Embodiment is one of the themes that runs through Nectar of Time. Below is everything in the Nectarium that touches on it.
Where it comes up 2
Within this theme 13
Concepts 4
- Mind-Body Overcorrection
Tamir argues that 'be in your body' circles undervalue the mind's superpowers: surgeons, Einstein and Newton needed their minds. Nev agrees that the trend overcorrects for a century of…
- Functional Freeze
Nev's term for a common modern state: highly functional at work and in daily tasks, but cut off from the body, chronically stressed, sleeping badly and deeply unsafe underneath. She says…
- Nervous System Regulation
Calming the body's stress response (adrenaline, cortisol) through breathwork, grounding and body work. Nev treats it as the foundation that has to be in place before deeper shadow work.
- Breathwork
A somatic practice Nev facilitates, often with supportive touch (with permission). On Instagram it looks to Tamir 'like an exorcism' or 'a physical incantation'.
People 2
- Nevena
Nevena (Nev), Instagram @iamnevenag, is a Toronto-raised shadow worker and guide of Serbian/Balkan descent who works mostly with women. She combines shadow work with nervous-system…
- Peloton cycling instructor
An exercise instructor on bikes, whose name Colin doesn't know. He finds her more genuinely motivating than motivational speakers because she isn't hyping people up; she's visibly working…
Quotes 2
It doesn't matter what you learn. If you're in a state of overwhelm, there's nothing you can do with what you've learned. You're just going to freeze and it's going to turn into shame.
If someone's doing surgery on me, I don't want them to be in the body. I mean, I want them to be in my body, but I want them to be in his mind or her mind.
Insights 2
- Mind and body as pilot and co-pilot
Mind and body each have superpowers, so they should trade control as needed rather than one ranking above the other. Nev adds that 'be in your body' is an overcorrection to a century of…
- Regulate the body before excavating the mind
Deep inner work done from functional freeze pushes the stress response over the edge and feels overwhelming rather than healing, and then it turns into self-blame. Breathwork and grounding…
Practices 1
- Facilitated breathwork with supportive touch
Nev uses breathwork, grounding and body work, with supportive touch given with permission, to lower adrenaline and cortisol and bring clients out of functional freeze before deeper shadow…
Stories 2
- Boxing gym with no steroids
Colin boxed as a young man in London. The man who ran his gym banned anyone on juice or steroids because they were there for vanity, not health, and told them to go to Playboy magazine…
- Tamir's 'little bit of a cult' program
Tamir says he is currently in a program he calls 'a little bit of a cult' and plans a separate episode on it. Its claim that the mind isn't real reality and only the body in the present…