https://www.stuartsovatsky.com/blog daily 0.75 2022-01-07 https://www.stuartsovatsky.com/meditation daily 0.75 2022-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/aa9260c2-b425-42aa-9d0b-9369c7c38490/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.16.42+PM.png Chants Islamic ecstatic spinal rocking zikr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/448c7612-048b-482f-a0b9-584f7b761ec2/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.16.49+PM.png Chants Judaic ecstatic spinal rocking davvening zikr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/632a2a32-be29-478e-aa26-10abcb3b8cb1/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.16.56+PM.png Chants Shaker stylized reverential dance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/3abdc824-0ed3-40e7-8491-cc3730f4a8e3/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.17.05+PM.png Chants Holy Ghost Worship https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/4f19959c-ad1c-459b-8a1e-bacd14c70333/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.17.14+PM.png Chants Dionysian Revelry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/79b46d0f-f9df-4424-ae76-d2fc743bb1dd/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.17.25+PM.png Chants Sufi Dervish Whirling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/28b16cbc-6a93-4062-b59c-2e43c1eb5d2d/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.17.35+PM.png Chants Vodouspirit dance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/d5df5639-19f8-425b-8402-5777a1017c5b/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.17.43+PM.png Chants Yogic meditative dance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/18c9c27e-661e-407e-baa7-26d0b157e069/Screen+Shot+2022-01-18+at+2.17.49+PM.png Chants Buddhist uju kaya (upheld body) ars erotica tumescent spine https://www.stuartsovatsky.com/scholarly-articles daily 0.75 2022-01-07 https://www.stuartsovatsky.com/home daily 1.0 2022-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/1641297007315-H7T0GQC34NMFLA5NFNH4/Screen+Shot+2022-01-04+at+9.48.12+AM.png Home His Bar Mitzvah vocal training with holocaust survivor, Cantor Max Rubin of the Krakow Conservatory prepared him for his 1977 nabho-mudra [ascendent-tongue] nonlocal initiations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/1640595571069-TM9SG2B5K447PCYMVBGT/Screen+Shot+2021-12-27+at+12.57.55+PM.png Home Stuart grew up in 1950s upstate New York with a shift-working Mother, a WWII disabled Father and differently-abled Brother. While taking up many family responsibilities, he would later cringe as therapists “empathically” labeled him a “parentified-child” or “neglected”--a combination of experiences that formed the personal basis for his clinical work in a nondiagnostic-poetics of family life, Empathic Admiration, Therapeutic Mentoring and Generative Inclusiveness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61af26e93db4581252a02ba5/1641297420447-8UE11HH693BYMU38EL1L/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-01-04%2Bat%2B3.53.56%2BPM.jpg Home “The physiological signs of this unending Adult Puberty are traceable throughout the neuroendocrine and circulatory systems and radiate out the spinal nerves to generate the ecstatic phenomena of what scholars call, “the charismatic spiritual traditions throughout history”: shamanic-, vodou trance-, Dionysian Revel- and esoteric belly- ecstatic dance movements spontaneous shaking and quaking of Shakers and Quakers and “Holy Roller” Revivalists spontaneous spinal-rocking praying of Judaic Shekinah shokeling and Islamic zikr the bodily-heat of Bushman thxiasi num and Tibetan Buddhist tummo and sahaja [spontaneous] asanas and mudras of Kundalini Shakti speaking-in-tongues of Pentacostal Christians and quivering vocals of inspired operatics, Islamic qawwali, Judaic nigune and anahatanad chanting and, in its adolescent mode, the “Elvis-the-Pelvis” gyrations of rock ‘n roll that drew from R&B secularized controversially, Gospel music. 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