Laure Marin - The Responsive Body

Laure Marin de la Vallée

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Latest — Mar 3, 2024

Flying to Bharat via the middle east

Why am I leaving for India? To educate the microbiome by exposure to the macrobiome. And what is that, but the ultimate journey? Let us go to the heartland the home of the Gita's sacred science of God-Realization And learn there what is meant when stated Be Ye

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My first book, Auto-Immune Heresy, is available now

224 pages of essay, prose and poetry. Available as a paperback, an ebook, and an audiobook.

Auto-Immune Heresy Audiobook Preview

Step into the immersive world of "Auto-Immune Heresy," a profound audio journey that invites you to explore the depths of chronic illness, healing, and personal reclamation. Delve into the complexities of embodiment as I share my introspective musings on two decades of living with chronic immune thrombocytopenia and

Contact Improvisation, Taiji, and Self-Rehabilitation: A Conversation with Mark Young

Mark Young talks with Laure about practice, the insights and healing from his engagement of dance and Taiji, and the natural propensity of the body to spiral towards health.

Inaugural Responsive Body Podcast: Talking about Auto-Immune Heresy

In this first solo episode, I talk about the process of healing, eating for digestion, what's not in the book, and the parts of 2021-2024 that concretely moved my life towards remission.

Auto-Immune Heresy Book Launch Event

Auto-Immune Heresy collects 8 years of writing about 20 years of chronic illness. This book project is a means of re-narrativizing my life. It follows my thinking and feeling through the complexities of embodiment. This project is one of inscribing questions rather than alleging answers. Making a hypersigil of healing

An Auto-Immune Manifesto

from Auto-Immune Heresy 1. The transience of the body itself is holy. 2. Auto-immunity is self-defence, multifarious resistance, radical permeability, touchability. 3. Auto-immunity demands surrender, re-evaluation of what makes you human, what makes you you. 4. There is no such thing as health. 5. Auto-immunity shatters the telos upon shores

Crystal Clear Deciduous Dreams

Book slated for winter 2024. Stay tuned for more upcoming launch details, and sign up for regular updates.

General Guidelines For Managing A Sick Child

This post is the first excerpt from my upcoming book, Auto-Immune Heresy, available in digital format and Print On Demand on February 22nd, 2022.

Spiral Dynamics in Contact Improvisation with Mark Young in Montreal

Delve into the innate spirality of movement in this specialized Contact Improvisation (CI) workshop led by Mark Young. Drawing insights from his profound engagement with Taoist Tai Chi, discover the natural propensity of the body to spiral, and its application within CI duets.