Nine Centered
Nine Centered
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Welcome to Nine Centered, the New School of Human Design Podcast: Where we have grounded conversations on Design, Deconditioning, and life through a nine centered lens.
This is a space for conversations that bring clarity, practicality, and embodiment. We dive deep into the real experiment of living your design, asking critical questions, challenging 7 centered narratives, and exploring new insights in the system that have emerged from years of lived experience.
This isn’t pop HD, and it’s not the pedantic legacy approach—it’s The New School of Human Design.
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The podcast covers themes such as nine-centered consciousness, differentiation, and embodied awareness. Episodes explore topics like the critique of traditional seven-centered narratives and the importance of somatic work in integrating personal design. For instance, the inaugural episode discusses trauma responses and the significance of surrendering to the body's intelligence.
Welcome to Nine Centered, the New School of Human Design Podcast: Where James Alexander and Teresa Brenneman have grounded conversations on Design, Deconditioning, and life through a 9-centered lens.
This is a space for conversations that bring clarity, practicality, and embodiment. We dive deep into the real experiment of living your design, asking critical questions, challenging 7 centered narratives, and exploring new insights in the system that have emerged from years of lived experience.
This isn’t pop HD, and it’s not the pedantic legacy approach—it’s The New School of Human Design.
In this episode of Nine Centered, Teresa and James explore the deeply personal terrain of deconditioning through the lens of Primary Health System (PHS), Cognition, and Embodiment in Human Design.
Drawing from their own lived experiences, they unpack how these elements have shaped their growth, health, and relationships, offering real-life examples and gentle guidance for those navigating their deconditioning process.
What We Cover:
PHS as a Portal to Somatic Healing
Nervous Touch (Teresa): How her need for stimulation shows up in meals, relationships, and learning—and how background café sounds became a surprising support for digestion and well-being.
Low Sound (James): His journey from misidentifying his determination to understanding the relief of quieter environments and warm, full-bodied sounds.
PHS & Trauma: Why PHS work often brings up childhood conditioning and how to meet it with patience and compassion.
Observing Children: James reflects on how children naturally honor their determination when allowed the space to do so.
Cognition as a Subtle Inner Guide
Feeling Cognition (Teresa): Becoming more attuned to emotional undercurrents and how it supports intuitive perception.
Touch Cognition (James): Exploring the layers of connection—from food to energetic boundaries—and the pain of disconnection.
The Solar Plexus Connection: Both hosts tie their cognitions to the evolving role of the Solar Plexus in relationship, emotional awareness, and nervous system attunement.
Embodiment & the Feminine Principle in Deconditioning
Why Embodiment Matters: Moving beyond mental understanding to felt experience: why deconditioning requires slowness, softness, and body awareness.
Transference & Compassion: Naming the pull toward conditioned behaviors and how to discern between a mental loop and an embodied truth.
The Feminine Lens: Surrender, flow, and receptivity as essential ingredients in this work, especially in a culture conditioned toward force and control.
This episode brings awareness to the questions…Are you listening to your body—or trying to control the process?
Can you trust your system to show you the way—without force?
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