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Embodiment Matters Podcast
Hosted by Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke · EN
Embodiment Matters is an ongoing, rich conversation about what it really means to be embodied, and why and how embodiment matters so much in our daily lives and in our world. Our guests include wise and insightful teachers from the realms of somatics, Buddhism, meditation, social justice, psychotherapy, movement arts, bodywork, martial arts, neuroscience, environmentalists, indigenous teachers, and more.
In our conversations, we explore a wide range of topics around waking up and being embodied, and offer guided practices to help return to your embodiment as a source of wisdom, guidance and intimacy with life.
Your hosts, Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke, have been devoted to waking up and being embodied for the last 25 years. They have extensive training and practice in The Feldenkrais Method, Yoga & Yoga Therapy, Structural Integration, Embodied Life, Buddhist Meditation, Tai Chi, Focusing, Ayurveda, and more. They share a passion for sharing potent practices that support people in becoming more embodied, more mindful and aware, more rooted in liberating kindness, and more free in all ways; as well as more able to bring their unique gifts forth to benefit the world.
They live in Salt Lake City, and can be found at bodyhappy.com
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Stretched Between Gratitude and Grief: A Conversation with Francis Weller
May 16, 2018Tap to summarizeIn this episode we speak with Francis about what it means to live a soulful life, about the importance and value of grief, and about the challenges we face living in a culture fixated on constant ascension, growth, and improvement. We also explore how human beings are, by nature, ritually articulate, and discuss the value of rituals and of connecting with what Francis calls "primary satisfactions," the ways that the human soul has been nourished for thousands of years. We also talk about the longing to "do it right," the tenuousness of our sense of belonging which gives rise to such a longing, and the difference between taking healthy risks and living calculated lives. We trust you'll enjoy it!
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A Conversation with Lara Veleda Vesta
Apr 19, 2018Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Erin speaks with Lara Veleda Vesta, creator of The Wild Soul School and author of the Moon Divas Guidebook. In our conversation, we explore many powerful topics including embodiment, Lara's journey navigating life with chronic illness, the importance of growing relationship with our ancestors, and so much more.
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A Conversation with Kinde Nebeker
Apr 19, 2018Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Erin speaks with Kinde Nebeker, founder of New Moon Rites of Passage about embodiment, about the importance of modern rites of passage, about the great joy inherent in tending grief, about Kinde's great optimism in the way the world is shifting, and about the connection between the quality of our relationship with our bodies and how it relates with our relationship with Earth, plus much more.
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A Conversation with Philip Shepherd
Apr 18, 2018Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we speak with Philip Shepherd, author of New Self, New World and Radical Wholeness about his reflections on embodiment and why it matters. After Philip guides us into a brief practice of experiencing our embodied selves (not from our heads), we dive into exploring many topics, including his enlivening definition of intelligence as "grounded sensitivity," about growing what he calls "axial consciousness," about our "headist" modern culture, and much more.
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A Conversation with Russel Delman
Apr 16, 2018Tap to summarizeIn this episode we speak with Russell Delman, founder of the Embodied Life School and Feldenkrais Method (R) trainer. In our conversation we explore Russell's reflections on what embodiment means and why it matters in the modern world. We talk about our tendencies to reify life and how being in living relationship with our bodies, minds and world changes everything. We explore the difference between concept and direct experience and how useful it is to return to lived experience in many contexts, from physical pain to political situations.
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A Conversation with Erin and Carl
Apr 16, 2018Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Erin and Carl speak with each other about embodiment, about why it matters, and explore many topics including their journeys into the realms of learning and teaching somatic work, the connections between somatics and spirituality, and so much more.
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