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Your Body is Medicine

Embodiment training for doctors, nurses and healers.

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What is Your Body is Medicine?
Your Body is Medicine is a uniquely effective training program for doctors, nurses and healers to learn how to trust the
non-verbal intelligence of the body.

The practices in this training program are designed to open tangible knowledge about how your body's innate, nonverbal intelligence communicates, and the foundational role of the communicative body in healing processes.

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

    —Dr. Rana Awdish, Pulmonary Physician at Henry Ford Health and author of two landmark medical memoirs, In Shock and
    After Shock: Learning to Reinhabit My Body After Illness.

  • "This training experience is profound. Marina is a critically important piece of the alchemy, certainly for a first timer like me. Her ability to create a safe, warm, welcoming space that feels juuuuust unfamiliar enough to maintain the power of transformation is a rare gift. I'm so incredibly grateful."

    — Josh Fessel, M.D., Ph.D, former National Institute of Health
    Medical Officer and Director

  • "[Experiencing] the intentionality and power of breath really stays with me from the training."

    — Dr. Avraham Cooper, Physician and Associate Professor, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  • "I was so impressed and appreciative of the pre-workshop prep. It helped me enter into this new experience with a sense of curiosity and safety. What stays with me is the necessity of discomfort; the extent to which I default to a cognitive way of being in the world and an interest in and excitement about reflecting on more embodied practice."

    —Stephanie Adler Yuan, M.S. former Director of Programs at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare;
    Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator in the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University

  • "For any clinicians, as I am, who are very good at checking boxes and being concrete thinkers, this training is a leap ... with big rewards once I allowed myself to lean into the experience. It was unlike anything I have ever done before. There's an element of play here that doesn't always come naturally to us in training."

    Dr. Neda Frayha, Internal Medicine Physician, Audio Editor-in-Chief at Hippo Education

  • “It opened a new aperture... I felt more sure of where I am in physical and metaphysical space afterwards. The outcome of this training is finding surer footing, feeling more grounded, awake, alive and *wanting* to feel more because you have new ways in which to manage feeling more. It reminded me that there is more to medicine than the classic tasks in front of us, which is protective for me, for my patients, and for my community of people in clinical medicine."

    Dr. Shannon Scott-Vernaglia, Physician at Mass General Brigham;
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Learn more about the training

Special Issue on Embodiment in Medicine‍
The International Journal of Whole Person Care

Embodiment is Medicine: Reclaiming the non-verbal intelligence of the body in modern medicine

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