Nine Centered: The New School of Human Design Podcast

In this episode of the Tangible Changes series, we explore what actually shifts when you live as a Sacral Generator, moving from mental understanding into embodied response, capacity, and trust in the body.
In this conversation, we're joined by Tegan Parkinson and Carina Dusseldorp and we explore lived changes that emerge when Generators stop forcing, stop future-tripping, and begin honoring their sacral energy in daily life, relationships, work, and parenting.
The shift from over-analyzing Human Design to living strategy and authority

What sacral response actually feels like (and why it’s not always loud or dramatic)

Navigating fear, money pressure, and survival energy as a Generator

Capacity, boundaries, and giving from overflow instead of people-pleasing

Trusting the body over the mind, especially in high-stakes moments

Why simplicity, presence, and patience create sustainable satisfaction

Tegan Parkinson
2/4 Sacral Generator | Cross of the Maya
Tegan shares her grounded, embodied approach to Human Design, shaped by years of self-work around anxiety, presence, and nervous system awareness. Human Design became a validation, not a rulebook, helping her trust not knowing and live in deeper alignment with her sacral response. She also does Akashic Records readings.
🔗 Book with Tegan: https://teganparkinson.com/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teganparky

Carina Dusseldorp
5/2 Sacral Manifesting Generator | Cross of Industry
Carina brings a deeply somatic and holistic lens, reflecting on growing up misunderstood, learning to trust her defined spleen and ego, and creating freedom through honoring her body’s needs. Her work bridges Human Design, embodiment, and parenting through differentiation.
🔗 Book with Carina: https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/profiles/carina-dusseldorp/

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carinadusseldorp/

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Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠@teresaabrenneman⁠⁠

We're back for Season 2 of Nine Centered to explore how life actually changes through the Human Design experiment and what it's like to live it.
This episode kicks off a four-part series on living your design beyond conceptual Human Design, starting with Generators and Manifesting Generators. In the following episodes, we'll hear from all types and a mix of unique perspectives and voices.
Living your design beyond theory and legacy narratives: what does it tangibly look like?

Observing Human Design from birth as Teresa welcomes her baby boy into the world

Emotional authority before and after Human Design and the reality of the wave

Confidence, the 2/4 profile, and responding to callouts

Letting go of optics and external validation, how relational dynamics have shifted

Fear, the body, and deconditioning the spleen

Chronic health issues as communication from the body

Expansion of the NSHD analyst community and featuring more voices on the podcast

Interested in Analyst Training? Semester 2 begins early March and you can still join. ⁠Apply here!⁠
Book sessions:
⁠Teresa⁠
⁠James⁠
⁠Check out our team of Analysts⁠
Follow us on Instagram:
The New School of Human Design on IG // ⁠⁠⁠@newschoolofhumandesign⁠⁠⁠
James Alexander on IG // ⁠⁠⁠@james_alexander_coaching⁠⁠⁠
Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠⁠@teresaabrenneman⁠⁠⁠

Are you over-intellectualizing the Human Design System and approaching it with dogma? In this new podcast episode, we explore our relationship with the mind: how it shapes our sense of self, how we orient to the Human Design system, and how we connect with others. We discuss the pitfalls of mental over-intellectualization in the Human Design field and why embodiment is essential for real transformation. 

What you'll hear about in this episode: 
♦️The Mind and Human Design
The mind can distort truth when it leads our experiment.Dogmatic or black-and-white thinking can turn anything—even Human Design—into a cult-like experience. Embodiment is non-negotiable: without it, the system stays theoretical. 
♦️ Returning to the Body
We share personal experiences of becoming disembodied through spiritual overreach and finding their way back through Human Design and inner authority.True understanding arises from felt experience, not belief systems or external validation. 
♦️ Practicing with Integrity
Observe first, then apply Human Design to what you’ve lived.Avoid mental witch hunts for mechanics; let truth reveal itself.Follow what your inner authority draws you to learn—nothing more.Transits and complex teachings should support awareness, not feed anxiety. 
♦️Relationships Through a Nine-Centered Lens
Relate to others beyond their chart; avoid “guru” or superiority traps."Rules" (like sleeping separately) are experiments, not mandates—follow what actually works for your body and relationship. Love is not something conceptual or even mechanical. Embodiment builds honesty, empathy, and trust. 
♦️Deconditioning, Truth, and Embodiment
The system can either pull you deeper into your mind or anchor you in your body.Real growth comes through grounded awareness—being with your experiences, not bypassing them. Cults keep you mental; embodiment brings you home to yourself. 
♦️Announcements
Teresa will be taking a few months off for maternity leave, but don’t worry—James will be hosting some incredible guests in her absence! You can look forward to hearing from some former NSHD students, offering a range of perspectives and insights. 

Analyst Training Enrollment — Enrollment is still open for the 2025–2026 Analyst Training cohort!
Semester 1 has already begun, but if you’re ready to dive in and can catch up with the recordings, there’s still time to join us on this journey. Enrollment will officially close when Semester 2 begins in March 2026, so there's plenty of time to catch up and still get the live experience.
⁠⁠Apply here!⁠⁠

Book sessions:
⁠Teresa⁠
⁠James⁠
⁠Check out our team of Analysts⁠
Follow us on Instagram:
The New School of Human Design on IG // ⁠⁠⁠@newschoolofhumandesign⁠⁠⁠
James Alexander on IG // ⁠⁠⁠@james_alexander_coaching⁠⁠⁠
Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠⁠@teresaabrenneman⁠⁠⁠

Human Design, Deconditioning, Embodiment, Mindfulness, Somatics, Self-Trust, Relationships, Personal Growth, Nine-Centered Being, Inner Authority, Human Design Analyst

In this episode, we dive into the intricacies of Human Design composite charts—what happens when two charts merge to form a unique relational dynamic.
What we explore:
Composite “rhymes” like 9-0: Nowhere to Go and 8-1: Have Some Fun, and how different numbers of open centers shape relationship dynamics.

The composite as a third entity—how new channels, authorities, and defined centers influence a partnership.

The four types of channel connections (companionship, dominance, electromagnetics, and compromise) and how they create attraction, friction, or challenges.

Navigating inner authority and communication in relationships, especially when partners process decisions and express themselves differently.
Personal reflections and what we've learned from various relationships
The future of relationships as society shifts from the Cross of Planning to the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix—toward sovereignty, individuality, and spirit-lifting love

Interested in Analyst Training? The next cohort begins September 29, 2025. Apply here!
Book sessions:
Teresa
James
Check out our team of Analysts
Follow us on Instagram:
The New School of Human Design on IG // ⁠⁠@newschoolofhumandesign⁠⁠
James Alexander on IG // ⁠⁠@james_alexander_coaching⁠⁠
Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠@teresaabrenneman⁠⁠

Mercury retrograde may have thrown delays, mishaps, and communication snags, yet we're finally back with another episode!
In this episode, we continue our conversation from the previous episode to dive into our personal deconditioning stories. We explore the subtle yet powerful ways the mind pulls us off track—whether through distraction in view, transference in motivation, or the conditioned patterns stored in open centers.
Teresa shares how her Desire motivation and Personal view can focus her like a “heat-seeking missile” when aligned, but lead to apathy or political overdrive when in distraction. James unpacks how his Guilt motivation and Survival view serve him when correct, but can also keep him stuck in “shoulds,” overgiving, or false hope.
We also dig into the lived experience of our open centers—Teresa’s completely open Ego and Head, James’s undefined Spleen and Root—and how these areas have shaped self-worth, information processing, sense of safety, and relationship patterns. Our stories illuminate how deconditioning is not about erasing these patterns, but revisiting them with greater awareness each time they resurface.
The next cohort of Analyst Training begins September 29, 2025.
We will begin with Semester 1: Building the Story of the Conditioned Self, where students will learn how to excavate conditioning patterns with objectivity and compassion—preparing to spot them in themselves and others.
To check out the full syllabus, click here.
Follow us on Instagram:
The New School of Human Design on IG // ⁠⁠@newschoolofhumandesign⁠⁠
James Alexander on IG // ⁠⁠@james_alexander_coaching⁠⁠
Teresa Brenneman on IG // ⁠⁠@teresaabrenneman⁠⁠