160: 5 Years & Half a Million Downloads: Your Favorite Episodes & Ours (with Til Luchau & Whitney Lowe)

🎙 5 Years of The Thinking Practitioner: Our Favorites & Top 5 Most Popular Episodes

It's been 5 years since we launched The Thinking Practitioner — with over half a million downloads and 130,000 unique listeners along the way. In this special retrospective episode, Til and Whitney look back at personal favorites that shaped their own thinking, then count down the top 5 most-listened episodes of all time.

What stands out? A clear shift from tissue-focused to nervous-system-first thinking. Ideas about consent, context, and the client experience that once felt radical now feel like common sense. And the conversations that resonated most? They're about fascia, trauma, pain, and the practitioners brave enough to challenge what we think we know.

🎧 Episodes discussed (in order of appearance):

Personal favorites:
- Ep 140: Embodied Attention & Contact Improvisation (Nita Little)
- Ep 23: Do Expectations Shape Results? (Mark Bishop)
- Ep 80: What We Might Learn From Sex (Betty Martin)
- Ep 144: Movement Optimism (Greg Lehman)
- Ep 130: The Body of Grief (Jun Park)
- Ep 146: Inflammation, Touch & the Grieving Body (Mary-Francis O'Connor)
- Ep 135: The Neuroscience of Bodywork (Mark Olson)

Top 5 most popular of all time:
5. Ep 108: Trauma & Bodywork (Peter Levine)
4. Ep 79: Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, Fascia, and Pain (Tina Wang)
3. Ep 45: Fascia in Sport & Movement (Robert Schleip)
2. Ep 69: Back Pain, Stiffness & Fascia (Stuart McGill)
1. Ep 126: Fascia: A Deep Dive (Dr. Antonio Stecco)

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The Thinking Practitioner Podcast is intended for professional practitioners of manual and movement therapies — bodywork, massage therapy, structural integration, physical therapy, osteopathy, and similar professions. It is not medical or treatment advice.