#153 How To Embody Your Sensual Self-Image — Hillel Braude
🔥 Feeling awkward in your body?
Discover how to bypass judgment by embodying the self-image of yourself in a sensual way through somatic movement here on episode #153 of The Sensual Sessions Podcast with host Candia Raquel and guest Dr Hillel Braude MBBCh PhD, Founder-Director of the SomaticWell Center, Feldenkrais Method Practitioner.
🔥 In this episode we discuss
[00:00:00] - Welcome to The Sensual Sessions Podcast
[00:01:06] - Meet Dr. Hillel Braude: Wizard of Embodiment
[00:03:34] - Rediscovering the 3D Self
[00:06:12] - Cultural Shame & Pleasure
[00:13:46] - The Unconscious in the Flesh
[00:20:46] - Body Image vs. Body Schema
[00:27:03] - Magnetic Confidence Through Enjoyment
[00:38:02] - Letting Go of Fixed Identity
[00:48:04] - Time as Sensual Duration
[01:00:03] - 🌟 Host Exercise: The Dinosaur Spine Practice
[01:08:00] - Final Reflections on Sensual Vitality
🔥 About Dr Hillel Braude MBBCh PhD
I first trained as a medical doctor in South Africa, the country of my birth. This medical education has provided an invaluable basis for my present work. Yet, I knew early on in my training that the traditional medical model has its limitations in terms of meaningful self-transformation and deep healing. After training as a medical doctor, I completed a doctorate in philosophy, focusing on the use of medical intuition in clinical reasoning. This study of intuition has provided me with the intellectual tools to understand the nuances of clinical reasoning. Intuition is still an invaluable clinical skill that I utilize and help develop with my clients.
Through many years of intellectual study and personal somatic exploration I became a real therapist – developing my own ability for self-healing and transformation in order to help others.
I am passionate about both the latest scientific studies of the brain and mind as well as ancient somatic movement practices.
While I have progressed much since my early medical education in South Africa, there is one element of the African cultural heritage I still retain – an appreciation of ubuntu – the sense that we are all inter-connected. In my therapeutic work I bring compassionate personal care together with cutting edge, evidence-based somatic and neurobiological therapies.
Working for five years as the director of research at the Mifne Center for early therapeutic intervention for autism has provided me with the opportunity to develop my expertise in early autism therapeutic intervention. I am proud to have developed the Genesis Protocol integrating evolutionary movement patterns together with the Feldenkrais Method® and play.
Somatic Expertise
The Feldenkrais Method provides the foundational backbone of Dr. Hillel Braude’s hands-on somatic practice.
Hillel received accreditation as a Guild Certified Practitioner in 2013.
Further accreditation and training with infants and children:
- Child'Space with Chava Shelhav - Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA)
- Feldenkrais and Play with Uli Komay (based on the pioneering work of Yael Ophir).
- Hillel is presently studying Dynamic Embodiment and collaborating with Martha Eddy.
Philosophical Studies & Biomedical Ethics
Dr. Hillel completed his doctoral studies in philosophy of medicine and bioethics with the University
of Chicago’s Committee for the History of Culture, obtaining his PhD cum laude (1998-2006).
He has additionally trained as a Clinical Ethicist with the MacLean Center’s Center for Clinical Ethics,
the University of Chicago ( 2002-2003 ), and completed Post - Doctorate Fellowships in Neuroethics with McGill University’s Biomedical Ethics Unit and Religious Studies Faculty ( 2008-2011).
Dr. Hillel has published extensively in the field of Neuroethics, Somatics and Philosophy of Medicine.
He sits on the board of the International Feldenkrais Federation (IFF) Journal and Research Committee. Hillel continues to research Somatic Practices, and specific processes and outcomes associatedwith hands-on therapeutic work.
Book Chapters
• Hillel D. Braude and Jean Decety, “The Affective Limits of Medical Empathy.” In , Edited by Smadar Bustan. Springer Publishing: New York, (Forthcoming)
• Alonim, H.A., Lieberman, I., Tayar, Scheingesicht, G., and Braude, H.D. “A Comparative Study of Infants and Toddlers Treated with The Mifne Approach Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder.” In edited by U. Das, N. Papaneophytou and T. El Kour. Academic Press. 2019: 277-300.
• Ami Shulman & Hillel Braude. “‘What If…’ A Question of Transcendence.” In, edited by Sondra Fraleigh, University of Illinois Press. 2018: 183-204.
• “Clinical Reasoning and Knowing.” In Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, edited by James Marcum, Bloomsbury Press. 2016: 323-342.
• “Skilled Know-How, Virtuosity and Expertise in Clinical Practice.” In edited by Thomas Schramme and Steven Edwards, Springer Press. 2016: 699-716.
• “Enhancing Cognition in the ‘Brain Nation.’ In , Edited by Fabrice Jotterand and Veljko Dubljevic, Oxford University Press. 2016: 131-146
• “Affecting the Body and Transforming Desire: The Treatment of Suffering as the End of Medicine.” Republished in , Editors Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 211-233
• “Radical Somatics,” in , Edited by Sondra Fraleigh, 2015. Indiana University Press: 124-134
• “Between and Beyond: Medicine and Narrative in Dick Zaner’s Phenomenology.” In Osborne P. Wiggins and Annette Allen, eds. 2010. Springer Press: 119-138.
Journal Articles
• “Between Psychology and Philosophy: A Review of Thinking and Doing by Moshe Feldenkrais,” .2016. http://iffresearchjournal.org/volume/5/braude
• “Human All Too Human Reasoning: Comparing Clinical and Phenomenological Intuition,” . 2013, 38(2): 173-189. doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhs057
• “Affecting the Body and Transforming Desire: The Treatment of Suffering as the End of Medicine,” . 2012, 19, vol. 4: 265-278. DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2012.0048
• Unraveling the Knot of Suffering: Combining Neurobiological and Hermeneutic Approaches,. 2012, 19, vol. 4: 291-294. DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2012.0056
• “Conciliating Cognition and Consciousness: The Perceptual Foundations of Clinical Reasoning,” . 2012, vol. 18: 945-950. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2012.01898.
• Hillel Braude and Jonathan Kimmelman. “The Ethics of Managing Affective and Emotional States to Improve Informed Consent: Autonomy, Comprehension and Voluntariness,”. 2012, vol. 23(3):149-156
• “Normativity Unbound: Liminality in Palliative Care Ethics, 2012, vol. 33(2):107-122. DOI:10.1007/s11017-011-9200-2
• “Clinical Intuition Versus Statistics: Different Modes of Tacit Knowledge in Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine,” , vol. 30(3): 181-98.
• “Colonialism, Biko and AIDS: The Principle of Beneficence in South African Bioethics”. 2009, vol. 68: 2053-2060.
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