In the 15th episode of the LTSY Conversations Ivan is joined by Lisa Clark.

Lisa offers an embodied experience of yoga and movement. Her approach explores the many layers of our form, the deepening of consciousness through ongoing inquiry into the body, and embodiment as a pathway of liberation.

She is Program/Educational Director of the School For Body-Mind Centering® Yoga Immersion Series. She is one of the leading innovators of the integration of Yoga and Body-Mind Centering®, actively engaged in the teaching, training, and development of this form for over 40+ years. She began her studies of BMC® in 1984, and has worked directly with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen for over four decades.

Lisa is Co-Program Director of the BMC® Somatic Movement Educator Program in Taiwan. She is a certified Teacher/Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a registered International Somatic Movement Educator. Her workshops and advanced trainings have been taught internationally at studios in the United States, Europe, Taiwan, and China. Her online platform www.lisaclarkyoga.com offers live and recorded classes, in-depth workshops, and professional trainings.

Lisa's website:

https://www.lisaclarkyoga.com/

In the 14th episode of the LTSY Conversations Ivan is joined by Marina Tsartsara, in a conversation about the connection of arts and somatics, and how it reflects to our wellbeing.

Marina is a Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA Registered), Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, co-director of ISTOS (Official BMC® training in Greece and Greek Cyprous), a Dance & Visual Artist (MSc). The interdisciplinary nature of her practice led her to create the methodology of Somatic Art Practice®. She has performed and taught internationally since 2007.

Everything is VIBRATION. An emanating essence leaving its imprint in space. A drone tone radiating and modulating, touching other vibrations, making infinite varieties of creation. Frequencies making love. Creation is vibration. Sound and movement. Alive and palpable. Ranging from the finest, subtlest and rarefied, to the densest, condensed into matter. What is your drone? What is your essential tone? The imprint of your soul? A specific code pertaining only to you, born directly of the Source? I dive into the ocean of my vibrations and explore them, get to know them intimately, sort them out, befriend them, melt them, modulate them and tune them. Cultivating my music and my imprint. Allowing my Soul sound to take the lead and compose my true freedom. Embracing my Heart and deeply listening to it’s quiet and gentle hum.

This is a somatization from the session 14 of the Living Body Series (July 28th, 2024). The topic was Lymph, Lymphatic (Immune) System. We were exploring the fluid of lymph, how it flows through the body, from the interstitial fluid around the cells (our inner sea), all the way to the neck area of subclavian veins where it enters the bloodstream and the heart. Exploring specific directionality and quality of lymph. Looking for fluidity of lymph and the lymph nodes. A big thank you to all the participants. What is a somatization? Somatization is form of guided meditation through which we direct our consciousness into our living body-mind and the myriad of processes that exist inside of us.

This is a somatization from the session 13 of the Living Body Series (July 21st, 2024). The topic was Embracing - Rooting - Balancing - Connecting. We started the exploration by becoming aware of our body and personal energetic space. Then we were playing with the Embrace Reflex (Moro), the reflex of opening our arms/body/perception to embrace the world, and its polarity of embracing ourselves, tapping into self-love and acceptance in the process. Establishing the central axis in the process and putting special focus on rooting deep into the ground. Feeling our heart and our arms embracing the world and ourselves as a continuation of our heart. Then we put focus on the pelvis and feeling the organ of uterus (which can be done in a male body as well). After that we played with establishing connections between brain, heart and uterus (pelvis), feeling these three points, connecting them and balancing them. Ending the exploration with feeling the connection with the living planet we are a part of. A big thank you to all the participants. What is a somatization? Somatization is form of guided meditation through which we direct our consciousness into our living body-mind and the myriad of processes that exist inside of us.

This is a somatization from the session 12 of the Living Body Series (July 14th, 2024). The topic was Endocrine Glands as Connection of Heaven and Earth. We were exploring endocrine glands from the Body-Mind Centering perspective, from the lower ones in the pelvis, all the way to the glands of the head. We were using sounding to activate the vibration of the glands (unfortunately, this hasn't been captured in the recording as it should have been, but the idea is that you yourself try releasing your voice from these structures). We explored how the glands (and other structures with the glandular mind) enliven our tissues, provide lightness of movement, influence our perception, and serve as a form of central channel connecting us to Heaven and Earth. Glandular pyramid explored in this somatization: Perineal Body - Coccygeal Body - Gonads - Adrenals - Pancreas - Heart-Body - Thymus - Thyroid - Pineal - Pituitary. A big thank you to all the participants. What is a somatization? Somatization is form of guided meditation through which we direct our consciousness into our living body-mind and the myriad of processes that exist inside of us.

This is a somatization from the session 11 of the Living Body Series (June 23rd, 2024). The topic was Support of Space & Skeletal System. We were exploring the support of Space (external & internal), how we can move through Space, but also how Space can move us. Releasing the weight into the ground, and establishing the support of the Skeletal system as our basic bodily architecture through which the weight pours towards the Earth. Becoming aware of the fluidity of the bones and the joints for more lightness. Differentiating the central axis and the periphery (limbs). Initiating movement with different parts of hands (claw & blade) and feet (ankle-foot & heel-foot). Allowing the contents of the skeletal container to soften. A big thank you to all the participants. What is a somatization? Somatization is form of guided meditation through which we direct our consciousness into our living body-mind and the myriad of processes that exist inside of us.

This is a somatization from the session 10 of the Living Body Series (June 16th, 2024). The topic was Receiving (Deep listening) & Giving/sharing. We explored our brain as an organ, and then went into the nervous system, opening the back of our brain and the spinal cord, practicing how to receive incoming impulses from outside and inside of our body into that area and deeply listen (exploring sensory nerves which go into the back of the spinal cord). Then how to give back (motor out) through the front of the nervous system. One important element of the exploration was going into cellular consciousness, and deeper into subcellular level to experience the wonder of our mitochondria.A big thank you to all the participants. What is a somatization? Somatization is form of guided meditation through which we direct our consciousness into our living body-mind and the myriad of processes that exist inside of us.