Nine Centered: The New School of Human Design Podcast

Caroline Dijckmeester-Bins joins James and Teresa to get into what it means to live life as a Manifestor. The anger, the loneliness, the beached whale conditioning, and what it's taken to stop hiding behind other people's words.
Caroline is a 4/6 Splenic Ego Manifester, certified Human Design analyst with The New School of Human Design, and a journalist based in Amsterdam. She works with people through what she calls "In Your Own Words" sessions — a process of helping people find their own language for who they are and what they do, drawing on her journalism background and HD knowledge.
In this episode:
[00:31] Caroline's origin story — a 6-year documentary, a big fallout, and stumbling onto Human Design
[07:07] The Manifestor feeling of being removed — loneliness and what reframed it
[09:18] The urge as superpower — what it feels like when Caroline gets out of her own way
[13:00] Mental initiation vs. a true urge — how to tell the difference
[21:20] The two Manifestor archetypes: the rebel and the beached whale
[24:49] Informing — why doing it as a question defeats the whole purpose
[44:30] Manifestor impact — and why Manifestors often can't see their own
[01:01:07] Caroline's offering: helping people find their own words
[01:17:42] One thing you don't often hear about Manifestors — they love being impacted too
Resources mentioned:
The New School of Human Design Analyst Training Program https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/analyst-training-2025-2026/
Rave Mandala course with James — https://newschoolofhumandesign.com/product/rave-mandala-360-pre-recorded/
Caroline's website — https://www.carolinebinsmedia.com/human-design-sessions

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In this episode, James sits down with Human Design analyst Mike Litvin for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to live your design as a somatic, embodied practice.
Mike is a 6/2 emotional Projector with power view. He's on the Left Angle Cross of Alpha. In addition to his Human Design work, he is a writer, cartoonist, publisher, and mystic. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.
He and James met at the first High Desert Human Design Conference in 2021 and spent years as neighbors in Santa Fe, logging countless hours of conversation that probably should have been recorded. This is their first time doing exactly that.
Topics covered:
Mike's origin story with Human Design and the role of aura in deepening the experiment
What projector recognition actually feels like from the inside — and why it has nothing to do with the words someone is saying
The not-self trap of trying to make things happen as a projector
What waiting really means — and what it definitely isn't
Attention hygiene and why doom-scrolling hits Projectors differently
Triple split mechanics: why variety, movement, and different locations matter
The Generator's experience of Projector recognition — James tracks the mechanics from his own side
Sacral response beyond the grunt: how to read genuine generator alignment
Why Human Design stays an intellectual system for so many people and what it takes to move past that
The somatic piece of the experiment
HD-informed therapy and where Mike's practice is heading
Living the experiment long enough that the system just comes with you
Connect with Mike:https://www.attunement.info

James and Teresa take a break from the guest series to dig into one of their favorite topics: emotional authority. Both are emotional, both have lived it for years, and this episode reflects that depth.

They cover what it actually means to wait through your wave, what clarity feels like in the body, and why the way emotional authority has been taught in the field leaves a lot out. The conversation moves through the three wave phenomena Ra identified, why none of them are actually part of the decision-making process, what emotional intensity has to do with clarity, and how the mind gets emotionally defined people stuck in ways they often don't recognize.

They also get into what it's like to navigate the world as an emotional person alongside splenic people, what non-emotionals get wrong about emotional maturity, and how somatic awareness changes the whole experience of living with a defined solar plexus.

TOPICS COVERED
Teresa's first introduction to Human Design and why emotional authority landed immediatelyWhat Ra got right and where his teaching stopped shortThe difference between wave phenomena and the actual clarity processWhat emotional clarity feels like somaticallyThe three wave types: spike and lock, crash wave, and ratchet wave, and why none of them are decision-making toolsHow the mind amplifies and distorts the emotional processRaw emotional data vs. feeling as interpretationThe splenic/emotional divide and different relationships to time, depth, and informationCo-regulation, emotional empathy, and when you need a splenic person to cut through the fogIntegrating splenic awareness and emotional authority when you have bothWhat non-emotionals misunderstand about emotional maturity

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For the next episode of our series focusing on Type, James sits down with Nils Kunisch, a 3/5 Self-Projected Projector, certified NSHD analyst, and seven-year Human Design experimenter based in Germany. Nils works alongside his partner — a trauma therapist with over 15 years of experience — combining Human Design with somatic practice.

This is a rare and honest look at what the Projector experiment actually feels like from the inside. Nils and James cover self-projected authority and how to somatically tell the difference between the mind speaking and the G-Center, the sternum sensation as an Inner Authority marker, and what recognition really feels like versus being projected onto. Nils shares about Desire motivation and its transference to Innocence, Projector energy and what success actually looks like without motors, the Generator-Projector dynamic from both sides of the aura, and why presence is a Projector's most underestimated gift.

They also get into the no-choice conversation, nervous system work as the real foundation of deconditioning, and the traps that even experienced HD students fall into — including forcing Human Design as an explanatory lens onto everything.

Nils is a certified analyst with the New School of Human Design. To learn more about his work or book a session, visit
his site https://paths.to/nils.kunisch
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In this episode of the Type 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/

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