The body is not a servant of the head — fascial and vagal systems store sensation that drives emotion and health; Drouet extends the trilogy into somatic liberation and interoceptive practice.

Drouet (2018) · Éditions Dangles · ISBN 9782703312352

Key principles

  • Body as primary brain — Somatic and fascial systems store sensation that drives emotion and health — not servant to the head alone.
  • Vagal freeze — Immobilization and bracing hold unfinished stress — release work is physiological, not only narrative.
  • Fascial memory — Connective tissue carries load and signal — interoceptive attention reaches what talk skips.
  • Somatic liberation — Practices that restore sensation and mobility change mood and choice — third volume in Drouet trilogy.
  • Interoceptive practice — Log body signal before cognitive story — Manual Of Me pairs with metabolism and digestion threads.
  • Trilogy capstone — Follows thought and heart volumes — use when room returns to physiological self-governance.

Core science

Synthesizes body-intelligence and somatic regulation claims — how autonomic and enteric systems carry signal that conscious narrative alone cannot access. Pair with Metabolism when the mechanism map helps.