Life - An Inside Job

This episode is for anyone who is interested in how their body works, and essential  listening for anyone who's practised or taught yoga, bodyworkers and movement therapists.  In my physiology training, I was taught that fascia was a kind of wrapping that covered all our organs and muscles and bones, I’ve worked with it and touched it all my professional life. It turns out I’ve been holding a highly reductive and mechanical concept of fascia. In our conversation, Joanne explains how fascia is in fact the fabric of our whole form, it’s a sensory organ that holds and expresses our experience of life and our personality

Joanne is a former chocolatier, who has become one of the foremost teachers of structural anatomy for movement and bodyworkers,  she’s a member of the Biotensegrity Interest Group, who investigates why we move the way we do and her book YOGA Fascia, Anatomy and Movement is now in its 2nd Edition.

If you want to move and feel better and are curious about what fascia is, how it works, how we can nourish it to live better, then stay tuned.

You can find Joanne's website here at joanneavison.com

Get 10% off Joanne's book YOGA Fascia, Anatomy and Movement is now in its 2nd Edition here.

Joanne also recommended reading Scar Adhesions and the Biotensegral Body by Jan Trewartha and Sharon Wheeler.

I'd love to hear what your fascia is up to and how you are taking care of yourself, you can find me on Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and/or review Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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You can tell already that this is an explicit episode, we use clear descriptive language to talk about how working with the fascia of the pelvic floor, pelvis and vagina can create healing for sexual trauma, for shame, existential issues, healing for blocked creativity, for menopause and fertility.

 Andrea Clarke is a trainer and therapist for womb massage and holistic pelvic care™, who works internally with feminine bodies. This isn’t sexy stuff. This is boundaried, gentle, serious, whole-person healing that was created by Tami Lynn Kent, whose book Wild Feminine is a treasure trove of information.

We cover what the therapy is, what happens, what it helps, who it helps and much much more.

You can find Andrea on Instagram at @root_medicine
Her website is here  at www.rootmedicine.co.uk

I'd love to hear your stories about healing, you can find me on Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and/or review Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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Mindfulness is a wonderful thing, life-saving even, but the presentation and language can make it a bit out of reach.  Artist, illustrator and author Lucy Irving delivers mindfulness with colour, wit and playfulness in her illustrations, which are hopeful reminders to stay present to the everyday joys and sorrows that are familiar to all of us, especially in lockdown. 

I first came across Lucy’s work on Instagram where she’s @likeliterallylucy and I was blown away by the sheer joyful daftness and we had a delicious conversation about creativity and mindfulness and how together, they can make us happier.

You can find Lucy's beautiful prints, books and very soon, her online courses on her website
Follow her on Instagram
Like her Facebook page
Or watch her on Tiktok


I'd love to hear your thoughts on mindfulness and creativity and please do send a photo of your creative activities as well, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and/or review Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
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Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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This is a deliciously sweary episode, so if explicit language is not your thing, please choose a different interview. But I have to say it’s very juicy.

Uma Dinsmore Tuli is a force of nature, a yoga therapist with special expertise in women’s health, mother of three, and has written four books on yoga for women, including the massive Yoni Shakti now in its fourth printing and updated.

 Uma is co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network and has developed Total Yoga Nidra, Wild Nidra and Nidra Shakti: radical creative and intuitive approaches to sharing yoga nidra. More recently she’s initiated Yoni Shakti The Movement whose purpose is to Eradicate abuse of women in yoga: take action to reclaim yoga as a tool for planetary healing and justice. 

 Stitching together our conversation as Uma sewed I asked her about her experience of her menopause so far, about rage and tenderness, about her childhood and of course Yoni Shakti The Movement

 We talk about:

• How menopause is stuffed full of opposites – urgency + timelessness
• Mental health – menopause mood swings from high as a kite to darkness
• How we demonise and pathologise these emotions
• Being a menopausal mother to teenage kids
• How nuclear family has been designed to drive women mad
• The origins of Uma’s activism and how it’s been part of her life 
• How the menopausal rage would not be silenced
• How she instigated the campaign to end the abuse of women and girls in yoga
• How Intersectional feminism has enabled her to use her anger for good
• Uma’s self-care for menopause
• The holy combination of tenderness and fierceness as an expression of the deep feminine

 And of course Uma’s top tip for staying unstuck and vibrant inner life.

Support and/or get support from  Yoni Shakti The Movement here

Or the Yoni Shaki The Movement Facebook group

Visit Yoga Nidra Network for free nidras and training in 23 different languages 

Red School for info on menstrual and menopause leadership

Sophie Jane Hardy  (nee Mortimer) fabulous organiser and marketing genius

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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Portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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I got very lucky and my dear friend Abi Denyer-Bewick agreed to have a conversation with me about perfectionism, how we constantly feel we’re getting things wrong,  have to try harder and are just not enough.

We ask, what if you couldn’t get it wrong? What if we turned to kindness instead?

Abi is a passionate advocate for cyclical living and all things menstrual. She works using the Medicine Circle, Yoga, Sensual Kink and Intimacy practices, Grief Rituals, Eating Psychology and Functional Medicine. But more importantly, she’s an all-round gorgeous person. We talked about:

• Body perfectionism
• Trying to get it right
• Not being enough
• The challenge of resting enough
• The many, many different ways of resting
• The many joys and evils of social media
• Abi’s journey with fertility
• The deceptive power of kindness
• The subtle ways we sabotage ourselves
• The systems that keep us stuck
• How the sense of being enough changes with the menstrual cycle

And how to interrupt all the trying super-hard to choose something better and of course, Abi’s top tip to reconnect with feeling that we are enough

Abi's Instagram is here and you can find her course here

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
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Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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We can be active and productive and acquire and acquire but if we don’t let go, things get seriously toxic. On all levels. And it’s not something we’re very good at.

This is a soulful, sweet meandering conversation in which we cover all kinds of letting go. As well as death, there’s funerals, loss, hope, the menstrual cycle and what that teaches us about letting go, compost, menopause, grieving in covid times… all the best taboo topics. 

 Lottie wears loads of different hats, they're a celebrant,  a creator of queer-centred cycle magic, an educator and facilitator, a coach and animist, a walker-between-worlds who’s also worked in mainstream mental health for a long time. I came across them on Instagram where you can find their heartfelt, thoughtful posts at @know.your.cycle

Together we explore:

• Lottie’s journey to becoming a celebrant 
• The healing possibilities of funerals
• The ingredients for a really good funeral
• How funerals can connect us back to our communities and hope
• The connection between death and the menstrual cycle
• The potential of the menstrual cycle to  practice letting go 
• Rituals and practices that help with this
• The menstrual cycle as a magical framework for change
• Pondering menopause and how to throw a party to say goodbye to menstruation
• How to celebrate the life of a loved one while we’re in a pandemic
• The importance of giving permission to ourselves to feel grief and allow it in other
• Progressive ways of disposing 
• Bokashi composting
• And how to grow the best courgettes

Though they really didn’t want to, I squeezed Lottie till they let out a fabulous top tip too.

Here are some handy links:
Red School
Recompose - compost funerals
The Natural Death Centre
Death Cafe's
Bokashi composting tips

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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I am just fascinated by creative process, almost to the point of obsession, because making things whether it’s visual art, textiles or writing is one of the most important things in my life. It makes me VERY happy. I feel like myself.  So I was excited when Anne Tannam agreed to do a pod chat because not only is she a fabulous poet, but she also coaches people to harness their own creativity in business, work and life. So she can do it, and, which is fabulous for us, she can tell us how to do it too! Or actually, give us ways of finding out for ourselves.

It took Anne 40 years to start writing and I am so glad she did the author of two wonderful poetry collections, with a third ‘Twenty-six Letters of a New Alphabet’ forthcoming from Salmon Poetry later in 2021. 

Whether you feel that you have zero creativity, or are an established artist. Whatever sort of things you’re interested in making or writing, this episode will improve your life.

Anne tells us:

• How to manage our fears around creative process
• How to manage the inner critics that stop or limit our creativity
• Anne’s journey with her creative process
• How to find your voice
• Developing confidence and feeling our work is good-enough
• Why women especially struggle with creative confidence
• The magic of building a tribe to support your creative process
• How creativity is an essential part of being human and how if it’s  blocked it impacts the rest of our lives
• The ingredients for a vibrant creative process
• The value of making mistakes
• The value of an intermediary to protect the creator
• How to make the time for the magic to happen
• What to do if you don’t know what medium to use

How to square our creativity with financial returns

Along with a side helping of Anne’s best tip of a vibrant creative life.

Anne’s coaching website

And the poetry can be found here

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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I was excited to listen in to Mangala Holland’s wisdom because she knows a lot about pleasure and how to support people to find more of it in their lives in a way that is not about looking sexy for other people. 

No surprises then, that there is some explicit language in this episode. 

 Mangala is a Women’s Empowerment and Sexuality coach, and facilitator.  She describes herself as being on a mission to help pussy-owners become empowered through loving themselves fiercely, celebrating their sexuality, and overcoming the fear, guilt and shame that keeps them playing small.

What I love is that Mangala has a beautiful no-bullshit, fluff-free, grounded, dogma-free style. In this episode we discuss:

• How we can be confident in our sexuality, especially when we’ve been brought up in a culture of shame
• How to move from numbness to pleasure
• Mangala’s journey to an authentic, flowing expression of sexuality
• Why ‘shoving things up there’ from jade eggs to performance enhancers can create more trauma and block pleasure
• How sexual trauma can be played out in ‘healing’ groups, re-traumatising and shaming those who don’t perform as required
• How to check-in with yourself and thaw out the numbness
• How to check for a ‘yes’ before doing anything downstairs
• How sexual problems are more likely to be to do with having a too-tight pelvic floor than too loose
• How to build embodied awareness in your genital area and pelvic floor
• The toxic power dynamics and abuse present in some tantra organisations
• The problem with selling ‘empowerment’
• How to tell if a training is safe
• Moving away from the ‘male gaze’ to feel how we are from the inside
• And what happens when you are with another body trying to find pleasure

Along with lots more hot stuff and, of course, Mangala’s top tip for increasing pleasure in your life.

You can find Mangala's website and online program here

To find support if you have experienced abuse in an embodiment, tantra or yoga class or workshop have a look at the Yoni Shaki Movement or Tantra Not Trauma Facebook group.

You can also look at Somatic Experiencing, TRE or search here or here for a therapist that specialises in trauma.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
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Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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I couldn’t get started with this podcast series without talking to my dear partner in Woman Kind, Leora Leboff. Leora is not only my partner at work but also a very dear friend and an awesome human. I learn so much from being around her. 

She’s been a therapist for more than a quarter of a century, practising and teaching womb massage, EFT, aromatherapy and Medicine Circles. Mostly focusing on women’s health.

One of the most impressive people I know, and you’ll get why when you listen to our intimate, totally up-front conversation. You will be amazed to find that we’re not talking perimenopause or periods, but about the other health challenges that Leora has been facing over the last few years and how she manages chronic pain.

Leora shares about:

• How she manages chronic pain
• All about syringomyelia, a rare and little understood condition
• How Leora manages other people’s reactions to her condition
• How she grounds herself into her body Leora’s secret bullshit-ometer (aka discernment) and how that works
• How she maintains integrity and safety in her work
• What this inner wisdom business is, exactly,  and how she uses it to guide her

And of course, Leora's top tip for a fabulously creative and healthy life.

You can find out more about Leora on her website and the Woman Kind site

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to Spotify or iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

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 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
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Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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I wanted to have a conversation with Angie Litvinoff because she is an inspired healer. She’s a medicine woman, creator of ceremonies and rites of passage and a mentor who is utterly grounded. Very often people who reach her level of teaching and visibility are full of smoke and mirrors, pretence and ego, but Angie makes finding identity so simple and straight-forward and DO able. This translates into a highly effective transformation program and her Online Calm pack: from anxiety to delivery which helps creatives find their true identity and voice.

There is some explicit language in this podcast, so if that’s not your thing, you may prefer to listen to a different episode.

We talk about:

• Finding our own identity by keeping it real and ditching the mysticism.
• The difference between what we want and what we need and how to know which is which.
• Angie’s simple way to develop a sense of oneness that transcends the ideology, and our longing for approval.
• Angie’s journey into wholeness from Chile to Tring via Notting Hill.
• Angie demystifies Shamanism and shows how it can support us every day and how she owned and defined her own identity.
• How to take back control and be accountable for our actions.
• How, by getting addicted to the highs of transformational experiences we avoid taking responsibility for our own process and self-care.
• How we don’t need appropriate someone else’s culture to find healing, because the healing power of the land is right here.
• The magic of the subtle energy of staying still for long enough.
• The impact of racism on Angie and her family.

 And of course Angie’s clever practice to identify your own route to finding your creative identity.

You can find Angie's programs, courses and products here
Angie's Instagram is here

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discuss, you can message me through Instagram or have a look at my website where you'll find a wealth of free resources.

You will find the podcast on Spotify, iTunes and many more platforms soon. It would be wonderful if you would pop over to iTunes to rate and subscribe to Life - An Inside Job to encourage more people to nourish their inner lives.

Music
Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN
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Artwork
Portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles

You can buy me a cuppa here - https://buymeacoffee.com/katecodrington
 The Perimenopause Journal and Second Spring are available from all good retailers
Kate's free resource library is here https://subscribepage.io/kates-resource-library  
Instagram @kate_codrington 
Perimenopause Starter Kit online course https://www.katecodrington.co.uk/perimenopause-starter-kit-online-course/

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