In healing, energy needs to be released. Dr. Peter Levine references animals shaking off or discharging trauma from their bodies with movement. Ancient and indigenous cultures used practices of movement, chanting, drumming, wailing, ritual to express emotion and move energy, grief and trauma. We have, as a westernized culture, often moved away from these practices, focusing on stoicism, intellectualization, or primary cognitive approaches to healing. But we have to involve the body and the breat