The Embodied Poddie

In this conversation, I sit down with Life Practice Guide, Luke Wientzen, to explore the themes of presence, stillness, and the courage it takes to embrace our inner selves. We discuss the importance of Luke’s work in relational meditation, the impact of grief on personal growth, and the profound role that working with teachers who understand and embody stillness can have on our journeys. Through personal anecdotes and insights, we explore the dynamic nature of stillness and the significance of cultivating true presence in our daily lives.

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Luke’s purpose comes forth at the intersection of teaching, meditation and the art of attention.  For over 20 years he has served as a guide, educator, and mentor in a range of settings.  In 18 years as high school special ed teacher, he learned the uniqueness of every mind.  For the past 17 years a yoga and breath guide, he has developed a unique and seasoned facilitation of body-heart-mind somatic experiencing, mindfully bridging movement and breathing arts.  As co-founder of Our Breath Collective, he has shared meditative breath inquiry with over 2000 members and has trained over 350+ students and facilitators worldwide.  Now, as a Living Practice guide, he helps people live with integrated and realized wholeness on the path of awakening to their true nature.

Rooted in two decades of practice and training in Zen, yoga, somatics, subtle body, breathwork, relational meditation and insight dialogue approaches, his work points to one radical truth: freedom is always available, right here.

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Explore Luke’s Offerings:

-Falling Open: A 4-Week Meditation Immersion

-1:1 Life Practice and Self-Investigation

-Our Breath Collective

If you have been curious about coming on a retreat with me, definitely listen to this episode.

In this episode, I briefly reflect on the journey that led me to the decision of closing my era of hosting retreats in Costa Rica. Over the last year, the calling for a shift has become undeniable, and I'm excited to share more of that with you.

Tune in for a deeper understanding of why I host retreats, and for a glimpse into what’s next as my offers evolve to better serve the bodies, hearts, and minds of those in my community.

3/22 WORKSHOP @ Yoga Seed

DETAILS ON MI RETREATS

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Happy New Year!

In todays episode, I dive deeper into Mother Nature's impact on New Years Resolutions and Goal Setting. Tune in to learn the reason why setting action-based goals during this season can feel like swimming upstream and may set you up for 'failure'. This episode will give you a deeper insight as to why many New Years resolutions are unsuccessful and how to set impactful intentions and move towards your goals with patience, gratitude, embodied grace, and self-love.

To browse my 1:1 and group offerings and upcoming events + retreats, head to emilyblackwellyoga.com

In this episode, I sit down with Reis Paluso + Luke Wientzen, founders of Our Breath Collective, a transformative breathwork company dedicated to bringing education, integrity, and authenticity to the breathwork industry.

Together, we explore what it means to work in this space with embodiment, humility, and confidence, drawing from our own human experiences.

Whether you're a participant or aspiring facilitator, this conversation offers powerful insights into creating impactful and ethical breathwork practices for yourself and your community.

Explore OBC's offerings

Our Breath Collective on Instagram

Join Emily + Nico for a conversation on learning to open to, accept, and allow for everything we are as human beings, and to love ourselves for all that is.

Come with us on retreat where we'll continue this work through a variety of embodied meditation, breath, and somatic movement practices in the jungles of Costa Rica in February 2025.

Details on the retreat:

⁠⁠WILD HUMAN RETREAT 2/22-2/28 in Santa Teresa Costa Rica⁠⁠

Connect with Emily

- ⁠https://emilyblackwellyoga.com⁠

- ⁠instagram⁠

Connect with Nico

- substack

- ⁠instagram⁠

It's been a while -- dropping a shorty episode here to catch you up on how I've been living + healing after heartbreak, more insight into my sabbatical from teaching Yoga, and how all of it deepened my understanding of the gift that is coming to know, accept, and embody our multidimensionality.

Links to all things:

NOVEMBER 2024 RETREAT (req. password. DM me)

FEBRUARY 2025 RETREAT

ON-DEMAND LIBRARY

INSTAGRAM

NADIGIRL on SOUNDCLOUD

Join Emily and Sex Educator, Britni Volkman aka PLEASUREBEL for an exciting + explorative conversation about how we can use sex as a portal for self-liberation, personal empowerment by practicing radical authenticity and embodying the truth of who we are and what we desire.

Connect with Britni for support + education on conscious + PLEASUREBEL sex: @britni_with_an_i // website coming soon

Resources Mentioned:

Connect with Emily: ⁠@emilyblackwellyoga⁠ // ⁠https://emilyblackwellyoga.com⁠

Join Emily Blackwell + Dustin Borlack as they speak to their work in vibrational medicine and embodied practices by sharing ways in which sound, breath, and movement can serve as potent catalysts for inner transformation and self-discovery.

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In this episode, we take a dive deep into their take on the profound synergy between sound and somatics and their transformative potential for healing, manifestation, self-awareness and self-expression, and work as pathways towards wholeness and personal empowerment.

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If this work speaks to you, Emily + Dustin invite you to explore + harness the magic and the power of sound and somatics to cultivate greater well-being, creativity, and authenticity in your life by joining them on their RHYTHM + BODY RETREAT happening April 19-21 in Saugatuck, MI.

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Find out more: https://emilyblackwellyoga.com/rhythm-and-body-retreat

Follow Dustin on IG: @dustydayo

Follow Emily on IG: @emilyblackwellyoga

If you're interested in joining us on our fourth retreat in Costa Rica, then you're going to want to listen to this episode.

For more details on the retreat, click here.

To join us in Michigan, email me [email protected]

Click here to try explore The Sacred Space for free for 7 days

Aryn Evans (aryn love) [she/they] is an artist, lawyer, ceremonialist, and mindfulness guide [RYT 300]. Her work draws from nature wisdom, psychology, Yoga and Ayurveda, plant magic, and her lifelong study of spiritual traditions. Aryn is the creator and host of love space podcast (https://lovespace.buzzsprout.com).  

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Drop into this episode to hear Aryn share about the role medicinal plants and play have guided her along her path as yoga and meditation teacher, mindfulness guide, spiritual coach, and all around rockstar of a human being with a heart of compassionate gold. If you are someone who has been curious about the positive power of plants and living in reciprocity with mother nature, you're going to love this episode.

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Connect with Aryn on Instagram: ⁠@arynevans⁠ and be sure to give her show ⁠@lovespacepodcast ⁠⁠a listen!

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If you would like to do your own exploring with the modalities discussed in this episode, join Aryn and I on a mystical retreat for the 11/11 portal in the woods of Michigan November 10th-November 12th, 2023. Email us for more details. [email protected] / [email protected]