Stoking the Fire

Freedom from the grind: Somatic therapy and breathwork with Adam Tanous

• nicole eliza araujo • Season 2 • Episode 2

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Adam Tanous is a somatic therapist who incorporates breathwork, core belief healing, and a variety of other practices into his treatment offerings. He specializes in working with over-achievers or people stressed out from the corporate grind who are trying to find peace and contentment. He is based out of Florianópolis, Brazil, and works with clients one-on-one, both in person and virtually, as well as holding group healing events. (Plus- scroll to the bottom of the notes for a free guided meditation recorded by Adam!)

Things we discuss:

  • How Adam left his career as a computer engineer where he suffered from poor health and chronic fatigue and started out on his healing journey (3:58)
  • Adam’s experience in Osho Centers, a modern iteration of the group formerly known as the Rajneesh Movement, or as some call it, The Rajneesh Cult, as depicted in the Netflix documentary, “Wild, Wild Country” (7:15)
  • When some people in a group experience amazing healing and transformation while others in the same group experience harmful trauma- what do we make of this? (16:55) 
  • How childhood experiences can impact our suffering as adults in ways we don’t normally think about (28:16)
  • Core beliefs and speaking with our inner child selves (35:24)
  • The 3 bottom chakras: why they are so important (29:11) 
  • Nicole’s experience doing breathwork and discovering she needed to somatically heal from her heroin overdoses of 9 years ago (45:42)
  • Cows versus chaos ;) (61:05)
  • What exactly is somatic therapy? (64:59)
  • The external gifts we get from healing are just extras - the real benefit is something else (70:22)

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