This episode is a particularly vivid one! I am talking with Judith Kleinman in Person in London, sitting in her Kitchen and together exploring the wonderful tools the Alexander Technique has to offer to us to find more ease, space and connection within ourselves and thereby to the world around. 

Judith Kleinman trained as a musician at the Guildhall school of Music. She went on to train to be an Alexander teacher as well as a Tai chi and Yoga teacher.
Judith teaches at The Royal College of Music and The junior Academy of Music alongside being a co Head of Training at the LCATT Alexander Training School (LCATT) Judith collaborates with Sue Merry on the Developing Self project (see links below) and The Ready List project for the public (The ready list, see link below). She has co written the book 'The Alexander Technique for Musicians’ with her husband Peter Buckoke and 'The Alexander Technique for Young Musicians'. Recently Judith wrote “Finding Quiet Strength” to share her approach to self regulation and connections to wellbeing through Thought, Movement, Touch and Breath.

In this conversation with Judith you will learn about …


What Alexander Technique is and how to Judith came to learn this art
How the Alexander Technique offers so wonderful and potent tools to find what Judith calls «Quiet strength» - this soft spot where we feel at ease and safe within ourselves and we can touch into the bodys wisdom and allow the body to undo rather than so forcefully trying to correct ourselves.
A little Alexander Technique sequence you can do anytime whilst sitting on a chair which helps you discover this quality of quiet strength within yourself 
How our body and nervous system constantly seek for a place of safety and «feeling home» any how for Judith the Alexander Technique is the ongoing path to come back home to herself 
Life is a play, a practice and we don't have to get it right or perfect!



How to connect with Judith:

Judith`s webpage: www.findingquietstrength.com
The ready list: www.thereadylist.com
Judith is teaching at the London Center for Alexander Technique and Training: https://www.lcatt.org.uk/


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Credits:

Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here. 
Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here
Mix engineer: Jack Gillen, for more information click here

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com

Nature lives through four seasons year by year, and so do we women cycle through four inner seasons month by month. We are not always in the same mood and many challenges in daily life lose their scarce if we learn to understand WHY our energy levels aren't always the same. To get to know your inner spring, summer, autumn and winter supports us to connect to ourselves, our body and inner wisdom. And in that way we feel less at mercy of our mood and we can use the knowledge about the menstrual cycle to bring lightness and joy into our life. 

In this episode I am talking to the wonderful Josianne Hoesener. Josianne is a menstrual-cycle-mentor , «Menstruationskundige» and author. Since more than 10 years she is supporting women to learn to understand their body and menstrual cycle und to create a bloody brilliant life in harmony with the knowledge about the menstrual cycle. Her book «Back to the roots» - sadly only existing in German - all about cyclical living with huge joy, has been sold more than 10`000 times. 


In the conversation with Josianne you will learn about: 


Josianne`s fascination and inspiration for the menstrual cycle and how she came to work in that field
The cyclical nature of all aspects of our life
What the inner seasons are and what it means to live a cyclical life
Why living a cyclical life connects you to your true inner self and connects you to your body as your greatest teacher
Why saying yes to my cycle is saying yes to myself leading to a much more fulfilled and happy life 



I hope you feel as energised and inspired as I did after listening to the interview with Josianne and that it encourages you to explore more deeply the nature of your menstrual cycle and how its wisdom can enhance your daily life!

More information about Josianne`s work and book:

You can find all about Josianne on her webpage: www.quittenduft.ch


More links about the episode:

Books in ENGLISH (recommended by Josianne!) about menstruation and living a cyclical life: «Code red» by Lisa Lister and «Moon time» by Lucy H. Pearce 



To leave any comments and to get in touch with me, follow me on Facebook or instagram, or visit my webpage www.flurinathali.com 



Credits:


Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here. 


Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here


Mix engineer: Jack Gillen, for more information click here

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com

Yes our body is our best teacher - and this, I feel, requires a deep connection to it, compassionate listening and the nurturing of a very felt experience of the physical matter we inhabit: The breathing body. 

The breathing body to me is a spacious body, a soft body, a receptive body, sensing and feeling body, a body which is alert, has the ability to adapt, has mutability, a versatile body, a strong body, a connected body -  a body in motion, a body in tune with its own rhythm and song, a body which is given the space to dance and sing its very own unique melody. The breathing body is a body connected to below and above and all around, able to receive and share - and reveal wisdom from inside. 

In this episode I share with you what the breathing body means to me and how I access it through movement, touch, images, imaginations and what I call a poetic approach to human anatomy. I hope you feel inspired maybe as you listen or anytime after to take a break, pause, lean back, rest into yourself and enjoy a sense of expanding space within and around you as your whole being comes to stillness. 

In this episode I share with you,

• What the breathing body means to me


• What practices and tools I use on a daily base to connect to my physical body


• And through that process experience more softness, ease, spacious- and lightness within 


• What it means to me to connect to the support of the ground and Mother Earth 


• Why building a sensory vocabulary is enhancing my own life experience


• And how an interoceptive practice starts a process through which your body reveals its inherent wisdom to you!

To leave any comments and to get in touch with me, follow me on Facebook or instagram, or visit my webpage www.flurinathali.com 

Credits:

• Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian, Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here. 

• Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

• Mix engineer: Jack Gillen, for more information click here

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com

Thank you for being here!

This podcast invites you to journey through conversations which share the fascination of the physical matter we inhabit: the breathing body. These conversations explore its inherent intelligence, movement and healing. 

I am talking to people from various fields of research and practice such as osteopathy, dance, somatic practices, anatomy and embryology, spirituality and many more. 

Would you like to learn about our miraculous bodies and be inspired in many new ways? Then this podcast is for you! 

My name is Flurina and I am the host of this podcast. I am an osteopath with a background in dance and yoga and based in London where I practice, lecture and research. 

In this episode I would like to tell you a bit more about myself and share with you what journey led me to launch this podcast and what it is all about. 

To leave any comments and to get in touch with me, follow me on Facebook or instagram, or visit my webpage www.flurinathali.com 

Credits:

• Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter. Listen to the full track here. 

• Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

• Mix engineer: Jack Gillen, for more information click here

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit flurinathali.substack.com