Embodiment Matters Podcast

In this episode, we follow a river of a conversation that is a meeting of two beautiful souls, Pat McCabe and Jaiya John. We three, (Carl, Erin and Alexandre) have been deeply moved and influenced by Pat and Jaiya's writings, and presence, and work in the world, and we were inspired to host a conversation introducing these elders, who each carries such potent medicine for our times.  Together, Pat...

Practices of Reconnection and Remembrance and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke   Greetings listener friends, we are so grateful to have you join us for this deep conversation about practices of Reconnection & Remembrance and Why They Matter. This is the third in a series of podcasts on Practices of Presence, Practices of Depth and Soul, and Practice of Recone...

Practices of Depth and Soul and Why They Matter: A Conversation with Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke Greetings, listener friends! We are delighted to share this conversation ,  the second  in a series of three podcasts we're releasing during January 2026. The first is on practices of presence . The second, (this conversation) is on  practices of depth and soul . The third will be on  practices...

In this podcast, we dive into one of our favorite topics: practices of presence and why they matter. This is the first in a series of three podcasts on practices of presence, practices of depth and soul, and practices of reconnection and remembrance, and why they each matter. These three interweaving spheres and practices are the foundation of the curriculum for our 13-month Refugia training progr...

In this conversation, we speak with ritualist, healer, and rites of passage facilitator, Kedar Brown, founder and director of the Rites of Passage Council.    Our conversation meanders through a variety of soulful topics. Kedar opens the conversation with a beautiful prayer and invocation. We speak of  what it means to live in a good way, to become who we are meant to be, and give our gifts to the...

Greetings listener friends!   This is a re-release of a conversation we had with writer, teacher and soul activist, Francis Weller in 2020. We are releasing some of our favorite conversations that are connected with the themes we will be exploring in our 13-month mentoring training,  Refugia , which begins in February 2026. Francis will be one of the guest teachers, along with Rosemerry Wahtola Tr...

In this episode, our dear friend and colleague, Alexandre Jodun, interviews us! Alexandre had noticed that over these last six years of the Embodiment Matters podcast, and us (Carl and Erin) interviewing so many extraordinary teachers and luminaries, that you, our dear listers, had not heard so much from us about our work, and the soul medicine we carry. So, Alexandre reached out and asked to inte...

Greetings listener friends!   We are excited to share this conversation with Dr. Jaiya John . This is the second episode in the Men of Depth and Soul series that Carl is hosting with our dear friend and colleague, Alexandre Jodun.    Jaiya is an incredible poet, writer, teacher, and human being and the founder of Soul Water Rising press. as he writes on his website:  "My lifelong calling and work...

In this conversation, we begin a new sub-series of the Embodiment Matters podcast, Men of Depth and Soul , where Carl and our dear friend and colleague, Alexandre Jodun will be hosting interviews around what is being asked of men in these times.  We begin the series with our friend and mentor, Francis Weller. Francis is a psychotherapist, soul-activist, and author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Ritua...

We are so excited to share this podcast with the amazing poet and human, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.  As Erin mentions in the intro, you might want to have some tissues handy, as we dive right into the deep end, and the conversation is filled with tenderness and beauty.  In our conversation, Rosemerry reads some of her gorgeous poems, and we move through many rich themes including grief and gratitu...

Friends, we are delighted to share this conversation with two beautiful Earth-loving humans, John Seed and Skye Cielita Flor.  John is a long-time Earth activist, writer, teacher, musician, who, along side Joanna Macy, helped to grow the body of work called Experiential Deep Ecology or The Work that Reconnects.  Skye is a teacher, folk herbalist, plant medicine ritualist, mama, and friend with who...

In this conversation, we speak with our friend and teacher, Cynthia Jurs, along with our dear friend and cohost, Leilani Navar, of The Turning Season Podcast.    Cynthia recently published Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing our World , which is a wisdom book for our times. As both of us have shared, this book is an extraordinary weaving of  spiritual biography, riveting trav...

    Beauty as Ballast, Grief as Guide, Body as Sacred Land     In this conversation between dear friends Erin of Embodiment Matters & Leilani Navar of Turning Season https://turningseason.com/ we dive into rich topics which we'll be exploring in some upcoming online offerings.     Beauty as Ballast, Grief as Guide, and Body as Sacred Land. We also delve into the 5 Vows of the Great turning as arti...

In this conversation/ transmission we were so honored to hear Dr. Jaiya John pour forth from the depths of his heart and soul in a way that can't help but touch your own.   We were blessed to hear from Jaiya about his background and how he went from being shy and voiceless to a fully-dilated voice for Love. We were blessed to hear him read passages from several of his extraordinary books including...

Dear friends,   It is such a pleasure to share this conversation with Zuza Gonçalves.   I met Zuza at the Bobby McFerrin Circlesongs School, and was so moved by his presence, his kindness, the way he moved around the room, and how he led us in movement, song and body-percussion. It felt to me like original human music.   Zuza has been exploring alternative ways to collective music making for more...

Embodying Maitri: The Essential Ingredient with Erin Geesaman Rabke     We're delighted to share with you this podcast where Erin speaks about the practice of Maitri. Maitri is a Sanskrit word often translated as "lovingkindness" but several teachers in our lineage have gone further, naming it "courageous unconditional friendliness," or "brave warmheartedness." In this episode, Erin speaks about t...

In this conversation, Carl speaks with John Wolfstone. John is third-generation settler, working on the Traditional and Unceded territory of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok Peoples. His blood and bones hold Hebraic, Norse and Celtic ancestry, and his spirit is from the Stars. As a wilderness rites-of-passage guide, ritualist, community consultant, relationship coach, and transmedia story-teller,...

Embodying Reverent Relationship with Marika Heinrichs   What a pleasure to speak with Marika Heinrichs of Wildbody.ca about somatics, lineages, respect and repair - and what a delight to have such a rich and tender conversation in Rumi's field that sits outside of any rigid and fixed ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing.    I hope you enjoy this important conversation.      Marika Heinrichs is the g...

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories.   She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients....

Animal Body, Deep Time and The Thing We All Long For: A Conversation with Josh Schrei Friends, we are delighted to share this recent conversation with Josh Schrei. Joshua Michael Schrei is the founder and host of The Emerald podcast. The Emerald combines evocative narrative, soul-stirring music, and interviews with award-winning authors and luminaries to explore the human experience through a vibr...

Tipping The Scales Toward Love & Goodness In this beautiful conversation with poet, writer, and teacher Mark Nepo, we begin exploring Mark's beautiful take on what it means to be embodied. Throughout the conversation, we were blessed with Mark's soulful readings of several of our favorites of his poems. We discuss how care can erase the walls we keep building between us, and how using our imaginat...

Embodying Prayer and Soul Activism In this beautiful conversation, I speak to poet, facilitator and soul activist Nan Seymour, who also happens to be one of my dearest friends. We take as a springboard for our conversation Nan's recently published book of poems called prayers not meant for heaven. Nan weaves several of her poems throughout the conversation and they're beautiful. We talk about bio-...

Liam Bowler is a teacher, writer, father, bodyworker and hosts the Body Awake Podcast.     He is the author of A Creator's Companion, a beautiful book that explores the many elements of the process of creativity.     In our conversation, we speak about embodiment, and embodiment as relationship, and how each of our understandings of embodiment has evolved over the years.     We reflect together ab...

Ariella is a beekeeper, writer, teacher, musician and mother living in Northern California. Her work with honey bees came through a lifelong interest in human connection with the non-human world.  She is a graduate of the Lyceum, a European shamanic pathway with the bee and the serpent as its central motifs.  Within this tradition, she is trained in the healing and seership modality known as the P...

We Were Made For These Times : A conversation with Kaira Jewel Lingo   In this conversation with Kaira, we explore many rich topics including:   embodiment and mindfulness as not separate her new book We Were Made For These Times the practice of coming home to ourselves applying these teachings in the mess of real life rather than just a monastic situation social justice and mindfulness and how ea...