Somatic Primer Podcast
The Somatic Primer Podcast promotes a cross discipline of somatic dialogues that strive to discover the common threads that run through them all. The Somatic Primer Podcast hosts interdisciplinary conversations from experts in their fields and sharing those ideas within the larger somatic community.
Episodes
69 episodes
Alexandra Bellar: Somatics in Theater & Dance
Alexandra holds a BFA/Dance (University of MI), MFA/Dance (University of WI at Milwaukee), and CMA (Certified Movement Analyst) in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals (LIMS). She is on faculty at Princeton University, Rutgers Univer...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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1:04:07
A Conversation with Ven. Robina Courtin
This Week's Episode of the Somatic Primer Podcast: Ven. Robina CourtinOrdained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as edit...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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1:14:53
Robert Chuckrow: Tai Chi Concepts and Experiments
On this episode I had the pleasure to speak with taiji teacher Robert Chuckrow. He has studied (Taiji), (Qigong),under masters such as Cheng Man-ch’ing, William C.C. Chen, Elaine Summers. He has written four books on T’ai Chi: The T...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:07:20
Sam F.S. Chin: I Lie Chuan/ Zhong Xin Dao, The Martial Art of Awareness
Sam F.S. Chin is the co-founder of the art I Liq Chuan / Zhong Xin Dao system.Master Sam Chin was profoundly influenced by Buddhist meditation. Combining mindfulness and awareness with the traditional martial art his father had taught h...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:19:42
Lama Losang: The Golden Eight-Petaled Lotus
Lama Losang (Dr. David Bole) is a fully ordained monk, he completed his traditional three-year retreat in 2004. Lama Losang is also an acupuncture physician, a Tai Chi teacher, and holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. He teaches wellness and Buddhism a...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:10:07
Cyndi Lee: OM Yoga
Cyndi Lee began teaching meditation 30 years ago with the blessing of her root guru, the great Tibetan master, Gelek Rinpoche. Cyndi is known for integrating yoga asana and Tibetan Buddhism. From 1998-2012, she founded and ran the...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:05:32
Will Johnson: Breathing Through the Whole Body
My guest this week is Embodiment teacher Will Johnson. Will Johnson has been a Buddhist practitioner and Rolfer for more than forty years. He and his wife live in Costa Rica, where they have created the Hollow Bamboo Retreat Center....
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:24:03
James Nestor: The Somatics of Breath
James Nestor is an author and journalist His book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was an international bestseller. James is currently hosting breathing workshops and he is working on a new book. To find out more about Jame...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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33:06
Matteo Pistono: Breath How You Want To Feel
In this weeks episode I had the pleasure to sit down with Matteo Pistono.Matteo Pistono is a writer, meditation teacher, and conscious breathing guide. His new book is Breathe How You Want to Feel: Your Breathing Tool Kit for Bet...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:09:49
Tsering Dorje: Translating the Hatha & Vajrayana Yogic Texts
In this weeks episode, I had a conversation with Tsering Dorje. Tsering studied Buddhism in both monastic and academic settings for the past twenty years. He translates ancient Hatha and Vajrayana texts. His focus is on the body-oriented ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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55:21
Mike Maher: The Somatics of Breathing
In this week's episode, I had a conversation with my friend and breath coach Mike Maher. Mike is a breath work instructor, and researcher.Mike is the founder of YouTube’s Number One Breathwork channel –TAKE A DEEP BREATH, and the host o...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:05:41
Michael Sheehy: Somatics & Embodiment in Tibetan Yoga
In this weeks episode, I had the pleasure to speak with Michael Sheehy.Michael Sheehy is a meditation researcher and scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. He is a Research Assistant Professor and Director of Research at the Contemplative Science...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:22:31
Willa Blythe Baker: The Wakeful Body, Somatic Mindfulness
Willa Baker has a doctorate from Harvard University. She is the Founder and director of The Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, MA, and its retreat center in the mountains of, NH. She is a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Tibetan...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:06:33
Drew Leder: The Healing Body
Drew Leder a professor of Western and Eastern Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. Dr. Leder's work focuses on the embodied experience. He asks us to reconsider the Cartesian mind-body dualism that underlies much of contemporary West...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:14:00
Joseph Alter: The Embodiment of Somatics & Yoga
In this weeks episode, I speak with Joseph Alter. Joseph S. Alter is the Director of the Asian Studies Center and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the editor of The Journal of Asian Studies (2021 – 2025).&nb...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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54:29
Veronica Rottman: Somatic Experiencing
My guest today, is Veronica Rottman. Veronica has a somatics and dance background. She studied Somatic Experiencing with Peter Levine as well as Somatic Attachment Therapy. Her passion is in Birth Work where she teaches a speciality Yoga for...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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52:26
Stuart Olson: The Jade Emperor’s Mind Seal Classic
Welcome to season 3 of the Somatic Primer Podcast. In this week's episode, I speak with Stuart Olson. Stuart is the founder, of Sanctuary of Tao. he is an author and translator of over thirty works on Taoist Philosophy, Taijiquan, Qigong, and T...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:18:32
Georges Dreyfus: Self as Body in Tibetan Buddhism
Georges Dreyfus is Professor of Religion at Williams College, Massachusetts. His focus is in the fields of Indian Buddhist philosophy, philosophy of mind, and cognitive processes. At the age of 20, Dreyfus left his native hom...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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1:14:49
James Mallinson: Living with the Sadhus
In this episode, I speak with Dr. James Mallinson about his time living in India living with the sadhus, meeting his guru, and his pioneering research on the history of yoga.Dr. James Mallinson is is a professor of Sanskrit at the...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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1:05:44
Rick Olderman: Physical Therapy, Somatics, & Chronic Pain
My guest today is Rick Olderman. Rick is a sports and orthopedic physical therapist, Hanna somatic practitioner and author. Rick has spent years developing his approach for treating chronic pain. Rick has written a series of books called “Fixin...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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43:53
Tim Cartmell: Nei Gong & Somatics
In this episode Tim Cartmell returns to discuss his book Xing Yi Nei Gong: Xing Yi Health Maintenance and Internal Strength Development. Tim explains the basic principals of Nei Gong and how to apply them. We discuss the similari...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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1:07:22
Jason Birch: Light on Hatha Yoga
Jason Birch is a scholar of medieval Hatha yoga and a founding member of SOAS's Centre for Yoga StudiesJason is a senior research fellow for the ‘Light on Hatha Yoga’ project. He is well known for his important paper on the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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58:34
Elisabeth Hsu: Yijin Jing & Somatic Experiencing
Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford Fellow of Green Templeton College, OxfordElisabeth Hsu's research contributes to the field...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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41:57
Alex Scrimgeour: Acupuncture & the Art of Dien Chan
Alex Scrimgeour is a licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist based in London, UK. He has over twenty years experience as a practitioner of qigong and meditation. He Received a BSc. in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Diploma in Tuina...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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55:34
Esther Gokhale: In Search of a Natural Posture
Esther Gokhale studied biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton and, later, acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine. After experiencing crippling back pain during her first pregnancy and unsuccessful back surgery, Gokhal...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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1:02:29