Saving the world one muscle at a time. Teacher of embodiment, muscle meditation, and biomechanical enlightenment. Muscle and growth fetishist.
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Why Somatic Experiencing Sucks
Why Somatic Experiencing Sucks
Why Somatic Experiencing Sucks I have a professional interest in trauma theory and somatics, but I am also an enthusiast of the new field of somatic psychology. In particular, I have loved the clarity, vision, and heart expressed in the works by Peter Levine. He even narrated his own audiobook, Trauma Healing, available on YouTube, and in it tells you in his own voice that he wrote this book and…
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