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Understanding Your Vagal Tone

11 Jul, 2023

Understanding Your Vagal Tone

The Vagus nerve provides a bidirectional pathway connecting the gut-brain axis and is a powerful reiteration of how the bodymind is an integrated system.

Better Communication = Enhanced relationships

23 May, 2023

Better Communication = Enhanced relationships

There are conscious and unconscious levels of how we converse and interact; the more aware we are of how we comport, the better our relationships.

Understanding my Practice as Bhūta vidya

18 Nov, 2020

Understanding my Practice as Bhūta vidya

The blueprint of my psyche-therapeutic practice lies in my interest in the anthropology of consciousness. Initially, as a student of anthropology, I was very impressed with how pre-modern cultures and civilisations always looked at the meanderings of the stars to understand their destinies and observed the seasons of nature to heal their body-minds. Over time, the ancients came to delineate clear patterns in the sky and on the earth that spelled health and illness, fortune and misfortune.

Somatic Psychotherapy

09 Sep, 2019

Somatic Psychotherapy

Therapeutic interventions for anxiety, depression, anger management, mood disorders and the whole gamut of DSM 5 disorders, in essence, should be  multifaceted.  Since the human being is a complex process, psychotherapy is enjoined upon a deep inquiry into our fight and flight responses, our childhood history, our subconscious minds, our lifestyles, our diets, our social relationships,  our dreams, our movement patterns  and our energy levels. In short, to work with anxiety and depression or any DSM 5 disorder effectively, the therapist should take a holistic approach  that engages the subtle and gross aspects of the self.  So where would one start in this jungle?

Refinning mental health

13 Feb, 2019

Refinning mental health

Mental Health today is a very expansive concept and there are a plethora of ways to work with the mind ranging from psychotherapy to mantra meditation to herbs to mindfulness ,pranayama and yoga to exercise to nutrition to hypnosis to entheogens to reiki  to quantum healing  to dance therapy to sound therapy etc etc etc…. the list goes on.

Managing Intense Emotions with DBT

06 Nov, 2018

Managing Intense Emotions with DBT

Sometimes life feels very difficult, almost unbearable and we are left desolate and helpless. Dealing with the intensity of one’s emotions can be challenging and this might lead one to take extreme measures by over consuming alcohol and drugs, having a lot of...

Drives, archetypes and sub personalities

22 Nov, 2017

Drives, archetypes and sub personalities

As human beings seeking a therapeutic process we often believe that our cognitions and behaviours or the way we think and act in the world is what has been causing us disquiet. However, this is only part of the story – we are, unbeknownst, to us, informed by subtler subconscious processes that...

Psychotherapy and Counselling

07 Nov, 2017

Psychotherapy and Counselling

I am often asked about the difference between psychotherapy and counselling. While these words are used interchangeably, there is a difference between them and it is vital to be cognizant of the distinction.

Working with Depression in the Body

26 Aug, 2017

Working with Depression in the Body

Part of being human is to experience difficult emotions such as sadness, depression, anxiety, frustration, disappointment etc. Yet these emotions do not make us feel “good” and so we have an unconscious tendency of not wanting to feel whatever we are feeling...

Depression

29 Dec, 2014

Depression

Our lives are colored by numerous textures of feeling ranging from deep joy to being down in the dumps with many shades of grey in between. It is but natural to feel sad at the death of a loved one, or to be melancholic to be leaving a familiar place or to be upset when we have disagreements with people or get laid off from work...