Dan Halpern

The Integrated Self

Health EN ↓ 30 episodes

Guidance for living a more connected, embodied, and flowing life. Join Dan Halpern—somatic trauma therapist, spiritual counselor, and poet—share questions, wisdom, and inspirations for living a fully human life in current times. Topics include: paths of healing and wellness, paths of spiritual growth and awareness, animism and connecting to the more-than-human world, relationships, art, beauty, music, improvisation, integrative and applied philosophy, and much more. Come, let's grow and live together. I'd love to hear from you. Let me know how the show resonates with you, what doesn't, any que...

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Dan Halpern

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5. Waiting 10.03.2025 8:46

On Waiting When it's Time to Wait. "The Master eats when it's time to eat, waits when it's time to wait, and moves when it's time to move." In this episode: • Attuning to timing • The gold of accepting when it's not the right time to do, but is the right time to wait. • Waiting as a way of widening vision and relating to what else is here. • Recognizing what opens up an...

4. So Much Stuff! 04.02.2025 4:52

A quick little process on the sometimes overwhelming amount of exciting new things in the world, and how slowing down can help you choose how to use and direct your will and energy in this sea of so much stuff!

3. Yes, And... 30.01.2025 22:20

Continuing from the previous episode (2. The Essence of Healing), here I describe one method and philosophy for how to meet life on its own terms, with your own authentic responses. Drawing from a foundational principle of improvisation, you can improvise with life, jumping in the current of reality as it is and choosing how to swim within it. Improvisation in Comedy, Theater, Dance, and Music Gri...

2. The Essence of Healing 21.01.2025 26:38

In this episode, I describe the fundamental cause of human suffering and its antidote. Avoidance, resistance, and meeting life on life’s terms. The intelligence of dissociation. Building capacity to tolerate the charge of a nervous system in a(n overly) stimulating world. Grief as an expression of love and a portal to a fuller life. The intrinsic movement towards healing. A guided practice for mee...

1. Introduction 02.01.2025 8:51

Who am I? Why am I here? How am I doing this? Why this way? All this and more, in less than 9 minutes