Opening the Brain-Body Superhighway with Somatic Experiencing® & Alexander Technique

Tracy Einstein is a Somatic Experiencing® practitioner and Alexander Technique teacher. We talk all about the body, how it holds and releases trauma, and the way she works with clients. Enjoy.

Tracy's Website
https://tracyeinstein.com/

The Enneagram School
https://theenneagramschool.com/

Deb Dana's info
https://rhythmofregulation.com/

Book mentioned
Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma--An Integrative Somatic Approach by Kathy Kain & Stephen Terrell

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
2:49 Our Body-blind culture
4:22 Tracy's journey to body work
7:44 The Preverbal universe
11:22 What is Alexander Technique?
15:00 Debauched Kinsethesia
18:03 Optimal Use
27:22 Endgaining -- how being too results oriented sabotages the work
30:37 The Enneagram Centers (Body, Heart, Mind)
32:22 Opening up superhighway between brain and body
34:48 What is somatic experiencing? (Letting body process without mental self-consciousness)
40:00 Tracy's practitioner lens -- what she notices
47:50 What is Polyvagal Theory?
51:31 You have to disengage social posturing to sense within
54:09 Many paths to regulation -- arguably the point of all modalities
56:46 Centering your own healing as practitioner is crucial; very clear lesson from AT because of body to body transference
58:57 Alexander Training
1:02:17 Having kid -- noticing what we learn before words -- the preverbal universe is the foundation of our lives
1:05:01 The terrible gift of trauma -- & the structure of society creates impossible parenting situations
1:09:07 You might not understand what's shifting somatically but don't need to -- body vs mental intelligence (or left vs right brain)
1:12:04 Final reflections
1:12:50 Plugs & Resources!

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