Magic is faith and experimentation in the invisible.  - Toni Nagy For roughly the first 48 years of my life, I regarded my body as a cage in which I was trapped, and yet I was terrified of being separated from it.  Given that background, it's not surprising that accepting and deeply connecting with my body in all its glory and shame has been a huge part of my recovery.  Somatics has changed my life. There's no creator who epitomizes what somatics is for me like Toni Nagy, so I was happy to welcome her as my guest on the 7th episode of Empower Your Magical Self.  Somatics is a field within bodywork and movement studies which emphasizes internal physical perception and experience. The term is used in movement therapy to signify approaches based on the soma, or "the body as perceived from within" - (wikipedia) My conversation with Toni covered a lot of topics - feminism, body image, identity politics, and Buddhism just to name a few.  Please subscribe to Empower Your Magical Self wherever you get your podcasts to learn more about my inspiring guests - and how you can empower your magical self.