Building Your Capacity For Intimacy Through Self-Connection with Dr. Don St. John

Free Your Soma with Aimee Takaya

Trauma, the little ones and the big ones cause disconnection within yourself. This effects your capacity for human connection. And the most direct way to increase it, is through somatic techniques that build back those connections. This allows for intimacy to be truly FELT. Don St. John has been building his capacity for self-connection for decades. After a very difficult childhood, he lived as a hungry ghost until he realized that something needed to shift and it needed to shift, within him. In this incredibly insightful and touching interview we explore -What is SOMA and what is somatic philoshophy? -What do Hanna Somatics and other somatic body-based practices offer? -How do we build healthy, connective bonds with others? -What are some of the ways culture challenges our self-connection? -Can intimacy and pleasure with your partner INCREASE with age? -Busting the myth of aging! And so much more! Dr. Don St John, a psychotherapist, teacher, author, and Mestre who has been immersed in the psychological, somatic, relational, and spiritual worlds for more than fifty years. Very early on in his educational career, Dr. St John realized that the “box” of traditional clinical psychology and psychiatry was too small to hold all the tools and concepts needed for his healing. He’s forever grateful he searched outside that box. Over time, he encountered not just tools and techniques, but different schools of thought, both novel and derived from wide-ranging sources. Decades of exploration led him to construct a view of healing, purpose and human potential that includes four essential and interrelated components: the Somatic (Body), the Psycho-Emotional, the Relational, and the Spiritual. He is the author of Healing the Wounds of Childhood and CultureAn Adventure of a Lifetime Connect with him on his website http://pathsofconnection.com/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-st-john-36636a55 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/don.s.john.90 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drdonstjohn --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aimee322/support