Birth educator, counsellor and attendant Rhea Dempsey supports women and birthing people to feel empowered and more prepared when navigating child birth.

Known around the world for her earthy pragmatism, she's attended more than 1,500 births and is transforming our attitudes and and approach to birth.

This episode originally aired on the Dumbo Feather podcast and is a modern exploration of birthing babies, birthing mothers and healing the birth narrative with great care.

Show Notes:You can learn more about TEND: Yoga and Relaxation for Anxiety here.You can learn more about Rhea’s work over at Birthing WisdomRhea’s conversation with Berry Liberman, Dumbo Feather’s heart-stirring editor-in-chief hereYou can find out more about Dumbo Feather over at their website, instagram or podcast page.

Changing the Birth Narrative with Rhea Dempsey

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Explore the intersectional qualities of pleasure, presence and embodiment in this rich conversation with the luminous Vanessa Muradian (she/they), a sexologist, embodiment explorer, yoga facilitator and founder of womxn-focussed sexuality and wellness business Mia Muse. When Vanessa launched Mia Muse 10 years ago she was filling what she saw as a crucial gap in the market – sex-positivity that was neither far-out nor tacky. Today that offering has expanded to workshops, sensual yoga and sexual education to support womxn on their journey towards intimacy, eroticism and pleasure.  This episode explores:The relationship between masculine and feminine qualities (or yang and yin, shiva and shakti, or active and receptive) within us and our wider worldCultivating and elevating your erotic identityKnowing your pleasure deep listening to your body’s needsHow sensuality has been sexualised, and expanding it to a much broader experience of daily life through our sensesUnlearning and relearning (redefining) our relationship with sensuality and unravelling inherited or cultural beliefsIt’s a full and deep (and sometimes sticky) conversation and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. Find out more about Vanessa over on Mia Muse's website and Instagram.

As I mention in the show, I'm preparing to wrap up this season of Moving Inward shortly. To stay in touch make sure to sign up to Moving Inward's newsletter, which will be the primary place to connect.

Pleasure, presence and sensuality (and its barriers) with Vanessa Muradian

Today’s guest jo buick (she/her) is a wise and thoughtful voice on the intersection between healing, embodiment and social justice. As an educator, meditator and trauma-informed yoga facilitator, her work explores the role of somatic and body-focused practices in fostering an alignment of our inner values and outer actions, especially in relation to mending the broken structures and systems of our time that need repair.

To begin this work, say jo, we can first look to nurturing the needs of our minds and body and their role within broader healing.

jo is the Director and Co-Creator of collective being, a not-for-profit that offers trauma-informed and healing-centred yoga and mindfulness programs in community. I've had the great pleasure of training with jo and it's an enormous privilege to have her on this show.

We discuss:
- Trauma-informed yoga: What it is and how it might deepen our connection with our body.
- The role of our healing in social justice and social change work.
- How to integrated embodied mindfulness and body-based practices into daily life.
- Healing inequity within yoga and wellness spaces.
- Creating an alignment between our inner values and outer actions.
- The fascinating neuroscience behind nervous  system regulation.
- How personal care practices can allow us to  'show up' for the causes we care about. Show notes:
- Join me for Moving Inward's first course, TEND: Yoga and Relaxation for Anxiety
- jo buick: website and instagram
- jo's REST course
- collective being: website and instagram
- Resmaa Menakem, On Being
- Yoga for HumanKIND Trauma-Informed Training

FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

Trauma-informed yoga and healing with jo buick

Could this unique moment in history be experienced as a rite of passage, individually and together? 

Dr Arne Rubinstein believes so. As the founder of The Rites of Passage Institute, he says it provides an opportunity to experience transformation where we might emerge from the 'cocoon' of this experience into a way of being that is more meaningful, more loving and more whole.  In this episode we discuss:What does a rite of passage look like during a pandemic?What is a ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ rite of passageHow we can reframe our thinking of major challengesHow we might create a new vision for our livesHow to introduce ritual and reflection into our experiencesThis episode is an invitation for you to consider how you might frame this enormous experience in your own life and how you might want to live on the other side.Find out more about Dr Arne’s work over at The Rite of Passage Institute’s website or Facebook or Instagram.Dr Arne’s facilitating a six-week online course on the Rites of Passage framework that can be found here.Keep in touch with Moving Inward on the website or Instagram.Receive three guided practices to create calm.

How to Transform Through a Rite of Passage with Dr Arne Rubinstein

We often talk about the importance of promoting mental health, but what can we do on a practical level to change the cycle of negative thinking and create healthy habits for our mental wellbeing?  Pippa Baker a Principal Master Instructor with Mental Health First Aid Australia (MHFA) and offers training in schools, workplaces and the community to help people effectively respond to mental health issues.
It's a brilliantly practical and compassionate training about helping ourselves and helping those we love.

In today's episode, Pippa shares:
+ What are the signs to look out for if someone is struggling?
+ If they are, how can you hold space for them without trying to "fix" the problem?
+ How can we improve our confidence to have these conversations with those with love?
+ What are the routines we can create to foster our own mental wellbeing?

This episode is a must-listen - whether it's for yourself or for supporting the people you love.

You can find out more about Pippa over on the podcast's show notes:
www.movinginward.com/episodes/pippa

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Changing the Birth Narrative with Rhea Dempsey

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