Why Breath Work Made My Anxiety Worse: Finding the Right Somatic Practice with Beverly Atkins

About this episode

Beverly Atkins discusses her journey with the Feldenkrais method and its impact on anxiety and body connection.

Healing Your Nervous System Through Movement: The Feldenkrais Method with Beverly Feldman Beverly Feldman is the founder of Posture, a mobile app that brings the Feldenkrais method, one of the most powerful and least known somatic practices in the world, to people who need it. She stumbled into it after putting her back out and not being able to walk upright for three weeks. What she found changed not just her back, but her relationship with her body, her food, her emotions, and her entire nervous system. I have been using the app myself and I cannot recommend it enough. So we sat down to talk about all of it. This episode is for you if: You feel disconnected from your body and live mostly in your head You have tried meditation or breath work and it made your anxiety worse, not better You are in recovery and need something gentle to replace compulsive exercise You carry tension, chronic pain or bracing in your body that nothing seems to shift You want to understand how stored trauma shows up physically and how movement can release it You are curious about somatic healing but don't know where to start In this episode, we cover: ✨ Beverly's personal story of body hatred, extreme…

People in this episode

Host: Victoria Kleinsman

Guest: Beverly Atkins

Topics covered

• somatic practices
• anxiety management
• Feldenkrais method
• body connection
• movement therapy

Keywords

• anxiety
• Feldenkrais
• somatic healing
• movement therapy
• body awareness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Posture

Books & works: Feldenkrais method

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