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Hana Rakshani is a Somatic Movement Artist who facilitates Contact Improvisation workshops in Ashville, North Carolina. Elena and Hana discuss how emotional release can come through tuning deeply into our organs and voices by way of curiously noticing. Hana shares her top tools for navigating tracking emotion in the body and how to release it somatically. A juicy conversation indeed!
We discuss:
- How do we notice emotion within the body somatically
- Witnessing sensation with body scan & body scan
- Interoception: sensing the internal state of the body
- Tuning into our organs where emotions are held
- Yoga practice as a way into practicing somatics
- Embodied self-meeting in Play
- Holding intention within the body, meeting awareness
- Body-Mind Centering - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
- Single cellular organisms - how they are divinely intelligent and inform movement
- Starfish consciousness
- Tuning into the pelvic floor to open the voice & face
- Navigating releasing the voice
- Using visualization to come into the voice
- Resonant movement patterns to begin vocalization
- Entering a trance like state to come into sound
- Hana's recommendations for moments of emotional overwhelm
- Exhaling to the tune of a HUM
- Tapping - Emotional Freedom Technique
- Jiggling/bouncing/shaking to wake up the proprioceptive system
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