dr. Jivasu walks through the neurobiology behind why an hour of yoga or meditation a day produces real but temporary effects, why the original yogis required 24-hour devotion to reach…
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Life Is A Mirror
Most people think life is happening to them. But what if everything you experience… is reflecting something back to you? In this episode of Soma: The Art & Science of Living, we explore the idea that life is not random—it is relational. Every thought, emotion, and reaction is shaped through...
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You Don’t Need to Escape Life to Transform
Most approaches to growth tell you to step away from life. Withdraw. Simplify. Renounce. But what if transformation doesn’t require leaving anything behind? ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:10 The problem with modern materialism 04:30 Why traditional systems are losing relevance 07:00 The body…
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S8.Ep.7- Science of Transformation
Wisdom and Knowledge
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S8.Ep.6- Science of Transformation
The most important path to transformation is awakening our eight sense (Interoception) and feeling the life force within the body.
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S8.Ep.5-Science of Transformation
Jivasu's Presentation from Unity Conference- How love can become the catalyst for transformation.
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S8.Ep.4-Science of Transformation
Mira's Presentation from Unity Conference- Biology of Trauma and Transformation. How to use trauma and transform it from a curse to a blessing.
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S8.Ep.3 - Science of Transformation
Cultivating Healthy Identity and Understanding My Own Powers.
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S8.Ep.2- Science of Transformation
From faith to destiny and releasing the energy within us to have control of our lives.
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S8.Ep.1- Science of Transformation
Gathering with Jivasu to explore the words "Transformation" and "Science" for selfknowing and inner journey.
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S7.Ep.17-Somatic Personalities
Summary of the last 5 personalities sessions with Jivasu and Mira.
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S7.Ep.16-Somatic Personalities
How to balance each personality with self-care and gain control of our lives.
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S7.Ep.15- Somatic Personalities
What are the three expressions of somatic personalities?
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S7.Ep.14-Somatic Personalities
How do elements form our unique personality.
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S7.Ep.13-Somatic Personalities
What are the constituents of personalities and how they are born.
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S7.Ep.12- Somatic Personalities
Why discovering our personality is so important.
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S7.Ep.11- How to become free from habits, addictions, and Karma
How to become free from habits, addictions, and Karma
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S7.Ep.10- Complete Health and Transformation
Experiences on SOMA journey.
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S7.Ep.9- Complete Health and Transformation
How to get to know ourselves and experience complete health by noticing the moments of flow in our lives.
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S7.Ep.8- Complete Health and Transformation
Trauma is stored in the body's fascia; the largest organ that supports all the systems in the body. This leads to physical symptoms such as chronic pain, tension, and discomfort. Most chronic illnesses are caused by trauma stored in the fascia.
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S7.Ep.7- Complete Health and Transformation
What is a body? Body is an extension of nature, and by connecting to the body, we also connect to all living beings, promoting harmonious coexistence.
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S7.Ep.6- Complete Health and Transformation
This episode is about understanding the science behind well-being, creative vitality, and peace by highlighting the significance of feelings, or the eighth sense of interoception. Interoception tunes us to our body's internal signals and helps maintain homeostasis or the natural balance of life....
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S7.Ep.5- Trauma: From Therapy to Transformation
Returning to Wholeness and Restoring Body's Homeostasis.
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S7.Ep.4- Trauma: From Therapy to Transformation
Returning to Wholeness and Restoring Body's Homeostasis.
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S7.Ep.3- Trauma: From Therapy to Transformation
Returning to Wholeness and Restoring Body's Homeostasis.
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S7.Ep.2- Trauma: From Therapy to Transformation
Returning to Wholeness and Restoring the Body's Homeostasis.
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S7.Ep.1- Trauma: From Therapy to Transformation
Returning to Wholeness and Restoring Body's Homeostasis
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S6.Ep.16- Signs of kundalini awakening- Talks with Jivasu
An Awakened body is expressed in the following ways. The body becomes fully functional, with all senses and systems operating at their peak. The first and second centres of conscious energy are awakened, leading to an awakening of the body’s cells, a transformation and liberation of the body....
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S6.Ep.15- Seventh Chakra Part 4- Talks with Jivasu
But by arriving at the seventh chakra we are reborn through our womb of potentiality into wholeness, wellness, freedom and individuality. After our physical birth, we walk into the human-made world and become conditioned. But after the rebirth at the seventh chakra, we discover the center with...
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S6.Ep.14- Seventh Chakra Part 3- Talks with Jivasu
But by arriving at the seventh chakra we are reborn through our womb of potentiality into wholeness, wellness, freedom and individuality. After our physical birth, we walk into the human-made world and become conditioned. But after the rebirth at the seventh chakra, we discover the center with...
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S6.Ep.13- Seventh Chakra Part 2- Talks with Jivasu
But by arriving at the seventh chakra we are reborn through our womb of potentiality into wholeness, wellness, freedom and individuality. After our physical birth, we walk into the human-made world and become conditioned. But after the rebirth at the seventh chakra, we discover the center with...
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S6.Ep.12- Seventh Chakra Part 1- Talks with Jivasu
But by arriving at the seventh chakra we are reborn through our womb of potentiality into wholeness, wellness, freedom and individuality. After our physical birth, we walk into the human-made world and become conditioned. But after the rebirth at the seventh chakra, we discover the center with...
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S6.Ep.11- Sixth Chakra Part 2- Talks with Jivasu
Traditionally the sixth chakra has only two petals, which is deeply symbolic, and its colour is white, which is also significant. It is quite a transition from the complexity of the sixteen petals of the fifth centre with its vibrant blue colour. Suddenly the complexity and many-sidedness of the...
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S6.Ep.10- Sixth Chakra Part 1- Talks with Jivasu
Traditionally the sixth chakra has only two petals, which is deeply symbolic, and its colour is white, which is also significant. It is quite a transition from the complexity of the sixteen petals of the fifth centre with its vibrant blue colour. Suddenly the complexity and many-sidedness of the...
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S6.Ep.9- Fifth Chakra Part 3- Talks with Jivasu
At the fifth centre, the individual becomes the fundamental creative unit of the human world, rather than the family, group, or clan. Accordingly, the individual’s fulfillment replaces the fulfillment of the aspirations of the community.
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S6.Ep.8- Fifth Chakra Part 2- Talks with Jivasu
At the fifth centre, the individual becomes the fundamental creative unit of the human world, rather than the family, group, or clan. Accordingly, the individual’s fulfillment replaces the fulfillment of the aspirations of the community.
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S6.Ep.7- Fifth Chakra Part 1- Talks with Jivasu
At the fifth centre, the individual becomes the fundamental creative unit of the human world, rather than the family, group, or clan. Accordingly, the individual’s fulfillment replaces the fulfillment of the aspirations of the community.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Practice of Somatic Living explores life through the intelligence of the body.Each episode examines human experience from a biological and nervous system perspective, how we perceive, react, learn, and change.Rather than ideas or beliefs, these conversations focus on direct observation: what is happening in the body, how it shapes our identity, and how awareness of these processes can lead to real transformation.Through dialogue with Dr. Jivasu, this podcast brings a clear, grounded understanding of life as it is lived, within the body itself. Visit: www.somapath.org
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Jivasu MD
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