What Your Body Needs You to Know

Dr. Andrea Traldi is a Somatic Psychologist with a degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rome, 'La Sapienza'. Andrea’s approach is at the forefront of research on Jungian psychology exploring the relationship between the collective unconscious and our individual storylines as they are experienced through somatic awareness, intuition, and synchronicities in everyday life. He is the Founder and Lead Researcher at the Institute of Applied Somatics (IoAS) where he specializes in programs for breathing techniques, pelvic floor wellbeing, and neuro-myo-fascia repatterning. With programs ranging from thematic workshops, to intensive residencies, and year-long curricula, IoAS currently caters to over a 1000 students simultaneously. Andrea is also Co-Founder and Head of International Programs at the Becomebecome Non-Profit, a social impact entity dedicated to cultural and educational programs. In 2022, he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Plymouth, UK, for his transdisciplinary approach to education and creativity through Somatics, Psychology, and movement techniques. Raluca Maria Spataean aka @madebyralu is a Romanian illustrator who is inspired by the balancing elements of wellbeing and the natural world. In 2013 she decided to follow her intuition and creative instincts to travel the world – living in Italy, Spain, Romania, Ireland and England - and experience living life with freedom and joy. In 2020 and throughout the global pandemic, she put pen to paper and discovered the joy of digital illustration which she started to share with the world on Instagram, and soon found a dedicated community of followers soothed by her calming, positive artworks and writings.

• IntroductionPart OneSeven Dimensions of Inner Wisdom What you need to know before the journey into your Subconscious BodyPart TwoChapter 1: The Perineum and the Hips Introduction: How they move, what they hold, how they store anger, how to release and move freely, allow transit, liberate the lumbar spineSomatic Awareness practice x 2Chapter 2: The Ribcage and SpineIntroduction: How conscious breathing can change your mood, how to make space, how to settle the nervous system and allow the release of sadness and generate claritySomatic Awareness practice x 2Chapter 3: The Shoulders Introduction: How the way we work affects our shoulders, how they store stress and responsibility, how to become aware of how we’re holding them, how to extend compassion and self-compassionSomatic Awareness practice x 2Chapter 4: The NeckIntroduction: The vagus nerve, how we store the things we won’t let ourselves say, how to create easeSomatic Awareness practice x 2Chapter 5: The Jaw Introduction: Grinding teeth and anxiety, how the set of the jaw affects the way you see the world, exercises to soften and release headaches, how the jaw connects with the digestive and respiratory systems.Somatic Awareness practice x 2Chapter 6: The Feet Introduction: Conscious grounding, links between the feet and other parts of the body, how the fascia works with the feet how to find balance, self-confidence, strength and serenitySomatic Awareness practice x 2Chapter 7: Connecting Lower Body to Upper BodyIntroduction: This last chapter connects the first exercise for the pelvic floor with all the others that followed it.Somatic Awareness practice x 2Part ThreeSynchronicity Journal PromptsContinue your Journey into the Subconscious BodyIndexFurther Reading