Movement Is My Constant: Real conversations on movement, mindfulness, and making meaningful change - for creatives, caregivers, and mission-driven humans

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Movement Is My Constant: Real conversations on movement, mindfulness, and making meaningful change - for creatives, caregivers, and mission-driven humans episodes

March 06, 2021EP.13 - Matt Shearing - Somatic Design
"There is a real need for design to be embodied."
How good are you at listening? True empathy comes from deep listening, as an embodied skill.
Join me in this episode as I interview @MattShearing. Visual artist, embodiment facilitator, and design researcher, Matt brings insights from his travels, his design experience, and studies, and shares his ideas on the qualities behind a good listener.
This is essential in the life of a designer and in the implementation of its methodologies. But also for everyday life, really.
I'm marking this episode with a new adventure: going to youtube. Check out the channel: Movement is My Constant and this episode: Ep13 - Matt Shearing - Somatic Design
Keep listening. Keep moving.
Thank you
MiMMC
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Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
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43 min
January 21, 2021 Ep.12 - Esther Arends - Movement for the Future of Education
Welcome to a new series of episodes on Movement is My Constant! Episode 12 I am joined by Esther Arends as it marks this new beginning. Thank you for listening.
Esther is the author of “Journey Through the Body”, a movement and embodiment school program developed to teach young children how to feel empowered by a true connection with their body.
Throughout life, and moreover, during these challenging times, Esther believes an education reform will include body awareness in a way that develops self-respect and self-worth.
In her own self-development, Esther found that being embodied is like coming home to the body. And aligning with her true-self.
Get to know Esther Arends, her path, her choices, and why embodiment practices should be taught in schools as basic knowledge to inspire a new generation of purposefully driven human beings.
By subscribing to the podcast, not only are you helping this project to grow and spread, but you receive reflections on body-mind awareness, movement topics, and related inspirations. And I will also share books and other relevant resources when mentioned in the episodes.
Please share this episode with family, friends, colleagues who you know to be interested in movement and body-mind awareness, to help them inspire through their journey.
I also invite you to use the comments sections below and share what you learned through this episode.
Thank you for listening,
MiMC
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

44 min
December 23, 2020 ep11. Fiona Winter. Movement for Change.
How might movement bring you awareness during change? - My guest has the answer and the personal story to share.
Join me in this interview with Fiona Winter - a master of giggles and with a contagious laughter, she’s a true embodied spirit of fun, play and pleasure! Fiona’s interest for the ageing body has brought her to work with adult students, guiding them through the inevitable changes in the ageing body.
With her fascination for change through awareness, she plants the seed using curiosity as she leads adults of well advanced ages through movement, in her creative classes.
I hope you will feel inspired by her story of breaking structures, and finding her path. While at the same time helping transform the life of others.
Fiona teaches regularly online through zoom, and is offering a few workshops on rest, during this season.
If you want to feel challenged in your beliefs, I invite you to experience one of her classes with a curious mind.
Thank you for listening,
MiMC
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

54 min
October 29, 2020 ep10. Melanie Genssler. Mobility
In this last co-creative episode me and Melanie we conclude the series by exploring the last state in self-care and personal growth, from an integrative approach.
Combining the previous ideas we talked about in episodes 8 and 9 now it is time for being mobile. Understanding how we move through belief fears, and how does that impact our personal and professional relationships.
We also look into values, spiritually speaking. What does it mean to have a spirit, to feed your spirit? And how does it look like when detached from religion?
Mobility practices are found through dance. Melanie is touching upon how she experienced mobility on her personal journey, and she will exemplify the work she does for clients.
This is the fifth episode in this collaboration between Movement is My Constant and Integrative Health Guide @integrativehealthguide by Melanie Genssler.
We combine knowledge from movement and health which we believe can be applied in work environments. It is a great resource for teams, to improve communication, collaboration, and create a positive impact during uncertain times.
By subscribing to the podcast, not only are you helping this project to grow and spread, but you receive reflections on body-mind awareness, movement topics, and related inspirations. And I will also share books and other relevant resources.
Please share this episode with family, friends, colleagues who you know are interested in movement and body-mind awareness.
This is the 10th episode in this podcast! 🥳 Thank you for listening, and stay tuned for upcoming episodes.
I also invite you to use the comments sections here or on the website pages to share what you learned through this episode, or what you would like to listen to.
Thank you for listening,
MiMC
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

28 min
September 24, 2020 Ep9. Melanie Genssler. Agility.
In this episode, I am exploring one perspective over a contemporary and trendy topic: Resilience. For a while now, I have been very interested in this topic as it repeatedly appears in different contexts, bodywork, and the professional landscape.
In this conversation, Melanie Genssler is sharing her own work on resilience. Using movement and reflection exercises, she creates a body-mind awareness and a felt sense she calls Agility. This is the emotional elasticity at the root of resilience.
I am interested to know how the qualities of Agility can be felt and applied both in life and our professional landscapes. As we go through the conversation, Melanie brings examples of her work. With suggestions for body movements and mindfulness reflection. And as usual, we also share resources for further reading and studying.
This is the fourth episode in this collaboration between Movement is My Constant and Integrative Health Guide @integrativehealthguide by Melanie Genssler.
We combine knowledge from movement and health which we believe can be applied in work environments. It is a great resource for teams, to improve communication, collaboration, and create a positive impact during uncertain times.
By subscribing to the podcast, not only are you helping this project to grow and spread, but you receive reflections on body-mind awareness, movement topics, and related inspirations. And I will also share books and other relevant resources.
Please share this episode with family, friends, colleagues who you know are interested in movement and body-mind awareness.
I also invite you to use the comments sections here or on the website to share what you learned through this episode.
Thank you for listening,
MiMC
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

38 min
August 14, 2020 ep8. Melanie Genssler. Stability.
Ever wondered how rest can be a strategy for performance?
In business, rest is many times left to the care of one’s private space, outside of the office - during evenings and weekends. In the office, behind one's screen, and while collaborating with others the tendency is to perform, achieve, and keep the energies high. Little do we know the power in rest and surrender for continuous and assertive team work. The ability to deal with difficult situations, developing emotional intelligence, empathy, having the ability to negotiate with others and recognising diversity within the team are skills that can be developed with an awareness on our feelings and sensations of stability.
Feeling safe, assertive, having ownership and responsibility on challenges one takes, and responsibility over our collaborations, requires deep work. Both in the body and the mind. Because our primary reactive responses come from the body. And knowing first our body, clears the mind from negative emotions that spiral negative actions.
In this brand new episode I’m exploring qualities of surrender and power through movement practices that give access to this felt sense of Stability. Join me again with Melanie Genssler as we take you through a conversation on where stability is found and how change happens once we tap into power and surrender. I invite you to explore movements that give you this feeling of stability, at work with your colleagues, before, during, or after a meeting.
Note change. Note the awareness in your team, note the energy shifting towards motivation. And note growth.
It could be a different strategy to find energy and motivation, which you and your team take to anywhere.
This is the third episode in this collaboration between Movement is My Constant and Integrative Health Guide @integrativehealthguide by Melanie Genssler.
We combine knowledge from movement and health to be applied to work environments and teams, in order to improve communication, team work, and impact positively the strategies needed for change.
Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to receive interesting reflections and content. And please share with family, friends, colleagues and anyone you feel might be interested in this topic. Also invite you to share a new insight or anything you learned during one of these episodes, through the comments section.
Thank you for listening,
MiMC
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

38 min
July 16, 2020 ep7. Melanie Genssler. Journeys.
"Are we ever ready for a journey?"
In this episode, I sit with Melanie Genssler to explore why journeys are complex and cyclical moments of our lives.
The challenge during these moments is to stick to it and understand that everything happening is already part of our emotional and intellectual growth. Each one of us has the ability to craft their own journey using the senses to notice how the body and the mind develop new ideas around common beliefs.
Journeys are a common way to illustrate or express a process of which we are central actors and owners of choices we make, both in our conscious and subconscious mind and with Melanie's knowledge we take a step further in diving deeper into different tools that support one’s journey.
Grab a pen and notebook as we share enough food for thought to keep you reflecting on your own experience with self-development and growth.
This is the second episode of the collaboration between Movement is My Constant and Integrative Health Guide @integrativehealthguide by Melanie Genssler, as we combine knowledge from movement and health to bring you fresh perspectives and ideas to implement, or simply reflect upon.
Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to receive interesting reflections and content. And do feel invited to share insights over your own experience, or something you heard on the episode.
Share this episode with family, friends, and anyone you know will need to hear it.
Thank you and Enjoy,
MiMC
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

50 min
May 28, 2020 ep6. Melanie Genssler. Movement and Health.
Ever wondered what collaborations sound like? When two souls come together after the realisation of what it feels to be aligned in values, ideas, and business?
Meet my guest: Melanie Genssler, health practitioner and embodied educator, as we start our collaboration by marking that aha! moment.
In this pilot episode we set the tone for the collaboration between Movement is My Constant and Integrative Health Guide - Melanie Genssler's project.
Through a light and open conversation we share common dreams and you get to know the founder of Integrative Health Guide program, as she is sharing her observations and knowledge from her research.
We are also tapping in why integration and movement are the same and yet so different, and how our life experiences create the stories that make us who we are!
This episode is an invitation to get familiar to the series of episodes, as well as to wonder about health journeys. What one integrates, what experiences come from that, and how these are results from the quality of our movements.
Stay tuned by subscribing on Movement is My Constant website so you won’t miss a singe episode of this series.
Thank you for keeping this project moving.
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

39 min
March 12, 2020 ep5. Anita Paalvast. Aikido and The Power of Choice.
"Every good craftsman conducts a dialogue between concrete practices and thinking; this dialogue evolves into sustaining habits, and these habits establish a rhythm between problem solving and problem finding.” - Richard Sennet, The Craftsman.
This quote reflects Anita’s knowledge and the way she dedicates herself to the craft. So much so, she has developed a business out of it, by integrating Aikido principles with leadership programs.
Her stance reflects wisdom through a grounded philosophy of life. On this fifth episode we explore this, and I share with you part of my experience with her coach practice, as she guides me through exercises that make me aware of my reactive patterns, when facing stress.
Listen to the interview to find out what inspires her and why she practices what she preaches.
Enjoy.
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

45 min
February 20, 2020 ep4. Mariana Maia Gil. There's no Biology Without Movement.
“If movement - a coordination of space and time - fails, then the organ does not develop”.
Dive into the world of cells and organs with my guest, Mariana Maia Gil, as she takes you through movement from the perspective of a biologist. Take a deep breath and listen to our conversation with a curious mind, while investigating the grand orchestra of movement happening inside your body! Look around you and identify how the environment is always changing. And changing you!
Mariana is now starting her PhD research at Gulbenkian Science Institute, in Oeiras, Portugal, and her passion for biology is contagious as she shares her vision for the future in science and why it should include more cross talk synergies.
✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans.
Episode Credits
Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes
Artwork Design by Utterly Create
Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org
Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram
🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

28 min

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