Episode 24: Untangling the meaning of pain as a doorway to reach into yourself more fully - with Peter Blackaby.

Hello and welcome to The Breathing Body Podcast - My name is Flurina and I am your host, and I am so happy that you are here. 

Today's episode invites you to listen to Pete`s journey away from structure and alignment into sensation and movement - and how this transition shaped his lens through which he approaches the concept of pain and chronic pain in particular. 

This conversation is for YOU if you would like to explore how you can start to untangle the meaning of both physical and emotional pain and how the experience of pain can be a doorway to meet yourself and `to reach into yourself more fully`.

About Pete:

Peter is an UK based Osteopath and yoga teacher, both teaching regular classes and workshops and training various movement practitioners. His approach is so unique as you will find out in this episode and also influenced strongly by the work of Vanda Scaravelli. Pete continues to explore ways to make yoga accessible and relevant to practitioners in the 21st Century. Over the last fifteen years he has contributed to various teacher training courses both in the UK and abroad, but his central interest has been the development of his humanistic yoga courses which aims to understand yoga from modern understandings of neurology, psychology and biomechanics. He is the author of the book called "Intelligent Yoga" in which he describes his humanistic approach to yoga, firmly rooted in the here and now and underpinned by scientific research. In this second edition, he seeks to distance himself further from the biomechanical view of the body, revealing instead his more integrative perspective, focused on the neurological basis for movement and on the relationships between things. Rather than approaching yoga as an exercise system, it is seen here as a tool for self-exploration and as we explored in tis conversation as a tool to increase the accuracy of our perception - maybe the most important tool we can ever engage with? 

In this conversation we talked about: 

✨ The illusion of our tendency to separate body and mind - especially in relation to pain

✨ How understanding pain invites us to learn to think biologically and what this means

✨ Role of movement in experience of pain and healing - what if feeling arises from bodily changes?

✨ How yoga can be a practice to increase the accuracy of your perception and its role in (chronic) pain 

✨ What practice you can do to embark in this process, grow your sensory vocabulary and create space to heal 

This is how you can connect with Peter Blackaby:

• Visit his webpage: www.peterblackaby.co.uk

I hope you enjoy this episode and I am looking forward reading your thoughts and comments.