what you miss when you're stuck living in your head
sunday 11 january 2026 | enter email for details
Below The Neck: Listening To The Body is a 90-minute live talk + movement session offered by TINY.
It's based on a simple idea, shared by clinicians and researchers like Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, and Brené Brown:
Many of us were taught to override sensation in the name of productivity, composure, or strength. Over time, that disconnection has a cost — anxiety rises, burnout repeats, and life starts to feel managed rather than lived.
This workshop weaves together the forgotten history of the mind–body connection, insights from contemporary research, and practical methods developed by TINY to help you reconnect with what your body is signaling.
Most of us have 'unlearned' how to listen to the body. But stress, trauma, and emotion don't disappear when ignored. They show up somewhere else.
The body is not separate from the mind.
It's the mind's first language.
These are big topics, and there is plenty to say. But this workshop is a hybrid of theory with getting you to move and feel — because the best way to understand the body is to experience it.
How different societies and cultures have understood the relationship between mind and body — and what we've lost along the way.
Where we are now. Why so many of us feel disconnected, dysregulated, and stuck in our heads.
What Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, and Brené Brown have shown us about trauma, healing, and why the body keeps the score.
Practical ways to rebuild the bridge between mind and body — through movement, breath, and attention.
Space for questions, reflection, and connecting what you've learned to your daily life.
Movement is a primary language of the nervous system. It reveals how you hold stress, how you protect, how you relate, where energy is stuck — and where it wants to go.
When posture, breath, or rhythm shifts, state shifts. If you learn to create new possibilities in the body, the mind can follow.
This workshop will get you listening to your body again.
Hailing from Chicago, Steph is a dance therapist and co-founder of TINY, a dance movement based in Northern Spain. Building on her training in sociology, her work centres on dance, somatic expression, and community building offline and online.
Her work sits at the intersection of health, sociology, and human connection — always asking how we can make the world a more authentic and human-centered place.
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