Lost Together Podcast with Marika Heinrichs

“Sometimes freedom is like, can you hold me please?” How do we build relationship and intimacy across differences in power, history, and identity? My guest this week is Prentis Hemphill.  Prentis Hemphill is the bestselling author of What It Takes to Heal, a groundbreaking exploration of healing, justice, and transformation. A therapist, somatics teacher, facilitator, political organizer, and writ...

This week our glossary entry is on Transformative Justice. Episode 3 of the podcast dives into learning to do conflict more skillfully and how this relates to a vision of community beyond punishment and isolation. If you haven’t listened yet to my conversation with Brook Thorndycraft on growing our capacity for conflict and why it’s important for our communities, movements, and the planet — you ca...

"That sense that we can just dislike each other and then dispose of each other when it gets too hard is the thing that keeps us stuck in these old systems.” What if the problem isn’t conflict, but our inability to stay with it? With over 15 years of experience and a background in mediation (Q. Med), adult education (MA), and Somatic Experiencing (SEP), Brook bridges the gap between systemic change...

What does Land Back Mean? This week our glossary entry is on Land Back (with some thoughts on settler colonialism too). Episode 2 of the podcast explores the relationship between cultural reconnection and solidarity activism. We reflect on our relationship with land as both settlers and descendants of land-based traditions that were nearly lost. If you haven’t listened yet to my conversation with...

“Sometimes we don't know who we're from, what lands we're from, what culture we're from, what language we're from. But that culture, those ancestors, that language, know exactly who we are.” What happens when we try to do justice work without knowing who we are? Ben Reid-Howells is a Scottish-Canadian community organizer, educator, Gaelic language and culture learner, co-founder of the Centre of R...

What does Regeneration mean? Welcome to our first glossary episode! There are so many words and terms that we use in the field of somatics, social justice, and the politicized healing sphere that we don’t always have the same understandings around, or take the time to really explain. This can both lead to misunderstandings, and a kind of gatekeeping. I want the kind of brave conversations we’re ha...

“When we are together, there is me, there is her, and there is a third person, there’s our relationship and we are trying to know it better each time we meet.” This weeks’ guests are Luana Couto and Nisha Mary Poulose. Lua is a researcher, educator and storyteller from the Brazilian Amazon. Her work lives where ancestral knowledge meets futures thinking. She partners with Purpy and Futuro Possivel...

Marika Heinrichs is a somatics practitioner, therapist, writer, organizer, and facilitator. For over 20 years she has been learning and experimenting at the intersection of healing and social change. In conversation with friends, mentors, and collaborators, Lost Together explores the wisdom that the unknown has to offer us alongside grounded, practical tools for cultivating strong relationships wi...