The PAUSE -- Podcast of the New Creative South

Ari and Ash randomize the preamble. Whack gets a promotion.  Iron John initiates the youngster to the perils and pleasures of the golden well. The chatbots set hard limits and enforce forbidden parrot flower pasties. Ash riffs on moss and mushrooms in the face of cities and buildings.

Join us as I pause with Jill Frere, movement artist, yoga teacher, Buddhist, and community activist among other talents, who previews her current dance work in the Shadows & Light show at the Knoxville Museum of Art this Saturday, 7 June 2025 at 7:00 PM eastern.

Sarah Ledbetter is a highly creative and insightful somatic therapist as well as  movement artist and writer currently based in Nashville, originally from Memphis.  Our wild conversation offers glimpses into the delicate relationship between nature and our natures. 

Ash restates the original 2024 poetic essay of The PAUSE as an invitation from the present tense expressing more spontaneity in the face of an unstable table. The show was recorded on Friday, 23 May 2025 but aired on Radio KCM on Thursday, 29 May 2025 during the waxing crescent Strawberry Moon. 

Davis Saul is on a spiritual journey toward a more authentic way of being, nontraditional in terms of modern values, traditional in terms of more ancient values. He shares a recent story of being swindled and the impact on him along his journey. 

Ari and Ash delve into the cultural construction of the cage. What would have happened if the parrot Whack was also forced to cohabitate with Iron John. Ari opens up for the first time publicly about the traumas of his two grandmothers and devotes to something big. 

Ari and Ash discover the studio has been re-wilded. The Plastic Parrot transforms into the Painted Parrot. The Prince loses his prized possession. The caged Iron John negotiates a deal with the Prince for his freedom. The Prince chooses to leave the kingdom and go on an adventure with Iron John. The King and Queen deal with the crisis of their missing child.

Ari and Ash delve deeper into the forest of Iron John narrative. Plastic Parrot enters the radio station studio. The spirit of Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum movement practice, surfaces. The pool is drained in the forest of the story of the narrative. Hide 'n' Seek played.

In a recent episode of The PAUSE , Ambler-based yoga teacher and community builder Maura Manzo opens up about her path—from her early experiences with yoga to creating spaces where practice, healing, and activism come together. What began as a personal exploration for Maura has grown into a lifelong journey of service. Over the years, she has co-founded studios, raised funds for global initiatives...

Knox Forest School co-founder, teacher, and environmentalist, Stephen Otis and I share wild time re-envisioning creativity, education, nature, and story sharing.

Invoking the mythopoetic journey of deconstructing the Grimm Brothers' Iron John ("Der Eisenhans") into Iron Jane via an ecologically disruptive and co-creative inquiry into story, commentary, music, and more.

Learn what's wild with Andrea Jacobson and her recent name change to Jabbarah. Learn why and what's important about changing names. Learn and practice her version of the Sun Heart breath to bring more universal balance.