How can we reconnect with the impressions & resources of our ancestral lineage, in somatic ways? 

I recently invited Rani George, a practitioner steeped in both Eastern & Western spirituality, to join us for an exploration of  ancestral reconnection at our The Future Is Embodied Conference. 

During the conversation Rani offered us an experiential practice of expanding our awareness to perceive more of our ancestors, somatically. I just had to share it more widely so today on the podcast we’re joined by Healing Arts Practitioner Rani George. 

 

In this conversation we explore:  -    Rani’s mystical awakening into her indigeneity  -    The traumas and resources that are passed down through our ancestors  -    Rani’s diverse cultural teachers and what they have reminded her of the ‘universal Indigenous Field’  -    Why reconnecting with our indigeneity isn’t a modality - but rather a way of living  -    Jenna & Rani share diverse examples of how our indigeneity speak to us, through the body  -    Rani guides us on a powerful 15 min experiencing of expanding our bodies wisdom to perceive our ancestors  -    Two beautiful practices to deepen your ancestral connections 

 

About Rani George  Healing Arts Practitioner  http://www.circlefolks.com 

Rani George was raised with the influences of Eastern and Western mystical spirituality and earth-based healing traditions handed down through the generations by her mother. Her adult daughter continues in the line. She has been in private and group practice and served as organizer, consultant, presenter, and teacher in the healing arts for over 30 years. She is a Systemic Constellations facilitator with specializations in Spiritual and Nature Constellations. Her current focus is Ancestral Indigenous Reconnection utilizing embodiment practices, hands-on energy work, and meditative processes to access the indigenous wisdom and resourcing of our ancestors.

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

●     Rani’s work & website http://www.circlefolks.com 

●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches

●      School of Embodied Arts

●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here

●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

How can our businesses be an extension of our embodied values & political views? 

If we’re interested in doing business in more embodied ways, we have to examine how the inherited marketing and business practices many of us have been indoctrinated into are not rooted in the values WE hold dear.  Today, we’re speaking with Feminist Business Educator Kelly Diels about marketing practices that can shift culture & what it looks like in practice. 

From social media to email marketing, how we choose the images we use and what we actually market, Kelly shares with us practical suggestions for genuinely liberatory practices in business. 

 

In this interview, we explore: 

• How Kelly incorporates her political & culture-making practices into her business
• Transcending the inherited status quo marketing tactics to align selling with your values
• The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB) & how to know if you’re centering this (or your body of work) in your marketing
• Strategies Kelly uses in her business to shift culture - from email consent, how she chooses imagery & signal boosting
• The input Kelly uses to fuel prolific (& powerful) expression
• Creating consistency on social media when you’re an ebb & flow kind of person 

 

Kelly Diels is feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. She’s here to raise awareness about how the business-as-usual formulas we learn everywhere actually reproduce oppression. She develops and teaches alternate, feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently (and better).

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

●     Kelly’s work

●     Kelly on instagram

●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches

●      Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice

●      School of Embodied Arts

●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here

●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

How can we work DEEP in the body without ‘blowing up’ someone’s trauma? 

Almost all somatic practitioners (including embodiment coaches) I work go through a phase of feeling super worried about activating latent trauma & triggering a client. This is a conversation I have with women a lot. 

Sometimes, this fear manifests as an extreme over-abundance of caution, need to “get it right” & hyper-fixation on strategies. 

This results in practitioners holding themselves back from deepening into sensation - to everyone’s detriment, especially the clients. 

 

Today on the podcast we’re speaking with Somatic Psychotherapist & founder of The School of Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy Monique Pangari about somatic approaches to trauma-centric therapy and what practitioners need to know if they are worried about activating latent trauma (plus so much more). 

Monique's training & experience is vast & in this conversation, we explore:  -    Examples of somatic strategies to support clients in a trauma therapy setting  -    Why embodied approach are deceptively simple & some of the core components for practitioners to make them work well  -    The difference between trauma therapy, therapy & coaching  -    What practitioners need to know if they are worried about activating a client’s trauma  -    The importance of rupture & repair for practitioners  -    Attachment styles & the work Monique created for counsellors & psychotherapists

 

About Monique Pangari Monique Pangari, MEd, SEP, is the creator of Somatic Sand Therapy™, Somatic Expressive Therapies and Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapies™ (SAFE-T). In 2020 she founded 'The School of Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy' where she offers post-graduate training and clinical supervision for professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists. Monique has been practicing Sandplay Therapy and Expressive Therapies with clients of all ages since 2002 and has been training other therapists across Australia since 2008. She began integrating Somatic Experiencing® and Attachment Repatterning into her practice in 2017. Monique has undergraduate studies in Education and Psychology and holds two Masters Degrees. She is also trained in Family Constellations, Circle of Security, Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples, NeuroAffective Touch®, ISHTA Yoga and is currently undergoing further study in Jungian Sandplay Therapy. In addition to offering Training, Supervision and Counselling in her private practice, Monique also lectures part-time at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in the Masters of Counselling program and offers Supervision to Counselling Interns at the University Counselling Clinic. Monique is a Level 4 member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and is a member of the ACA College of Supervisors. 

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

●      Monique Pangari - Website | Social links | Please open in new window | Pls grab from here

●      Somatic Experiencing

●      Diane Poole Heller

●     Trauma Aware Embodiment Coaching (Podcast by Jenna)

●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches

●      Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice

●      School of Embodied Arts

●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here

●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

2021 was the year of my (mini) professional crisis.

There were big decisions to make, and I was feeling deeply confused about the direction I wanted to grow in professionally & with our school.

What kind of business (& life) did I want to have? Did I want to blow up my creation?

It took me a long time to find a mentor to help me navigate what was right, for me.

I wanted someone who worked in deeply embodied ways. Someone who would support me if I decided to throw in the towel & make the decision to destroy my creation. And also someone who was a little bit magic. 

Somehow (I think it was the power of Instagram) Rachael Maddox entered my life.

She’d just closed her own Coaching School down (to begin a conception journey) and was making some radical changes in her business model. She was EMBODIED AF. And supported CEOs. We started working together - and I’ve loved her since.

Recently I spoke with Rachael as part of our The Future Is Embodied Conference. Our conversation was a dive into the ethics of embodied business & how Rachael navigates her work as a witch & mentor.

It was such a rich conversation I wanted to bring it to you today, in the hopes you find some “unconventional” courage to follow your path (whatever that is) to the best version of your work in the world.

Of course, I didn’t close down our school, or decide to blow anything up in the end. Which is what I love so much about EMBODIMENT work. It’s an invitation to find YOUR body's truth. Which won’t look the same as anyone else. What’s right for you won’t be right for them. But holding space for ALL the possibilities, even the wild & witchy ones remains something I hold as so valuable.

Resources From Today’s Podcast

• ●      Rachaels’ website & find her here on Instagram
• ●      Karpman drama/empowerment triangle
• ●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
• ●      School of Embodied Arts
• ●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here
• ●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

I’m 200% here for any experience (or in this case, diagnosis) that supports a woman to inhabit her unique flavor more fully. Adele Wimsett is such a woman. 

 

Today on the podcast, we’re chatting with Adele Wimsett, a UK-based Women’s Health Practitioner specializing in supporting ADHD women to understand the impact their hormones have on their traits, taking a solution-focused approach to creating an ADHD-friendly lifestyle.

 

In this conversation, we explore: 

•    How Adele received her ADHD diagnosis & why it was so validating  -    Rejection sensitivity dysmorphia & other ADHD traits that women can experience  -    Bridging science and the womb in ADHD, exploring how our hormones & cycles impact symptoms  -    Gender bias in ADHD research and what the research tells us -    Menstrual cycle awareness & how Adele uses this to support her neurodivergent symptoms

 

About Adele Wimsett  Women’s Health Practitioner | www.harmoniseyou.co.uk | @harmoniseyou

Adele empowers women to balance their hormones and harness the power of their cyclical nature. She specialises in supporting ADHD women to understand the impact their hormones have on their traits, taking a solution-focused approach to creating an ADHD friendly lifestyle.

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

• Adele Wimsett - www.harmoniseyou.co.uk | @harmoniseyou
• Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
• Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice
• School of Embodied Arts
• Leave a podcast review on iTunes here
• Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

Women from all walks of life are experiencing epidemic levels of disembodied. It’s rife! 

No matter our cultural background or country of origin, many of us know what it’s like to feel numb, disconnected from ourselves & overridden by what the world demands of us. 

Today we’re speaking with three Feminine Embodiment Coaches, all from diverse backgrounds who have found their way home to embodiment work and are supporting their clients to do the same in the realms of dating, career & rites of passage. 

In this episode we speak with Anna Rova, Siobhan Barnes, Amy Frankel & Jenna Ward about:

• How these 3 women from diverse backgrounds found their way into the world of embodiment 
• We speak about the process & skill of disembodying and what it looked like for them, and for their clients 
• Dating and embodiment: Anna shares with us some common themes & challenges modern women face in the dating realm 
• Career and embodiment: Siobhan explores navigating career change through an embodied lens
• Rites of passage & embodiment: Amy shares her experience with rage, autonomy & rites of passage for women 

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

●      Anna Rova | Founder of Claimed.com. Dating, Relationships & Feminine Embodiment Coach @annarova

●      Siobhan Barnes | Life and Leadership Coach @iamsiobhanbarnes

●      Amy Frankel | MPH, Feminine Embodiment Coach, Rites of Passage Guide @amycfrankel

●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches

●      Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice

●      School of Embodied Arts

●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here

●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

The more we notice how disembodied our culture is, the more we have to wonder… how the fuck did we get here?

In my quest to answer that question I stumbled into the world of feminism & across the work of  Dr. Kimberly B George  thank the goddess I did) several years ago.

There are so many ways feminists (including Kimberly) have empowered & supported my embodiment skills.

Every few years I catch up with Kimberly (most recently at our conference) for a rich discussion on the topic of feminism, embodiment & what is truly life giving. This year’s installment was as potent as ever & today I’m sharing it (and Kimberly) on the podcast with you…

 

In this conversation, we explore some hard topics such as:

• Where do feminism & embodiment overlap?
• How do ‘modern’ somatic & embodiment practices create harm
• Is embodiment selfish when the world is (literally) burning, and how do we reconcile this?
• What’s the role of intellectual understanding of how we got here? We speak about the intellectual path that supports the safety of sensation and how that’s different from intellectual bypassing
• Kimberly shares two of her favorite feminist foremothers' works

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

• Kimberly’s work and social media
• The work of Silvia Federici, we mention Caliban & The Witch
• The work of Gloria Anzaldúa, we mention Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
• Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
• School of Embodied Arts
• Leave a podcast review on iTunes here
• Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

What can ancient erotic texts teach us about sensuality & sexuality? 

Many narratives around women's sensuality are rooted in religious-sin, purity or porn-that-distorts reality. But what could we learn about a woman's right to pleasure from ancient erotic texts, texts such as the Kama Sutra? 

On the podcast today we’re joined by mythologist Seema Anand who has been studying women’s story of pleasure & sexuality through the Kama Sutra for the past 23 years.

 

Join us for this conversation exploring:

• Seema’s search for stories about a woman’s right to her own pleasure & how it lead her to the Kama Sutra
• Ancient erotic texts & what they have to teach us about pleasure
• What the Kama Sutra is (it’s not a book of positions) and why jewelry & pleasure are central to it’s erotic teachings
• What’s missing for modern women - how our emotional & intellectual vocabulary around pleasure is letting us down

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

• Seema’s book, The Arts of Seduction
• Find Seema’s work here
• Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
• Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice
• School of Embodied Arts
• Leave a podcast review on iTunes here
• Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

Today on the podcast I come together with four Feminine Embodiment Coaches, from different corners of the globe, to explore how they came to the embodied arts.

Why did it awaken for them? How do they notice it awakening for their clients? And what does it mean for us to choose embodiment back?

 

Extending a warm welcome to Emily Grace Smith, Sarah Laverty, Kate Leiper  & Rachael Haylock who join me on the podcast today.

 

 

In this rich, round table discussion we discuss:

 

-       Finding a safe space in your body when the world outside doesn’t feel safe

-       Define embodiment & explore it’s approach to life, transformation & healing

-       Grief and how individual heartbreak can connect us to collective heart ache

-       Career change & women navigating change towards their callings in life

-       Embodiment as a modality not interested in fixing or solving you

-       Activism, change & emboidment work as liberation

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

●      Emily Grace Smith | Author, Speaker, & Embodiment Coach @guidetowholeness

●      Sarah Laverty | Embodiment Coach | @embodiment_with_sarah

●      Kate Leiper | Psychotherapist & Feminine Embodiment Coach | @kate.leiper

●      Rachael Haylock | Embodiment Coach & Somatic Educator | @achaeljohanna_

●      Emergent Strategy, adrianne maree brown

●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches

●      Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice

●      School of Embodied Arts

●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here

●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

Today we’re joined by India Pierce, an Educator and Consultant who helps others boldly chase joy and improve their equity practices & organizational culture.

 

India is a guest teacher on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Liberation for our Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification - and a fellow entrepreneur who believes embodiment is freedom work.

 

I spoke with India as part of ‘The Future Is Embodied Conference’ late last year & our conversation was so rich, I thought it best to open the enclosures & share this conversation more widely. So today, it’s coming to you on the podcast.

 

In this conversation, we explore:

●       How India found embodiment through religion & the three dimensions of her embodied living

●       Extractive activism & divine activism - we speak about the different fuels for movements

●       India’s journey back to her body through experiences of her emerging queer identity & pregnancy loss

●       Why India sees Embodiment as liberation work

●       JOY - Being guided by joy & why joy is freedom work

●       Is it selfish to prioritize joy? The difference between self-care, joy, collective liberation

●       2 practices for coaches, practitioners & those working in the embodied arts to center DEI and liberation in their work

Advice - This conversation discusses pregnancy loss 

 

India Pierce is an entrepreneur, educator, and consultant who helps others boldly chase joy. After over a decade of working with businesses to improve their equity practices and organizational culture, she realized that something was sorely missing from the organizations and daily lives of the business owners she worked with; you know what that thing was? Joy! That realization went on to drastically change her work and life. Dubbing herself a “joy ambassador,” India launched India Pierce Consulting to encourage people to put the joy back into their work. She supports organizations in creating joyful and equitable workplaces where employees thrive and find fulfillment. As well as, small business owners in building their businesses with their joy in mind so they can grow their business without sacrificing their greatest vision for their life. Outside of work, she is completing her doctorate, enjoys spending time with her family, binging RomComs, and eating pizza. 

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast

• The work of India Pierce & India on Instagram
• Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
• Leave a podcast review on iTunes here
• Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

What is a Feminine Embodiment Coach & what makes this style of coaching different? 

How is the program practically delivered? And what kind of results can I expect to create? 

 

In today’s special podcast episode we’re featuring an August 2023 Info Session for the Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification.

We answer these questions (& many more) in this workshop with program founder Jenna Ward. Together with the teaching team we explore the philosophy behind FEC, take a tour of the school & discuss what it’s like to train in this modality.

 

Resources From Today’s Podcast 

• Watch the Info Session (video & audio) here
• Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
• Leave a podcast review on iTunes here