Energy and Core Development - Walid Daw

The more we learn the more we develop

"How does your body block pleasure? Do you breathe fully and deeply? Does your body move freely? "

Why Do We Deny Ourselves Pleasure? | Goop The first step to understanding why we deny ourselves pleasure is unlocking that kind of openness is to understand what pleasure means in the first place.

"Naming it to tame it. Studies show that when people practice mindfulness and have mindfulness traits inside of them, when you put them in a scanner and show them emotionally evocative face, and lower area and the amygdala lights up, if they name the feeling accurately the whole system calms down. So the left hemisphere is very important for balancing excessively reactive right and sub-cortical area."

Dr. Dan Siegel- On Integrating the Two Hemispheres of Our Brains Why is it so important to "integrate" our emotional right brain with our logical left brain? Learn how understanding our brains can help us develop ourselves...

Listen to Alanis Morrisette's precious effort in starting a wider conversation on the topics of trauma, creativity, emotional regulation and much more with Body psychotherapist Dr. Peter Levine.

Episode 8 - Conversation with Alanis Morissette & Dr. Peter Levine In this podcast Alanis talks with Dr. Peter Levine about stress and trauma recovery, resilience, Somatic Experiencing, and more. Subscribe on iTunes: http://...

The importance of transcending our character structures...
"Some commentators have even suggested that capitalism itself, as a way of being or way of thinking about the world, might be seen as a rather ‘psychopathic’ or pathological system...But surely stock-market psychopaths can’t be as bad as serial-killer psychopaths?’ the interviewer asks Robert Hare. ‘”Serial killers ruin families,” shrugged Bob. “Corporate and political … psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.”‘

A mad world: capitalism and the rise of mental illness What if it's not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?

“We have been given the ancestors’ teachings and the feelings and the spirit. We can do a couple of things with that. We can say that what we know is inadequate and that we’re not Indian enough and that we don’t know enough about it or we don’t want to pass it on. And we hold our breath and our people stop. Or you can nourish that breath. You can breathe in even deeper the knowledge of others and understand it at a deep level and then breathe it forward. That’s the breath of life,” Blackstock said.

Maslow’s hierarchy connected to Blackfoot beliefs I first heard of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in an advertising course I took in college many years ago. I remember looking at the pyramid and its five layers – with basic needs at the bottom and “s…

"Only by consciously grounding ourselves to the earth's energies can we connect safely, effectively with the heavens and live in real wholeness" Dennis Lewis

Core Development Grounding Bodywork Sequence Student therapists of Core Development training program working with Dr. Walid Daw in a grounding bodywork sequence .