Body Intelligence Blog

Podcast: Interview with Jane Shaw on Creating Safety

  Click here to listen to the interview:   Jane Shaw and Steve Haines 2015-07-09 Jane is a senior tutor on Body Intelligence Trainings, organises the Breath of Life conference, runs a busy cranial practice in Northern Ireland and is...

The Old Parts of the Brain are Fast but Dumb

Above is a great audio clip on how the old parts of the brain can govern behaviour.  The clip is from a talk by Dave Asprey. I am never entirely sure about many bio hacking claims, but this is a novel way of explaining the triune b...

How To Change Fear Memories

Our body’s emergency control centre – the amygdala. The amygdala, a pair of almond-shaped structures on the left and right of the brain’s medial temporal lobe, is particularly involved in emotional memories like fear, but also ...

Pain and Suffering: Is There a Difference?

This is a great story of how extreme the body can be in prioritising threat. Pain has a geography in the body. Suffering is a bigger category and existential?  This is tricky territory, hence the question mark.1 My view is that in pai...

Bodymaps are distorted in chronic pain

The video below is another wonderful development of how pain works. There is a revolution in how researchers are framing pain over the last few years. As teachers in the cranial community we are trying hard to catch up. We have changed our es...

Fabulous video of animals dissociating and then waking up

Body awareness 'cuts pain'

Self touch improves the picture of our body in the brain and reduces the experience of pain (Results from new study in Current Biology) Below is a link to a really interesting article on how representation of the body affects the experience of pa...

Stephen Porges Interview

Really good interview with stephen porges.........

'That which does not kill us makes us stronger'

'Ginsberg (1974) immobilized chicks, and then allowed one group to recover spontaneously, and one to recover, but with prodding and stimuli to terminate the freeze. These groups, along with a third group of chicks that had not been immobilized, w...

Mouse coming out of the freeze response

Like the snake video, the above video captures some essential elements of hardwired trauma responses. Notice how stiff the mouse is at the start of the video. I am increasingly appreciating how stiffness is a good early sign of immobilisation. ...