Helpful Videos/Podcasts

Longer videos & podcasts to take a deeper dive into the connection between physical & emotional health, as well as cultural & societal issues:

• Kathy Kain

  • Under the Influence of Survival Physiology

• Basics on understanding the nervous system

  • Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective

• Prentis Hemphill

  • Prentis Hemphill discusses "What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World”

• Gabor Mate

  • How Society Leads Us Down A Path Of Trauma

  • When the Body Says No

• Peter Levine

  • Introduction to Somatic Experiencing

  • Learn More about SE at traumahealing.org

• Francine Kelley

  • Trauma and Healing for Physicians

• Howard Schubiner

  • Your Brain Can Keep You Sick: How to Break Free

Free Meditation Apps (audio only)

• Insight Timer

• Plum Village

• Link with Meditations

Free Audio Recording from Colorodo Energy School

• “The Body-Low-Slow-Loop is a safe and effective way to gently reduce autonomic nervous system dysfunction, particularly the sympathetic stress response known as fight or flight.”

• “This meditation helps practicing pendulating attention between resource and challenge, countering the tendency of trauma and difficulty to fixate on difficult sensations. It is especially helpful for building presence to be with difficult physical and emotional sensations.”