Embodied Emotions: New Pathways to Freedom

Episode 22, Series 2: "Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.”

Featuring: Eve Ekman, Bessel van der Kolk, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich

Presenters and hosts delve into trauma and emotions and how the body keeps score by affecting the very perception through which an individual meets life. The panel presented differing understandings on how trauma can be healed and why.

Eve Ekman draws from her work on a Dalai Lama-supported project to increase emotion awareness through an online Atlas of Emotions and her recent research on the meditation practice of working with difficult emotions: Feeding Your Demons. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, brings poignant insight into the impact of emotions and how the body keeps score of them. One particular topic of interest is the use of psychedelics, specifically MDMA, and how this effective treatment must be presented in sacred space and not abused.