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#635 The Brain/Gut Connection - Dr Will Cole

Mental Illness Happy Hour

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The Importance of Somatic Practices

Somatic is just a term that really describes the body it's and somatic practices are one tool on the feeling side of that gut feeling sort of duality of healing. Things like tai chi dancing drumming body tapping have been shown in the research to be good at cathartically clearing that stuff out would you include emdr in that yes yeah very much so and it's something that i explore in the book but yeah we'd be considered as somatic as you're actually moving the body and clearing things outYeah i had a really powerful emdr session years ago and the next time i went to play hockey i felt ten years younger it felt more like my body had been rusty and

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