Slowness and Stillness: Michael Shea and Dawson Church in Conversation

Dr. Michael J. Shea is an expert in the fields of somatic psychology and craniosacral therapy. He holds a doctorate in Somatic Psychology at The Union Institute and leads seminars in the US and Europe. He is a formal student of the Dalai Lama, and for 10 years apprenticed with a medicine man named John Nelson on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. He is the author of a series of books on biodynamic craniosacral therapy.

Here he and Dawson talk about:

• 93% of Americans have an unhealthy heart
• 88% of Americans have metabolic disruption
• History of PTSD and obesity linked to being a Vietnam-era veteran
• If you have metabolic dysfunction, what is the first thing you do?
• How to read the labels and notice ingredients
• Manage your kitchen; learn to cook consciously
• The kitchen is the new ER
• Interoceptive awareness, noticing sensations in body, sensing your heartbeat
• The embodiment of the senses
• The polarization in the culture cuts us off from our bodies
• Visceroception - new word for the perception of when we’re hungry
• Benefits of becoming aware of your heartbeat
• When do you need physical adjustment like massage, chiropractic?
• How our bodies know how to heal
• The importance of prayer, poetry, song, calming the mind

For more about Dr. Michael J. Shea: https://www.sheaheart.com/

For more about Dr. Dawson Church: http://www.dawsongift.com/ 

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