Modern Psyche

Modern Psyche dives into the shadow side of modern day spirituality and shines a light on the coping mechanisms that it entails. Many of us seek for a form of relief during the distressing times. Wether it's a quarter life crisis or a global pandemic. Modern spirituality can become an unrecognisable form of denial and avoidance - leading onto a long ride of a self-help journey.  It is important to examine if our spiritual practices clarify our view of reality, or only allow coping and adaptation to the circumstances that should not be adapted to - but changed.  modernpsyche.org https://www.instagram.com/modern.psyche/

After a year's break, Modern Psyche is at your door with one of my best-est friends. We sit down to talk about Corona, Needs Economy, Big Biometric Data, Surveillance Capitalism, The Future of Antibiotics and Healthcare Systems, and our own mortality - a casual lockdown chat from our flat in Berlin. Find more at www.modernpsyche.org IG: https://www.instagram.com/modern.psyche/  

Enter the body. From birth, and then every day onwards. Born and raised into the age of information we adapt, but only to the detriment to our own embodiment. We can enter the body through different personal backdoors and pathways that ground us into the present experiences - layered with overflowing input of data from external and internal worlds. Today I am joined in a conversation with Lucy Suggate, internationally recognised dance artist, choreographer, as well a new thought pioneer in 21st century contemporary dance culture. Her movement practice explores and excavates states of being beyond our conscious awareness, tapping into the continuous stream of information our moving bodies can offer. Lucy’s practice investigates our capacity to metabolise complexities we are confronted as a society, as individuals, and as artists, in our tech and information based age. Her work exponentially challenges the pre-established patterns and relationships between spaces, performers, and spectators.   In our conversation we explore topics of: personal and collective embodiment; of expanding our awareness beyond form & shape and delving into perceptual realities and states of being whilst dancing and moving our bodies. We talk about liberating from the static archetypes of a dancer, and especially of a female dancer in a 21st century: revisiting shame and codified norms. We talk about commitment, focus, and recovering trust in our bodies. We delve into concepts of Dry Surfing, feminist perspectives, energy transference and many more.

Subversion and resistance revisited from an integrated perspective. An ending of polarisation and taking sides comes as a consequence of being able to explore and empathise with most divergent opposing parts that reside within us. Yet our internal worlds are polarised to the point of suppression and at this point external world becomes a canvass on which that internal polarisation is played out by every person: recycling a narrative of good and evil; war and peace. We must recognise that by judging something as good we automatically make the opposite of it bad. A fight against external oppression reflects a deeper divide between parts within us. Therefore, our primary tool of liberation becomes self-awareness and integration of our most demonised parts within. We are free to the point we have a choice, and the degree of choice is determined by our level of awareness.   Community and connection becomes an antidote to status-quo of societal idealisation of isolating independence.    modernhealing@protonmail.com

If we are on this planet, we inevitably will have a relationship with everything around us and inside of us: from a piece of toast of your plate to the backside to your left knee; from your colleagues at work, to today’s political state in the world. The inability to perceive and recognise the innate relationships between each of us can possibly, and does wage wars. If I perceive myself being connected to you, I will not be able to do harm, as that will inevitably affect me. And so, in this episode we explore how recognising these relationships can uncover our ability to feel belonging. Commitment comes as a consequence of recognising these relationships, and allows us to further step into the interdepend nature of our lives.

Everything around and inside of us is competing for our attention. From ads on bus stops to emotions within. Attention being a single most precious commodity between humans, can create or dismiss worlds into non-existence. So how do we stop giving it away so freely and reclaim back our focus?

An introduction to a fresh cut podcast.    It's soft space to create a modern day survival guide for an ancient psyche of a human being. We’re here to talk about healing modalities that work and don’t work, to consider our surroundings, our commitment, our freedom, and our relationship to everything that is outside and inside of us. A story of a counter-culture protagonist.