The Body Awake

Somatic Attunement

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

SA is part meditation, part body awareness, and part sitting with another who’s attuning to, listening to, asking about, and following along with ...

Relational Meditation with Riyaz Motan

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode, I chat with a new teacher of mine, from a course called “Healing from Presence,” Riyaz Motan. We talk about relating from an embodie...

Direct Experience

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Creator's Companion

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a preview of my year-long labor of love, A Creator's Companion.

Can Somatic Material Be Taught Well Online?

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Can body-based material be taught online? Can a somatic curriculum be shared with a decent felt sense, something other than the feeling of not quite b...

The Coronation with Charles Eisenstein - ep 55

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

 “The Coronation” essay links: in print, in iTunes, and other audio options. Charles’ website, which includes links to his podcast, workshops...

Our Deepest Compass: Nobody Gets Left Out with Sage Hayes - ep 54

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Orientation

18 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Orientation : a riff and a meditative practice.

Authentic Revolution and Relating with Sara Ness

29 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I've been wanting to interview Sara for a long time ... Indeed, since I first participated in Authentic Relating Games in a variety of settings, inclu...

Movement / Education with David Gallina

27 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Birth and Death 💛 — episode 50 (!)

08 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Birth and death: an update. Thank you for being here! 💛 Danny Schmidt "Just Wait Til They See You" 💛 Rev angel Kyodo Williams On Being 💛 Davi...

Our Interconnected Bodies, Trauma & What Now with Peter Levine — ep 49

15 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Levine founded Somatic Experiencing, a body-oriented approach to healing trauma. In this interview, we hear about the origins of that work, and ...

Full Moon : Third Anniversary Episode

25 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Happy third anniversary, friends 💛 Links My “how to start a podcast” guide My interview with Donna Martin My interview with Angelo Coppola

Connection, Audience and Being Real on Social Media with Ryan Orrico — ep 47

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I started following Ryan's page on Instagram. I was nearly immediately put on edge by some of his posts. He, at least a lot at that time, was playing ...

Clarification, Patience and the Ocean With Patty Townsend

01 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Patty Townsend has been teaching yoga since waaaaaay back in the day when there were only a couple yoga studios in LA. That alone would give her lots ...

New Moon : Season 3 Orientation

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back 💙

Interconnectedness and Darkness: ep 44

17 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we wrap up Season 2 of The Body Awake with a mix of retrospect, looking around and some personal sharing from me. Here's that poem I ...

Towards an Inclusive Somatics with Don Hanlon Johnson — ep 43

29 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Don Hanlon Johnson has had his interest at the intersection — or perhaps mutual expression — of "taking care of your body stuff" and "political, s...

Reaching for Blackness with Holistic Resistance — ep 42

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This episode, after a long time considering and reckoning myself with some of this material : “Reaching for Blackness” with Aaron and Jennie of Ho...

A Body Electric : Try This at Home with David Fleming — ep 41

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest this go is David Fleming, a bright and thoughtful practitioner whose work spans bodywork, lifestyle shifts and movement, and is informed by ...

Start with Science, End with Poetry with Tatjana Mesar — ep 40

07 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When teaching, "I start with science, but hopefully I end with more of the poetry of the movement." This is one of my favorite lines from this episode...

Q & A

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I love a good question. I also love the attentive space it evokes in me to come up with an answer. And so with that, hopefully this is a win-win as I...

Living Your Body's Intelligence

11 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Living your body's intelligence ... Oh, what that could mean! To get a feel for what it is, let's point to what it's not. It's not blindly following e...

Sex, Touch and Naming What's There — ep 38

09 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This was one of those interviews where I thought we were going to talk about one thing, and we ended up talking about another. It is real, intimate (a...

The Limbic Brain and Biology of Emotion

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I'm reading "The Limbic Brain and the Biology of Emotion," which is a chapter from Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit and Sexy — ...

The Vagus Nerves and the Social Nervous System with Stanley Rosenberg — ep 37

16 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I was quite excited when Stanley agreed to this interview. His book on the autonomic nervous system — including but not limited to the vagus nerve —...

Online Embodiment and Curating Virtual Space with Lisa Elliott — ep 36

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Join Lisa Elliott and I for a dive into the inner workings of someone who, in my experience, curates beautifully a space often known for its disembodi...

Effortless Attention: A Guided Meditation

03 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

By listener requests, and my delight in the fulfillment, here's one of what may be a few led meditation / awareness / embodiment exercises. Questions,...

Being a Good Student — ep 35

31 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It used to be: good information was hard to find; good teachers and teachings were rare. The onus, in many ways, was on the teacher. Now, of course, t...

15-min Neurosensory Meditation with Irene Lyon

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Enjoy :)

Irene Lyon Returns for More on Perception, Intuition and Raising Our Kids Well — ep 34

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to Irene Lyon for our second chat on TBA. We pick up largely where we left off from our first interview (ep 17), namely into this quest...

Water, Muscles and Light as Energy with Gerald Pollack — ep 33

28 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gerald Pollack has spent more hours studying water and the nature of muscle contraction than you've spent doing just about anything. He's a very brigh...

Seeing Inside a Body with Alexander Tsiaras — ep 32

31 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Tsiaras is a modern-day Renaissance man who's been called the "Leonardo Da Vinci of the digital age." He's a scientist / artist behind a new...

Healing Wants to Happen: Pre- and Peri-Natal Somatics with Kate White — ep 31

10 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kate White is an expert in the autonomic nervous system, with heaps of experience — both intellectual and that kind of knowing that sits in your gut...

The Heart of Movement, Teaching and Learning's Never Ending Path with Jill Miller — ep 30

12 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jill Miller and I range from yoga to biomechanics to humility and hubris to Jill's recent hip surgery, her old teachers and the beauty, pain and wisdo...

Embodied Movement, Politics and Doing Your F#@*ing Work With Mark Walsh — Ep 29

05 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Are less-embodied movement practices good gateways into a deeper practice, or are they doing more harm than good? Are all movement practices really cr...

Tom Myers on Being in the Body Business, Movement and the Disease of Feeling "Other" — ep 28

28 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Myers returns to The Body Awake for our third interview. And like the other two but with new territory, Tom's experience and wisdom that came thro...

Fireside Chat: Housekeeping with LB - ep 27

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Housekeeping 💛 a new home for my writing: the written word right here at TBA 💛 notes on my physical training, and follow up from the 50K race 💛...

Having a Body, Being a Body with Brooke Thomas — ep 26

28 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What a joy to get to chat with Brooke Thomas, whose latest project, the Liberated Body podcast, may be familiar to some listeners here. Brooke and I t...

Stack Your Bones & Posture Beyond Effort with Ruthie Fraser — ep 25

10 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Posture" is such a loaded word for so many of us. It often evokes a sense of not "doing it right" — lazy shoulders, computer slouch, etc. This kin...

Season 2: Guidance, Orientation and Embodiment

04 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We're back! Here's a 20-min intro to Season 2 of The Body Awake.  So lovely to be back with you; thanks for being here.

Liam Gets Interviewed — by Suzanne Astar — ep 23

21 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This episode — in honor of wrapping up Season 1 of The Body Awake — the tables turn on your host and Liam gets interviewed. It's a peek behind ...

Transmission, Concurrence and Poetry with Lauren Christman — ep 22

16 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Since the show's earliest inception, I knew I wanted to interview Lauren for The Body Awake. When the time was right, I asked, so glad she agreed. Lau...

Continuum, Streaming + the Nature of Perception with Susan Harper — ep 21

25 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Too often we have the industrialized, mechanical model applied to a body. It's too reductive for something that's really a streaming ..." We're so bl...

Nerve + Fluid Alignment, Layers and Embryological Development — ep 20

12 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

An anatomy lesson with an immediate application, if you want to look for it, around earlier / deeper barriers. We look briefly at the 3 primary embryo...

James Hamblin on Medicine, Myth and the Nocebo Effect — ep 19

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

James Hamblin, MD, is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. His writing and videos have been featured in The New York Times, Politic...

Tom Myers on Fascia, Movement, Trauma, and Integration of All That and More

21 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

By popular demand, and my own great interest, Tom Myers returns to The Body Awake for a second interview. In this second round — see episode 5 for t...

Somatic Experiencing, Early Trauma and Vagus Nerve with Irene Lyon — ep 17

31 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Somatic Experiencing is, in some ways, just like it sounds: a direct experiencing of the body and its sensations. Where the magic of this work comes i...

Training to Run 50K, and Reflections for Teaching — Ep 16

11 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Here's the breakdown for my first, signed-up-on-a-whim 50 kilometer mountain run training plan: *** This should be fun. (If it's not, it's time to mod...

Ep 15: Hakomi with Donna Martin

20 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Donna Martin came highly recommended to me from several Body Awake listeners. She's deeply trained, and trains others, in the realm of Hakomi, an app...

Ep 14: Studying Mind-Body Awareness with Cynthia Price

26 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This episode we get to spend time with someone who's dedicated a lot of her life to the study of Body Awareness, and how this awareness can — really...

Ep 13: Our Physical + Energetic Anatomy with Tias Little

10 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This episode came with a little note through the airwaves that said: "Get this one out there, right now." And so I heed. Tias Little is an extraordina...

Ep 12: Investigating — and Calling BS on — Neutral Pelvis and Spine

02 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a shorter, in-between-isode where I share some thoughts on an oft-heard term in functional fitness circles everywhere: the "neutral pe...

Ep 11: Tantra, Healing Trauma and the Teachings of Nature with David Cates

24 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

David Cates is a tantra teacher ... sort of. (That's actually the first thing we get into in the interview: defining terms.) What that means for YOU, ...

Ep 10: Humans Are Not Broken with Angelo Coppola

03 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This is really a show about one of my favorite topics: HOW to think about learning about your body. (Are we being dogmatic or really open to learning ...

Ep 9: My Month Without Coffee: An Experiment

15 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The technical ins and outs, in the supportive bed of philisophical treatise, of my month without coffee: Why I did it, why I tried and failed before, ...

Ep 8: Embodied Awakening, and the Art of Suffering Skillfully with Tobin Giblin

22 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How much suffering and pain — physical or otherwise — is necessary in this lifetime? What role does our will, our longing, to transform play in ho...

Ep 7: Research, Truth and Owning the Subjective Experience with Mike Hamm

07 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Today I chat with Mike Hamm: a bodyworker who's well steeped in current research around bodywork and massage therapy and, most importantly for me, a b...

Ep 6: Anatomy 301: Beyond Lever-and-Pulley Biomechanics

22 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In today's short episode, we talk 3 truths in anatomy that take us beyond simple lever-and-pulley mechanics when visioning the body: how tissues slid...

Ep 5: Human Evolution, the Artistic Scientist and KQ with Tom Myers

21 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This episode, I interview guest Tom Myers of Anatomy Trains. Tom is probably best known for his work detailing the anatomy of myofascial connections, ...

Ep 4: Elasticity, Rebound and Spring in Your Step

26 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week is an in-between-isode,* taking a pause from interviews to bring you this news flash: you know that feeling when your step is light and spri...

Ep 3: Yoga, Zen and Reality As It Is with Djuna Mascall

18 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

I'm here with yoga teacher extraordinaire (my words, not hers) Djuna Mascall as we talk dedication, Zen, yoga and its commodification. All part of the...

Ep 2: Contact Improvisation and Deepening 1% Every Year with Martin Keogh

18 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Contact Improvisation is a form of dance that is unscripted, multi-variable, and rich in information we can glean about the body. In this interview wi...

Ep 1: Groundwork and Guiding Principles

18 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Our very first show, laying out some guiding principles we'll tend to follow in our exploration of the human body.