The Body Knows Podcast

The Body Knows Podcast

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  • Ep#003 | Clare Osbond & Tim Brown | Dance of Awareness
    EP#003 | CLARE OSBOND & TIM BROWN | DANCE OF AWARENESS
    Today’s conversation is with two of Marcela’s teachers, Clare Osbond & Tim Brown of the Brighton School for Embodied Therapy, here in our home county of Sussex in the UK.
    Clare is a body psychotherapist with specific experience in working with trauma, movement and mindfulness. She also has an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, and offers body-centred, movement, and sensorimotor psychotherapy, as well as an ongoing women's movement therapy group.
    Tim is a body psychotherapist with a background in Deep Bodywork, Embodied Relational Therapy, Postural Integration, Authentic Movement and trauma work. He brings a gentle curiosity, creativity, and warm humour to his work. He believes in taking the body seriously as it holds deep wisdom – and that we just need to listen to it, and trust what it tells us.
    Together they developed Dance of Awareness, a group movement practice that aims to increase self-awareness and self- acceptance.
    They both have such knowledge and experience that we could have easily just spoken to them about their individual practices, however our focus for the podcast was their work with Dance of Awareness. They explain the therapeutic value of movement, developmental psychology, and the affirming effect of being witnessed and witnessing ourselves. We also discussed how Dance of Awareness can help with trauma, what this means, and how it is realised in the body.
    They have said that ‘the moving body is the form in which consciousness grows and explores its self’, and when that movement is done there’s a return to the ‘ground of awareness’. Seen in this light, their teaching connects participants with mind, body and spirit though movement and is spiritual in nature.
    Clare leads a beautiful couples exercise to explore our feeling and relationship towards Support at the end of the interview that we loved participating in. We hope you do too.
    LINKS
    - You can find out more about Brighton School for Embodied Therapyon their official site here.
    - Dance of Awareness can be found on Facebook too.
    SPONSORED BY MADE BY COOPERS
    We sponsored by Made by Coopers, a modern Apothecary, crafting natural and organic products for your skin and soul. Head on over to their shop at madebycoopers.com and use BODY20 at checkout for a discount.
    LAUNCH COMPETITION
    We’re running a competition to win Made by Cooper products, as well as some ceremonial grade cacao to take part in an online cacao ceremony run by Marcela, all to celebrate our launch. To enter please subscribe on your favourite platform, download the first three episodes, rate and leave a review, then send us a screenshot of your review to [email protected]. Closing date Nov 30, 2020.
    Also, please share this conversation with someone who you think it would be of value to. If you share on social media, remember to tag us. You can follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
    Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy it, we’ll be back every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month from Nov 2020, and remember, listen to your body because your body knows.
    1 hr 30 min
  • Ep#002 | Pollyanna Darling | Embodied Ecology

    EP#002 | POLLYANNA DARLING | EMBODIED ECOLOGY

    Our first conversation is with Pollyanna Darling, she’s Head Of Community Engagement and CEO Of Treesisters Austrailia. TreeSisters is a grassroots movement supporting the restoration of our planet through tropical reforestation and the empowerment of women.

    Pollyanna has been involved in TreeSisters since it was a tiny seed. She volunteered for 7 years before stepping into the core team. She is committed to playing her part in bringing our beautiful Earth back to thriving. As an Intuitive Coach, Pollyanna also spent many years helping women live from their deepest wells of courage and have significant impact on the future of our planet. She is also mother of four boys, an award-winning author, singer, passionate Earthlover, women's empowerment facilitator, and loud laugher.

    We spoke with Pollyanna about her path to joining the charity, her two near death experiences and how they changed her relationship to life, her prior work helping her clients into wholeness, and her own embodied ecology, along with TreeSisters’ mission to reforest the planet through female empowerment. We also spoke about the correlation between the way women and nature have historically been treated, and the vital interconnection between our own innate, natural wellbeing and that of the planet.

    Pollyanna’s killer quote was this - ‘The health of the planet and the health of humanity are completely intertwined and we cannot separate them’. For us that message couldn’t be any more clear, or vital.

    We intend to close all our shows by asking our guests to share a practice that they use to help bring them back to the body and Pollyanna shared a short, beautiful, grounding TreeSister’s meditation.

    We spoke with Pollyanna over Zoom, with us at home in the UK and her in Australia, so there’s some unavoidable audio interference, and while the sound quality isn’t always ideal, the interview was both moving and resonant.

    LINKS

    - You can find out more about Treesiters and support them on their official site here.

    - You can find them on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and on YouTube

    - Link to The Map of Five Choices discussed by Marcela & Pollyanna

    - Meditations, Tools and Talks on Soundcloud

    SPONSORED BY MADE BY COOPERS

    We sponsored by Made by Coopers, a modern Apothecary, crafting natural and organic products for your skin and soul. Head on over to their shop at madebycoopers.comand use BODY20 at checkout for a discount.

    LAUNCH COMPETITION

    We’re running a competition to win Made by Coopers products, as well as some ceremonial grade cacao to take part in an online cacao ceremony with Marcela, all to celebrate our launch. To enter please subscribe, download the first three episodes, rate and review, then send us a screenshot of your review to [email protected]. Closing date Nov 30, 2020.

    Also, please share this conversation with someone who you think it would be of value to. If you share on social media, remember to tag us on Instagram or Facebook.

    Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy it, we’ll be back every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month from Nov 2020, and remember, listen to your body because your body knows.

    1 hr 16 min
  • Welcome To The Body Knows Podcast
    THE BODY KNOWS TRAILER EPISODE 001
    Hello, and welcome to The Body Knows Podcast. The show that explores the wisdom of the body, through the experience, teaching and lives of our guests. We are your hosts Marcela and Mat Wakeham, and we are so happy to have you here with us today.
    MARCELA
    Marcela is a Senior Yoga teacher and Movement Therapist, and a life-long long practitioner of Yoga, Dance and Pilates. She has 20 years of experience in the field of body awareness, mindfulness and body-mind-movement related practices, and is versed in anatomy and physiology of movement. Over the years Marcela's searched for practices and techniques, which improve our sense of wellbeing, embodiment and self-expression.
    As a teacher her aim is to allow the student to find the authenticity of the body during practice and take ownership of it, guiding them through the process to find the present moment where mind, body and spirit are in communion. Her style of teaching is immersed in the practice of observing the body as a process, to find health, strength and resiliency.
    Marcela’s main work is to help the inquirer to find their own voice and recover their birthright, which she believes is the deeply felt sensation of being alive, and able to relate with the environment we live in with grace.
    MAT
    Mat benefits from a lifetime of spiritual study, formal practice, training and personal experience. Within this there’s a consistent thread of mindfulness based meditation, supported by loving awareness, concentration and compassion, first learnt on retreat in the forests of Thailand and continued in self-practice and on retreat in the UK.
    His healing journey over the last 20 years has taken in analysis, hypnotherapy, acupuncture and psychedelic plant medicine. These he combines with external practices too, most predominantly strength and fitness training,  as well as yoga and martial arts, and most recently somatic sexual healing, breathwork and cold exposure.
    His synthesis of these has led him to discover a natural, embodied simplicity to his understanding of wellbeing and spirit. His journey speaks to the truth that if we want to, and if we’re willing to address the habitual patterns stored in our bodies, we can open to pleasure, conscious connection, and self-love to live guided by the body’s own wisdom.
    THE BODY KNOWS PODCAST, SPONSORED BY MADE BY COOPERS
    We are proudly sponsored by Made by Coopers, a modern Apothecary, crafting natural and organic products for your skin and soul. Their products are vegan certified, cruelty free and free from parabens, synthetic colours, fragrances, mineral oils or SLS’s, and the skin care line is derived from plants with the majority of the ingredients are raw and food grade. We love their products and we are sure you will too! Head on over to their shop at madebycoopers.com and use the discount code BODY20 at checkout for a discount.
    LAUNCH COMPTITION
    We’re running a competition to win Made by Cooper products, as well as some ceremonial grade cacao in order to take part in an online cacao ceremony run by Marcela, all to celebrate our launch. To enter please subscribe on your favourite platform, download the first three episodes and leave us a review, then send us a screenshot of your review to [email protected]. Closing date Nov 30, 2020.
    We have a favour to ask you too, please share this conversation with someone who you think it would be of value to. If you share on social media,  remember to tag us so we can see what you have to say. You can follow us at The Body Knows Podcast on Instagram and Facebook. 
    Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy it, we’ll be back with more shows every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month, and remember, listen to your body because your body knows.
    5 min

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Exploring the wisdom of the body, and the human capacity for healing, transforming and awakening to life, right here in the body, through the practices, teachings and real lives of our guests. Seeking…