In this talk Dr. Syedullah sits with the archives of Black feminist practices of abolitionist homemaking, caretaking, and truancy in order to imagine freedom beyond the juridical binary of citizen versus captive. Dr. Syedullah will consider what Black fugitive orientations to freedom are born of dreams big enough to escape the hold of slavery and its afterlives. Thinking with Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, Harriet Jacobs and others, Dr. Syedullah considers what it means to stay fugitive, and stay in solidarity, even as the conditions of our liberation threaten to keep us apart.
This seminar will review polyvagal theory and its convergence with yoga therapy both in reference to a therapeutic framework and specific application. The seminar will be both didactic and experiential followed by time for a Q and A. The discussion will focus on the relationship of the neural pla...
In this interview, MindBody Studies Director Dr. Chris Walling, and MBT Editor Letonia Jones, MSW discuss the scholarship and interventional works of Dr. Tobin Shear and his colleague Dr. Regina Shands Stoltzfus as they outline their powerful course coming soon to Embodied Philosophy's Wisdom Sch...
Explore yoga postures as a basis for mind training, and notice ways in which the neural symmetry of hatha yoga provides a springboard for the non-dual experience known as samadhi. The heightened interoceptive awareness of the postures initiates introversion or “pratyahara,” automatically compell...