The Soul Amplified Podcast
Soul Amplified is where you discover your soul and what has been holding you back from all your light. We explore the divine feminine, cyclical living, co-dependency, self improvement, and spirituality. Sometimes we toss in how all that impacts and mixes with business, reaching your goals, and your relationship with money. Your host, Vanessa Grace, is a life coach, a soul searcher, life long learner, reiki practitioner, tarot card reading, book loving, feminist and general bad ass. We like to have fun around here, learn a lot around here, and dig deep so we can grow big.
The Soul Amplified Podcast
Somatic Embodied Practices: with Chris McDonald
Personal Experiences and Science keep showing us that working with our bodies is much more profound for deep healing than just talk therapy or behavior changes. As a former therapist who has offered a lot of talk therapy, even I agree with this. It only gets a person so far.
Today, Chris does an excellent job of walking us through what the process might be like to work with a holistic therapist who includes somatic work. Curious? Me too!
Chris is a holistic therapist who weaves trauma informed yoga, breathwork, meditation and brainspotting into her services with clients.
You’ll learn:
- What is Somatic therapeutic work
- That doing yoga in therapy is simpler than you thought
- Why doing the skills at home makes profound changes
We do an impromptu body scan, which was great! Here are some meaningful questions you can ask to connect more deeply to your body.
- Where in your body do you feel strong?
- Where in your body do you feel centered?
- Where in your body do you feel neutral/numb?
She also mentions Three Life Rafts, and I wanted to make sure you had them written down, so here they are!
- Grounding
- Resourcing
- Breathwork
Here is how you can find Chris McDonald:
Claim your 30 day Aura app guest pass and From Chris McDonald OR
Get a FREE 30 Membership to the Aura App, where Chris is a meditation teacher! https://www.aurahealth.io/guestpass/chris-mcdonald
The Holistic Counseling Podcast: https://holisticcounselingpodcast.com/podcasts/
The HCP episode 85, Somatic Intelligence with Jen Degen: https://holisticcounselingpodcast.com/podcasts/85-somaticintelligence/
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