130. Parenting uncalmed – with Kirstie Seaborne
Embodied parenting expert Kirstie joins the show. We discuss embodiment vs dancer bodies, trauma and resilience, why we need to include the body when being with children, attachment and attachment issues, parent’s emotional needs, care and compassion fatigue, self-regulation, conditions of transformation, self-care, learning about and training nervous systems, principles of embodied learning, shame, base-line […]
129. Postmodern Zen – Doshin Nelson Roshi
Doshin joins to to discuss what Zen is, koans, the bodymind link, Zen’s role in World War 2, postmodernism, what “feeling” means, Jonathon Haidt, the “moral matrix”, value sets, guilt be shame, self loathing, the victim triangle, protest culture, NonViolent Communication, skilful inflexibility, zen privilege, humour, how The West has improved Zen, shadow work, archetypes, […]
128. Incontinence, kids and money – with Shannon Crow
Yoga teacher and podcaster Shannon joins the show to chat girls nights out, children and practice, prenatal yoga, pregnancy, birth trauma, pelvic health, Victorian attitudes, pelvic floors, mula banda, incontinence, the power of community, competition in yoga, 8 limbs of yoga, community vs cult, boundaries, limits of expertise, eating disorders, podcasting, training design (we geek […]
127. Sexual Healing – with Mike Lousada
Mike Lousada joins us to chat sexual repression, cultural aspects of this, body shame, sexual energy, different schools of bodywork, psychosynthesis, Western vs Eastern approaches, “armouring”, 1970s vs modern approaches, loving presence, sexology, the medical model in sex, the upper limits of human sexual potential, the cult of ecstasy and other traps in tantra, making […]
126. Balanced Yoga – with Gernot Huber
Yoga teacher Gernot Huber joins me to discuss mindbody integration and a balance between “hard” and “soft” yoga. We talk intellectuals beginnings, yoga to strengthen the mindbody link, teacher over style, finding balance in yoga to make it more beneficial, individually adapted practice, form vs feeling, how you do it, listening deeply vs listening to […]
125. Martial Musings – with Roy Dean
Martial arts teacher Roy Dean joins me today to discuss combat sports and personal growth. We talk about early training in Japan as a teenager, why he started martial arts, how training morphs from self defence to personal growth, martial arts categories, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, ranges, MMA and the UFC, how it’s not like the movies, […]
124. Moving Pleasure – with Julia Hope Brightwell
Biodanza teacher Julia Hope Brightwell joins us today. We talk about the trap of trying to transcend the body with spirituality, seroc, butoh, 5Rhythms what Biodanza is and what a class looks like, life force, connection, sexual energy and sexual repression, creativity, the South American feel, how we lose our life force, self control, the […]
123. Slow Dancing – with Polly Hudson
Skinner Releasing dance teacher Polly Hudson joins me to discuss her art. We talk life in a dance conservatoire, somatic practices in dance and acting and the advantages of using this approach, being available and compelling through embodiment, embodiment becoming implicit, the use of language in teaching, the birth of Skinner Releasing, the purpose of the […]
122. Ancestral Movement – Simon Thakur
Creator of Ancestral Movement Simon Thakur joins me to talk monkeys, martial arts and humans. We chat Asian martial arts, the Indian spiritual look, the pros and cons of the life of a traveling student, evolutionary theory, Flow states in nature, primate movement, movement from other stages of our evolution, why we should reclaim our […]
121. Trauma prevention – with David Berceli
Trauma expert David Berceli joins me to discuss TRE – Trauma / Tension releasing Exercise – and his experiences with this work across many domains. A real authority in this now popular field and a bloody nice bloke! https://traumaprevention.com/