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AfterMeth Podcast Short: Gut Heart

8 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief excerpt from the AfterMeth podcast, the host explains recent neuroscience findings that reveal functional neural circuitry existing outside the brain, specifically within the heart and the gastrointestinal system. He asserts that neurons in these organs can store and carry memories, providing a biological basis for concepts like those presented in "The Body Keeps the Score," muscle memory, and the idea that trauma resides in the body. The speaker then connects this science to the practice of conscious dance, arguing that moving the body—its fascia, ligaments, and muscles—allows access to deep emotional and somatic memories.

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What neurological science is finding now is that there is a neural circuitry that isn't just living in the brain, it's living in the body. So heart, and you can go Google this, this is proper, proper scientific stuff. Yeah. Our heart and our gut, our entire gut system has a neural circuitry inside it and around it. That means that there are neurons that carry actual memories around your heart and around your gut. And as far as we know, throughout the rest of the body. So when they say, uh, in the famous book The Body Keeps the Score, or, you know, muscle memory, or trauma lives in the body, it's absolutely true. You know, if you think about what conscious dance is doing, it's connecting you at the deepest level, not only to the emotions within you, but, you know, moving that body, moving that fascia, moving the ligaments, uh, and, and the muscles.