Holistic Life Navigation

In this episode, we are joined by Maureen Gallagher, PhD. Maureen is a licensed psychologist, Somatic Experiencing faculty member, and Inner Relationship Focusing trainer. She is also a teacher of Lu…

In this episode, Luis explores how we can begin to move through numbness.

We can often describe numbness as not feeling anything at all but in reality, numbness is a sensation -- it is the sensation o…

This Holistic Life Navigation's 100th episode! To mark this occasion, we pull back the curtains and we meet the entire Holistic Life Navigation team.

Luis, Marika, and Camille share what brought them…

In this episode, Luis explores how we can find safety in nature when human relationships don't feel safe.

A byproduct of colonization is our tendency to view nature a resource we should dominate vs a …

Jaguar Mary X is an artist who says "I believe that it is my role as an artist to activate and be part of a remembering of the transforming power of communal space. I agree with Nina’s Simone’s dictu…

In this episode, Luis explores how manifesting can keep us from building the capacity to be with the present.

When focusing on what may come in the future, we are focusing on what we want rather than…

This episode is so deliciously wonderful. We had the honor to sit down and speak with A'Lelia Bundles, the great-great-granddaughter of Madam CJ Walker.

This episode is all about resiliency and interg…

Out of all the things we explore on this podcast, who would've thought beans would be the most controversial? So we had to invite Karen Hurd, the Queen of Beans, back to the show to help sift through…

"You're not overreacting, you're overcoupled."

In this episode, Luis explores how we can begin the work of recognizing when our bodies are being reminded of a past traumatic experience and how we can …

"I'm not weird, I'm  just from somewhere different."

Today's episode is all about honoring our "weird" -- the call to break from the norm, standard, or "right way".

Aiyisha Castillo  is a Somatic Ther…

In this episode, Luis explores how we can affirm our bodies' boundaries while also exploring from a place of curiosity vs. judgement, i.e. how to turn judgment into curiosity to heal trauma.

Our brai…

Nisha Mody is a 'healing hype girl"! What stands out about Nisha is her practice of noticing the joy along with pain. This practice of seeing joy as complex, nuanced, and juicy is so important.

It is …

"The first alter of our ancestors is the body." This quote from Amber McZeal beautifully illustrates the connection between relating to our bodies, the land, and our lineage.

To move from colonizatio…

Today's episode is all about building capacity for difference: having the capacity to express our differences and having the capacity to receive the differences of others.

Camille Leak is a Diversity,…

Today's episode navigates whether we use our energy to change others or connect to ourselves.

Why do we so often devote our energy to changing, motivating, or even talking about others?

Releasing the …

Today's episode is SO good.

I welcome past students and current members of my membership to talk about the topic of the sovereign body.

It's a strange idea at first: the body not being us. However, th…

Today's episode navigates how to thaw and move out of a freeze response.

In it, I attempt to release the stigma from freeze response as being unmotivated, lacking willpower, or lazy. Instead, we can a…

Today's episode is all about honoring our nature. Not who we want to be or think we should be: but where we are in this moment and how we can nurture that to thrive.

Megan Kierstead is a coach for peo…

Today's episode navigates the difference between the questions Who Am I?  & Where Am I?

Releasing the need to "know" myself for the practice of being with whatever is in myself at that moment allows m…

On today's episode, I welcome back Brigitt Thompson.

We speak about money through the lens of somatics & trauma. How we value it, what we have overcoupled with it, and pieces of wisdom & personal expe…