The Body Awake is a show for people interested in health and the human body, in a conversation beyond "body as machine." It's about what we're made of, how we move, how illness, injury and healing happen, and what we can do with that information to live better lives.
It is, ideally, embodied wisdom to be applied — lived — here and now.
The show rests on a few guiding principles:
How we do something is just as important, if not sometimes more, than what we're doing.
Most systems out there have merit; it's a matter of increasing our body intelligence to use well the information available.We as human beings have an innate capacity to self-heal. That may or may not be the end of the conversation, but it's a starting point.
Information is meant to be applied. This show's primary value is not in knowledge for knowledge's sake, but in the living, n = 1 experiment that is your life.
Our physical bodies and non-physical experiences tend to be deeply interconnected.
Our bodies are inextricibly linked with all that is "not us" too: with the air, the plants and animals, rocks and rivers, and certainly each other.
and your host ...
Hi, I'm Liam. I consider myself somewhat a somatic philosopher, often and nearly always interested in the source of experience, the headwaters of whatever river we’re talking about. I prize my role as a father above any other, and love long walks and time in the wilderness whenever I can.
I have a bodywork practice, and sometimes teach this material, at my home in Bellingham, WA.
I love sharing music. You can find some public playlists of what I’m listening to on my Spotify listener page. I also play music. You can find a few old recordings of mine on my Spotify artist page, get a physical CD here, or listen here for a few more recordings.