{"podcast":{"title":"The Thinking Practitioner","slug":"the-thinking-practitioner-958450","podcast_index_feed_id":958450,"rss_url":"https://www.thethinkingpractitioner.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.thethinkingpractitioner.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6037716/ttp_cover_art_1400x1400px_20191001al.jpg","author":"Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe","episode_count":175,"summary":"For the practitioner who’s never stopped being curious. Til Luchau and Whitney Lowe bring together leading researchers, master clinicians, and big questions from across bodywork, massage, and manual therapy — exploring not just what we do with our hands, but why it works and how to do it better. Smart, grounded, and genuinely useful conversations for the somatic arts and sciences. For professional practitioners in bodywork, massage therapy, structural integration, chiropractic, myofascial and myotherapy, orthopedics, sports massage, physical therapy, and osteopathy — as well as yoga, strength and conditioning, and allied professions. This podcast is not medical or treatment advice.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T18:19:44.451763+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-thinking-practitioner-958450"},"episode":{"title":"174: How to Bend Time (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)","slug":"174-how-to-bend-time-with-til-luchau-whitney-lowe","published_at":"2026-07-08T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-thinking-practitioner-958450/174-how-to-bend-time-with-til-luchau-whitney-lowe","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-thinking-practitioner-958450","url":"https://www.thethinkingpractitioner.com/e/174-how-to-bend-time-with-til-luchau-whitney-lowe/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/t4exw6n59vzj8j5p/TTP_Episode174_Audio_20260624aebrfyw.mp3","summary":"🎙 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)•…","meta_description":"🎙 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 ha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3090,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-thinking-practitioner-958450/episodes/174-how-to-bend-time-with-til-luchau-whitney-lowe/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-thinking-practitioner-958450/174-how-to-bend-time-with-til-luchau-whitney-lowe.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}