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What You Need To Know: Breathwork, Syndromes & Healing

Biology of Trauma 3.0 Summit

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<h6>Aimie Apigian, MD, MS, MPH</h6>
Welcome to this interview on the Biology of  Trauma Summit 3.0. We're talking about the trauma disease connection, and I am so excited to bring you this interview on this somatic work and specifically the somatic work around syndromes now syndromes specifically, we always will have the autonomic nervous system as the element that is driving those symptoms so that no matter which syndrome you have, the root cause of all of them comes back to this autonomic nervous system and being able to learn how to shift those states. This is something that is very, very near and dear to my heart, because it is one of the pieces that was huge for me in my healing journey. In fact, I don't think I know that I would not be where I am today and being able to even do what I do and even have gone through the rest of my medical training. If I had not learned this somatic piece and been able to study with Dr. Peter Levine, so that now what I share is that there are three essential elements or pillars to one's healing journey and whatever modalities you use to fit and get these three elements in.

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&#8220;Trauma therapy for the future can be more important than trauma therapy for the past.” — Dr. Levine
As a young child, I was endlessly fascinated by natural phenomena. Indeed, my mother described how I, by the age of ten, inadvertently discovered Newton&#8217;s first law and Archimedes&#8217; law of fluid displacement. I believe that this passion, and tenacity for understanding natural laws, has guided me throughout my life. My fascination and engagement in life have served me well in the development of my body of work, discovering the roots of trauma and its healing pathways. My early years had trials and tribulations, as many do, and like others who have experienced childhood trauma, I was guided by my own compelling need to heal. I guess you could say that much of my research was “me-search.” 
As a young adult, entering a PhD program in Medical and Biological Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, I had a prophetic dream which set the arc of my explorations of trauma and of the human condition. In this dream, I was walking toward a two-column elevator with spherical entryways. I realized that this was an autonomic ganglion.  When I entered into the door, I felt an ominous presence. As I looked around, I discovered that it was the cold disapproving look of an important mentor I had in undergraduate school. His mechanistic worldview had no room for feelings and sensations, and he certainly would not approve of my new direction toward the study of “life energy.”  In the dream, I went through the autonomic door and there was no turning back. Then in 1978 I met Stephen Porges and we shared a passion for bottom-up processing and emergent properties. My relationship with Porges and this prescient dream heavily influenced the development of Somatic Experiencing®.
Over the past 50 years, as I developed SE™, and then taught it to anyone who would listen, I mentored thousands of therapists and healers worldwide. My passion turned to be a “Johnny Apple Seed,” spreading my knowledge around the world. And now this passion is being extended to dedicated Faculty members who are passing on this legacy.
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<li>Developer of Somatic Experiencing®</li>
<li>Founder and Faculty, Ergos Institute of Somatic Education</li>
<li>Founder and Advisor, Somatic Experiencing Institute</li>
<li>Senior Clinical Fellow and Advisor, The Meadows Addiction Treatment Center</li>
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What You Need To Know: Breathwork, Syndromes & Healing

Peter A Levine, PhD

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