Liberated Being
106 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 145 ratingsEvery week we're gathering together the thought leaders and experts who are helping us all to more happily inhabit our bodies. Whether you're trying to sort out pain or injury in your own body, or are just a lovable body nerd, we're here for you.
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Ep 106: Transition Updates
January 17, 2022 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBUpdates on the Liberated Being podcast and studio, and The Healing Arts Business Incubator at www.brookethomas.me/incubator
Ep 105: Terrain Medicine and Your Nervous System
June 08, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 36 MBToday I’m talking with Dr. Ginger Nash. Ginger is a naturopathic physician who has been in practice for over 20 years. Her practice centers around nutrition, herbal medicine and homeopathy, with a focus on personalized care and treating the underlying causes of disease rather than just symptom management. Her practice offers some of the best technology available for evaluating whole-body health and her particular specialties are women’s hormone balancing, and immune dysfunction such as aller...
Ep 104: Bringing Somatics to Schools with Emory M. Moore Jr
May 25, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBToday I’m talking with Emory M. Moore Jr. A health and fitness pioneer and innovator, he created the EM LifeWork TM & EM technique TM methods for holistic fitness, wellness and body harmony. Emory is a multi-certified exercise & movement master teacher and pioneer. With over 35 years of experience, Emory has immersed himself in the study of a myriad of disciplines including, but not limited to martial arts, dance, chi gong, yoga, bodywork, Pilates, Gyrotonic, somatic training & strength ...
Ep 103: Co-Creating with Community with Brea Fisher
May 18, 2021 09:00 - 53 minutes - 37.6 MBToday I’m talking with Brea Fisher. Brea is the founder of Quan Yin Gongfu and has spent the last 13 years dedicated to the disciplines of Qigong, Taiji, and Gongfu, drawing on focused study and knowledge of Daoist philosophy and lifestyle, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yin Yang theory, and Five Element theory. Brea unites the visual arts and the written word with the Chinese internal and martial arts. She carries the lineage of Eagle Claw Turning Style (Ying Zhao Fan Zi Men), teaching Gon...
Ep 102: My Experience of Where Trauma Met Awakening
May 06, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBA couple of weeks ago I was talking with David Treleaven about his book and training on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. If you missed that episode- it’s a good one- and you can find it in the podcast player you’re on now or at liberatedbeing.community at the podcast tab. This episode is a personal experience with where trauma met what is often referred to as "spiritual awakening" and how my practice, my approach to the practice (and the goal), and some harmful ideas of what awakening is and ...
Ep 101: Conscious Vibrational Leadership with Isha Vela
April 27, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 32 MBToday I’m talking with Isha Vela. Isha is a psychologist and somatic trauma professional who works as a somatic expressive coach with healers, weavers, change agents, bridge-builders, connectors, and other folxs who feel called to make an impact on the world. She runs the Revolutionary Rompe Reglas community and you can find more of her work at www.revolutionaryrompereglas.com. Her program for conscious leaders, Devotion, is via her work with me page. Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbei...
Ep 100: Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven
April 20, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBDavid Treleaven is a writer, educator, and trauma professional working at the intersection of mindfulness and trauma. He is the author of the acclaimed book Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and founder of the Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM) Community—a group of practitioners committed to setting a standard of care through mindfulness-based practices, interventions, and programs. David focuses on connecting mindfulness providers with the knowledge and tools they require to meet the needs of ...
Ep 99: Uncovering Your Natural Awareness with Diana Winston
April 06, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes - 23.5 MBToday I’m talking with Diana Winston. Diana is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center and the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness. Called by the Los Angeles Times “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness,” she has taught mindfulness since 1999 in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and schools in the US and Asia. A sought-after ...
Ep 98: Reclaiming Ourselves
March 30, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 24.2 MBThis is a practice-based episode that speaks more deeply to the issues that were brought up in the last episode, with Jane Clapp, about how social media is changing us. This is from the point of view of a podcast/body-centered mindfulness studio that wants to "make the world a more embodied place" and that is "in the inquiry of being fully human". In the episode, host Brooke Thomas asks if it's possible to be more embodied and fully human and still connected to the social media algorithms ...
Ep 97: How Social Media is Changing Us with Jane Clapp
March 23, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBJane Clapp is a mindful strength and movement coach, an embodiment educator and a Jungian analyst in training. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work that goes beyond mindfulness, to enmesh each client’s physical condition with the psychological and emotional aspects of their selves while always factoring in that the oppressive systems we live in play out in every system in the body. She has worked as an expert coach and educator that brings together expertise in the effects o...
Ep 96: Qigong and the Power of the Formless with Master Mingtong Gu
March 16, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBToday I’m talking with Master Mingtong Gu Named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress for Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Master Mingtong is on faculty for Esalen Institute, OmegaInstitute, 1440 Multiversity, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Shift Network. He is the founder of The Chi Center / The Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong, a beautiful 79 acre retreat center south of Santa Fe, NM You can find more of his work and more about the chi center for Wisdom Hea...
Ep 95: Being Human with Betsy Polatin
March 09, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBToday I’m talking with Betsy Polatin. Betsy Polatin, is an Alexander Technique teacher, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and has her MFA. She is An internationally recognized breathing and movement specialist,, has been teaching for more than forty five years and is currently a master lecturer at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. She has worked with numerous individuals and institutions and some of her teaching experience includes Berklee College of Music, the Boston Ballet, and t...
Ep 94: Resting in the Head and the Heart
March 02, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBThis is a practice-based episode. We are so inundated with information all the time! Even information about being less conceptual and more embodied, as on this podcast lol. Within Liberated Being we also run an embodied practice studio, where we can engage with practices that help us to make the shift into embodying what we know, becoming more real, and changing how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. So this week I'm sharing two 15 minute practices that I taught in the studio...
Ep 93: On Creating with Liam Bowler
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBLiam Bowler is a teacher, bodyworker, and a somatic philosopher. He’s also the creator of The Body Awake podcast which, if you’re listening to this podcast, I can highly recommend! He is most recently the author of the book A Creator’s Companion: A Handbook for the Practice of Creation. I found it to be a wonderful read, and a highly experiential book, as opposed to ideas about the process of creation. I believe life itself is a process of creation, and this book is a wonderful guide in ho...
Ep 92: Advocacy Meets Embodied Healing
February 16, 2021 10:00 - 59 minutes - 28.3 MBToday I’m talking with Caprice Taylor Mendez. Since getting her Masters from Harvard in education, administration, planning and social policy, Caprice has spent the last 30 years supporting social justice in the nonprofit sector. She works to support strategic grant making and nonprofit collaborations to co-create systemwide impact. She has done a great of work in policy advocacy, coalition building, and grassroots organizing experience with diverse populations to support low-income comm...
Ep 91: Falling Open in a World Falling Apart with Amoda Maa Jeevan
February 09, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MBThis week’s episode is with Amoda Maa Jeevan. It is an outtake from a longer guest teacher gathering that happened with Liberated Being members on November 14th of 2020. We talked about her recent book, Falling Open in a World Falling Apart. A fitting title for the times we are living through! In this talk, Amoda connects some important dots between embodiment and spriritual awakening. She gets to important inquiries like- Awakening from what? To what? And what does this have to do with bein...
Ep 90: From Body to Embody with Marika Baxter
February 02, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBToday I’m talking with Marika Baxter. Marika has a Masters of Science in Physical Therapy and for 17 years practiced as a physical therapist and Pilates teacher working in particular in the dance medicine world. She is a Realization Process teacher and is currently studying through Internal Family Systems with Richard Schwartz. Marika is also a dear friend, and a teacher in the liberated being embodied practice studio. You can find out more about her work at www.mb1wellness.com The Liber...
Ep 89: Embodying Healthy Power with Kimberly Ann Johnson
January 26, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBToday I’m talking with Kimberly Ann Johnson. Kimberly is a Structural Integrator, a Sexological Bodyworker, a birth doula and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She is the author of the book The Fourth Trimester, and her forthcoming book which we are talking about today is Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use it for Good. You can find out more about Kimberly’s work at www.magamama.com. Maga means sorceress in Brazil, so that THAT maga... Liberated Being...
Ep 88: The End of Trauma with Steve Hoskinson
January 19, 2021 10:00 - 56 minutes - 26.8 MBToday I’m talking with Steve Hoskinson. Steve is the founder of Organic Intelligence® (OI) and the nonprofit Organic Intelligence Outreach Institute. OI’s Human Empowerment And Resiliency Training (HEARTraining®) is an international personal and professional development training program using OI’s strengths-based, trauma-safe approach for resiliency. As you’ll hear in our conversation, The Organic Intelligence® (OI) clinical protocol suggests that, from a systems perspective, what’s wrong ...
Ep 87: Pleasure and Play with Constance Clare-Newman
January 12, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBToday I’m talking with Constance Clare-Newman. Over 30+ years of teaching embodiment, Constance has developed a trauma-sensitive, neuroscience-informed approach to embodiment practices that focus on wholeness of being. Foremost in her work is a pedagogy of pleasure. The cultural norm of working hard at improvement is relinquished for a slow pace of enjoyment and feelings of pleasure that facilitate healing, creativity and unity of self. Grounded in her own deep study of somatics, dance, ...
Ep 86: Trauma and Anxiety are Really Strange with Steve Haines
January 05, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes - 39.9 MBToday I’m talking with Steve Haines. Steve has been a bodyworker for 20 years primarily in the field of craniosacral therapy. He is now a senior international teacher of craniosacral, and together with his colleague Ged Sumner he wrote the book Cranial Intelligence and founded a training program at bodyintelligence.com. He is also a lead TRE Certification trainer. He is deeply interested in pain, trauma, and anxiety and the links between them. As an author, he is the creator of the “...Is ...
Ep 85: I Am My Ancestor's Dream Come True with Enroue Halfkenny
December 29, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBToday I’m talking with Enroue Halfkenny. Since 1993, Enroue has been a practitioner within the nature based, West African, Òrìṣà religious tradition of the Yorùbá people. He was initiated as a priest of Ifá in Nigeria in 2000. In 2008, Enroue graduated as Valedictorian from the Smith College School for Social Work. Since then, he has worked in a community mental health clinic, been an adjunct professor, presented at conferences, sat on various panels, and been a Marta Sotomayor Fellow at h...
Ep 84: Courageous Compassion with Laura Banks
December 22, 2020 10:00 - 58 minutes - 27.8 MBToday I’m talking with Laura Banks. Laura is a Certified Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT) teacher through the Compassion Institute and Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). Laura has studied literature, languages, folklore, and philosophy to explore expressions of human experience across time. She has traveled around the world to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch life in its countless forms. Joys and sorrows, life and death crossed ...
Ep 83: When Resilience Training Gets Really Real with Sarah Histand
December 15, 2020 10:00 - 55 minutes - 38.6 MBToday I’m talking with Sarah Histand who is blending her worlds as a personal trainer, mental health counselor with a masters’ in social work, and an outdoor adventurer to become a mental health-informed adventure fitness trainer Born & raised in Alaska, Sarah teaches mindful bodyweight interval training classes that build functional strength -- in both body & mind. Over the last decade, she has built a body of work that brings together fitness, mental health, and outdoor recreation and ...
Ep 82: Expanding the Heart with Will Pye
December 08, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBToday’s episode is an excerpt from a longer guest teacher gathering with Will Pye that took place on October 27th of 2020 within Liberated Being. This is an especially practice based episode, and it is a profoundly delicious meditation practice. It is a gem of a practice session that you can use sometime when you’re able to drop into a meditative state. Will Pye’s work is summed up by ‘integrating’; integrating psychological wholeness and spiritual awakening, science and spirituality, re...
Ep 81: Embodied Relating to Self, Others, and the World
November 21, 2020 15:02 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBThis is a homeplay episode! In other words, it's a chance to be guided through some embodied practice. In this case, it's about inhabiting internal space so that we can relate to ourselves, others, and the world in a more present and clear and heartfelt way. At its core, embodied practice has to be relational or it risks being a hobby or, weirdly, a disembodied "thing to do" or object to acquire. Fortunately, this ability to shift the quality of how we relate is also the big win of embodied ...
Ep 80: Self-Love as a Language of the Body with Vanessa Scotto
November 12, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBThis talk is an excerpt from a longer guest teacher gathering with Vanessa Scotto which took place on May 15th 2020. Vanessa Scotto may sound familiar to you- she is a very dear friend of mine the co-creator of a podcast we ran together for 4 years titled Bliss and Grit which was dedicated to embodied awakening. She is a Teacher, Mentor and Coach in private practice who has dedicated over two decades to exploring the dynamic interplay of the Mind, Body and Spirit. She holds two masters deg...
Ep 79: Alchemical Resilience with Nkem Ndefo
November 06, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBThis talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Nkem Ndefo which originally took place on September 24th, 2020. Nkem is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. Licensed as a nurse midwife, Nkem also has extensive post-graduate training in complementary health modalities and emotional therapies. She brings...
Ep 78: Stories and Sensation with Pete Blackaby
October 30, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBIn today’s episode this is a talk that is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Peter Blackaby which originally took place on August 28th, 2020. Pete Blackaby is a yoga asana teacher and osteopath, and is the author of the book Intelligent Yoga. His interest comes from a loosely humanist perspective firmly rooted in the here and now, and his view has shifted over the years from a largely physical view of yoga to a view that encompasses the complex relationship between things, and th...
Ep 77: The Merging Pattern with Isha Vela
September 30, 2020 09:00 - 11 minutes - 7.81 MBThis talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Isha Vela that happened within the Liberated Being embodied practice community. It took place on April 6th of 2020. To give you some context, you’ll hear Isha talking about various survival patterns- you can read more about that via Steven Kessler’s book The Five Personality Patterns. You can find out more about Liberated Being at www.liberatedbeing.community, and more of Isha’s work at www.revolutionaryrompereglas.com.
Ep 76: Moving to the HeartMind with Loch Kelly
September 23, 2020 09:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBThis talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Loch Kelly that happened within the Liberated Being embodied practice community. It took place on April 27th of 2020. Just to give you a little context, he is talking about moving from locating in the head, to what he refers to as the heartmind. Locating lower down in the body which he is about to guide you through in this recording. You can find out more about Liberated Being at liberatedbeing.community, and more about Loch’s work ...
Ep 75: Beliefs Are What Our Bodies Are Doing with Bayo Akomolafe
September 15, 2020 09:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBThis talk is an excerpt from Bayo Akomolafe's guest teacher gathering on Liberated Being which took place on May 26th 2020. You can find more of his work at www.bayoakomolafe.net and more about the embodied practice community at www.liberatedbeing.community.
Ep 74: Rock My Soul with Jeannie Zandi
September 10, 2020 09:00 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBThis talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Jeannie Zandi that happened within the Liberated Being embodied practice community. In this gathering, Jeannie brings deep embodied presence to the question of how we meet this moment in history. It took place on March 27th of 2020. You can find more of Jeannie’s work at jeanniezandi.com, and more about Liberated Being at liberatedbeing.community
Ep 73: Embodying Safety and Capacity
July 30, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 34 MBThis is a recording of a free class that I taught on July 26th 2020. In the class I talk about why the ability to deeply experience and know safety is so foundational to any shift being able to take place in us and in how we relate to the world. We work with an embodied approach, and go through two practices for coming into embodied presence- both in time and also locating in the body. The full Embodying Safety and Capacity course begins August 4th and is open for registration at https:/...
Ep 72: What is Embodiment?
May 19, 2020 09:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBAs we all spend time at home these days, I've been reflecting on where Liberated Body took me. So I wanted to record an episode that traced that. It all boils down to one question I think: That question is: What is embodiment? It's an exploration from my own experience- certainly not the final word on anything- and I hope it's interesting and useful for you.
Ep 71: Living Your Body's Intelligence: A Homeplay Episode
July 11, 2018 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBThis episode functions like a little embodiment gift, courtesy of myself and Liam Bowler, who is the creator of the podcast The Body Awake. It is also an appetizer, a teeny tiny appetizer, of our upcoming weekend course: Living Your Body’s Intelligence, this July 28-29 2018 in Seattle. So many of you have gotten in touch with me over the years to say how much you liked the “home play” part of the Liberated Body episodes- i.e. the body-based explorations at the end of each show- so you can ...
Ep 70: The Farewell Episode
October 03, 2017 09:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBFor the past 3 years I have talked with somatic visionaries about new paradigms of understanding about the human body- and today is the final episode of the show. I have had the great honor of exploring inner space with the exceptional people I got to interview, and with all of you listeners who have formed such a warm and inquisitive community. For the final episode my dear friend Vanessa Scotto- who is also my co-host over at my new show Bliss and Grit- is talking to me about the whole Lib...
Ep 69: Posture, Perception, and Presence with Mary Bond
July 25, 2017 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBIt is my great good fortune for this to be my second interview with Mary Bond. Mary has an MA in Dance from UCLA, and studied with, and was certified by, Dr. Ida Rolf, the originator of Rolfing Structural Integration. Mary is currently Chair of the Movement Faculty of The Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration in Boulder, CO. She also teaches workshops online and in person tailored to the movement needs and interests of various groups such as runners, dancers, Pilates and yoga instructors...
Ep 68: The Realization Process with Judith Blackstone
May 16, 2017 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBToday I’m talking with Judith Blackstone. Judith is the creator of The Realization Process, which is an integrated approach to embodiment, psychological, relational, physical healing, and spiritual awakening. That maybe sounds like a tall order, but I’m here to tell you as someone who has been in the somatic fields for 20 years and who just finished my certification in The Realization Process, it’s the most accessible and glorious embodiment work I have come across. So it’s a delight for me ...
Ep 67: Your Movement is Your Lived Experience with Peter Blackaby
March 28, 2017 09:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBToday I’m talking with Peter Blackaby who is the author of the book Intelligent Yoga which he is currently writing the 2nd edition for. Pete started practicing yoga in 1978 and began teaching in 1986. He then went on to become an osteopath. In 2002 he became involved in the British Wheel of Yoga (which is the governing body in England), and ran a two-year teacher training program for them. Since then, Pete has been running courses for teachers and teaches functional anatomy and biomechanics ...
Ep 66: Breath, Inquiry, and Individuality with Leslie Kaminoff
March 21, 2017 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBLeslie Kaminoff has been a yoga educator for the last four decades and is an internationally recognized specialist in the fields of yoga and breath anatomy. He leads anatomy and yoga methodology workshops for many of the leading yoga associations, schools and training programs in the world. He is the co-author of the bestselling book Yoga Anatomy, and the founder of The Breathing Project, Leslie has also helped to organize international yoga conferences while serving as Vice-President of Uni...
Ep 65: Personal Agency, Movement, and Teaching with Amy Matthews
March 14, 2017 09:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBToday I’m talking with Amy Matthews. Amy Matthews, has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a movement therapist and yoga teacher. Amy is also the co-author of the best-selling book Yoga Anatomy, and together Amy and Leslie teach The Breathing Project's Advanced Studies courses. I will also be moderating a symposium called Beyond Anatomy with Amy at The Breathing Project so...
Ep 64: Movement Matters with Katy Bowman
March 07, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBKaty Bowman is a biomechanist and the founder of Nutritious Movement. She is the author of several books including Move Your DNA, Whole Body Barefoot, and her most recent collection of essays, Movement Matters. In today’s conversation we’re talking about the ecology of movement. How does your movement affect not just your health but also humans everywhere, even ones you’ve never met, and how does it affect the health of the planet as a whole? We discuss the real impact of our sedentarism and...
Ep 63: Embodied Living with Mark Walsh
February 28, 2017 10:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBToday I’m talking with Mark Walsh, an embodiment specialist who is the creator of the Embodied Facilitator training, Integration Training, Embodied Yoga Principles, and Purpose Blackbelt. His work in embodiment has taken him to a wide range of organizations and communities, from businesses in the UK, to the Middle East alongside the UN, the slums of Brazil, an HIV organization in East Africa, and many other places. In our conversation today we talk about what embodiment means, some of the wa...
Ep 62: Beyond Anatomy
January 17, 2017 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBI’m talking with Leslie Kaminoff, Amy Matthews, and Peter Blackaby about our upcoming somatic symposium in New York this April called Beyond Anatomy. There is a vast amount of information about the body out there (and in here within the show)- so how do we discern what's applicable and useful and not simply make ourselves crazy with information overload? And what is ""beyond anatomy"" to each of us? For me this is a fantastic way to kick off the whole of season 4 as I am dedicating that seas...
Ep 61: How Liberated Body Changed Me with Brooke Thomas
August 16, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBBo Forbes turns the tables and interviews host Brooke Thomas with her own and listener questions. Brooke's personal path with her own body, how learning through the podcast changed the way she sees the body, how she parents based on what she's learned, her current practices (particularly in natural movement and somatic meditation), and what the road ahead looks like are all covered in this closing conversation for season 3.
Ep 60: How Mindful Body Awareness Heals with Cynthia Price
August 02, 2016 09:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBI’m talking with Cynthia Price. Cynthia describes herself as a bodywork researcher, and is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Washington in the Biobehavioral Nursing Department. Her clinical and research expertise is in the development of body awareness, or interoception, to improve health and well-being. She is the creator of an approach towards educating people in body awareness called Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy or MABT for short, and is the founder of the...
Ep 59: The Architecture of Living Tissue with Jean-Claude Guimberteau
July 19, 2016 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBToday I’m talking with Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau. Dr Guimberteau practiced for many years as a hand surgeon specializing in microsurgical replantation and transplantation. He is the co-founder and former scientific director of The Aquitany Hand Institute, and was the director of research at the French Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. Many of you know him best for his groundbreaking work exploring and defining the movement of tissues beneath the skin using an intraop...
Ep 58: Parkour with Julie Angel
July 05, 2016 09:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBJulie Angel received her doctorate researching Parkour, and she has a new book out, Breaking the Jump, which chronicles the birth of this movement. The book, and our conversation, wind up tackling the larger issues that have emerged out of Parkour- like how the origin and effects of this movement is about something so much bigger than athletics or physical training; Really how it was and is a way to evolve as a human. We also get into our cultural biases to, on the one hand, abuse ourselves ...
Ep 57: Your Body Is Your Soul with Jaap van der Wal
June 14, 2016 09:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBJaap van der Wal is a phenomenological embryologist who is looking for the soul via the embryo and teaches about this all over the world through his Embryo in Motion project. In our conversation today we talked about the dualistic time we are living in and how we make the brain and/or the genes the most important “parts” of the body- how we conceptually consider the body a machine that comes in parts, and the way we separate the soul from the body. Jaap discusses how the embryo challenges th...