by Samantha Lotti | May 5, 2021 | Biodynamic Thought, Body-Mind Connection
Our body, in life, is always with us. Ideally, we would view it as a friend and a tool that can help us navigate through life – in moments turning to it for advice, in others maneuvering it to obtain our objectives. In order to make that even a possibility, we need to...
by Samantha Lotti | Apr 7, 2013 | Biodynamic Thought, Client Resource
In the search for health, our body looks for opportunities to disengage from the sympathetic state (fight/flight) and enter into the parasympathetic state (rest/digest). In order to heal, the body must go from maintenance mode to repair mode. The only way to do this...
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 19, 2013 | Biodynamic Thought, Perception and Perspective
At five weeks the embryo is 5-7 mm long (about the size of a dry lentil). It is budding upper and lower limbs. Its heart is large and rapidly growing in size. By week seven the heart is enormous. Using an adult body as a reference, the heart stretches from the bottom...
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 13, 2013 | Perception and Perspective, Alternative Definitions, Biodynamic Thought
The anatomical heart has a natural tendency to dilate (expand). If it weren’t contained by the pericardium (the sac surrounding the heart), it would expand into the whole chest cavity. This might explain that sense of openness that we feel when our heart gets...
by Samantha Lotti | Mar 11, 2013 | Biodynamic Thought
Growth is a physiological gesture, an expression of a visceral and cellular self. Just like a thought, growth is not a tangible object in a linear world but rather a vessel of potential creativity that, when put in sequence, translates into our living physical...
