394. Accessible Embodiment – With Dr Rodney King
Mindful embodied leadership coach and martial arts teacher join me to talk crazy monkey martial arts, traditional vs modern martial arts, life transfer, sympathetic activation, corporate embodiment, making embodiment accessible, indigenous knowledge, podcasting, body language and trying things on yourself. A good one to review practical embodiment fundamentals. https://drrodneyking.com https://embodiedperformancecoaching.com
393. Love grows brains – emotional literacy and building an empathy movement – With Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon joins Allison Lindsay to talk about the neuroscience of empathy, mirror neurons, Â growing emotional literacy in children and adults, connecting to compassion through body-based experiences, the role of play in developing a world free of aggression, and how we can create a society based on empathy. https://rootsofempathy.org
392. Why Meditation is hard – With Adam Coutts
Meditation teacher joins me to discuss being yourself, Zen vs Vipasana, monasticism vs life, choices around Meditation, ADHD, Shinzen Young, technology, noble truths, analogies, The Secret, preview pleasure, and eyes open or closed sitting. A good mindfulness geek out. https://intromeditation.com/Wordpress/about/meet-adam-coutts/
391. Reframing movement through Alexander Technique – With Ann Rodiger
Ann Rodiger joins Allison Lindsay to talk about Alexander Technique, shifting our spatial awareness, creating space in our bodies and finding a sense of inner movement, how Alexander Technique can support those with hypermobility, finding three-dimensionality in our embodiment and ways to allow better posture to emerge. https://www.balanceartscenter.com
390. Making Meditation Embodied – With Karin Van Maanen
Meditation teacher joins me to discuss how she started out, why sitting alone isn’t enough, what’s changed since Buddhist times, what “embodied” meditation actually is, meditating AS a body, nature connection, and our free events coming up. A good week out on how meditation and embodiment fit together.
389. Synthesis of mindfulness in nature and somatic therapy – With Rochelle Calvert
Rochelle Calvert meets ecotherapist Adrian Harris to discuss her synthesis of mindfulness in nature and somatic therapy. Rochelle’s work takes us from healing individual trauma to “living an ethical, embodied life” in a time of ecological crisis. Join us to learn the principles and practice of personal and global healing. Rochelle Calvert: https://newmindfullife.comAdrian Harris: bodymindplace.org
388. How to conflict – With Jason Gaddis
Author of Getting to Zero and Founder of The Relationship School joins me to discuss communication skills, listening, conflict, polarisation, NVC, co-regulation, the five types of the fight, top tips and more. A beneficial one for anyone who has relationships of any kind! https://www.jaysongaddis.com
387. Embodied meditation – With Martin Aylward
Embodied meditation teacher joins me to discuss spiritual bypassing, existential crisis, the word “mindfulness”, close vs far, “young man’s practice”, relaxation, “belief in tension”, the body as flow, somatic blocks, trauma armouring, dark night experiences, the “body field”, death and COVID, heart practices, and space. A mega useful leading-edge embodied geek out. https://sangha.live https://www.moulindechaves.org https://www.mindfulnesstraininginstitute.com
386. Embodied leadership – With Lisa Dempsey
Lisa Dempsey joins Allison Lindsay to talk about bringing the body into leadership, tuning into the impact you want to have in the world, leadership as a day-to-day practice, creating psychological safety in teams, masculine and feminine energies, how intention influences impact, and bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness. https://www.leadershiplabs.eu
385. Why we’re not healthy – With Andrea Page
Founder of the Institute for Aliveness, who is TROUBLE, joins me to discuss travel, the worst country, embodied racism, trauma, “filters”, health, fasting, performance culture, astrology, and more. A bit wild. I was grumpy, but she was great. https://andix.ai/index.html