Embodied meditation: Focus on body sensation
How we use meditation to practice being more in a sensing mode, i.e., directing our attention to sensations as opposed to thoughts.
Podcast
This page shows all episodes of the Active Pause podcast in chronological order (most recent on top).
You can see also separately:
– Conversations about mindfulness
– Conversations about life: “what sustains me”
– Conversations about therapy
– Conversations about engaging with society
– Short Talks
You can also see an Alphabetical list of all conversations
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Leslie Ellis & Serge Prengel: Active Imagination
I invited my friend and colleague Leslie Ellis tohave a conversation about Active Imagination in therapy and in life.
Peter Levine reflects on his life and work
Peter Levine talks with Serge Prengel about his personal journey through trauma and how he came to develop Somatic Experiencing.
How to practice embodied meditation
What does it mean to pay attention to our body? A lot opens up when we bring our awareness to the silent, invisible parts.
Pablo Márquez: Photography as a meditative process
Serge Prengel talks with photographer Pablo Márquez about his meditative approach to photography. Pablo describes how his art emerges from his being present.
Linda Modaro & Nelly Kaufer: Reflective Meditation
Serge Prengel talks with Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer about their gentle, inspiring approach to meditation practice and self-discovery.
Raja Selvam: Embodying emotions
Serge Prengel talks with Raja Selvam about developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.
Seth Zuihō Segall: In praise of Pluralism
Serge Prengel talks with Seth Zuihō Segall about his journey, making sense of life through the practice of psychology, Buddhism, and philosophy.
Maia Szalavitz: An inspiring perspective on addiction
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.
Kirk Schneider: Life-enhancing anxiety
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.
Polyvagal-informed mindfulness: Serge Prengel & Blake O’Connor
How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O’Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.
Elizabeth English: Gentle mindfulness
We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.
Noga Arikha: The embodied mind
Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.
A mindful take on spirituality & philosophy
We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.
Bruce Gibbs: Finding the right distance from our experience
We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience.
Ken Benau: Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma
This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma
An experiential inquiry into the nature of inquiry
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.
Lawrence Berger: A quest for meaning
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: Fierce Love
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: How psychotherapy works
Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.