Your Body Keeps Score, But Music And Breath Can Rewrite It With Ian Wilkerson

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Ian Franklin-Wilkerson grew up in a family of healers. His mother, Michele Newmark, was a renowned Reichian therapist in San Francisco. His father is a chiropractor. He has ten chiropractors in his extended family. Healing isn’t something Ian chose. It chose him. But Ian brought something new to the lineage: music. After his uncle Bobby handed him a BC Rich electric guitar at age twelve, Ian fell in love with rock and roll and the way it made him feel. He describes discovering the Beatles, Hendrix, Bob Marley, and feeling “revolution through music, empowerment, sovereignty, righteousness.” That passion led him to Berklee College of Music, where he earned dual degrees in Music Therapy and…