What Christine Shares:
- Her activism centered around the bodylessness present in our culture
- Translating your physical experience to your social interactions
- How embracing inquiry and challenges can support your well being
- How her understanding of the immune system impacted how she runs her psychotherapy practice
What You'll Hear:
- Incorporating somatic work in your daily life for nervous system health
- Coming to a practice from pressure, pleasure, or inquiry, and how those may affect your practice
- How a practice changes when you come with some form of self-regulation
- Integrating mental and physical processes
- Respecting the 12 different systems in the body as inherently important in their own right
- Learning to listen to all systems in the body so that you get a fuller picture of your self and your health
- Approaching the body from a community organizing standpoint with a non-hierarchical approach
- Creating space for range and nuance rather than a stark dichotomy
- Approaching your body from a lens of curiosity rather than control
- Using physical, mental, and cognitive challenges to promote optimal health
- The immune system learns and becomes toned when it faces challenges
- The universe of experiences available when you learn to really be in your body
- The connection between being bodyful and social awareness and ethics
- Understanding your body from both a physical sense and a poetic sense
- Using your sense of power to relax into the unknown or uncontrollable
