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Your Body Is Medicine®

Your Body is Medicine® is a somatic training program developed for doctors, nurses and healers who yearn to deepen their practice of medicine and serve their patients in mind, body and spirit. It is a complement to biomedical training, centering the wisdom of the body in healing.

The body’s innate wisdom is accessed through:

❋ Breath

❋ Emotions

❋ Bodily Sensations

❋ Imagination

❋ Embodied Imagery

Unique to this somatic training program is working with training figures, such as those pictured in the image to the left and in the video below.

These training figures help reveal where somatic barriers are present in the healers body and psyche, and thus where embodied presence and attunement needs to be strengthened within the healer in order to support the illness experiences of their patients.

Your Body is Medicine® focuses on the body of the physician, nurse, healer — as what has not yet been embodied by the practitioner cannot yet be applied to the patient’s body.

This training was developed during my time as a Kienle Scholar in the Medical Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine (2016), as co-founder of Duke University’s Reimagine Medicine program and Associate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine (2018 - 2020), at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (2020-21), and in collaboration with Dr. Rana Awdish as an Artist in Resident at Henry Ford Health (2024 - 2026).

It is grounded by 14 years of somatic training, practice and artistry that have allowed me to heal the emotional trauma of my life-long chronic illness, suicidal depression, and developmental trauma.

This training is my answer to the philosophical error in the biomedical medicine tradition that treats disease and the body as purely mechanical processes.

  • "This training is remarkable. It is also ahead of where medical education currently is."

    Dr. Rana Awdish

  • "Even as a total beginner, I never felt lost. The step-by-step structure and encouragement along the way made all the difference."

    Former Customer

  • "This has been such a worthwhile investment in myself."

    Former Customer