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Peter Levine talks with Serge Prengel about his personal journey through trauma and how he came to develop Somatic Experiencing.

What does it mean to pay attention to our body? A lot opens up when we bring our awareness to the silent, invisible parts.

Serge Prengel talks with photographer Pablo Márquez about his meditative approach to photography. Pablo describes how his art emerges from his being present.

Serge Prengel talks with Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer about their gentle, inspiring approach to meditation practice and self-discovery.

Serge Prengel talks with Raja Selvam about developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.

Serge Prengel talks with Seth Zuihō Segall about his journey, making sense of life through the practice of psychology, Buddhism, and philosophy.

Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction. Conversation with Serge Prengel about her perspective on addiction.

We do our best to avoid anxiety, and in so doing, risk missing out on the best of the depth and mystery of existence. We also risk compounding the very anxiety we hoped to avoid and becoming destructive as a result.

How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O'Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.

We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.

Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.

We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.

We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience.

The Relational Implicit podcast is now located on the Active Pause website. Our focus is on redefining mindfulness based on trauma-informed therapy and the Polyvagal theory. This change reflects the experiential and intersubjective nature of what we do as therapists. We are not providing impersonal “treatment” to people we are observing as detached observers. We are […]

This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma

We share with you what we like about the notion of "inquiry," and to do so by giving you a flavor of what we mean by it.

We start this conversation from the perspective that human beings are self-interpreting animals, and go on to explore what gives us a sense of meaning.

Jacqui Lewis & Serge Prengel talk about bringing a quality of fierce love to our life, as a person and as an agent of change.

Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.

We talk about metaphors that Salvador Moreno-López uses to understand and orient interaction in psychotherapy and daily life.