Gnosis of the Body

Are you anxious or under breathing, or both? Are you creating a body shape from stress which restricts your breathing and creates panic and anxious mind? Are you holding a posture of suffering or trauma in breath and body? In discussion with breath work/ pranayama teacher, Laurent Roure, host of The Penny Drops Podcast Katherine explores patterns of desk body, under breathing and connected illness...

A fearless personal narrative of diving into the shadow side of perfectionism, people pleasing and academic pressures shared by Rakhi Sachdev, a Somatic Healer, Erotic Movement Practitioner and teacher, dancer and podcaster (Unapologetic AF) Unveiling a story of profound wisdom gained through a harrowing experience of eating disorders; Rakhi discusses how the healing power of dance held...

"That quiet little voice that comes as a feeling....Yoga helps us inhabit that space of our body where lots of information exists" Alex Amorosi Dropping into Yourself at Time of Crisis: Stories of how and why we get drawn into our body and to retreat from the world at times of crisis and flux in our lives. We explore healing of burn out, grief & mourning and the wisdom coming from our subconsc...

"Your subconscious mind is telling its story through the body, through your posture, through the body sensations. There's a lot of ways that the subconscious expresses through the body, but because it's subconscious, you can't necessarily put that masculine and rational mind on it" -Alex Amorosi Second half of the discussion between Alex Amorosi and Katherine, using her own story as case study, Ka...

Mushing together learning mediation, Western Vs Eastern conception of God, Developmental Psychology, trauma release and healing via Eastern Body practices as seen by today's established psychology "hero", Bessel Van Der Kolk and the Archetype of Initiation by violence through mythic figure of Persephone... all using my personal story. I cover what learning Eastern meditation has in common with the...

Show notes: Tammy B episode: Rave to heal From Raver to Healer  Reenactment  English CBT and play therapist, Tammy Brett shares her wisdom and stories starting from the glory days of raving in Manchester in the 1990’s to healing her trauma from abusive relationships in body based therapies such as breathwork, myofascial release and EMDR. Starting out with a spoken word ode to 1990’s UK a...

Sexual repression, porn, retreat to sacred space, shamans touching men... Matthew and Katherine pick up the discussion on the role of the body in modern society. Spirituality is now the taboo sexuality was for the era of early psychiatry and psychoanalysis; Matt and Kat unpack our cultures modern "hysterics" and their collective "somatic symptoms" manifesting through our bodies. We start with conc...

Discussion with Archetypal Symbolist, psychology educator and Joseph Campbell aficionado Matthew Spencer Seely, about the relevance of the evolution of dominant myths through history to our current masculine over feminine imbalance in our culture and how this influences our values and actions and why there is a trend in the masses towards body practices, like yoga, as the collective unconscious is...

Continuing my personal story of going from burned out travel presse attache to full time yogini. Musing on how yoga quieted my burned out mind and brought my attention inward to the felt sense of the body. Yoga was my way of returning to Source of vital energy. Diving into the practice of yoga also changed my awareness of the place of body in our culture, as a disrespected vehicle for the working...

The Body feels and intuits, the mind thinks and rationalises. The body learns in felt direct experience, the now; the mind must reflect on experience and learn in the Logos sense, whereas the body's knowledge exists in Eros. In this episode, I explore how in diving deeply into a devotional yoga practice, I learned the wordless language of the body, of direct felt experience after being very burned...

"We suffer very much from the fact that we consist of mind and have lost the body." Carl Jung, Nietzsche's Zarathustra:Notes of the Seminar Given, 1934-1939, Vol 1. p.251 Gnosis of the Body, where we explore embodied wisdom in healing the cultures’ mind body split through personal stories.  Pulling from the vast array of fields in my education, healing practice and experience, I use Archetypa...