DEAR BODY BODCAST

The Rooted Body of Awakening    The opening lines of the central early Buddhist Sati Patthana Sutta read The intent one  goes to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, sits down, folding their legs crosswise, holding their body erect, and setting mindfulness to the fore. We hear that, at the beginning, the seeker seeks out a tree. And then, at the end, the Buddha finds awakening at the foot of th...

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Today I speak with Pilates and yoga teacher, and community organizer, Marisa Fuglestad. Originally from The Twin Cities area, Marisa shares about their struggles and insights making a way in a world of great need as well as great heart and beauty and depths. We touch on connecting with ethnic roots and ancestral traditions as well the call to care and to help create a revolution of greater justice...

Celtic Spring (February 1st) Dear Body   Dear Body Nature's inhale begins to deepen this time of year.  A time of year that many cultures have celebrated as the beginning of spring.  For the Celtic tradition, the name of the holiday refers to the lambs giving birth.  On a physiological level, we can see this moment as the first half of the inhale.  The belly begins to show with this inhale.    At...

Derik Eselius is the co-founder of the Denver Yoga Underground  The DYU's stated mission: to create a safe haven for dedicated yoga students and teachers to study traditional yoga methods and philosophy, foster good in themselves, and serve communities in need with yoga practice. We do this through allied partnerships, community-based classes, PWYC workshops, and yoga teacher training. In our conv...

A celebration and invocation of poet Walt Whitman- a true champion of the love and beauty and wisdom of the body and earth. The text for the reflection that is presented in this episode of The Bodcast is below. Works referenced and quoted are listed beneath the transcript. Whitman’s Body Miraculous  Let us be humbled, as Walt Whitman sang, by ‘the limitless and delicious wonder.’ Humbled by the ea...

In this episode Randall and I talk about the beautiful, funny, plugged-in, and mysterious relationship with the body. Ultimately the body, as a master of flow, delivers a message of safety and ease. Randall Potter is a tradesman and an integral part of The Home of Truth in Alameda, California. The Home of Truth was founded 125 years ago in Alameda as a beacon of the New Thought movement and has al...

Madaly Love (they/them/elle) is a chicanx curanderx, entheogenic guide, and trauma-informed recovery coach on a path of personal and collective healing, remembrance, and liberation. With ancestral roots in Chichimec, Nahua Otomi, P’urhépecha, and settler lineages, Madaly embraces decolonization as an act of love—reconnecting to land, spirit, and community through ritual and radical care. Their wor...

Dear Body at Winter Solstice   Dear Body In the north, it is the evening of the new moon closest to the Winter Solstice The darkest night of the year, even devoid of moonlight! What does this mean? Food supplies for animals in the wilderness of the north become scarce  Bears, Ground Squirrels, Woodchucks, Bats, Skunks, Raccoons, Snakes, Turtles, and Frogs have been in hibernation for a month or mo...

Today, we talk with parenting coach, former Special Education teacher, and yoga therapist Yael Sunshine. Yael emphasizes a somatic focus for parents and teachers as we support our children and students in their learning and relating. We talk about ‘the hen house’ of the mind when the nervous system is unregulated. We talk about the unique needs of all children and the unlocking of potential when t...

In Episode 3, we speak with San Francisco Bay Area Poet, Paul Corman Roberts, about his work as a poet and poetry community organizer in the body personal and collective. Paul shares two original works, including his response poem, 'Wild Goose," and curates a poem by Andrea Gibson. Paul can be found via the Beast Crawl Literary Festival which he founded, Caravan Writer's Collective, Collapse Press...

This week we are so fortunate to talk with Danielle YS.  Danielle helps women healers and coaches create their own modality so their business stops feeling like a box — and starts feeling like freedom. We talk with her about her journey as a high achiever herself and her deep appreciation for the body as a guide into greater generativity, freedom, grace, and joy. We briefly touch on 'cat jazz' for...

Alexis Slutzky is a long time council circle leader, youth mentor, outdoor educator, former psychotherapist, and threshold guide for people and groups in transition. Alexis reads her stunning Dear Body poem and graces and blesses The DEAR BODY BODCAST as our first guest and guide. Thank you, Alexis!!