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Less Stress Podcast

22 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Less Stress is a multidisciplinary project connecting trauma, embodiment, body practices, neuroscience, yoga and art, exploring links and dialogues between them to help us to connect to our human system holistically.

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Episodes

Embodiment Series: A Poem on Grief and Heartbreak

February 14, 2024 11:15 - 4 minutes - 4.61 MB

In this short episode, I'm sharing my own poem on grief and heartbreak, and its delicacies. I invite you to meditate on these things, and perhaps even invite your inner intimate lover. More about LESS STRESS: https://thelessstress.com/

#20, Gunnar Gjermundsen, Connecting Psychology and Spirituality

January 30, 2024 15:17 - 1 hour - 145 MB

In this episode we contemplated how psychology and spirituality can interconnect and compliment one another on our healing path. Join us in this conversation with psychologist, philosopher Gunnar Gjermundsen. Support us on Patreon @lessstress. Thank you! For any inquiries contact us at [email protected] https://thelessstress.com

Embodiment Series: Authentic Expression Meditation

December 17, 2023 14:53 - 38 minutes - 39.1 MB

Meditation for ease, deeper connection and authentic expression. Follow us @less.stress.art https://thelessstress.com/

#19, Jannecke Bugge, What is Courage in Leadership

October 30, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 173 MB

In this podcast episode we bravely delve into unpacking two foundational things in brave leadership: courage and vulnerability. Join us for this conversation with Jannecke Bugge, the co-founder of Brave Leadership in Norway. Support us on Patreon @lessstress. Your support can do wonders! For any inquiries: [email protected] www.lessstress.com

#18, Sahana Sriskandarajah, Personal, Collective and Systemic Interconnectedness

September 01, 2023 15:27 - 1 hour - 151 MB

In this podcast episode, we delve into the concept of interconnectedness and its implications for personal and collective growth. Join us as Gabriele engages in an insightful conversation with Sahana Sriskandarajah, a clinical psychologist who has ventured beyond traditional perspectives on psychology.S Support us on Patreon @lessstress. Your contribution can do wonders!

#17, Eleanor Flowers and River Flows, On Creativity

July 17, 2023 11:11 - 1 hour - 147 MB

In this episode we talked to Eleanor Johnson and River Flows. Eleanor Johnson is a British researcher, writer and artist based in Oslo. She is founder of two companies: Flower Consults and Love Stories. Eleanor on IG: @flowerseleanorflowers Godriver, aka River Flows. 28yrs old from Tanzania, who grew up in Norway. She is a full time corporate lady, self-employed dance instructor & choreographer, who inspires to create an impact through dance and creativity. She founded Flows Agency and co-...

#16, Tess Jewell-Larsen, On Boundaries

May 31, 2023 16:46 - 56 minutes - 130 MB

Boundaries are a tough topic, especially when it comes to any relationship. We often crave acceptance and recognition by dismissing our authenticity for that. We think if we're are more available, always present and positive, that's the only way to be liked. As Gabor Mate says, this society praises those that self-betray or dismiss those close to them. The society normalized hyperavailability, overworking, stress, self-betrayal for the good of others, and so on. That is because we are oft...

#15, Małgorzata Wosińska, Personal Belonging and Collective Trauma

March 25, 2023 08:46 - 1 hour - 150 MB

#15 Trauma as a response to an injury/stressor can affect all of us. At the level of the body and its physiology, different people may have similar symptoms, primarily resulting from increased production of hormones (such as adrenaline, noradrenaline, endorphins or cortisol), which are activated unconditionally in a life-threatening situation. The overproduction of hormones – understood as a defence mechanism (or dissociation) – is desirable during an injury since it relieves pain and very o...

#14, Gerard Fromm, Travelling Through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself in Society

December 20, 2022 08:36 - 54 minutes - 124 MB

#14 episode I will start with a  description from Gerard Fromm's, PhD, book "Travelling Through Time; How Trauma Plays Itself in Families, Organizations and Society": 'Sometimes that learning has to do with trauma: the way in which what can’t be emotionally contained, thought about or spoken in one part of a system is passed along, with disorganizing, sometimes heartbreaking consequences to another'. Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., is a psychologist-psychoanalyst who spent his clinical career at the A...

#13, Ufra Mir, On Peace Psychology

November 17, 2022 10:19 - 1 hour - 143 MB

In our #13 episode we sat with Gabriele and had a complex, enriching conversation with peace psychologist Ufra Mir, looking at holistic ways to build and work on peace not only as a concept, but an embodied way of being, thinking and relating. Ufra Mir is the first and only peace-psychologist from Kashmir, having earned her degree from USA and UK. She has introduced her peace-education, peace-psychology and transformation programs at various schools in Kashmir, in addition to working with y...

Episode 12, Kosha Joubert, On Collective Trauma

August 29, 2022 13:08 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Shortly, trauma is an overwhelming experience that is difficult to process in the moment of its happening. The outcome is usually stress, absence, numbing. According to trauma expert Thomas Hübl, when we have many nervous systems that have trauma in their unconscious, we are all part of systemic collective trauma experience. As Kosha says, "it's one process, the individual, ancestral, collective trauma – it's an entangled All in a space of interbeing." Good news is that the transcript of th...

Episode 11, Lena Korotkova, Strong and Vulnerable in My In-Betweenness

July 13, 2022 08:18 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Meet us here in a conversation with a psychotherapist and somatic therapist Lana Korotkova. With Lana I connected in that in-between space, we spoke the language of interdisciplinarity with ease and embodiment. I guess that holistic expression that comes from her is what made us to sense each other so well from the beginning.  She says: 'I have a strong feeling that I am both a psychologist and a dancer. When one of these parts are not present - I get into a meaning of life crisis. Therapy...

Episode 10, Cornelia Schmitz - Nothing is Lacking

May 31, 2022 07:36 - 55 minutes - 51 MB

In this episode i talked to my somatic therapy and the discipline of authentic movement teacher Cornelia Schmitz. To me our conversation feels as a present pulsation of a living cell - true, unrushed, authentic, unusual, rhythmic and nurturing. We felt rather than talked, yet both sensing, feeling and thinking can be found in this reflective episode. From Cornelia I'm learning active listening of my inner and outer environments, not simply what it says verbally, but also how the energy, emot...

Episode 9, Dr. Campbell Edinborough - Somatics in Theatre

March 21, 2022 09:38 - 1 hour - 122 MB

In this episode I talked to my lecturer Dr. Campbell Edinborough, from the time I was studying theatre in UK. Through his somatic practices used in movement and Stanislavski method  lectures, Campbell is somebody who allowed me to experience the body in space, but from the inside, through that inner awareness that expands to the outer space. That was that moment when I intuitively felt drawn to the somatic experience of life, understanding the space we are in both through our bodies (the inn...

Episode 8, Abha Rajbhandari - The Brain Doesn't Work in the Isolation with the Body

November 30, 2021 14:10 - 1 hour - 70.9 MB

Conversation include brain-body connection and vagus nerve, stress and fear, Polyvagal theory, spirituality and how far has the research evolved in trying to understand body-brain relationship and what does still remain unknown. Dr. Rajbhandari is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Rajbhandari obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied the role of the...

Episode 7, Rebekah Pierre - Healing Through the Body Moving

August 20, 2021 07:02 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MB

"I felt those children need to breath, dance and move, to get those painful experiences out of their bodies". With Rebekah we talked about truly embodied life experiences, having quite a beautiful friendship history beyond this conversation. We discussed Rebekah's book and what resources it required to write it, the power of the body moving and how crucial is to connect mind-body system to integrate traumas. You will hear some personal stories that we think are important and relatable to un...

Episode 6, Freya Cecily Mann - Creativity as the Innate Lifeforce

July 19, 2021 09:08 - 54 minutes - 126 MB

‘Creativity is the expression of your essence, the innate lifeforce’. In this episode the ‘Less Stress Podcast’ co-founders together with an art psychotherapist and healer Freya Cecily Mann are exploring foundations of creativity, its flow as well as blockages and their origins. We also are looking at different conditionings, influencing art creation process from suffering/pain space vs integrated/embodied flow space. How our bodies can sense the truth about the origins of the art, bypassin...

Episode 5, Yogacharya Arvind - Being and Becoming: Creating New Memories

May 19, 2021 08:56 - 1 hour - 172 MB

"The way you memorized your experiences in life, they way you chose to recollect them again and again in life, those memories and ego will play a major role in the way you think and the way you decide in the present moment. So the way I think now has the influence on the way I identify to myself, consciously or unconsciously. How far I am witnessing and how much I am participating in the present?" In this conversation we dived deeper into the layers of our experiences, consciousness and mem...

Episode 4, Jonathan Rosenthal - Science on Yoga: Finding Dialogues

April 29, 2021 09:34 - 59 minutes - 136 MB

"I noticed a lot of distrust of science in yoga community, likewise I noticed a lot of distrust of yoga in science community. Skepticism is healthy, but an open mind is necessary, so I think there is a strong limitation on the amount of dialogue between those two groups. Science is amazing and yoga is amazing and there's no reason they can't both be amazing." In one hour conversation we tried to cover many topics that involve nervous system, stress, yoga research, creativity and finding dia...

Episode 3, Yogacharya Rakesh "Yoga is a Practice of Presence"

March 22, 2021 11:32 - 1 hour - 181 MB

In episode 3 Živilė talked with her Yoga teacher and mentor Yogacharya Rakesh.  Yogacharya translated from Sanskrit language means the master or teacher of Yoga.   Rakesh together with Yogacharya Arvind is a founder of Samyak Yoga Teacher Training Institute in Mysore, India. He was introduced to Yoga and guided by Dr Ramachandra Bhatt, the chief Acharya of Veda Vijnana Gurukulam, Vice-Chancellor of SVYASA Yoga University, Bangalore. Veda Vijnana Gurukulam is a Vedic-Yogic monastery wherein...

Episode 2, Line Efraidsen "Inner Ecology"

March 17, 2021 12:14 - 1 hour - 176 MB

In this episode, together with Line Efraidsen we explored what "Inner Ecology" means to us.

Episode 1, Introduction to Less Stress

March 17, 2021 08:23 - 45 minutes - 104 MB

Our first podcast about trauma, embodiment, body practices, neuroscience, yoga and art that will be exploring links and dialogues between other disciplines and professions to help us all to connect our human system holistically. We will talk to scientists, artists, yoga professionals, movement therapists and other body-based practitioners that would help us to integrate traumas, rewire the pathways of our nervous system and overall find solutions to the more embodied living personally, artis...