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Save Your Breath and Keep Your Sanity

By Joan Borysenko — 2008

Breathing is the only autonomic (meaning automatic--like heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature) function over which we also have conscious control. While most people can't lower their heart rate or increase their body temperature at will unless they're trained in biofeedback, martial arts, or yoga, anyone can change their breathing. Breath is the link between body and mind, the royal road to calming down and returning your body to balance.

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Bone, Breath, and Gesture: Practices of Embodiment

This book is a collection of writings on principles and techniques by the pioneers of bodywork and body awareness disciplines. Together, they represent a historical record of the field of somatics.

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18. Bodyfulness for Deeper Mindfulness

Christine Caldwell talks about her new book, Bodyfulness, which is a practice that challenges us to take mindfulness one step further by using our body's knowledge and intuition to make more empowered and informed choices in everyday life.

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Bodyfulness talk

A presentation on Bodyfulness - the theory and methods of body-centered practices that can be applied to psychotherapy, the arts, education, and activism

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Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in.

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Getting in Touch: The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies

More and more people are turning to new mind-body therapies to address physical and emotional ills.

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The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice

The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals—and that social change is not just for movement builders.

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"Learning from the Inside Out" - Sheila Rubin, LMFT - Somatic Psychology

Sheila Rubin, LMFT is an adjunct professor in the somatic psychology program at JFK University. In this brief clip, she shares how she likes to teach - from the felt sense of the "inside out" - in the Somatic Psychology program.

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Risa Kaparo & Thomas Hübl: “Living into the Unknown,” Part 2a

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Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness—Transform Pain, Stress, Trauma, and Aging

Awakening Somatic Intelligence offers a guide to Somatic Learning, an innovative body-oriented approach that incorporates mindfulness, visualization, breathing exercises, postures, and stretches.

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The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage

Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore. But, as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn't have to be. Movement can and should be a source of joy.

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