51 | How Do Emotions Play a Role in Physical Pain with Edan Harari

The Optimal Body

Have a hard time showing emotion or being vulnerable? Feel like a lot of emotional walls are up and not sure how to break them down? Listen in as Dr. Jen and Dr. Dom interview Edan Harari – well known movement artist, high performance healing coach, and educator – as he unravels body work and what it entails. Edan dives into how the body releases tension and the importance of finding the right practice for you. Tune in as he guides you through different energy releasing techniques with the scientific and emotional benefits that follow. You don’t want to miss out on this in depth and healing conversation, for it provides the tools necessary to start your own optimal body journey.

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What You Will Learn in This Interview with Edan Harari: @kineticbodytherapy

00:57 – What Edan’s mission is

01:32 – How Edan incorporates mind, body relationships in his work

02:43 – What led Eden to bodywork

06:28 – How Eden unleashed his way of working on his client’s body

08:52 – How Eden approaches clients with resistance to energy work that comes with bodywork

17:34 – How Eden guides clients through fight, flight, freeze responses to the rest, digest space

21:14 – The environment Eden provides for his clients in their healing journey - Why the use of voice is important for break through

27:23 – How everything has a time and place - Simple exercise to release tension

30:56 – Dr. Jen’s experience with releasing energy

32:54 – Dr. Dom’s take on the physiological responses behind energy work

34:52 – Rib release technique led by Eden

38:11 – The effectiveness behind energy release - The courage that comes with vulnerability

About Edan Harari:

Before Edan Harari became a celebrity healer and educator for empowering people and sharing healing across the globe, he had his share of obstacles to overcome. From having a mental breakdown when he was 21, which led to a hospitalization and over 15 years of meds and then healing, to going through several surgeries as a child, to several sports injuries and suffering from various serious health challenges involving tremendous pain, Edan’s story is the perfect example of how anybody can overcome the obstacles in their life and then create massive impact by helping others do the same. Edan is the founder of Kinetic Body Therapy, his private practice based in NYC but he travels often to Miami, LA and his birthplace Israel for clients and trainings. He is a movement artist, high performance healing coach and educator.

Edan has been featured on several podcasts such as Ancient Wisdom Today with Shaman Durek, Less Doing with Ari Meisel, SoulFeed with Shannon Algeo, as well as Sivana, Synchronicity, Beautifully Broken and more. He’s been featured alongside speakers such as Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Elena Brower, Thomas Myers and more.

Items mentioned in this episode include:

Edan’s “Kinetic Body Therapy” Website: https://www.kineticbodytherapy.com/

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