From Mindfulness To Bodyfulness With Christine Caldwell

What if the most radical thing you can do for your life and relationships is to feel your body right now? In this episode, we’re joined by somatic psychotherapist and movement pioneer Christine Caldwell to explore bodyfulness, the embodied counterpart to mindfulness, and why attention belongs in sensation, not just thought.

Christine shares how her work integrating dance therapy, body psychotherapy, and Buddhist practice led to founding the Somatic Counselling program at Naropa University. We explore how culture trains disconnection, how language reinforces the mind body split, and how returning to direct experience changes the way we act. She introduces the Moving Cycle of awareness, integration, and natural action, along with a simple practice she calls breathe, move, sense. We also touch on the influence of Thich Nhat Hanh and her book Conscious Moving.

If mindfulness has felt incomplete, this episode offers a grounded path back to your own skin. If it resonates, subscribe, share, and leave a review.

In this episode:

• 0:00 Welcome and Meet Christine
• 4:10 I Am My Body, Not In It
• 8:23 Synthesising Dance, Bodywork, And Psychology
• 12:59 Why Fields Became Siloed
• 17:43 Defining Bodyfulness Beyond Prescriptions
• 23:46 Technology, Consumerism, And Disembodiment
• 28:59 The Moving Cycle: Origins And Phases
• 33:51 Physical Free Association In Practice
• 38:40 Buddhism, Attention, And Everyday Practice
• 43:44 Enlightened Body And Sensorimotor Loop
• 47:55 A Doorway: Breathe, Move, Sense

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