241: This Contortionist Found the Link Between How You Breathe and Why You're Stuck - Kemi Blake
About this episode
Kemi Blake discusses her journey into contortion and the insights she gained about the nervous system and emotional health through her practice.
Kemi Blake started training contortion as an adult with a body that wasn't built for it — no childhood conditioning, no natural flexibility, just a fierce refusal to quit and an unusual willingness to pay close attention to what her body was doing in the moments before she lost consciousness. What she found wasn't a performance hack. It was a map of the nervous system, the body's hidden pressure architecture, and the emotional terrain that most of us spend our lives navigating blind. BIG IDEA...
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Philip Ovadia
Guest: Kemi Blake
Topics covered
- contortion
- breathing
- nervous system
- emotional health
- body awareness
Keywords
- contortion
- breathing techniques
- nervous system
- emotional terrain
- body awareness
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