{"id":1086,"date":"2011-02-09T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2011-02-09T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:07:39","slug":"bodymind-work-with-kevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Bodymind Work with Kevin"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Written in September 2007)
\nVery interesting work with Kevin.\u00a0 I described the headache.\u00a0 He decided to be \u201cprovocative\u201d \u2014 first moving my legs around the hip sockets, then doing some work on the \u201cbelly wall\u201d \u2014 can\u2019t remember if I stopped him or if he asked me to rest & see what comes up.\u00a0 First was a sense of more flexibility in the belly area, easier to breathe but also more vulnerable.\u00a0 I put my hands over my belly.\u00a0 Then began to feel activity in those major neck muscles that are implicated in the headache.\u00a0 Then quivering in my cheeks & lips.\u00a0 The WORK to allow it to happen, not interfere.\u00a0 Then there was tension in my jaw \u2014 o but maybe it was tiredness \u2014 tired from being tense for so long.\u00a0 I worked at letting it be OK, both the tense and the tired.\u00a0 A sense of wanting everybody to be here, the angry defensive ones, and the shy withdrawn ones.\u00a0 An image of a cave in the bombed-out village \u2014 the woman me stirring soup, the traumatized children coming in.\u00a0 I cried, welcoming them ALL in.\u00a0 Told Kevin about \u201cspeak\u201d (a novel about a teenage girl who\u2019s been raped) and my sense of a similar persona in me.\u00a0 Wanting to give her a voice.\u00a0 Increased energy in my jawbone \u2014 feels almost swollen, also energy around my ears \u2014 sense of large ears, cat\u2019s ears, with points.\u00a0 Kevin talked about the \u201ckinesphere\u201d, the sense of space around you \u2014 there\u2019s a visual space and an auditory space \u2014 hearing with non physical ears.\u00a0 I also had the experience of feeling animals in my movement \u2014 a heron when I stretched my neck, a monkey when I grimaced.\u00a0 A sense of connection with biology, with the stuff that\u2019s hard-wired.
\nOther things we worked on: the \u201cboundary\u201d issue \u2014 being able to tell when I\u2019ve \u201chad enough\u201d \u2014 Kevin willing to give me more space to find out.\u00a0 \u201cBoundary\u201d not really a good word \u2014\u00a0\u00a0 Kevin\u2019s phrase \u201cinternal self-regulating intelligence.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Also worked on shoulders \u2014\u2014 pressure of hands against surface \u2014 try to contact the surface with as much skin as possible (as in downward dog) helps the shoulder muscles activate properly.\u00a0 We also did a push hands \u2014 I like it best as a negotiated dance \u2014 having too often experienced either being overpowered, or having the other person collapse.\u00a0 So rarely being met exactly where I am.
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\nKevin Frank is an amazing body worker in Holderness, NH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Written in September 2007) Very interesting work with Kevin.\u00a0 I described the headache.\u00a0 He decided to be \u201cprovocative\u201d \u2014 first moving my legs around the hip sockets, then doing some work on the \u201cbelly wall\u201d \u2014 can\u2019t remember if I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}