Ecstatic Dance and Somatic Healing with Nick Tvrdy

I sat down with Nick Tvrdy for a super fun chat about ecstatic dance, somatic healing, parts work, trauma informed yoga and much more in this week’s podcast. We laughed a lot, dumped some trauma, experienced multiple technical difficulties and shared our mutual experience and participation in a door to door sales cult! And I even managed to get it edited and released in less than a week! I know you guys will enjoy this one - and there will be more talks with Nick in the future.

 

Nick's bio:

Nick has spent most of his adult life in some form of door to door sales, forcing him to develop a quick wit and charisma (if only as a coping mechanism in the face of rejection). As he grew older, he slowly became despondent and worn out over time. He realized that he developed a habit of glossing over traumas both from work and from family life. Beyond numbness and deflecting pain with humor, he defaulted like many of us do to substance use and isolation as the easiest way to cope with life's struggles. 

In 2022, he discovered Somatic Healing and Parts Work as forms of trauma informed recovery and has since used these modalities to become sober and enact healthier coping mechanisms that ultimately lead to his ecstatic life. 

His part time passion is being a yoga teacher in Gainesville, teaching twice a week, while he works full time as a sales manager for a solar company, EnLight.Energy. His degree in Sustainable Energy from Creighton University brings a philosophical and even theological lens into how one can best view their unique place in the cosmos 🌌

 

Get in touch with Nick:

Email: nick.tvrdy@gmail.com

Instagram: @nickyt398

Classes: Vinyasa Flows Mondays and Fridays at 11:45a at Yoga Pod NW in Gainesville

 

Stuff we talked about:

@ponytalespodcast

@musicalbreathwork

‘No Bad Parts’ by Richard C. Schwartz PhD