Liberated Being
106 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 145 ratingsEvery week we're gathering together the thought leaders and experts who are helping us all to more happily inhabit our bodies. Whether you're trying to sort out pain or injury in your own body, or are just a lovable body nerd, we're here for you.
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Ep 56: Embodied Cognition and Its Effect on Health with Cathy Kerr
May 31, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBCathy Kerr is the director of the Mind In Body Lab at Brown University. Her research focuses on whether brain rhythms underlying body awareness and movement are actively modulated by mindfulness and movement practices such as Tai Chi and Qigong. Her hope is that understanding how these therapies work will have a positive impact on conditions like aging and chronic pain or functional disorders where these approaches have shown the clearest therapeutic benefit. She joined me today to talk ab...
Ep 55: A New Paradigm of Anatomy with John Sharkey
May 17, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBIn this episode I am talking with John Sharkey who is a Clinical Anatomist, Exercise Physiologist, and European Neuromuscular Therapist. He has developed the worlds only Masters Degree in Neuromuscular Therapy which is Accredited by the University of Chester, he is on the editorial board for the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, the International Journal of Osteopathy, and the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.. He is also a member of the Olympic Councils me...
Ep 54: The End of the Structural Model with Eyal Lederman
May 03, 2016 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBDr. Eyal Lederman joins me to talk in particular about his paper titled “A process approach in manual and physical therapies: beyond the structural model" and his controversial view that the structural model is outdated and needs to be replaced. We discuss what he sees it replaced with and how patients are treated at his clinic, and what the benefits are to people when we expand beyond structural explanations for things.
Ep 53: Interoception in Practice with Bo Forbes
April 19, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBBo Forbes is a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and Integrative Yoga Therapist. We’re following up on the last two episodes which are pretty interoception based- first with Will Johnson and then with Norm Farb. A central guiding theme of Bo’s work is with interoception, and she has put together the Interoception Tribal Council which is bringing together researchers, primarily neuroscientists, who are looking at interoception and its effect on the whole person’s health both physically and...
Ep 52: Interoception, Contemplative Practice and Health with Norm Farb
March 29, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBNeuroscientist Norm Farb's research focuses on the intersection between present moment awareness and well-being. Today we are discussing one of his papers, Interoception, Contemplative Practice, and Health. What are the benefits and risks of honing one's ability to feel what's going on in their body? And what do we appraise that input to mean based on our perceptions of the world?
Ep 51: Discovering The Line with Will Johnson
March 15, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBWil Johnson is the founder of the Institute for Embodiment Training. In today’s conversation we dove into what Dr. Rolf’s original concept of “The Line” was, and discuss its implications for both finding delicious support in our bodies and also for its ability to evoke our evolutionary potential.
Ep 50: Stop Mindless Stretching with Steve Gangemi
March 01, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBDr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, has ruffled more than a few feathers with his proclamations that stretching is for Bozos... these days he's tempered his statement to "stop mindless stretching". He joins me in this conversation to talk about what stretching even is, what flexibility is really a reflection of (hint: it's not your stretching regimen), why we might feel the need to stretch, and more.
Ep 49: Inflammation and Connective Tissue with Helene Langevin
February 09, 2016 10:00 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBDr. Helene Langevin of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, University of Vermont College of Medicine, and The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine talks about her research on acupuncture, stretching, connective tissue, cancer, inflammation resolution, and the bridges between all of those subjects.
ep 48: Biotensegrity and Fascia Research Congress
October 06, 2015 09:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBI give my take on the 7th Biotensegrity Interest Group, the 1st Biotensegrity Summit, and the 4th Fascia Research Congress all of which recently took place in Reston, Virginia.
ep 47: Born to Walk with James Earls
September 08, 2015 09:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBJames Earls, author of Born to Walk, takes a very whole system approach to understanding walking. We talk about how the whole body walks, different schools of thought that have looked at walking in “parts” instead, how we are seduced into seeing anatomy with the same eye that we look at the manmade world around us, his homage to Robert Hooke who was a contemporary of Newton’s,understanding ground reaction force, the essentialness of efficiency in our evolution, the debate about whether or n...
ep 46: The Spark in the Machine with Dan Keown
August 18, 2015 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBDr. Dan Keown, who is both a Western medical doctor and a Chinese medicine doctor joins me for a conversation about his book The Spark in the Machine. We talk about many of the crucial things that Western medicine ignores- things like fascia, extracellular fluid, how an embryo knows how to organize around a seeming blueprint, and how your spirit affects your health. We talk about how fascia explains chi, how and why jing and shen are better predictors of lifespan and health than a person’s...
Ep 45: How We Form and Move with Joanne Avison
August 04, 2015 09:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBJoanne Avison, author of Yoga, Fascia, Anatomy, and Movement, talks with me about fascia and why it has been overlooked historically (which includes a fascinating tour through the history of anatomy and its relationship to the Catholic church), how we form embryologically and what implications that has for biomechanics vs. biotensegrity (or biomechanics vs. biomotion), what that changes when we think about movement and the language we use about movement and the body,
ep 44: Stand Up Kids with Juliet Starrett
July 21, 2015 09:00 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBJuliet Starrett talks about the non-profit she and her husband Kelly have founded, Stand Up Kids, which aims to spread movement rich classrooms throughout the nation. They've started with their children's public school in California, which this August aims to be the first chair-free school in the United States. How can standing desks create a movement-rich classroom environment instead of just replacing old furniture with new furniture? Hear the key details that make that possible. How i...
ep 43: Making Classrooms Movement Friendly
July 07, 2015 09:00 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBI talk with Richard Brennan, originator of the School Chairs Campaign to make backward sloping chairs illegal, and Patricia Pyrka of Beyond Training about her week-long furniture-free experiment in her son's school. What is (approximately) 15,000 hours spent sitting still in chairs throughout their educational years costing our children in terms of their physical and emotional health?
ep: 42 Physical Disempowerment of Infants and Children with Kathleen Porter
June 23, 2015 09:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBHow have our "advances" physical disempowered infants and children? What long terms costs does that have? How might the epidemics related to poorly functioning nervous systems be linked to or influenced by this? How do we send the message that what is "out there" is more important than what is "in here"? What are some of the movement-related predictors and therapies for autism spectrum disorders?
ep 41: The Long Body with Frank Forencich
June 09, 2015 09:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBFrank Forencich and I talk about "the long body". A Native American term about how we are massively connected with the biological and social world around us. Where does the human body begin and end? Why is our perception of ourselves as isolated units dangerous? Why do we have nervous systems? Are we currently living in an alien environment? What are some of the features of our culture that make is a "short culture"? How is technology changing our nervous systems and our relationshi...
Ep 40: Navigating Pain with Neil Pearson
May 26, 2015 09:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBWhat is pain? Neil Pearson helps to clarify the assumption that all pain is directly correlated to tissue damage, why your brain is messing with you by creating pain in the first place (if it’s not always telling the truth about what’s going on on the inside), and how you are likely to convince your brain that you need more oomph in order for it to be listened to. Neil also discusses how pain isn’t just biological, biomechanical, or biomedical- and how better understanding how our lives an...
Ep 39: Natural Born Heroes with Christopher McDougall
May 12, 2015 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBChristopher McDougall is talking about his latest book, Natural Born Heroes. We talk about this remarkable story of a band of resistance fighters on Crete during World War II, how they contributed to toppling the Nazi occupation there, and the amazing local Cretans who taught them about their tradition of the hero. Christopher doesn't stop at these remarkable people however, he asks what makes a hero and how can we all be heroes? We talk fascia, Parkour, natural movement/MovNat, low hear...
Ep 38: The Bliss of Your Biology with Ged Sumner
May 05, 2015 09:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBToday's conversation is with Ged Sumner about his book Body Intelligence Meditation. - Is traditional meditation treating the body like a machine to be broken? - Is it therefore anti-body and therefore leading to dissociative instead of enlightened states? - Can deep shifts in our physiology happen simply by engaging in somatic meditation and inviting our deep intelligence to arise? And why does that sound so totally ludicrous to people? - How the greatest miracle is that we seem soli...
Ep 37: Embodied Mindfulness with Jamie McHugh
April 21, 2015 09:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBWhere are we teaching critical sensing skills (instead of just critical thinking skills)? What is true physical education? Are classical meditation forms incompatible with modern life and the modern mind? How do we use the expressive capacity of our bodies to connect as communities of humans?
Episode 36: Barbara Loomis: Uterine Wisdom
February 10, 2015 10:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBBarbara Loomis talks about the surprising symptoms that can spring from uterine malpositioning- urinary incontinence, constipation, fertility issues, and even knee pain with ovulation. We also talk about the normal movement of the uterus, what we can do to keep it in as happy a position as possible, and some of the cultural things that contribute to a malpositioned uterus. Additionally we talk about the risks of hysterectomies, and the controversies that spring up around whether or not women...
Episode 35: Dr. Stephen Levin: Biotensegrity
February 03, 2015 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBI am talking with Dr. Stephen Levin about what biotensegrity is, the many ways that we are not like skyscrapers, how the difference between the bicycle wheel and the wagon wheel can illustrate the concept of how we are “pre-stressed”, what viscoelasticity is, the shoulder as a sesamoid bone, some examples of the many tensegrity structures we can find in nature if we know what we’re looking for, what the ichosahedron has going for it and why we should care, and more!
Episode 34: Judith Aston: Our Relationship to our Bodies and Their Relationship to the World
January 27, 2015 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBI talk to somatic pioneer Judith Aston about the Aston Kinetics paradigm and how it integrates seamlessly with other paradigms like yoga, Pilates, and personal training, how seeing the body is taught in those disciplines and what seeing the body even means, our bodies not just as self-contained units but also about their interactions with the physical world, thoughts on the impact of product design on our bodies, what the early days of co-creating with Dr. Rolf and other pioneers was like...
Episode 33: Eyal Lederman: The Myth of Core Stability
January 20, 2015 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBDr. Eyal Lederman talks about his paper, The Myth of Core Stability. We get into the assumptions that were pulled out of the research which have lead to the core stability model, how dividing muscles into “core” and “global” groups is a reductionist fantasy, why the focus on the transversus abdominus is faulty, and the problems training for core stability can create.
Episode 32: Steve Gangemi: Raising the Bar for What “Healthy” Means
January 13, 2015 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBDr. Steve Gangemi, aka The Sock Doc, is a chiropractic physician and MovNat certified trainer who is merging functional neurology and nutritional biochemistry into mainstream natural healthcare. We talk about foot health as a gauge of a person’s overall health, the recent Vibrams 5 Fingers lawsuit, orthotics, the dangers of stretching, why you want to move your ass often but not quickly, long term effects of doing only high intensity workouts, and much more.
Episode 31: Gil Hedley: Exploring Inner Space
January 06, 2015 10:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBGil Hedley is an ethicist and anatomist who runs unique human dissection labsthat are much more about discovering the reality of our connectedness than about finding the separations between things. We talk about how our model of the body determines our relationship with it, the superficial fascia and what’s up with everyone ignoring it?, different tissue layers as different antennea of the body, insights into the famous “fuzz speech” and more.
Episode 30: Carolyn McMakin: The Resonance of Repair
December 23, 2014 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBDr. Carolyn McMakin talks about Frequency Specific Microcurrent, our bodies as electromagnetic systems, the history of electromagnetic medicine, and the dramatic results of Frequency Specific Microcurrent on a diverse range of things from inflammation to shingles. As an expert in Fibromyalgia and chronic pain syndromes she also talks about the range of causes of fibromyalgia, and how we must understand what prompted an individual to develop fibromyalgia in the first place if we ever hope ...
Episode 29: Amanda Joyce: Parkinson’s Disease and Movement as Powerful Medicine
December 16, 2014 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBAmanda Joyce talks about her work as a Parkinson’s Disease Movement Disorder Specialist. We get into how powerful movement can be, even in progressive disease processes, and Amanda also talks about her own journey with scleroderma.
Episode 28: Mary Bond: Posture is an Exploration
December 09, 2014 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBMary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture, talks about how and why the word “posture” is problematic, how poor posture becomes chronic, what muscular armoring is and how it interferes with our functioning, the distinction between support and stabilization, the relationship between facial and spinal tension, and what it means to be a tongue gripper and how that affects people.
Episode 27: Michol Dalcourt: What Training the Whole Body Really Means
December 02, 2014 10:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBMichol Dalcourt is the director of the Institute of Motion. He and I talk about what “farm kid fit” means and why it matters, how are we are upright if our bones don’t touch?, how fascia moves the body- not just muscles- our body as a fluid organism and why we need to pay attention to its fluid dynamics, tensegrity! (one of my favorite subjects...), what he means when he says the body is a lever-less system and other concepts in the “new” biomechanics, why we need to zoom out and not just f...
Episode 26: Self-Care, Movement Scavenger Hunt, Holiday Giveaway Spectacular!
November 25, 2014 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBThis being the week of Thanksgiving in the US, I am talking about Liberated Body’s self-care, movement scavenger hunt, holiday giveaway spectacular which kicks off on the facebook group (www.facebook.com/liberatedbody) on Friday the 28th. For 9 days I am giving away my favorite self-care gifts for 2014. Each day we will have a different movement to “find” as many times as possible throughout our day, and whoever uploads the best photo or video will win the self-care goodies of the day! In th...
Episode 25: Todd Hargrove: Pain Science and How to be a Happy Mover
November 18, 2014 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBTodd Hargrove is talking about what happy movers have in common, how learning better movement is more like sculpture than painting, the feather-ruffling information that posture does not predict pain levels- and how posture still matters and why. We also dig into motor control, cortical maps, the neuromatrix model, and all kinds of wild things about how perceptual tricks affect our brain and our perception of our body which gets us asking, “What is pain really?”. Of course we also discuss wh...
Episode 24: Jill Miller: The Roll Model
November 11, 2014 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBI talk with Jill Miller, co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the corrective exercise formats Yoga Tune Up and The Roll Model Method about her recent book by the same name (The Roll Model), the current pain epidemic in our culture, why self-care is health care, the difference between good pain and bad pain, and what it takes to remodel your “fascia suit”. We also talk about many of the profound and touching stories of people who recovered themselves through this method, ...
Episode 23: Gary Ward: What the Foot?
November 04, 2014 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBI’m talking with Gary Ward who is the founder of Anatomy in Motion, and the author of the book What the Foot?. He talks about how Anatomy in Motion is based on understanding how the body moves- or what the body does and when it does it, why change can happen in minutes instead of months, why Gary is not a fan of stretching, redefining “neutral” as “center”, how we need to learn how to have better posture in a subconscious way, what nobody-ever-moved-me-itis is, and of course, plenty about th...
Episode 22: Anne Tierney: Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching
October 28, 2014 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MBAnne Tierney and I talk about Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching,what the advantages are of this kind of eccentric training, why alleviating global imbalances is the name of the game, how all of this can lead to a pain-free life, the dangers of overstretching, and why the results of this kind of work are more lasting.
Episode 21: Sayonara Short Hamstrings
October 21, 2014 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThis episode includes outtakes from interviews I did with Jules Mitchell, Dr. Dawn McCrory, Jillian Nichols, and Rachel Bernsen for the Liberated Body Guide to Short Hamstrings. We get into the what and the why behind persistently unyielding hamstrings including why they feel like an emergency brake, how your nervous system is the limiter, why strength training is more effective than static stretching, what posture and alignment have to do with it, what some of the important things are to ru...
Episode 20: Katy Bowman: Move Your DNA
October 14, 2014 09:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBKaty Bowman, biomechanist and founder of Restorative Exercise talks with us about her most recent book. Move Your DNA. We get into what diseases of mechanotransduction are, the profound ways our environment shapes us, why exercise and movement are not synonymous, how cardio can be harmful in our sedentary times, and how we are animals who have put ourselves in our own cages. Plus much, much more.
Episode 19: Constance Clare-Newman: Alexander Technique
October 07, 2014 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBConstance Clare-Newman and I talk Alexander Technique, the difference between un-doing vs. doing (or relaxing into expansive support vs. propping oneself up), tensegrity concepts, the support relationships within our body, and (hey, why not!) what makes for good sex vs. “meh” sex.
Episode 18: Jonathan Fitzgordon: Psoas Release Party!
September 30, 2014 09:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBJonathan Fitzgordon, creator of the CoreWalking Method, talks about the uniqueness of the psoas muscle, how its connected to trauma and uprightness, and how and why to release it. He also gets into gait patterns, what the most common dysfunctional gait patterns are these days, and how changing your walk can actually resolve your pain and discomfort issues (and more). Last but not least we also get into one of my favorite topics- why we all need to stick our butts out more and what that me...
Episode 17: Bo Forbes: Mindfulness Expressed in the Body
September 23, 2014 09:00 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBBo Forbes, clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and integrative yoga therapist talks about what Integrative Yoga Therapy is, interoception, relaxing rather than corralling into expansion, why vinyasa and restorative yoga fit together on a continuum, and how using momentum when we get uncomfortable can get us onto some pretty slippery slopes.
Episode 16: Darryl Edwards: Primal Play
September 16, 2014 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBDarryl Edwards, founder of the Primal Play methodology and author of Paleo Fitness, talks about some of the research on inactivity, the subtle yet proliferating messages in our environment that warn us that movement might be dangerous, how his acronym PRIMALity spells out a thoughtful take on what our movement programs should address, and what a play-based lifestyle looks like.
Episode 15: Steve Haines: Body Maps and Interoception
September 09, 2014 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBSteve Haines talks about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, body maps and how they become strange or distorted, interoception and why there is more pain in areas that we have less interoception about- or are more poorly mapped, and the huge role the vagal nerve plays in our bodies and our sense of well-being.
Episode 14: Judith Hanson Lasater: The Power of Restoration
September 02, 2014 09:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBJudith Hanson Lasater talks about being one of BKS Iyengar’s first students and, especially in light of his recent passing, some of his teachings that have stayed with her the most through the years. We also discuss why she has become one of Restorative Yoga’s biggest proponents, what her take is on the explosion of yoga today and how it differs from the yoga she first studied, the how and the why of anger, anxiety, and depression being our most pervasive cultural issues, and, last but no...
Episode 13: David Weinstock: Neurokinetic Therapy and Motor Control Theory
August 26, 2014 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBDavid Weinstock, founder of Neurokinetic Therapy, talks about motor control theory, how we create healthy and dysfunctional patterns, what our scars can tell us about ourselves, how eye movements facilitate muscle movements throughout the body, and TMJD including the hips/pelvis/jaw connection.
Episode 12: Valerie Berg: Structural Aging At Any Age
August 19, 2014 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBPicture the standard old-person shuffle that we have come to assume is the norm. Why do we assume this is what happens to a body over time? What are the beginnings of these patterns and how can we catch them in their early stages? And, of course, how can we avoid them? Valerie Berg talks about the precursor signs, symptoms, and outcomes of structural aging, and how it can begin to happen at any age (and more and more is happening at young ages). We get into how a gradually increasing fear of...
Episode 11: Tom Myers: Mapping the Anatomy of Connection
August 12, 2014 09:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBTom Myers, founder of Anatomy Trains and Kinesis Myofascial Integration, talks about the history of Anatomy Trains and how he came to chart connections through the fascial fabric, where Newtonian biomechanics fall short, fascia as the 3rd big autoregulatory system, what Kinesthetic IQ is and why it matters, common misconceptions about fascia, and more. Phew! Lots of good stuff!
Episode 10: Matthew Lacoste: Journeying Through the History of Massage
August 05, 2014 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBwww.liberatedbody.com/matthew-lacoste-lbp-010 Matthew Lacoste of www.thetouchtrail.com talks about the epic journey that he is kicking off next month. He’ll be traveling the world following the history of massage. On a bike. That converts into a massage chair. Using massage as his primary currency. Wow! He’s sure to get an up close view into how massage affects many different kinds of people’s lives, as well as charting how touch has influenced society throughout history.
Episode 9: Jules Mitchell: The Science of Stretching
July 29, 2014 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBhttp://www.liberatedbody.com/jules-mitchell-lbp-009 I get a chance to talk with Jules Mitchell right after she turned in her Master’s thesis in the science of stretching. Jules’ work blends biomechanics with the tradition of yoga to help people move better, and while looking into the research on stretching she discovered some pretty eye-opening things! For example, the idea that we can persistently stretch a muscle and have it grow longer, it turns out, is not exactly true. We get into many...
Episode 8: Nancy DeLucrezia: How Bodies Change
July 22, 2014 09:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBNancy DeLucrezia, founder of Neuro-Structural Bodywork and of The Kali Institute, talks about the importance of connecting fascial release with neuro-muscular re-education, or how to address both the hardware and the software of our bodies. She also talks about breathwork and somato-emotional release, and her own process of becoming embodied and of healing.
Episode 7: Britt Johnson: Thriving From a Chronic Patient’s Perspective
July 15, 2014 09:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBBritt Johnson of The Hurt Blogger talks about life with autoimmune arthritis, how movement helped her to rehabilitate her body, her work to facilitate more patient-centered care as a bio-consultant and e-patient scholar, and her ambitious training to meet her mountaineering goal of one day climbing Denali.