On Interoception and the Wisdom of the Body with Dr Lauren Tober

Your throat tightens in a conversation, a few seconds before you've worked out why.

You feel a flutter of anxiety in your belly before your mind catches on to what’s happening.

Your body is always talking to you, sending signals from the inside, all day long.

That inward-facing sense has a name, interoception, and in this solo episode of A Grateful Life, I'm stepping out from behind the interview chair to explore it.

Instead of introducing you to one of my guests, I'm sharing something we've been exploring inside the programs at the Yoga Psychology Institute recently. What interoception actually is, why so many of us have turned its volume right down, and how we can gently turn it back up.

Whether you teach, practise, or are simply curious about the meeting place of yoga and psychology, consider this an invitation to listen inward, and to trust what you find there.

In this episode, we explore:

• The continuum of embodiment
• The spectrum of interoception
• Why inner signals get muted, and why that disconnection is so often protective
• The link between interoception and emotional literacy
• Learning to listen to the whispers of the body, rather than waiting until they're screaming
• Simple, practical ways to strengthen interoception in everyday life
• Why yoga is such a powerful vehicle for exploring our internal world
• How teachers can gently support interoception in a class, always with safety and choice first
• A small interoceptive practice to take away

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