Train your mind to not go chasing squirrels in this 30-minute sit, led by Emma Sartwell at Naropa University as part of their COVID-19 community offerings. This practice incorporates breathwork to settle the mind and body, and then about 15...

In this video, I walk you through filling the body with nonjudgmental, non-goal-oriented breath and awareness. This will dissolve blockages, allow for more flow in the body, and build the relationship between your mind and body.

Regulate your nervous system by attuning to the here and now. This brief exercise activates the social engagement system and the vagus nerve for greater calm, centeredness, and presence.

As mammals, we literally need touch for our health and sanity. Sadly, many of us in modern society feel touch-deprived.

Do you want to go deeper into your internal landscape? In this meditation, we explore five ways of understanding your experience, based on the Somatic Experiencing tool SIBAM: sensation, image, behavior, affect, and meaning. It will get you out of your head, closer to yourself, and allow new insights to arise. How was this practice for you? Let me know! Inner Channel Transcript Hi. This is Emma Sartwell with Somatic Spiritual Counseling, and this is going to be a SIBAM medit

This time of year can be tricky. With shorter, darker days in the Northern hemisphere, our mammalian bodies can trend toward hibernation...

Who does not love to be protected? Can you remember a time when someone stuck up for you in public?

This video with Dara explores the theme of how our environment and where we live affect and shape who we are, how we feel, what we think.

Romantic relationships can be hard. Like, really f’ing hard. And it can be so nice to have help given to us in the form of a succinct list.

If I were to boil down somatic work into just one simple and effective practice, this would be the one!

When things are changing or there’s a big transformation, it’s usually messy and it doesn’t look good. We often don't know what's happening.

The importance of healing not just our own wounds, but the ones of those who came before us . . . ultimately, they are one and the same.