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174: How to Bend Time (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)
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- The Thinking Practitioner
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- Jul 8, 2026
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- 3090
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🎙 How to Bend Time (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe) There’s a moment in many good sessions when the clock stops mattering — breathing deepens, your hands settle, and time itself seems to change. Til recently wrote about this as “bending time,” and here he and Whitney explore it as a practical, therapeutic part of hands-on work. They get into how time perception is tied to body state, attention, and interoception; how the practitioner’s own state sets the tempo; and how to work slowly without losing focus, while still respecting the real limits of a 30-, 60-, or 90-minute session. ✨ Topics:• What that timeless shift feels like from the practitioner’s side• Why the practitioner often enters the state first — and how the client entrains to it• Timelessness vs. clock-watching: why it’s not the same as zoning out or falling asleep• Interoception, age, and “clock speed”: why our sense of duration is so elastic• Meeting clients at their rhythm before inviting a shift (follow, follow, lead)• Jan Sultan’s “most important move in Rolfing” — keeping the big-picture overview• Landing the plane: giving clients a heads-up to ease the transition out• Slow doesn’t mean vague: clearer attention, better timing, realistic plans• Presence and compassion as part of skill — and the people hardest to love• A this-week experiment: pause and feel your own body before you touch ✨ Resources:• Til Luchau, “Bending Time: The Therapeutic Power of Timelessness,” Massage & Bodywork magazine (Somatic Edge column) — https://www.abmp.com/massage-and-bodywork-magazine/issues/summer-2026/bending-time• Marc Wittmann, “The Inner Experience of Time,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2009)• E. P. Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” Past & Present (1967)•…