EP 191: Soul Work and Source Regulation Through the Fluid Nervous System with Katie Dove
07/10/23 • 47 min
In this episode, Katie and Kimberly discuss their evolving relationship to trauma and spiritual work. After serving clients one-on-one for over 20 years, they consider the importance of community and creativity to healing. In the wake of so many people sharing their trauma stories online, they consider the tools we need for spiritual fortification to find resolution. They introduce Katie’s upcoming 4-week course “Source Regulation: Connect to Source Energy through Your Fluid Nervous System,” which begins July 12th.
Bio
Katie Dove is a somatic therapist, intuitive guide, healer, and mystic with over two decades of experience working with individuals and groups. She is a keeper of ancient wisdom, exploring new paths for the preservation of human nature through connection to mother nature. Her methods weave a mixture of experiences she has collected over time, modalities she has personally cultivated, and extensive studies in transpersonal psychology and craniosacral therapy. With exploration in voice, touch, sound and movement, she guides her clients and students to investigate habits, freedom of choice, expressiveness, and the wealth of sensory information within and around them. Her upcoming course “Inhabit the Heart” is a four week journey into deep relationship with self and soul.
What You’ll Hear
—Combining Trauma and the Spiritual Path
—Healing and Trauma Re-negotiation
—From Trauma Therapist to Resilience Coach to a Release of All Titles
—Beyond Individual Repair:
—Repairing the Continuum of Self, Soul And Source
—Sharing your trauma on Social Media and then what? —The value of short, sweet, simple ceremonies
—Seeing people who have experienced trauma in their wholeness
—How sexual boundary rupture differs from other kinds of trauma
—The conflation of worth and virginity
—The connection between rupture and creation
—Psyche vs. Soul
—The value of Source Regulation and Regeneration through the fluid system
—The power of spiritual assistance and fortification in trauma repair
Website
https://www.katiedove.love/source-regulation
IG: @divineportals
In this episode, Katie and Kimberly discuss their evolving relationship to trauma and spiritual work. After serving clients one-on-one for over 20 years, they consider the importance of community and creativity to healing. In the wake of so many people sharing their trauma stories online, they consider the tools we need for spiritual fortification to find resolution. They introduce Katie’s upcoming 4-week course “Source Regulation: Connect to Source Energy through Your Fluid Nervous System,” which begins July 12th.
Bio
Katie Dove is a somatic therapist, intuitive guide, healer, and mystic with over two decades of experience working with individuals and groups. She is a keeper of ancient wisdom, exploring new paths for the preservation of human nature through connection to mother nature. Her methods weave a mixture of experiences she has collected over time, modalities she has personally cultivated, and extensive studies in transpersonal psychology and craniosacral therapy. With exploration in voice, touch, sound and movement, she guides her clients and students to investigate habits, freedom of choice, expressiveness, and the wealth of sensory information within and around them. Her upcoming course “Inhabit the Heart” is a four week journey into deep relationship with self and soul.
What You’ll Hear
—Combining Trauma and the Spiritual Path
—Healing and Trauma Re-negotiation
—From Trauma Therapist to Resilience Coach to a Release of All Titles
—Beyond Individual Repair:
—Repairing the Continuum of Self, Soul And Source
—Sharing your trauma on Social Media and then what? —The value of short, sweet, simple ceremonies
—Seeing people who have experienced trauma in their wholeness
—How sexual boundary rupture differs from other kinds of trauma
—The conflation of worth and virginity
—The connection between rupture and creation
—Psyche vs. Soul
—The value of Source Regulation and Regeneration through the fluid system
—The power of spiritual assistance and fortification in trauma repair
Website
https://www.katiedove.love/source-regulation
IG: @divineportals
Previous Episode
EP 190: Rethinking Ethical Sex in the Age of Consent with Christine Emba
In this episode, Christine and Kimberly discuss contemporary relationships to consent and ask what is ethical sex? They consider the complexities of sex positivity, navigating sexual conversations with your children, as well as coming to terms with what we want and what we owe each other.
Bio
Christine Emba is the author of “Rethinking Sex: A Provocation,” as well as an opinion columnist for the Washington Post focusing on "ideas and society.”
What you’ll hear:
–In a sex positive culture why are people still having bad, unwanted sex?
–Where is our sexual culture in this moment?
–Is consent a high enough bar?
–Are your politics making your sex better?
–The value of “willing the good onto the other
–How has our sexual and romantic culture changed over time?
–Developing trust with someone.
–What do you want from a sexual encounter?
–Parenting in the age of cell phones, accessible cannabis, and internet porn
–The value of boundaries in parenting
–The way we talk about parenting girls
–The crisis of masculinity with a lack of rites and role models
–The pitfalls of gentle parenting
–The intersection of dating apps and corporate interests
–The value of making healthy, moral judgements
–The pendulum swing of normalized kink
–What we want and what we owe each other
Next Episode
EP 192: Yoga + Abuse, The Fierceness of Crones, and Yoga Practices for Intuition with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
Summary
In this episode, Kimberly and Uma discuss the controversial updated edition of her book “Yoni Shakti” which Kimberly has used all throughout her writing and classes. Uma describes the legal battle she faced from the yoga industry when she wrote about all kinds of abuses happening in certain yoga schools. They discuss how yoga technologies which stabilize and help us understand our nervous systems have been co-opted by commercialization, creating much harm for practitioners, and taking away our intuition. They share how perimenopausal and menopausal women have a role to play in speaking out against systems of oppression and abuse as well as how intergenerational circles can enable all of us to make change against failing systems and create liberation for all.
Bio
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD is a yoga therapist, yoga teacher trainer and retreat leader with special expertise in women's health, including birth, pre-and post-natal yoga, and yoga for positive menstrual health and fertility. She works internationally, sharing yoga retreats, trainings and empowerments that support the natural arising of prana shakti: the power of life. She trains specialist teachers in Total Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy for menstrual and menopausal health, pregnancy, birth, and postnatal recovery. She is co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network and has developed Total Yoga Nidra, Wild Nidra, Yoni Nidra and Nidra Shakti: radical creative and intuitive approaches to sharing yoga nidra. You can follow Uma’s writings and offerings on her website linked below.
What She Shares:
–The cancel campaign against “Yoni Shakti”
–Revealing abuses in the yoga industrial complex
–Discernment, intuition, and nervous system technologies
–Power of crones speaking truth
–Yoga for liberation
What You’ll Hear:
–Cancel campaign against “Yoni Shakti”
–Revealing multiple abuses and investigations in yoga schools
–Censoring of yoga school abuses in first edition
–Uma sued for “defamation” of a guru already in investigation
–”Yoni Shakti” back in print
–Toxicity of the Yoga Industrial Complex
–Turning to yoga after sexual boundary ruptures
–Yoga technologies and nervous system repairs
–Politicizing and patriarchal overtaking of yoga
–Powerful birth initiations
–Discipline and discernment versus control
–Entering ethical arrangements with trust, agreement, and discernment
–Cultivating intuition and understanding nervous systems
–Eradicating individual intuition through prioritizing certain knowledge
–Moving beyond legality and consent as baselines for human interaction
–Educating potential yogis on abuses of power
–Yoga schools and structures not fit for purpose anymore
–Deciphering stressful events through perimenopause
–Navigating climacteric menopause
–Uncontrollable rage speaking on behalf of those without voices
–Role of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women to speak up
–Intergenerational groups of women
–Fierceness and integrity of crones
–Commercialized and colonized yoga trying to have maidens forever
–What are you willing to risk?
Resources
Website: https://umadinsmoretuli.com/
IG: @umadinsmoretuli
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