Somatic Primer Podcast
The Somatic Primer Podcast promotes a cross discipline of somatic dialogues that strive to discover the common threads that run through them all. The Somatic Primer Podcast hosts interdisciplinary conversations from experts in their fields and sharing those ideas within the larger somatic community.
Episodes
83 episodes
Penelope Easten: Integrated Movement
On today’s episode I had the pleasure to speak with Alexander Teacher Penelope Easten Penelope has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1989. She also trained in Reiki, nutrition, and craniosacral therapy. Her book “Twelve Fundam...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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1:15:14
Brad Kearns: Born to Walk
Brad Kearns is a New York Times bestselling author, former national champion and world-ranked professional triathlete.Brad is the host of the B Rad podcast and he has written twenty books on diet, health, peak performance, and ancestral...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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57:06
Dr. Shin Lin: The Science of Qi
On today’s episode I had the pleasure to speak to Dr. Shin Lin. Shin Lin, PhD, is a world-renowned expert on Tai Chi and a 12th generation heir of Chen Style Tai Chi designated by Grandmaster Chen Zheng-Lei of China’s Chen Family V...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:03:39
Mark Walsh: Embodiment Coaching
Mark helps individuals and organizations improve their performance and well-being through the mind-body connection. He has trained in martial arts, mindfulness, and various somatic disciplines. Mark has also taught and consulted in over 5...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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52:58
Dr. Nashalla Gwyn Nyinda: TIbetan Medicine
Dr. Nashalla Gwyn Nyinda, Menpa TMD, MA Acu, LMT began the study of Tibetan Medicine in 1999 and treating with permission in 2004. With a foundation in multiple Asian healing systems she was encouraged by her root teacher, Very Venerable Thrang...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:31:31
Joseph Houseal: The Inner Sensibility of Movement
Joseph Houseal is founder and director of Core of Culture, a Chicago-based non-profit organization dedicated to safeguarding intangible world heritage with an emphasis on endangered dance and movement traditions in the healing, meditation, and ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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57:41
Naomi Worth: The Body as a Vehicle to Enlightenment
Naomi Worth is a scholar and practitioner of yoga and Tibetan Buddhism. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and helped found the Contemplative Sciences Center. Naomi tells us about her time in Mysore studying Ashtanga yoga ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:13:24
C. P. Ong: Biomechanics of Taiji pt. 2
C.P. Ong is a 20th-generation Chen Family Taijiquan lineage disciple of both Chen Xiaowang and Chen Zhenglei. He has also studied extensively with Zhu Tiancai.He first began his Taiji studies in 1972 learning the Guang Ping Yang Style f...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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34:37
C. P. Ong: The Biomechanics of Taiji pt. 1
C.P. Ong is a 20th-generation Chen Family Taijiquan lineage disciple of both Chen Xiaowang and Chen Zhenglei. He has also studied extensively with Zhu Tiancai. He first began his Taiji studies in 1972 learning the Guang Ping Yang Style ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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36:46
Dr. Shin Lin: The Science of Tai Chi & Qigong
On today’s episode I had the pleasure to speak to Dr. Shin Lin. Dr Lin is Professor Emeritus, Developmental & Cell BiologySchool of Biological Sciences. He is also a Chen Tai Chi linage holder and lifetime practitioner.I...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:08:40
Don Hanlon Johnson: Pioneer of Somatic Education
Don Hanlon Johnson is a professor at CIIS in San Francisco and the founder of the first graduate degree program in Somatics. He is the author of a body of literature on the intersections among bodily experience, the natural world, spirituality,...
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1:03:09
Wasentha Young: Tai Chi, Meditation Through Movement
Wasentha Young is a lifelong practitioner of Tai Chi, Qigong, and Meditation. She is a founding board member of the Association of Women Martial Arts Instructors. Wasentha was a student of Grandmaster William CC Chen. Master Young received form...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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1:04:17
Jean-Louis Rodrigue: The Alexander Technique "Back to the Body"
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, Jean-Louis Rodrigue is a movement director, acting coach, and senior teacher of the Alexander Technique. For over 40 years, he has worked professionally in Los Angeles and New York in theatre, film, television, and ...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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1:00:03
Yogi Sivadas: Himalayan yoga
Yogi Sivadas was born into the traditional Ayurvedic and Yoga practices of Kerala. As a teenager, he left home to continue his quest for deeper knowledge, traveling throughout India and the neighboring countries. After more than tw...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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54:47
Alexandra Bellar: Somatics in Theater & Dance
Alexandra holds a BFA/Dance (University of MI), MFA/Dance (University of WI at Milwaukee), and CMA (Certified Movement Analyst) in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals (LIMS). She is on faculty at Princeton University, Rutgers Univer...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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1:04:07
A Conversation with Ven. Robina Courtin
This Week's Episode of the Somatic Primer Podcast: Ven. Robina CourtinOrdained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as edit...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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1:14:53
Robert Chuckrow: Tai Chi Concepts and Experiments
On this episode I had the pleasure to speak with taiji teacher Robert Chuckrow. He has studied (Taiji), (Qigong),under masters such as Cheng Man-ch’ing, William C.C. Chen, Elaine Summers. He has written four books on T’ai Chi: The T...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:07:20
Sam F.S. Chin: I Lie Chuan/ Zhong Xin Dao, The Martial Art of Awareness
Sam F.S. Chin is the co-founder of the art I Liq Chuan / Zhong Xin Dao system.Master Sam Chin was profoundly influenced by Buddhist meditation. Combining mindfulness and awareness with the traditional martial art his father had taught h...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:19:42
Lama Losang: The Golden Eight-Petaled Lotus
Lama Losang (Dr. David Bole) is a fully ordained monk, he completed his traditional three-year retreat in 2004. Lama Losang is also an acupuncture physician, a Tai Chi teacher, and holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. He teaches wellness and Buddhism a...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:10:07
Cyndi Lee: OM Yoga
Cyndi Lee began teaching meditation 30 years ago with the blessing of her root guru, the great Tibetan master, Gelek Rinpoche. Cyndi is known for integrating yoga asana and Tibetan Buddhism. From 1998-2012, she founded and ran the...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:05:32
Will Johnson: Breathing Through the Whole Body
My guest this week is Embodiment teacher Will Johnson. Will Johnson has been a Buddhist practitioner and Rolfer for more than forty years. He and his wife live in Costa Rica, where they have created the Hollow Bamboo Retreat Center....
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:24:03
James Nestor: The Somatics of Breath
James Nestor is an author and journalist His book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was an international bestseller. James is currently hosting breathing workshops and he is working on a new book. To find out more about Jame...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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33:06
Matteo Pistono: Breath How You Want To Feel
In this weeks episode I had the pleasure to sit down with Matteo Pistono.Matteo Pistono is a writer, meditation teacher, and conscious breathing guide. His new book is Breathe How You Want to Feel: Your Breathing Tool Kit for Bet...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:09:49
Tsering Dorje: Translating the Hatha & Vajrayana Yogic Texts
In this weeks episode, I had a conversation with Tsering Dorje. Tsering studied Buddhism in both monastic and academic settings for the past twenty years. He translates ancient Hatha and Vajrayana texts. His focus is on the body-oriented ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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55:21
Mike Maher: The Somatics of Breathing
In this week's episode, I had a conversation with my friend and breath coach Mike Maher. Mike is a breath work instructor, and researcher.Mike is the founder of YouTube’s Number One Breathwork channel –TAKE A DEEP BREATH, and the host o...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:05:41