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Polyvagal Theory in Action: 3D Example of the Nervous System with Ventral and Dorsal Vagal Systems

By Deb Dana — 2019

Get a deeper understanding of Polyvagal Theory and why it’s so effective in trauma treatment. Watch as Deb Dana, pioneer of clinical applications of Polyvagal Theory, creates a dynamic 3D model that demonstrates the theory in action.

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Ask the Teachers: What Does it Mean to Understand Buddhism Through the Body?

Roxanne Dault, Meido Moore, and Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam discuss what it means to understand Buddhism through the body — the heart of the Buddhist path.

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Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam, Meido Moore, Roxanne Dault
2021
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The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

How each of us can become a therapeutic presence in the world. Images and sounds of war, natural disasters, and human-made devastation explicitly surround us and implicitly leave their imprint in our muscles, our belly and heart, our nervous systems, and the brains in our skulls.

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Bonnie Badenoch, Stephen W. Porges
2017
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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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Christine Caldwell
2025
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Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy

A habitual movement as common as nail-biting or toe-tapping can be the key to pulling out addictive behavior by its roots. These unconscious movement "tags" indicate the places where our bodies have become split off from our psyches.

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Christine Caldwell
1996
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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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Christine Caldwell
1997
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The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Use your head. That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backwards. What we need to do, says acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul, is think outside the brain.

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Annie Murphy Paul
2025
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The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma

Nowhere is this relationship more essential yet more endangered than in our healing from trauma, and no one has provided a more illuminating, sympathetic, and constructive approach to such healing than Boston-based Dutch psychiatrist and pioneering PTSD researcher Bessel van der Kolk.

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Maria Popova
2016
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An Interview with Peter Levine

Back in the 60s, I started developing various kinds of mind–body methods with people who had high blood pressure. When I taught them how to relax certain muscles in their neck and jaw, their blood pressure would sometimes drop 20 or 30 points, well into the normal range.

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Rich Simon
2019
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Yoga and Psychotherapy: The Evolution of Consciousness

For thousands of years, yoga has offered what Western therapists seek to provide today: a way to achieve the total health of body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

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Swami Rama, Swami Ajaya, Rudolph Ballentine
1976
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Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body

Researchers have shown that survivors of accidents, disaster, and childhood trauma often endure lifelong symptoms ranging from anxiety and depression to unexplained physical pain, fatigue, illness, and harmful "acting out" behaviors.

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Peter Levine
2025
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