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Holistic Life Navigation, P. O. Box 263, Bearsville, NY (2025)

12/03/2025

And there is something we can do about it now.

My men's group begins in January and runs for 6 months. In it, I will teach you how to redevelop many of the senses you never got to due to an unsupported puberty.

Reclaiming your masculinity, tending to emotions before mast*rbating, reducing and removing p**n from your life, and rebuilding your connection to men in a new way for support and guidance.

Registration closes in 12 days. Visit www.holisticlifenavigation.com to learn more.

12/02/2025

I've started intermittent fasting again after years of stopping.

Fasting can increase fight/flight hormones which results in higher symptoms of anxiety, irritability, depression, and even insomnia for some people.

This is often due to poor metabolic flexibility (the ability to use fat as fuel vs. carbs/glucose) and a diet that is high in refined carbohydrates.

After years of following a bean-based diet I have a calmer body and am able to intentionally fast in the morning. At least for now.

I'm aware that my body works in cycles and seasons. Fall is asking this of my body now. Who knows when it will change.

This meal has been my lunch, my first fast breaking meal. It is:

2 eggs fried into an omelet with olive oil
1 tomato lightly pan cooked
1/2 avocado
1/2c black beans
a big scoop of steamed broccoli and sauteed sweet potatoes

And my body is happy. It feels delicious. The fats are so calming, so supportive, and so grounding. They balance my hormones and nourish my brain and nerves.

The beans and sweet potatoes work together to provide sustainable energy throughout my day as complex carbs.

All the plant fibers from the avocado, tomatoes, broccoli, potatoes, and beans feed my microbiome.

Their spectrum of colors offer my body a diverse variety of antioxidants to protect my cells.

This meal gives me so much nourishment, flavor, and delight. It is the perfect way for me to break my daily 16 hour fast and seems to contribute, even more, to my capacity to continue doing so.

12/01/2025

Instead of focusing on calories, exercise, and portions I have found way more success with people losing weight when they learn about insulin, adrenaline, and eating foods that transform their biochemistry.

Balancing through eating MORE foods, not less, is just one thing that makes my approach very different from others.

My book will teach you all about this, and beyond, when it comes out in late April.

For now, come join me for this free FOOD THERAPY session on Tuesday January 13th @ 10am EST.

Register now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/events/weight-and-trauma

Everyone will get a replay.

11/30/2025

Do YOU know any gay men in long term relationships who aren’t hooking up on s*x apps?

Al Romano, Naveed Heydari, Tim Paula, and Rio Allen join Luis for a collaborative conversation about s*x apps in the gay community, and what men really want.

Men are conditioned to discover their s*xuality as boys, isolated with p**n. And yet, all bodies want security, touch ,and connection. Corporations prey upon this conditioning and need with s*x apps that dehumanize and objectify men, gamifying their arousal and isolation with quick dissociated hook-ups.

Where did gay men meet before Covid? Gay bars. Where are they meeting now? Gay s*x apps. How can we intentionally create spaces beyond the talons of corporate predation, objectification and addictive patterns?

Listen to the podcast:
https://holisticlifenavigation.buzzsprout.com/

Watch on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/

11/28/2025

This is the result of developmental trauma that goes unaddressed.

It even goes unaddressed in our society due to hookup culture being, primarily, designed by men and how men prefer to engage s*xually.

It's a branch of actual toxic masculinity that serves no one to take part in.

And I used to thrive on it, until I could feel my own heart breaking each time.

Join me and an international group of men practice a new way of being, together.

https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-mens-group

11/27/2025

It's an interesting experience to be a man, see men do awful things growing up, be told by everyone around you that men suck, and somehow not end up hating yourself.

This is why men-only spaces need to exist in the healing world: so we can create new models of masculinity.

Somatics is a brilliant one because it gets men in their bodies to *feel* what they carry instead of talk about it, try to fix it, or hide it out of shame.

By going inwards, together, we can transform so many stereotypes and even wounds around being male and masculine.

A man who represses his masculine will often end up hating himself. I know I did.

This was especially hard for me as a bis*xual, inters*x man.

So I invite all men to join me in my upcoming 6 month group where I'll teach you different somatic techniques, in a group container, that can help you:

- recover from p**n addiction
- reclaim your unsupported puberty years
- feel emotions and learn how to express them
- embody your s*x life
- find safety and connection with other men

Registration closes in two weeks so please join now: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-mens-group

11/26/2025

Don't try to fix your man, just send him to me.

Straight, gay, bi - all men welcome!

There are a little over two weeks left to register.

Register here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-mens-group

11/24/2025

As an inters*x person, I find it important to distinguish between s*x and masculine/feminine forces.

There's an ancestry to man and woman.

When I hear "woman" I think of a body that has been tasked with the burden and privilege to be a portal for their ancestors. That their body gets to be the gatekeeper for society.

They get to decide who they wants to literally fertilize the seeds of their ancestors to allow their lineage to continue, or they get to decide to let their lineage end with them.

They get to connect to the spacious, feminine spirit of the black void. Of mystery. Of birth and death that is their womb. Be it through bearing children or art.

THAT is the power of being a woman.

When I hear "man" I think of a body that has been tasked with the burden and privilege to use their body as a protector for the weak, the young, and the female bodies burdened and privilege with birthing children and art.

They get to experience life force and universal energy moving through their s*x like the mighty Sun. Hot, electric, wanting to explode outward into their vast, feminine, black mystery.

Their task and burden is to redirect this energy so it doesn't become oppressive or dominant, but regenerative, nourishing, and supportive for all.

THAT is the power of being a man.

And then, we ALL get to play with the masculine/feminine forces that s*x hormones amplify.

Men can invoke the feminine when they make art, when they need to soften when tending to their daughters, when they let another man hold them.

Women get to invoke the masculine when they need to externalize a boundary instead of only empathize and tolerate, when they need to harden to raise their boys as single parents.

This is the shared power of invoking the feminine/masculine binaries and letting them move through you - regardless of s*x, s*xuality, or gender identity.

I teach this through a male-only space called Embodied Masculinity. It's a 6 month program starting in January. Registration closes in 2 weeks. You can register through the link in my bio.

We've welcomed non-binary men, gay, bi, and straight men over the past 3 years and this theory has served them all well.

11/23/2025

2025 and it's still fringe as f*ck for men to do somatic work. Why? Because men are conditioned to suppress the parts of themselves that are tender and vulnerable with dissociation and p**n. Join Luis and his friend Steven as they discuss masculinity and the upcoming 6 month Embodied Masculinity Slow group, starting January sixth.

Steven reminisces about singing with a friend when he was 11 years old, when a parent commented, "You are gay, aren't you?" Singing with a friend was "not masculine enough" and something to be repressed. But with somatic work, work that is inherently feminine in it's inward focus, men are able to soften and reclaim their masculinity. When they learn to let themselves, and a group, hold them they take the pressure off of the females in their lives from doing all of the emotional labor for them.

As an Embodied Masculinity small group facilitator Steven gives us a peak into one of his favorite moments, and two practices, from past Embodied Masculinity Slow groups. This inspires Luis to guide an impromptu somatic practice. Slowing down and softening creates more space and capacity to drop defensiveness, allowing the body to begin releasing conditioning and therefore integrating new experiences of masculinity.

You can connect with Steven through his website: intimatelyhuman.com

You can read more about, and register for, the 2026 Embodied Masculinity group here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/slow-practice-mens-group

Listen to the podcast:
https://holisticlifenavigation.buzzsprout.com/

Watch on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/

11/22/2025

Addiction is the result of not knowing how to find safety in yourself.

I should know. I was addicted to food, ci******es, hookups, and p**n for many years and didn't know I could find other sources for co-regulation.

I don't call people addicts because it's too reductive, and it's unhelpful to identify a human being with their behavior.

People, however, are addicted to safety and temporary safety. And they should be.

What do we expect of ourselves and others?

Whether it's co***ne, chocolate, s*x, money, or other people's validation - our bodies get some biochemical shift from the experience that makes us feel safe...temporarily.

Since the safety isn't being tended to within, or built up from within, we rely on the external thing.

Once the food metabolizes, or the situation is over, the body goes back to its baseline of depression, anxiety, overwhelm, or grief and it triggers us to "use" whatever made us feel better.

This Monday 24th at 4pm EST I am hosting a *FREE* addiction circle that will teach you more about how somatics and nutrition can be powerful allies for recovering from addiction.

Please comment "session" to get the link sent to your DMs, or visit the link in my bio.

This photo was taken in Brooklyn during a training I was assisting. I sat down to breathe and ground and this beautiful stray cat wandered onto my lap. He became a friend and we co-regulated right there together.

Let's explore other sources of safety and how we can help our bodies maintain the state without the addictive substance or behavior.

See you there. 💚

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