"Too often we have the industrialized, mechanical model applied to a body. It's too reductive for something that's really a streaming ..."

We're so blessed to have Susan Harper as our guest for this episode. I met Susan several years ago as her student in a weekend workshop, and was very affected by the material, and so impressed with her as a facilitator.

I've been wanting to have this conversation for a long time.

We talk about ...

- "functional" beyond human function

- some "how to" instruction on helping yourself and others open up perceptual possibilities in movement, bodywork or any kind of dedicated awareness

- the beauty and potential of vibrant language

- the body as a summation of trillions of tiny verbs, of processes

... and more :)

Enjoy!

SHOW NOTE

Susan's website: Continuum Montage

An anatomy lesson with an immediate application, if you want to look for it, around earlier / deeper barriers.

We look briefly at the 3 primary embryological layers and their respective tissues and functions, some of the anatomical layering of the body, and from there how we can work with that information, especially for those wanting to know their bodies in a deeper way.

I mean that both energetically, but also just in a straight up anatomical sense.

We cover:

- layers of all-pervasive anatomical tissue

- layers of the "energetic body" (present in different traditions in different ways)

- a brief tour of embryological development, how those processes express in the adult body, and correlations to ayurveda's map of the doshas

- what "fluid alignment" or "electrical alignment" might look like

- plus some updates of what's up and coming with Embodied Anatomy

CORRECTION: at 8:30 I mention the 3 layers covering the brain and spinal cord — dura mater, meninges and pia mater. I misspoke and said they are collectively called the dura. They are collectively called the meninges. (And only the dura mater is called the dura for short.)

SHOW NOTES

The "First Barrier Yoga" video: https://youtu.be/hLN3N1iZHK0

Radiolab: search for "The Primitive Streak"