174: How to Bend Time (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
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Til Luchau and Whitney Lowe discuss the concept of 'bending time' in therapeutic sessions and its implications for practitioners and clients.
🎙 How to Bend Time (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe) There’s a moment in many good sessions when the clock stops mattering — breathing deepens, your hands settle, and time itself seems to change. Til recently wrote about this as “bending time,” and here he and Whitney explore it as a practical, therapeutic part of hands-on work. They get into how time perception is tied to body state, attention, and interoception; how the practitioner’s own state sets the tempo; and how to work slowly without losing focus, while still respecting the real limits of a 30-, 60-, or 90-minute session. ✨ Topics:• What that timeless shift feels like from the practitioner’s side• Why the practitioner often enters the state first — and how the client entrains to it• Timelessness vs. clock-watching: why it’s not the same as zoning out or falling asleep• Interoception, age, and “clock speed”: why our sense of duration is so elastic• Meeting clients at their rhythm before inviting a shift (follow, follow, lead)• Jan Sultan’s “most important move in Rolfing” — keeping the big-picture overview• Landing the plane: giving clients a heads-up to ease the transition out• Slow doesn’t mean vague: clearer…
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