Holistic Life Navigation

Today’s episode is a replay of an interview Luis did with Helena T.M. Grant  (@hgrantstyle) for the “Torchbearer Summit.” They discuss: how to let your business blossom from the body, rather than just the mind honoring our capacity, both on a personal and business level the somatic difference between capacity and desire You can learn more about Helena and her offerings here: https://hgrantstyle.co...

In this episode, Luis is joined by Dr. Will Siu, a psychiatrist who provides psychotherapy and medication management using a holistic and integrative approach. Luis and Will discuss the use of psychedelics. Will first shares with us his own life journey and the various events that brought him to psychedelics. Luis and Will discuss why the use of psychedelics  are not sufficient or necessary alone...

Today's podcast episode is a repost from the “Live Wire Love Story” podcast, where Haley discusses her experience of taking the six week course, “Finding Safety in Yourself”.  You can follow along with Haley at @livewirelovestory on Instagram, and listen to her other podcast episodes on Spotify here . You can get instant access to all of the HLN webinars and video courses here: https://hln.th...

In this episode, we explore ADHD or RITC -- a Radical Inability To Conform. Luis shares with us his own childhood experiences with ADHD, Tourette's syndrome, and nervous ticks. Often people are prescribed medications to suppress these conditions but Luis questions what would it mean to allow ourselves to relate to them as expressions? Luis begins to reframe the idea of ADHD; pivoting from &qu...

On today's episode, Luis shares his story of how a mold infestation propelled him out of his private practice, and into creating a podcast and his course. Luis and his family were suddenly and immediately forced to move because the infestation was such a health hazard. It was not only their living space they had to leave behind, but almost all of their belongings, and the room Luis' used...

In this episode, Luis is joined by Daníel Colón, a multidisciplinary artist, content creator, and spiritual student. Luis and Daníel have a joyous conversation about why manifesting doesn't have to be about future desires but is really about reveling in the joy of the moment. Daníel shares with us his journey or surviving a near-death experience, playing with various identities, moving back t...

In this episode, we explore how rather than using the notion of "everything happens for us, not to us," as a form of bypassing, we can instead use it as a form of self-inquiry to get curious about the agency or benefits that remain even when things don't go according to plan. Luis shares with us his personal experience of implementing this practice when first lamenting his lack of m...

In this episode, Luis is joined by Dr. Ingrid Clayton, a clinical psychologist and author. Her most recent book is Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma ,  a memoir of her personal healing journey. Ingrid generously shares with us a bit about her own healing journey and how even as a clinical psychologist it was very difficult for her to relate to her own trauma. She exp...

In this episode, Luis invites us to challenge, question and explore the commonly held overcoupling that death equals loss. Luis explains why grief is often the charge from attuning only to what we have lost which is usually oriented in the past. How can we also begin to attune to what we have gained, i.e. the present? Similarly, bypassing is when we only orient to what we gain. But with holistic i...

Today's bonus episode is a replay of Episode 2. Fawning is often overlooked as a trauma response, and even more so, misunderstood. This episode is about Fawning - what I call "The Fourth F" after fight, flight & freeze in response to threat. Fawning is mistaken for "politeness" and "having manners", but it's actually a learned threat response. We fawn so...

On today's episode, Luis & Yaya discuss what it was like growing up mixed race in the United States, and explore the medicine of being mixed. They discuss intergenerational trauma, and the stories get passed down through the body and through gestures. Yaya shares her life experiences, relational traumas, and how she navigates the burn-out that comes from being a self-employed practitioner...

In this episode, we welcome back Unique Hammond! She and Luis discuss the impact of nutrition on their personal healing journeys and the impact it has on the healing journeys of their clients. And you probably guessed -- we are gonna explore beans. Unique and Luis explore how nutrition actually provides the capacity for healing, i.e. why in the absence of nutrition, it can be extremely difficult f...

“Things come when they’re supposed to come.” Luis is joined by Camille as she shares how she has been processing the high likelihood of her baby having heart issues and Down syndrome. The news triggered a freeze response, but rather than developing into a shock trauma, Camille returned to the information in a safe space, and used the "Tracking The Charge" exercise, and pendulation, to na...

In the episode, Luis shares how awareness of our capacity can support us in business, whether we are entrepreneurs or employees. Capacity is simply the space inside of us to tolerate sensation. Many of us have been born into cultures, communities and families where we are taught to bypass our body's capacity for the sake of work for various reasons. However, bypassing our capacity can only wo...

In this episode, Luis is joined by Music Carolyn, a recording artist and veteran music business professional, who describes her music as R & Chill, vacation soul, and meditation jazz. Music Carolyn tells us her story of how she came to realize she had all these internalized expectations of herself -- how much money she should make, how big her house should be, what her marriage should be, what...

Luis is often asked, "How can I believe my body?" In this episode, he shares with us the difference between following the body and relating to the body. Luis guides us through a practice where we tease apart three critical yet distinct parts of ourselves: the mind, the body, and the witnesser. Very few of us are taught to experience these separately. However, when we can tap into all thr...

Today’s bonus episode is a recording of the first Somatic Drop-In. Luis takes us through a variety of topics and practices as he invites us to drop in, play with the philosophy and techniques of somatic work, and see what we learn. Noticing constriction, expansion, and numbness in the body "Feeling The Now" exercise Community shares, and a brief demo These Somatic Drop-Ins are bi-monthly...

In this episode, Luis is joined by Marth Beck, a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author. Martha wrote The Way of Integrity which Luis lovingly refers to as "The Guide on How to Stop Fawning." Martha and Luis engage in a dynamic conversation about trauma response of fawning, how fawning impacted their lives, and how it felt to release that...

In this episode, Luis shares how modern comforts and convenience can actually distract us from moments of peace and gratitude. Luis  invites us to explore our trauma ego -- the trauma ego needs to find threat even when none is actually present. As such, even when we have a roof over our heads, food in our refrigerators, running water, etc., the traumatized nervous system won't allow us to ori...

In this episode, we welcome back one of Luis's teachers, Maureen Gallagher, a Licensed Psychologist (NY, NJ), Somatic Experiencing Faculty Member, and Inner Relationship Focusing Trainer Maureen and Luis dive deep into Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF), sharing how it has been an integral  part to their Somatic Experiencing practices.  They explore what it means to have a relationship with va...

This is a bonus episode which features an interview with Luis and Jaguar Mary X. They had Luis on their program called Mid-Day Medicine Journey. It's a live, public radio out of Kingston, NY. You can find the entire episode, and others, by visiting them here. In this episode, they interview Luis about his experiences growing up that led him into somatics and trauma healing work. The accidenta...

In this episode, we welcome back friend of the show, Jeana Brown founder of The Sweet Dark. Jeana shares with us how self-touch and how bringing ritual to self-care or daily hygiene helps to bring us into better communicaiton and relationship with our bodies. She and Luis explore why the intent of self-care and self-touch is not to erase surface-level tension in the body but instead use that tensi...

We welcome back the entire HLN team in this episode! Luis, Marika, and Camille first explore their learnings from the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids . In particular they share how this movie helped to spark their curiosity around things such as animism, human supremacy, and examining the world from different perspectives. They further explore the idea of human supremacy and its relationship to tra...

In this episode I share a replay from a webinar I did in which I talk about how my own trauma and chronic illness led me to this work. It's taken me 17 years to understand and put into words what I went through. It's also taken me 17 years to map out how to release stress & trauma with self-inquiry, nutrition, and somatics. I teach it all in my 6-week course. Listen to this episode t...

In this episode, Luis is joined by Monica Guzman, author of “I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" and the director of digital  storytelling at Braver Angels , a nonprofit dedicated to bridging the partisan divide. Monica and Luis engage in a very interesting conversation about navigating politics when it seems almost imposs...