Emotional Release Toolkit with Hana Rakshani, Somatic Movement Artist

Feb 2

Hana Rakshani is a Somatic Movement Artist who facilitates Contact Improvisation workshops in Ashville, North Carolina. Elena and Hana discuss how emotional release can come through tuning deeply into our organs and voices by way of curiously noticing. Hana shares her top tools for navigating tracking emotion in the body and how to release it somatically. A juicy conversation indeed!

We discuss:

How do we notice emotion within the body somatically
Witnessing sensation with body scan & body scan
Interoception: sensing the internal state of the body
Tuning into our organs where emotions are held
Yoga practice as a way into practicing somatics
Embodied self-meeting in Play
Holding intention within the body, meeting awareness
Body-Mind Centering - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Single cellular organisms - how they are divinely intelligent and inform movement
Starfish consciousness
Tuning into the pelvic floor to open the voice & face
Navigating releasing the voice
Using visualization to come into the voice
Resonant movement patterns to begin vocalization
Entering a trance like state to come into sound
Hana's recommendations for moments of emotional overwhelm
Exhaling to the tune of a HUM
Tapping - Emotional Freedom Technique
Jiggling/bouncing/shaking to wake up the proprioceptive system