In this conversation, Stephanie Romero speaks with Allie Greene about the healing power of mindfulness, somatic therapy, and coming home to the body. Allie shares how her background as a professional dancer, along with her own experience with anxiety and disconnection, led her toward body-based practices that help people regulate their nervous systems and reconnect with themselves. Together, they explore how trauma can show up as busyness, shutdown, disembodiment, or discomfort with stillness, and why meditation and movement are not one-size-fits-all practices. The conversation also broadens into the cultural and collective dimensions of healing, naming somatics as a path toward right relationship with ourselves, others, the earth, and the larger work of liberation.

Resources:

• The Politics of Trauma, Staci Haines
• Lisa Clark Body-Mind Centering
• Body-Mind Centering
• Alexander Technique
• Feldenkrais Method
• Otto Scharmer's Theory U
• Arayana Hayashi's Social Presencing Theater

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Music: Weather Any Storm by Cody Francis and Forever and A Day by Kim Aspen (canva.com)

Produced by Say Some Thing Studios, a creative media division of Elevate 1 Consulting.

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Music: "Chill Mode" by Audiobinger from the free music archive. This work is openly licensed via CC BY 4.0.