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Embodiment Matters Podcast

57 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 59 ratings

Embodiment Matters is an ongoing, rich conversation about what it really means to be embodied, and why and how embodiment matters so much in our daily lives and in our world. Our guests include wise and insightful teachers from the realms of somatics, Buddhism, meditation, social justice, psychotherapy, movement arts, bodywork, martial arts, neuroscience, environmentalists, indigenous teachers,​ and more.

In our conversations, we explore a wide range of topics around waking up and being embodied, and offer guided practices to help return to your embodiment as a source of wisdom, guidance and intimacy with life.

Your hosts, Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke, have been devoted to waking up and being embodied for the last 25 years. They have extensive training and practice in The Feldenkrais Method, Yoga & Yoga Therapy, Structural Integration, Embodied Life, Buddhist Meditation, Tai Chi, Focusing, Ayurveda, and more. They share a passion for sharing potent practices that support people in becoming more embodied, more mindful and aware, more rooted in liberating kindness, and more free in all ways; as well as more able to bring their unique gifts forth to benefit the world.
They live in Salt Lake City, and can be found at bodyhappy.com

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Watering the Seeds of Soul: A Conversation with Holly Truhlar and Erin Geesaman Rabke

January 16, 2024 01:35 - 1 hour - 47.2 MB

Watering the Seeds of Soul A conversation with Holly Truhlar and Erin Geesaman Rabke   Find out more about Watering the Seeds of Soul at hollytruhlar.com embodimentmatters.com https://watering-the-seeds-of-soul.mn.co     In this conversation we explore how we came into grief work both personally and professionally.   We share a bit about what is unique about our approach to grief, including Soul, somatics, the mythopoetic, anti-oppression, biocultural restoration and more. ...

Embodying Maitri: The Essential Ingredient With Erin Geesaman Rabke

February 12, 2023 16:55 - 49 minutes - 37.3 MB

Embodying Maitri: The Essential Ingredient with Erin Geesaman Rabke     We’re delighted to share with you this podcast where Erin speaks about the practice of Maitri. Maitri is a Sanskrit word often translated as “lovingkindness” but several teachers in our lineage have gone further, naming it “courageous unconditional friendliness,” or “brave warmheartedness.” In this episode, Erin speaks about the importance of this practice in living a healing life. Traditional Buddhist teachings ...

Initiation and the Markings of Adulthood: A Conversation with John Wolfstone

November 09, 2022 16:26 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

In this conversation, Carl speaks with John Wolfstone. John is third-generation settler, working on the Traditional and Unceded territory of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok Peoples. His blood and bones hold Hebraic, Norse and Celtic ancestry, and his spirit is from the Stars. As a wilderness rites-of-passage guide, ritualist, community consultant, relationship coach, and transmedia story-teller, John is on a mission to reclamate adulthood initiation rites-of-passage. Holding space for t...

Embodying Reverent Relationship with Marika Heinrichs

September 13, 2022 18:27 - 1 hour - 77.9 MB

Embodying Reverent Relationship with Marika Heinrichs   What a pleasure to speak with Marika Heinrichs of Wildbody.ca about somatics, lineages, respect and repair - and what a delight to have such a rich and tender conversation in Rumi’s field that sits outside of any rigid and fixed ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing.    I hope you enjoy this important conversation.      Marika Heinrichs is the granddaughter of German Mennonite, British, and Irish settlers to the part of Turtl...

On Mycelium, Compost, and Animate Sensibilities: A Conversation With Sophie Strand

April 21, 2022 16:58 - 1 hour - 82 MB

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories.  She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients.   In a favorite audio program called How to be an Elder, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes says: “”Wh...

Animal Body, Deep Time and the Thing We All Long For: A Conversation With Josh Schrei

March 23, 2022 13:30 - 1 hour - 74.5 MB

Animal Body, Deep Time and The Thing We All Long For: A Conversation with Josh Schrei Friends, we are delighted to share this recent conversation with Josh Schrei. Joshua Michael Schrei is the founder and host of The Emerald podcast. The Emerald combines evocative narrative, soul-stirring music, and interviews with award-winning authors and luminaries to explore the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth, story, and imagination. The Emerald draws from a deep well of poetry, lore, ...

Tipping The Scales Toward Love and Goodness: A Conversation With Mark Nepo

January 18, 2022 16:08 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB

Tipping The Scales Toward Love & Goodness In this beautiful conversation with poet, writer, and teacher Mark Nepo, we begin exploring Mark’s beautiful take on what it means to be embodied. Throughout the conversation, we were blessed with Mark’s soulful readings of several of our favorites of his poems. We discuss how care can erase the walls we keep building between us, and how using our imagination in service of a more beautiful world is so needed in a time of polarized divisiveness. It’...

Embodying Prayer and Soul Activism: A Conversation With Nan Seymour

January 17, 2022 19:42 - 1 hour - 74.8 MB

Embodying Prayer and Soul Activism In this beautiful conversation, I speak to poet, facilitator and soul activist Nan Seymour, who also happens to be one of my dearest friends. We take as a springboard for our conversation Nan’s recently published book of poems called prayers not meant for heaven. Nan weaves several of her poems throughout the conversation and they’re beautiful. We talk about bio-cultural restoration, about the importance of writing and reading during these times, ab...

Embodying Creativity: A Conversation with Liam Bowler

January 05, 2022 18:31 - 1 hour - 69.5 MB

Liam Bowler is a teacher, writer, father, bodyworker and hosts the Body Awake Podcast.    He is the author of A Creator’s Companion, a beautiful book that explores the many elements of the process of creativity.    In our conversation, we speak about embodiment, and embodiment as relationship, and how each of our understandings of embodiment has evolved over the years.    We reflect together about creativity, and the necessity of courtship with the creative process. We speak abou...

Entering A Wild Love Affair with The World: Embodiment, Bees, Dream Activism and More. A Conversation with Ariella Daly

December 09, 2021 18:28 - 1 hour - 75.1 MB

Ariella is a beekeeper, writer, teacher, musician and mother living in Northern California. Her work with honey bees came through a lifelong interest in human connection with the non-human world.  She is a graduate of the Lyceum, a European shamanic pathway with the bee and the serpent as its central motifs.  Within this tradition, she is trained in the healing and seership modality known as the Pollen Method.  Her work is a fusion of her love for the natural world and embodied, womb-centric...

We Were Made For These Times: A Conversation With Kaira Jewel Lingo

November 28, 2021 16:16 - 1 hour - 71.3 MB

We Were Made For These Times: A conversation with Kaira Jewel Lingo   In this conversation with Kaira, we explore many rich topics including:   embodiment and mindfulness as not separate her new book We Were Made For These Times the practice of coming home to ourselves applying these teachings in the mess of real life rather than just a monastic situation social justice and mindfulness and how each of these need each other the mantras of True Love from Thich Nhat Hanh powe...

You Were Born Into Beauty as Beauty for Joyful Life, and That's The Truth: A Deep and Wide Conversation With Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining

November 27, 2021 16:33 - 1 hour - 80.2 MB

    In this rich conversation with wise woman Pat McCabe we explore many topics including    embodiment as a core practice of decolonization and her trouble with the word “decolonizing”  healing after cultural severance through Indian boarding schools in family history and the power of growing a multi-faceted identity the importance of including the body in prayer (in her case through sweat lodge ceremony) The question: How do human beings live in such a way that we can support ...

Embodying Spontaneity: A Conversation With Jozef Frucek of Fighting Monkey

November 23, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 67.5 MB

Embodying Spontaneity: A Conversation With Jozef Frucek of Fighting Monkey   In conversation, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Jozef Frucek. He and Linda Kapetanea are the creators of Fighting Monkey, which is a beautiful system that weaves together movement, learning, communication, creativity, improvisation and a re-imagination of the process and experience of aging.    Jozef has studied deeply in Chinese medicine and martial arts along with having advanced degrees in voic...

I Wish You Heartbreak- An Exploration of the 19 Ways with Deena Metzger

October 19, 2021 16:15 - 1 hour - 73.2 MB

I Wish You Heartbreak - An Exploration of the 19 Ways with Deena Metzger   We’re so grateful and honored to begin the 3rd season of the Embodiment Matters podcast by sharing with you this rich conversation with wise elder Deena Metzger.    A poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman who has taught and counseled for over fifty years, in the process of which she has developed therapies which creatively address life threatening diseases, spiritual and emo...

Deep Liberation: A Conversation With Langston Kahn

May 12, 2021 17:45 - 1 hour - 76.4 MB

Greetings Listener friends,    We are delighted to share with you our recent conversation with Langston Kahn.   Langston Kahn is a black, queer teacher and shamanic practitioner who specializes in radical human transformation, ancestral healing, and restoring an authentic relationship with our emotions. He stands firmly at the crossroads; his practice informed by somatic modalities, contemporary shamanic traditions, initiations into traditions of the African diaspora, and his helpi...

Sacred Instructions: A Conversation With Sherri Mitchell

April 19, 2021 17:11 - 1 hour - 79.8 MB

We’re so grateful to be able to share this inspired conversation with the amazing Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset. We absolutely love her book, Sacred Instructions, and highly recommend it! While we only touched on a fraction of the questions we wanted to ask Sherri, we did explore many rich topics together, including  Her beautiful perspective on embodiment How we come to recognize our power and how this can get confused in a capitalist culture (and what the Law of Attraction get...

Embodiment and Social Justice: A Conversation With Reverend angel Kyodo williams and Dr. Scott Lyons

April 02, 2021 13:23 - 1 hour - 91.3 MB

Embodiment & Social Justice We shared such a potent and enlivening conversation with Rev. angel Kyodo williams and Dr. Scott Lyons. In this conversation we talk about an upcoming training they are hosting called the Embodied Social Justice Certification Program. So of course, we talked about some of our favorite topics - embodiment, social justice, soft-bellies, the highly contagious nature of reactivity, spiritual bypassing, ways of perceiving our world as influenced by our conditioning ...

Embodiment and the Journey of Soul Initiation: A Conversation With Bill Plotkin

March 20, 2021 17:08 - 1 hour - 80.2 MB

What a powerful conversation we shared, exploring Plotkin’s new book, the Journey of Soul Initiation as well as his vast body of work.  Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., is a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural regeneration. As founder of western Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute in 1981, he has guided thousands of seekers through nature-based initiatory passages, including a contemporary, Western adaptation of the pan-cultural vision fast. Previously, he has been a research ps...

Take Heart: A Conversation With Kathleen Dean Moore

February 08, 2021 17:43 - 56 minutes - 64.8 MB

I’m so thrilled to share this episode with you, dear listeners, in which I have the privilege of interviewing one of my hero-writers, Kathleen Dean Moore, whose 2016 book Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Changewas life-changing for me. In this moving conversation, we explore the extinction crisis, what love really means, the importance of facing grief directly; about the necessity of locking the door to despair; and the importance of maintaining ou...

The Embodiment Conference: A Conversation with Philip Shepherd, Brooke McNamara, Mark Walsh and Roma Pijlman

October 09, 2020 21:53 - 59 minutes - 68.1 MB

    In this episode, Carl speaks with Mark Walsh, Brooke McNamara,   Roma Pijlman, and Philip Shepherd about the upcoming free online Embodiment Conference, and the necessity of embodiment in these times.  The Embodiment Conference runs from October 14-25, 2020, and features many guests we have had on this podcast, including Charles Eisenstein, Bayo Akomolafe, Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi, Loch Kelly, David Abram, Russell Delman, Philip Shepherd, Brooke McNamara, along with many other lumi...

Embodying Sacred Activism: A Conversation With Cynthia Jurs

September 04, 2020 19:37 - 1 hour - 83.7 MB

Friends, we are thrilled to be able to share our recent interview with the incredible  Cynthia Jurs with you.    Before sharing her official bio, I want to tell you that I find Cynthia to be one of the most moving human beings I’ve met in a very long time. Her humility, her wisdom, her bone-deep dedication to healing the Earth and fostering awakening in herself and others is truly awe-inspiring. I adore her so much it’s almost painful! Carl and I have had the good fortune to learn and pr...

The Mythic Masculine: A Conversation With Ian MacKenzie

August 23, 2020 17:23 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB

In this episode, Carl speaks with Ian MacKenzie, host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast.  Ian MacKenzie is a filmmaker, speaker, and writer who lives on the Salish Sea with his partner and son.  His films include Lost Nation Road, Amplify Her, Sacred Economics, Prayer to the Earth, an Indigenous Response to These Times. For more than decade, Ian has been tracking the global emergence of new culture. From the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St, he has sought and amplifie...

Uncommon Considerations in the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe

July 13, 2020 00:39 - 1 hour - 84 MB

Uncommon Considerations in the Anthropocene An Interview with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe   Friends, we’re thrilled to share with you this most recent interview with our dear friend, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo is a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor, proud diaper changer, and passionate about the preposterous. He’s a thinker and speaker unlike any you’ve met before. Born and raised in Nigeria, Bayo currently lives with his wife and two children in Chennai, India, and pre-pandemic, spent m...

A Mythic Response to Our Times: A Conversation With Michael Meade

June 28, 2020 18:28 - 1 hour - 81.2 MB

A Mythic Response to Our Times   In this profoundly deep and freewheeling conversation we cover so much soulful ground. We begin with one of our favorite topics that Michael Meade has been teaching on for years: Your innate genius. He tells of the origins of his teaching about genius with severely at-risk youth, and about how in honoring our unique genius we are all equal, across race, class, and other categories. We also explore the ancient notion that “the genius hides behind the wound...

In the Absence of the Ordinary: A Conversation With Francis Weller

June 11, 2020 16:03 - 57 minutes - 65.4 MB

Hello, listener friends! We’re delighted to share with you our most recent conversation with our dear friend and mentor, Francis Weller, psychotherapist, soul-activist, and author of the life-changing book The Wild Edge of Sorrow, as well as a newly released book of essays which we discuss in this interview. It is titled: In the Absence of the Ordinary: Essays in a Time of Uncertainty and is available for free or by donation on his website. https://www.francisweller.net/store.html In thi...

In the Absence of the Ordinary: A Conversation With Francis Weller

June 11, 2020 16:03

Hello, listener friends! We’re delighted to share with you our most recent conversation with our dear friend and mentor, Francis Weller, psychotherapist, soul-activist, and author of the life-changing book The Wild Edge of Sorrow, as well as a newly released book of essays which we discuss in this interview. It is titled: In the Absence of the Ordinary: Essays in a Time of Uncertainty and is available for free or by donation on his website. https://www.francisweller.net/store.html In thi...

Embodying A Sacred Relationship With Earth: A Conversation with Steven Martyn of The Sacred Gardener

May 29, 2020 17:21 - 1 hour - 73 MB

We had such an enlivening conversation with Steven which we’re so excited to share with you!  In this conversation we talk about Steven’s history - which included leaving civilization as a young man to live in the wild and forage to sustain himself. He eventually felt called to returned to civilization, pursued higher education and eventually growing food and medicines in new/old ways. He offers a beautiful short exercise on how to listen to plants. We also talk about the habit of grateful...

Embodiment and Relationships: A Conversation With Jan Dworkin, PhD

May 07, 2020 20:44 - 56 minutes - 65.1 MB

Friends, I had such an inspiring and useful conversation with Jan Dworkin! I loved her unique and powerful definition of embodiment. We spoke about human relationships in so many ways - what makes a “successful relationship” (hint - not just one that lasts forever.) We spoke about relationships as ground for profound learning, and that “learners can never be losers.” Of course we spoke about quarantine and responses to the pandemic and how that can show up in so many ways in our relationship...

Embodying the Spirit of Poetry: A Conversation with Brooke Mcnamara

February 07, 2020 19:53 - 1 hour - 82.3 MB

We had such a lovely and enlivening conversation with beautiful Brooke McNamara, who is a gifted poet, dance-theater artist, zen monk, teacher and mama, and whose poetry we ADORE. In this conversation, we talk about embodiment as a line between suffering and wellbeing. We explore many topics including ensoulment, the importance of creative process for its own sake, about parenting during this time of climate crisis, and so much more. And of course, we asked Brooke to read poetry from bot...

Embodiment Matters Featuring Sharon Blackie

January 28, 2020 14:10 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB

Oh friends, this is such a rich conversation that I’m thrilled to share with you. I (Erin) had the great pleasure of speaking with award-winning writer, Dr. Sharon Blackie, whose written work and online courses I’ve adored over the past several years. She’s the author of several books including If Women Rose Rooted, The Enchanted Life, and her latest, Foxfire Wolfskin. She’s an internationally recognized teacher whose work sits at the interface of psychology, mythology, and ecology. You can ...

Natural Movement: A Conversation with Erwan Le Corre

January 10, 2020 01:20 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

In this episode, Carl speaks with Erwan Le Corre. Erwan is the founder of MovNat, which is a system of movement and embodied learning that helps people to grow the movement skills, physiological preparedness, and mindsets for practical, adaptable participation in the world. In our conversation we explore what Natural Movement is, and why it is so valuable in these times. We look at the challenges that arise from the lack of movement in modern life, and the benefits of reclaiming some of th...

Embodiment: A Conversation With Mark Walsh

December 02, 2019 16:07 - 53 minutes - 61.7 MB

In this conversation I speak with Mark Walsh. Mark is an embodiment teacher and trainer who has developed the Embodied Facilitator Program along with Embodied Yoga Principles. Mark also hosts the Embodiment Podcast and the online Embodiment Conference which will take place the fall of 2020. In our conversation, we speak about a wide range topics, looking at how many of the current challenges the world faces have their roots in disembodiment. We also talk about Mark's new book that was just r...

The Work that Reconnects

October 21, 2019 23:58 - 1 hour - 82.5 MB

In this episode, Erin speaks with three trainers of The Work That Reconnects: Mutima Imani, Molly Brown, and Constance Washburn. We explore an overview of this pioneering body of work that includes Deep Ecology, Systems Thinking, and Buddhist practices, developed by root teacher Joanna Macy. We explore the three stories of our times: Business as Usual, The Great Unravelling, and The Great Turning, and how we can choose which story we’re carrying. We explore how spirituality and activism su...

Embodying the Wisdom of Ayurveda With Sunny Rose Healey

October 21, 2019 23:12 - 1 hour - 78.9 MB

In this episode I speak with my dear friend, Sunny Rose Healey, Ayurvedic practitioner and teacher. In this episode we talk about:  • a basic introduction to Ayurveda • 4 wise questions to ask to know if a particular regimen is good for you • tuning into natural rhythms in our days and through the seasons • the importance of digesting not only our food and drink, but every experience that comes our way • the importance of tending the digestive fire, “the mother fire,” and ways to do so...

Nights Of Grief and Mystery with Stephen Jenkinson

October 02, 2019 18:52 - 1 hour - 78.6 MB

In this episode we speak with Stephen Jenkinson. Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. He has written several books, including Die Wise: A Manifesto For Sanity and Soul, and Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in Times of Trouble. In this conversation we speak about Stephen's Nights Of Grief and Mystery tour that is coming to our home, Salt Lake City, November 16th, and is touring through North America during the fall o...

A Response To Our Times With Francis Weller

October 02, 2019 18:37 - 54 minutes - 62 MB

In this, our second conversation with Francis Weller, we once again have a wonderful, deep conversation covering many soulful topics, including: Letting go of searching for an answer, and instead leaning into our own unique response to these times. We talk about the cognitive and soul dissonance of information overload. Francis describes The Five Gates of Grief (if you haven’t been introduced to these yet, prepare to have your heart cracked open!) We explore what it means to create a safe co...

Remembering our Animal Senses and Sensuous Relationship With the Living World

July 19, 2019 18:14 - 1 hour - 85.6 MB

Oh, what a shimmering, gorgeous, living, and enlivening conversation with one of the great embodied thinkers of our time! We loved interviewing David Abram and know you’ll enjoy this episode in which we explore, through David’s unique and gorgeous way with language, ways to be embodied and fully alive in our over-civilized world. We explore ideas about our use of language and the possibilities for “wielding our words” in ways that hold our senses open rather than shutting them down. We speak...

Embodying Effortless Mindfulness

June 20, 2019 19:15 - 1 hour - 80.6 MB

Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW, is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the non-profit, Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. Lochteaches in a non-sectarian human being lineage using an adult education style based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science and psychotherapy. He is the author of Shift Into Freedom, and most recently The Way of Effortless Mindfulness.  In our conversation we explore the connection between embodiment and waking up in the world....

Animism, Embodiment, and Ancestral Healing

May 27, 2019 18:27 - 1 hour - 74.1 MB

In this episode we share a deeply nourishing conversation with Daniel Foor, PhD, author of Ancestral Medicine and creator of the Practical Animism course. We explore embodiment as inter-relationship and indebtedness to the other-than-human world, about the intimacy of eating other bodies (whether plant or animal.) He says there are no environmental problems only human behavior problems and we explore how an animist, embodied worldview can help heal many current issues, including racism, sexi...

Grounded Spirituality with Jeff Brown

March 10, 2019 18:15 - 55 minutes - 63.4 MB

In this lively episode, we take a conversational wild ride as we speak with author, filmmaker and iconoclast, Jeff Brown, of soulshaping.com. We speak about embodiment (of course!), consumerism preying on the uncentered, conscious armouring, the way embodied humans have a certain quality of gravity, the way he thinks anyone who calls themselves a spiritual teacher is full of shit, how to not throw the holy man out with the bathwater, a new model of yoga or somatic practice, and so much more....

Your Intelligent Body: A Conversation with Robert Bosnak

December 14, 2018 00:10 - 57 minutes - 65.9 MB

In this episode, Erin speaks with Jungian analyst, dreamworker, and originator of MQ (embodied intelligence), Robert Bosnak. We talk about what embodiment means, about learning from dreams, about animism, about the necessity of taking a multiplicity of perspectives, and toward the end of the episode Bosnak guides us in an embodied exercise working with a memory. We hope you enjoy! If you're inspired to take his course 10-week Course: Going Out Of Your Mind: Get Into Your Intelligent Body and...

A Living Body A Living Earth A Conversation with Charles Eisenstein

December 01, 2018 19:05 - 54 minutes - 62.6 MB

In this powerful conversation, we speak with Charles Eisenstein. Charles is a teacher, author, speaker, deep-thinker, and a good-hearted human being who asks great questions. His work challenges many of the deep stories and narratives that modern culture holds around economics, the environment, masculinity and more. His books include Sacred Economics, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, and the recently released Climate: A New Story. In this conversation, we cover a wide te...

Creativity, Embodiment, and Healing: A Conversation with Karen Wallace

November 22, 2018 20:37 - 52 minutes - 59.9 MB

In this episode, we playfully explore the territory of embodiment and creativity with Karen Wallace, M.Ed. BCATR. We speak about trauma, creativity, play, making things, and so much more. This conversation was so personally enriching for me!  
 Karen has a wealth of knowledge and experience in working with people of diverse backgrounds and ages. She’s written a gorgeous book called “There is No Need To Talk About This: Poetic Inquiry from the Art Therapy Studio.” Many of her poems are sim...

Mythic By Nature: A Conversation with Micheal Meade

September 17, 2018 15:37 - 53 minutes - 61.1 MB

In our conversation we talk about embodiment, and "lunar knowledge," and the many different ways of bodily knowing. We explore the importance and challenges of ritual practice in modern culture and how "ritual is creative work and not necessarily, repetitive work." We look at what it means to have a "mythic sense" of the world. We talk about the innate genius each of us carries, and, as Michael says, "The way we respond to the crisis in our life, hopefully, is to awaken the soul further, an...

The Case For Elderhood: A Conversation With Stephen Jenkinson

July 27, 2018 16:29 - 1 hour - 86 MB

In this episode (our longest yet, and worth every minute!) we have the great pleasure to speak to the inimitable Stephen Jenkinson.  Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. In this conversation, we explore topics such as how to strengthen your "wonder muscle," what it means to be a good ancestor, the importance of dwelling in not-knowing, what learning actually is, the etymology of the word "belonging," the importance of ...

A Conversation with Don & Diane St.John

July 16, 2018 15:40 - 51 minutes - 59.4 MB

In this episode we talk with Don & Diane St.John. Diane is a somatic counselor, coach and Continuum Teacher. Don is a somatic-relational psychotherapist, Continuum Teacher and author. We explore many topics related to embodiment and relationships. We speak about growing a somatic practice, about cultivating spaciousness, about investing in your own embodied awareness (you have to want to!.) We explore how being more fully embodied impacts our relationships. We speak about the importance of b...

Ecosomatics: A conversation with Chandler Stevens

July 10, 2018 15:03 - 53 minutes - 60.7 MB

Chandler Stevens is a somatic coach. He’s developing and organizing a body of work known as Ecosomatics, which revolves around the connections between body, mind, and environment.    In his private coaching practice he focuses on helping environmentally-conscious entrepreneurs get out of chronic pain and restore deep connection of body/mind so that they can tackle our world's biggest problems. In this conversation Chandler and Carl talk about many topics, including functional fitness and...

Embodying Resilience: A Conversation With Dr. Don St. John

June 29, 2018 18:36 - 45 minutes - 52.4 MB

In this conversation we speak with Dr. Don St John. Don is a psychotherapist, Hellerwork trainer, and Continuum Practitioner (among many other things,) and he wrote "Healing The Wounds of Childhood: A Psychologist's Journey and Discoveries From Wretched Beginnings to a Thriving Life." Don and his wife, Diane, live and teach in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our conversation stretched through many rich terrains: exploring what it means to embody resilience, how the quality of our tissues reflects our ...

The Light Longs for the Dark: A Conversation with Bayo Akomolafe

May 28, 2018 16:48 - 48 minutes - 55.5 MB

In this episode, we speak with the brilliant Bayo Akomolafe about embodiment, non-binary thinking, thoughts on the future of our world, activism, indigeneity, entanglement, and so much more. You're in for a treat! 

Decolonization: A conversation with Dr. Leny Strobe

May 21, 2018 18:28 - 58 minutes - 66.6 MB

In this episode, Erin speaks with Dr. Leny Strobel about her decades of work in decolonization,  as a Philipino-American, as well as in her role as a "settler" in her home in Northern California, and how it all connects with being embodied. We explore issues of race, of choosing to live small, of how to become indigenous to the place on earth we inhabit, and so much more. Leny is truly a wise elder and her kind heart, spacious awareness, and deep integrity, developed over many decades of dee...