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The Body Awake
by Liam Bowler + Dynamic Alignment Bodywork
The Body Awake is a show for people interested in health and the human body, in a conversation beyond "body as machine."It's about what we're made of, how we move, how illness, injury and healing happen, and how we can use that information to live better lives.
Episodes
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Somatic Attunement
SA is part meditation, part body awareness, and part sitting with another who's attuning to, listening to, asking about, and following along with your developing experience, particularly the raw experience of arising sensation. This practice can actuate profound changes in one's mental and…
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Relational Meditation with Riyaz Motan
This episode, I chat with a new teacher of mine, from a course called "Healing from Presence," Riyaz Motan. We talk about relating from an embodied, being-at-home place, and the many wonders and pitfalls of working, and ultimately being, with others. Find Riyaz's work, and sign up for his...
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A Creator's Companion
This episode is a preview of my year-long labor of love, A Creator's Companion.
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Can Somatic Material Be Taught Well Online?
Can body-based material be taught online? Can a somatic curriculum be shared with a decent felt sense, something other than the feeling of not quite being as good as the real thing?
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The Coronation with Charles Eisenstein - ep 55
"The Coronation" essay links: in print, in iTunes, and other audio options. Charles' website, which includes links to his podcast, workshops, essays and more.
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Orientation
Orientation : a riff and a meditative practice.
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Authentic Revolution and Relating with Sara Ness
I've been wanting to interview Sara for a long time ... Indeed, since I first participated in Authentic Relating Games in a variety of settings, including potlucks, movement seminars and segues into contact improvisation. Happy to have you with us. SHOW NOTES That Atlantic article the the AR…
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Birth and Death 💛 — episode 50 (!)
Birth and death: an update. Thank you for being here! 💛 Danny Schmidt "Just Wait Til They See You" 💛 Rev angel Kyodo Williams On Being 💛 David Whyte's Clear Mind, Wild Heart
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Our Interconnected Bodies, Trauma & What Now with Peter Levine — ep 49
Peter Levine founded Somatic Experiencing, a body-oriented approach to healing trauma. In this interview, we hear about the origins of that work, and a lot about what's now, and what's next, for this pioneer. Find Somatic Experiencing, and more of Peter Levine's bio, at https://traumahealing.org/
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Full Moon : Third Anniversary Episode
Happy third anniversary, friends 💛 Links My "how to start a podcast" guide My interview with Donna Martin My interview with Angelo Coppola
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Connection, Audience and Being Real on Social Media with Ryan Orrico — ep 47
I started following Ryan's page on Instagram. I was nearly immediately put on edge by some of his posts. He, at least a lot at that time, was playing a bit of a villain, challenging me and anyone else reading to put ourselves out there in a way I'd been, and to a large extent still am,...
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Clarification, Patience and the Ocean With Patty Townsend
Patty Townsend has been teaching yoga since waaaaaay back in the day when there were only a couple yoga studios in LA. That alone would give her lots of credit to be on this show ... And so it's such a bonus that she offers her experience with a refreshing humility and clarity. We go into what...
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New Moon : Season 3 Orientation
Welcome back 💙
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Interconnectedness and Darkness: ep 44
In this episode, we wrap up Season 2 of The Body Awake with a mix of retrospect, looking around and some personal sharing from me. Here's that poem I mention at the end. With love, LB
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Towards an Inclusive Somatics with Don Hanlon Johnson — ep 43
Don Hanlon Johnson has had his interest at the intersection — or perhaps mutual expression — of "taking care of your body stuff" and "political, social and taking care of the environment stuff" for a long time now. We cover a lot of ground. I was delighted to join him, an early pioneer of what we...
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Reaching for Blackness with Holistic Resistance — ep 42
This episode, after a long time considering and reckoning myself with some of this material : "Reaching for Blackness" with Aaron and Jennie of Holistic Resistance. You can find their website here. Cheers to all of our inquiries, rich and personal, on our own paths. Love, LB
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A Body Electric : Try This at Home with David Fleming — ep 41
Our guest this go is David Fleming, a bright and thoughtful practitioner whose work spans bodywork, lifestyle shifts and movement, and is informed by research into fascia, bioelectricity, the healing potential of the earth and more. This episode has a great big dose of little potential…
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Start with Science, End with Poetry with Tatjana Mesar — ep 40
When teaching, "I start with science, but hopefully I end with more of the poetry of the movement." This is one of my favorite lines from this episode's guest, Tatjana Mesar. Tatjana is a teacher and practitioner, a smart thinker and deep feeler, like so many of you. And we dive into some big...
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Q & A
I love a good question. I also love the attentive space it evokes in me to come up with an answer. And so with that, hopefully this is a win-win as I present to you five listener-powered inquiries, ranging across a decent spread of body-related topics, and my corresponding responses: I practice...
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Living Your Body's Intelligence
Living your body's intelligence ... Oh, what that could mean! To get a feel for what it is, let's point to what it's not. It's not blindly following every bodily desire that arises. (Only one donut orgy per month, alright?) Nor is it forever perfecting your internal compass without moving in its...
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Sex, Touch and Naming What's There — ep 38
This was one of those interviews where I thought we were going to talk about one thing, and we ended up talking about another. It is real, intimate (and happening in relatively real time, depending on when you listen to this) as we discuss the power of sex, touch, and being predator and prey…
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The Limbic Brain and Biology of Emotion
In this episode, I'm reading "The Limbic Brain and the Biology of Emotion," which is a chapter from Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit and Sexy — Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D. This could be a great chapter to share with parents or grandparents in your life....
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The Vagus Nerves and the Social Nervous System with Stanley Rosenberg — ep 37
I was quite excited when Stanley agreed to this interview. His book on the autonomic nervous system — including but not limited to the vagus nerve — includes detailed anatomy and self-help exercises and was easily the best $20 I've spent in a long time. I loved it. Here, I ask Stanley questions...
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Online Embodiment and Curating Virtual Space with Lisa Elliott — ep 36
Join Lisa Elliott and I for a dive into the inner workings of someone who, in my experience, curates beautifully a space often known for its disembodiment and unkindness: a facebook forum. Hers in the Vagus Study Group, linked below. This is a great episode for anyone who curates space, whether...
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Effortless Attention: A Guided Meditation
By listener requests, and my delight in the fulfillment, here's one of what may be a few led meditation / awareness / embodiment exercises. Questions, feedback, requests: please do shoot me a line. Love, LB
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Being a Good Student — ep 35
It used to be: good information was hard to find; good teachers and teachings were rare. The onus, in many ways, was on the teacher. Now, of course, that's still true in a certain respect. But also true now more than ever, I reckon in this age of near-infinite material being but a click away, is...
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Irene Lyon Returns for More on Perception, Intuition and Raising Our Kids Well — ep 34
Welcome back to Irene Lyon for our second chat on TBA. We pick up largely where we left off from our first interview (ep 17), namely into this question I had — and have — around okay, so we're aware of this trauma thing ... what do we do about it? Wondrous, deep territory. Plus the pitfalls and...
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Water, Muscles and Light as Energy with Gerald Pollack — ep 33
Gerald Pollack has spent more hours studying water and the nature of muscle contraction than you've spent doing just about anything. He's a very bright, kind and well-seasoned scientist with a lot to say about the current state of affairs in science. We cover: 1. Water (particularly Jerry's work...
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Seeing Inside a Body with Alexander Tsiaras — ep 32
Alexander Tsiaras is a modern-day Renaissance man who's been called the "Leonardo Da Vinci of the digital age." He's a scientist / artist behind a new look at human anatomy, and it's pretty revolutionary. He's authored two books I adore — The Architecture of Man and Woman and From Conception to...
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Healing Wants to Happen: Pre- and Peri-Natal Somatics with Kate White — ep 31
Kate White is an expert in the autonomic nervous system, with heaps of experience — both intellectual and that kind of knowing that sits in your guts and is felt — in the world of being born, at first and again. SHOW NOTES Kate on the craniosacral podcast
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The Heart of Movement, Teaching and Learning's Never Ending Path with Jill Miller — ep 30
Jill Miller and I range from yoga to biomechanics to humility and hubris to Jill's recent hip surgery, her old teachers and the beauty, pain and wisdom that can come from growing up. About halfway through, Jill shares a truth bomb — sprung from the question "if you could go back and had 5 minutes...
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Embodied Movement, Politics and Doing Your F#@*ing Work With Mark Walsh — Ep 29
Are less-embodied movement practices good gateways into a deeper practice, or are they doing more harm than good? Are all movement practices really created equal, or are some better than others? Is what you're doing working? What matters about a yoga posture? Should you practice yin yoga or...
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Tom Myers on Being in the Body Business, Movement and the Disease of Feeling "Other" — ep 28
Tom Myers returns to The Body Awake for our third interview. And like the other two but with new territory, Tom's experience and wisdom that came through this chat were really good nutrition for me, and now hopefully for you too. Tom and I talk, among other things, about: making one's living as a...
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Fireside Chat: Housekeeping with LB - ep 27
Housekeeping 💛 a new home for my writing: the written word right here at TBA 💛 notes on my physical training, and follow up from the 50K race 💛 the trajectory of the show, both big picture and a list of future interviewees! weeeeeeee! Links my now-old blog at Dynamic Alignment Bodywork my...
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Having a Body, Being a Body with Brooke Thomas — ep 26
What a joy to get to chat with Brooke Thomas, whose latest project, the Liberated Body podcast, may be familiar to some listeners here. Brooke and I talk about the subject/object paradox of both having and being a body, using felt sense as a navigation to begin and end projects, and a whole host…
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Stack Your Bones & Posture Beyond Effort with Ruthie Fraser — ep 25
"Posture" is such a loaded word for so many of us. It often evokes a sense of not "doing it right" —> lazy shoulders, computer slouch, etc. This kind of thinking might be useful in some circumstances, but in many people it just adds another layer of guilt — and yes, tension — onto an already…
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Season 2: Guidance, Orientation and Embodiment
We're back! Here's a 20-min intro to Season 2 of The Body Awake. So lovely to be back with you; thanks for being here.
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Liam Gets Interviewed — by Suzanne Astar — ep 23
This episode — in honor of wrapping up Season 1 of The Body Awake — the tables turn on your host and Liam gets interviewed. It's a peek behind the scenes, both of the show and of the heartmind of its host. I hope you enjoy, as always, and see you back in the autumn for Season 2 of TBA 💛 This...
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Transmission, Concurrence and Poetry with Lauren Christman — ep 22
Since the show's earliest inception, I knew I wanted to interview Lauren for The Body Awake. When the time was right, I asked, so glad she agreed. Lauren was my main teacher in helping me understand the many layers and types of fluids, bone rhythms and subtleties of working with a body in my…
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Continuum, Streaming + the Nature of Perception with Susan Harper — ep 21
"Too often we have the industrialized, mechanical model applied to a body. It's too reductive for something that's really a streaming ..." We're so blessed to have Susan Harper as our guest for this episode. I met Susan several years ago as her student in a weekend workshop, and was very affected...
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Nerve + Fluid Alignment, Layers and Embryological Development — ep 20
An anatomy lesson with an immediate application, if you want to look for it, around earlier / deeper barriers. We look briefly at the 3 primary embryological layers and their respective tissues and functions, some of the anatomical layering of the body, and from there how we can work with that...
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James Hamblin on Medicine, Myth and the Nocebo Effect — ep 19
James Hamblin, MD, is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. His writing and videos have been featured in The New York Times, Politico, NPR, BBC, The Guardian, Elle, Mother Jones, and New York, among others. Time named him among the 140 people to follow on Twitter, Greatist named…
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Tom Myers on Fascia, Movement, Trauma, and Integration of All That and More
By popular demand, and my own great interest, Tom Myers returns to The Body Awake for a second interview. In this second round — see episode 5 for the first — we cover: the nature of fascia as the body's very under-mapped "biomechanical autoregulatory system" how "you" could be seen as a vessel…
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Somatic Experiencing, Early Trauma and Vagus Nerve with Irene Lyon — ep 17
Somatic Experiencing is, in some ways, just like it sounds: a direct experiencing of the body and its sensations. Where the magic of this work comes in is experiencing layers of sensation and reaction that have been long covered up — perhaps early life trauma. What can follow from "digesting"…
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Training to Run 50K, and Reflections for Teaching — Ep 16
Here's the breakdown for my first, signed-up-on-a-whim 50 kilometer mountain run training plan: *** This should be fun. (If it's not, it's time to modify accordingly.) *** *** I want this to increase my overall vitality, mobility, strength and tissue hydration. (Decreasing some or all of those is…
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Ep 15: Hakomi with Donna Martin
Donna Martin came highly recommended to me from several Body Awake listeners. She's deeply trained, and trains others, in the realm of Hakomi, an approach to psychotherapy that's rooted in mindfulness and body awareness. In this interview, Donna and I dive into what felt like, for me, the heart…
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The Body Awake is a show for people interested in health and the human body, in a conversation beyond "body as machine."It's about what we're made of, how we move, how illness, injury and healing happen, and how we can use that information to live better lives.
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Liam Bowler + Dynamic Alignment Bodywork
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The Body Awake is a show for people interested in health and the human body, in a conversation beyond "body as machine."It's about what we're made of, how we move, how illness, injury and healing happen, and how we can use that information to live better lives.
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