Explore resources for deepening your connection with your body and learning more about somatic awareness, meditation, and nervous system care. These books, conversations, and teachings reflect the practices and perspectives that inform my work. Follow your curiosity and explore at your own pace.
Guided Meditations with Rainey
Take a few moments to pause and reconnect with your body. Explore my guided practices on Insight Timer, with invitations to notice, soften, and return to the present moment.
This five-minute practice invites you to explore the feeling of gravity, your body’s weight, and the support beneath you. A gentle opportunity to slow down and notice your connection with the ground.
CURIOSITY LAB INTERVIEW JUNE 20, 2023
I was interviewed by Shanti O’Connor and Atom Bram of the Curiosity Lab on KPOV about the practices and importance of embodiment. Check it out...
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, TRAUMA AND TOXIC STRESS
Somatic Experiencing®
Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
Stephen Porges
Gabor Mate
Generative Somatics
Gretchen Schmelzer
CONTINUUM, SOMATIC MOVEMENT AND INTELLIGENT BODY ALIGNMENT
Susan Harper (Continuum Montage)
Continuum Teachers Association
Body-Mind Centering (Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen)
Feldenkrais Method
Hanna Somatics
Liz Koch (Core Awareness)
Mary Bond
YOGA, MEDITATION AND EMBODIED SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Two Dog Yoga Studio
Blue Throat Yoga with Paul Muller-Ortega
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Reggie Ray
BOOKS
YOGA
The Yoga Tradition by Georg Feuerstein
All Titles by Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten
Relax and Renew by Judith Lasater
Awakening the Spine by Vanda Scaravelli
The Breathing Book by Donna Farhi
SOMATIC MOVEMENT
How Live Moves by Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank
Life on Land by Emilie Conrad
Engaging the Movement of Life by Bonnie Gintis, DOM
Somatics by Thomas Hanna
The New Rules of Posture by Mary Bond
POETRY & MYTHOLOGY
All Titles by:
Mary Oliver
David Whyte
John O’Donohue
Michael Mead
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD.
THE AMAZING UNIVERSE
The Universe is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme
Sensitive Chaos by Theador Schwenk
The Spell of the Senuous by David Abram
Becoming Animal by David Abram
Pronoina by Rob Brezsney
