Take a Hit of This: Reducing Stress is a Lost Cause
Issue# 42 When you feel overwhelmed, anxious, depressed or lost, do you think about your life and start wondering, “How can I reduce my stress?” My work centers around stress, but not in helping people mitigate it. I help people flip the story and consider that reducing stress is a lost cause until we deal …
The Culture and Biology Of Stress and Rest
The inability to manage stress is on the rise. Stress negatively affects everyone: athletes, employees, soldiers, kids etc. So how do we improve our ability to manage stress? First, let’s understand what we mean by talking about the culture and biology of stress and rest. What Is the Culture and Biology Stress? Stress is our …
The Breathing Gear System™
When we think about the respiratory muscles, it is easy to overlook the complexity and nuance of their training. SH//FT’s Breathing Gear System was developed to encourage people to consider the training of our primary respiratory muscles through learning more about differential control of respiration rate (RR) and Tidal Volume/depth (VT), which is the volume …
But Your Life Is So Good | Emily Hightower
Issue #30 But your life is so good! When I get depressed I feel: Stuck Sludgy Pudgy Gross Unmotivated Ashamed I can feel this way and still be grateful for all that is going for me in life. If I tell someone how I’m feeling, I’m bound to get reminded, “Look at your life. Look …
Talking vs. Feeling | Emily Hightower
Issue #23 We are a neck-up, verbal society. Therapy is often Talk Therapy. Talk Therapy can be brilliant to uncover past wounds and associations that have created chronic stress patterns. In my experience with trauma healing there comes a point where if chronic stress is not addressed in the tissue of the body, talk is …
Off Trail, On Track | Emily Hightower
Issue #3 This time of year I spend a lot of time in the woods hiking with my bow looking for ungulates. It’s a mock connection to a more primal existence that our Western culture simply calls “sport”. This “sport” does more than occasionally fill our freezer. It helps me navigate the terrain, the animals, …
Episode 30
This Episode of SH//FT Perspective has none other than SH//FT’s own Emily Hightower. Founder of Intrinsic Way and Creator of the Skill of Stress online course, Emily and has deep experience in breathwork, trauma, and somatics. The three of us recap our amazing experience in Texas the prior week and discuss the lessons we learned …
Mapping and Mastering Your Senses with Yoga Nidra
The “Little Man” in Your Brain Your brain has a map of your body that may look very different from the reflection you see in the mirror. The 19th Century idea of “The Homunculous” which means “Little Man” in Latin, is that if your brain could draw your body based on the amount of tissue …
The Difference Between Mouth and Nose Breathing
The respiratory system was designed with the nose in mind and the mouth as a secondary option. The mouth was designed with the digestive system and our communication (vocal cords) in mind. While we could get incredibly granular on the efficacy of these statements and the crossover of many of these statements. Let’s look at …