S11 EP2 Have You Heard of Somatic Yoga Yet? Special Guest: Donna Brooks
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What’s all the buzz about? Today, Donna Brooks joins us. She is a master somatic movement educator and therapist, a certified yoga therapist, and an all around attentive, thoughtful teacher of the healing arts. As she describes the process and ideas behind this practice, she can’t help but slip into her soothing hypnotic voice that washes over and carries us into the moment. She’ll bring you deep inside your body before you even know what’s happening. Sit back, relax, and listen to Donna explain how to be self reverential and how to access your inner puppy. Learn to reconnect with the rhythm of your body to access the inner wisdom that is already there and knows what to do. It’s good for your nervous system, and can help with pain, stress, pelvic floor issues, trauma and grief, among other things. Do you know how your body works and what it needs? Experience this episode for yourself!
(00:00:00) Welcome and introduction to today’s topic:somatic movement and yoga
(00:02:16) Donna Brooks talks about her background and what led her into this field
(00:07:39) What is the difference between somatic yoga and regular yoga?
(00:18:50) How is external movement different from internal movement?
(00:24:50) Somatic yoga is known to address and heal trauma. Does it elicit a massive emotional experience?
(00:33:05) What is and how can somatic embodiment strengthen our mind-body connection?
(00:41:17) Can somatic movement affect our ability to tolerate and process chronic pain, fears, or anxiety?
(00:49:50) Where to learn more from Donna Brooks
What to do BEFOre Trying Yoga to Relieve Back Pain
Donna's Website: Original Body Wisdom
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| 0:00.0 | When you are able to regulate your nervous system and you're not seized by this fight or flight, |
| 0:06.2 | when you're self-reverential and connected to the rhythms of your body, you just have more |
| 0:13.3 | resilience, more resilience to go through challenges in life, whether they're just ordinary |
| 0:18.7 | challenges or if there's been a lot of trauma or loss or, you know, |
| 0:25.8 | you're going through an illness. It's, it gives you more of a well to meet that. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, guys. And welcome back to the Thick Dysave Lives podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:39.2 | Hi guys. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm Rachel. |
| 0:40.4 | We have Donna Brooks here for you today. |
| 0:43.4 | You guys were wondering about somatic yoga and somatic movement therapy. |
| 0:48.7 | And we brought you the best of the best. |
| 0:52.3 | She is a somatic movement therapist and and Educator, a yoga therapist, and embodied meditator, |
| 1:00.7 | who has 40 years. |
| 1:02.5 | Okay, you guys, this is hot. |
| 1:04.6 | This just came to be hot now, but she's been knowing. |
| 1:10.4 | She's been doing this for 40 years, counseling and coaching and movement and the healing |
| 1:16.4 | art. |
| 1:16.9 | So we brought you the very best of the best, Massachusetts living. |
| 1:23.7 | And she is going to give you all the info you need to know about somatic yoga. |
| 1:30.2 | So welcome, Donna. |
| 1:31.9 | Thank you. |
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