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.
Somatic granddaddy Don Hanlon Johnson gives us a history lesson from the early days of embodiment in the USA at Esalen and the swinging 60's, to modern politics and environmental concerns and the future of the field. We talk about diversity, East-West collisions, culture, LSD, education, ageing and more. He also presents a couple of lovely experiential exercises. A vibrant conversation.
http://www.donhanlonjohnson.com/
A short update on how the podcast is going and some news of upcoming courses.
Mark's long-term mentor Paul Linden joins the podcast to discuss aikido, trauma, abuse recovery, self-regulation, the Holocaust and inter-generational impacts, logic, bodywork and humour. A wide ranging conversation with many practical centring techniques, somatic experiments, creative visualisations and stories from 45 years in embodied learning. Trigger warning - discussion of sexual violence, genocide and really bad jokes.
Paul's website: http://www.being-in-movement.com/
Pushing exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe1uk1CydcM&t=1s
Parkinson's and non-violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u60qJUgXu8k
Embodied peacebuilding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTLsF7y8QOw
Embodied peacebuilding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn38e8_VlKU
Russian coaching sessions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NauNqalf0rM&t=28s
In this episode Vilya from Moscow joins Mark to explore the body cross-culturally, delving into Russian culture, trauma, communist influence, gender, tango, business, the revolutionary nature of embodiment and marketing embodiment.
Practice makes permanent - in this episode learn what a transformational embodied practice is and isn't, how to choose a practice, how to make the most of a practice, deal with resistance, and hear examples and case studies of practices from martial arts, dance, yoga and more.
Recommended authors:
Stuart Heller - Leadership Dojo
Ginny Whitelaw - Move to Greatness
Francis Briers - A Little Book on Finding Your way
George Leonard - extracts from "Mastery"
Wendy Palmer - Leadership Embodiment
Poem - Autobiography in Five Chapters by Portia Nelson
On this episode anatomy expert, bodyworker and yoga teacher Gary Carter joins Mark to discuss a depth approach to aesthetics, Scaravelli yoga, bodybuilding, dissection, fascia, ageing, Brazil, the fight-flight response and more!
https://www.naturalbodies.co.uk/
Aikido and meditation teacher Miles Kessler from Tel Aviv about coming down from the mountain and being of service. A wide ranging conversation including discussion on martial arts, form and creativity, ethics, Middle East peace work and online marketing.
Evolution Of Response - https://store.theintegraldojo.com/p/eor-chart-download
Centering Tutorial - http://theintegraldojo.com/centering/
This episode eco-psychologist and counsellor Dr Adrian Harris joins Mark to discuss the power of place and the science of this.
Links to relevant sites:
Eco-therapy research:
http://www.adrianharris.org/ecotherapy/research.htm
Bodymind Place:
Eco-psychology UK
https://www.ecopsychology.org.uk/
Review: 'The Body Knows Its Mind. The surprising power of the physical environment to influence how you think and feel'.
(Recommended book I mentioned in podcast - includes reference to the research literally thinking 'outside the box'):
http://www.embodiment.org.uk/beilock.htm
A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain (good introduction to Lakoff and Johnson, whose work I mentioned in podcast):
Embodied Situated Cognition (more academic notes on Lakoff and Johnson, Clark etc. all mentioned in Pod cast):
http://www.embodiment.org.uk/topics/esc.htm
Richard Louv - 'Last Child in the Woods':
http://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/
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Want to get it together under pressure? On this episode Mark introduces the idea of centring and state regulation, offers some practical exercises and tips for teaching centring safely and effectively.
In the first podcast Mark gives a thorough description of what embodiment is and is not; where it comes from, and tells his own embodied story through addiction, aikido, war zones and taking the work to business.
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