#49 - Nervous System Mastery, with Jonny Miller

Christofer and nervous system specialist Jonny Miller speak about breath and bodywork in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Jonny's journey through grief and loss, emotional fluidity, why feeling deeply isn’t irrational, embracing anger, holotropic breathwork, polyvagal theory, breath repatterning, trauma as incomplete reflexes, somatic experiencing, TRE, IFS, and other related topics.

Jonny Miller is an emotional resilience researcher, host of the Curious Humans podcast and founder of Nervous System Mastery — a cohort based course for cultivating calm and agency over your internal state.

Nervous System Mastery: nsmastery.com
Curious Humans Podcast: curioushumans.com
Twitter: twitter.com/jonnym1ller

Episode with Ed on Breath Repatterning: https://podcast.curioushumans.com/episodes/the-birth-of-a-modality-repatterning-the-three-diaphragms-of-breathing-cultivating-nervous-system-regulation-with-ed-dangerfield

Timestamps:

(0:00) - Preamble and introduction

(8:23) - The beginning of Jonny’s journey

(14:40) - The tools to deal with tragedy

(21:11) - Thoughts on Joe Hudson’s work

(31:03) - Fully feeling your feelings

(38:30) - Breathwork and meditation 

(45:45) - Chris on his past trauma  

(52:31) - Explanation of polyvagal theory

(58:15) - Mouth-breathing, breathing patterns

(1:07:45) - Alan Watts and belly laughter

(1:11:40) - Somatic practices, TRE, and beyond

(1:20:24) - Diving in vs. Gradual change

(1:25:39) - Posture, breath, and Alexander Technique 

(1:35:05) - How the body keeps the score (of trauma)

(1:42:16) - Where the wider culture stands

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