The Return to Embodiment: consciousness, culture, creativity and flourishing

There are times when a teacher offers perpective you cannot find on your own.  If one listens, with an open mind, an open body, in this episode, Jeff walks us through his journey into the richest ecosystem on earth, the Amazon River basin.  He describes the dieta, his apprenticeship with the plants and the Shaman, including the hardship as well as the joy, weaving observations of his changing self...

Peggy Hackney is co-founder of Integrated Movement Studies (www.imsmovement.com) and teaches in their Laban/Bartenieff Certificate Program.  As a registered somatic movement therapist (ISMETA), a certified massage therapist, and a teacher of labanotation, Peggy Hackney has been working in the world of movement and embodiment for over fifty years. She teaches globally and has written the seminal bo...

In a time of social distance due to Corona virus, Luz de Olano reminds us of the tenderness and beauty found in the embrace. Luz is a tango dancer and a tango singer who has performed internationally.  Luz  teaches tango with a  playfulness that promotes ease in the learning process, and she provides tours of milongas throughout Buenos Aires. Luz has studied psicotango with Monica P...

Deirdre Fay MSW, LICSW invites us to trust the process of reinvention that occurs throughout life and is occuring now.  She encourages us to slow down and to differentiate between what is the past coming into the present through thoughts, feelings or sensations, and what is truly happening now.  In the book, Attachment Based Yoga and Meditation for Trauma Recovery, Deirdre draws connections betwee...

Rachel Sherron talks about inner sense healing arts collective and the vision of preparing teachers to be trauma and mental health aware.  She also describes  work with clients including subtle movements in the healing of trauma.  Rachel's creative endeavors include:  a private practice in Chicago (somawisechicago.com), teaching yoga at Innersense Healing Arts Collective (www.innersensehealingarts...

The Return to Embodiment is a love song to the ordinary, the poetic, the implict world of the body itself as a place of knowing, and movement as our very first language. it's a phenomenological exploration of how and what moves us as we travel among the social, cultural, historical, environmental settings in which we find ourselves.  Each individual i interview offers particular experiences g...

In this podcast, Stacey Hurst LCPC, BC-DMT, GL-CMA examines her clinical work with people who have suffered trauma as it relates to the evacuation and reinhabiting of the body.  The power of attachment, especially in the context of being seen as a mover comes into the conversation along with some reflections on her own experience as a mother.  Stacey currently teaches Laban Movement Analysis cours...

Kris Larsen BC-DMT, LCPC, GL-CMA, is a therapist, educator and performer.  He has been in private practice for 25 years and taught in graduate education for over 20.  Kris teaches ‘The Neuroscience of Embodied Presence’ through the Embodied Education Institute of Chicago. In this podcast, Kris brings humor, honesty, and generosity of spirit as he shares about the ways in which Tourette's disorder...

The Return to Embodiment is a love song to the ordinary, the poetic, the implict world of the body itself as a place of knowing, and movement as our very first language. it's a phenomenological exploration of how and what moves us as we travel among the social, cultural, historical, environmental settings in which we find ourselves.  Each individual i interview offers particular experiences g...