Stay ConnectedA weekly podcast for coaches, embodiment teachers and anyone who sees the body as more than a hunk of meat.
Embodiment Unlimited host Mark Walsh, interviews leaders and innovators from around the world. We cover coaching, mindfulness, trauma therapy, martial arts, meditation, somatics, yoga, and movement practices generally. The flavour is light-hearted, conversational and practical.
The podcast has been going for seven years and had over three million downloads.
Stephen explains what biomechanics is, and what's wrong with it and the traditional view of anatomy. We look at the limitations and outdatedness of Newtonian physics applied to anatomy, how the body is a "slave to the mind", and how anatomy is social and psychological. We look at how children move, and how conformity is embodied and how we can find freedom through feeling and play. We also discuss teaching vs. facilitation/coaching. This one starts out being geeky and becomes revolutionary! We end with a discussion of how movement is love and an exercise in breaking norms.
An embodied approach to healthy eating and our relationship to food. Founders of "Beyond Chocolate" Audrey and Sophie Boss join Mark to discuss why diets don't work (and what does), the disembodiment of the diet culture, how to tune into your hunger and satisfaction, emotional eating, body positivity and body image activism. Practical tips and tools given.
7th degree aikido black belt Philip Smith joins Mark to discuss intense traditional "Asian style" training, culture, democracy vs. totalitarianism in traditions, being a life-long learner, relationships built though martial arts, getting injured and how to avoid it, being part time vs. being a professional, high-level sports, having multiple roles with students, innovation vs. tradition, beauty, how linage is passed between bodies, teaching as an art, and sports science.
Ashtanga yoga teacher Ryan Spielman on the benefits of a recurrent practice, enlightenment, movement meditation, social meditation and authentic communication. We discuss growth from curiosity not pain, congruence, what yogis can learn from Brazilian jiu-jitsu, being a guru and making fun of it all.
Guest anthropologist, ecologist, biologist and technology blogger Gerald joins Mark from Austria. They discuss the geek way of embodiment, wearable technology (e.g. Fitbit), anti-body addictions, heroic endeavours, missions to Mars, what's wrong with the Matrix movies, and ecology; including body-hating and genocidal tendencies within environmentalism.
They also hit on Chinese and post-Nazi Austrian embodiment, and healthy vs. unhealthy nationalism, as embodied culture is explored on the show once again. They look at how technology, marathons and extreme or "ultra" sports, and even eating chilli (Gerard is an expert), can be embodying and disembodying, and the dangers of judging any activity from appearances. A fun quirky one.
Guest anthropologist, ecologist, biologist and technology blogger Gerald joins Mark from Austria. They discuss the geek way of embodiment, wearable technology (e.g. Fitbit), anti-body addictions, heroic endeavours, missions to Mars, what's wrong with the Matrix movies, and ecology; including body-hating and genocidal tendencies within environmentalism.
They also hit on Chinese and post-Nazi Austrian embodiment, and healthy vs. unhealthy nationalism, as embodied culture is explored on the show once again. They look at how technology, marathons and extreme or "ultra" sports, and even eating chilli (Gerard is an expert), can be embodying and disembodying, and the dangers of judging any activity from appearances. A fun quirky one.
Mark gives an overview of how the body can be used by trainers and coaches, offering clear theory, real life examples from various clients and practical tools. Suitable for all kinds of facilitators and body geeks thinking of working in this field.
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Jamie joins Mark to discuss her journey in golf, aikido, bodywork peacebuilding and teaching somatics in business. She discusses the life energy that comes though, women's martial arts, citizen diplomacy in communist Russia and the The Middle East, corporate stress management, ascending vs. descending spirituality as illustrated by the start of David, aikido influenced politics, and she offers a centring exercise to try at home.
Experienced dancer and choreographer Laurie discusses modern and postmodern dance, asks "what is dance?", and goes deeply into the philosophy of movement and the mind-body connection. He discusses Leonardo da Vinci's view of movement as expression, TS Elliot, intuition, self-authoring vs. entropy in embodiment and the trap of form. A profound existential dive!
Exploring the deep and widely applicable model of cycles. Learn how we are effected by the rhythms of life and how imbalance here may cause issues. Various perspectives such as 5Rhythms and the seasons model, are compared, and exercises given.
George Leonard - The Silent Pulse
Gabriel Roth - Maps to Ecstasy
The Anatomy of Change - Richard Strozzi Heckler
The Hero's Journey - Joseph Campbell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
Adam Barley - http://www.adambarley.com/
Mark Walsh videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbkydndvoR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV06pi4JyQ0
The Subjective Flow - The I Cycle
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Simplified versions: Wake, awake, sleepy, sleep; or - turning on, on, turning off, off
The Relationship Flow - We-Cycle
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Simplified version: greeting, relating, parting, alone
The Action Flow - It-Cycle
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Simplified version: Prepare, do, stop, don't
"To everything there is a season...a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to reap that which has been planted" - Ecclesiastes 3:2, The Bible
"Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the heart of the world there is no solidity, there is only dance..." - George Leonard
"At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe."
- George Leonard
Tatjana joins Mark to discuss embodiment and music, Buddhism and yoga. We explore excellence in yoga teaching, what is yoga anyway (?), yoga history, Zen/ Chan, anatomy training. She describes her journey from growing up in a conflicted Yugoslavia to modern day Berlin, how we embody culture, and Europeans vs American marketing. She also offers some practical meditation practices for urban life.
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