Embodied People

Season 6, Episode 5: Moving Meditation to connect Head and Tail

Dive into the pathway of connection between your head and your tail with Colleen. Our previous two episodes have explored each end of this pathway in their own right. This episode follows along the spine, the cerebral spinal fluid, the digestive tract to explore the many ways our bodies connect along our mid-line.

 

Embodied People is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Embodied People is part of the Integrated Movement Studies educational offerings

Sound by Jordan Rosen

Art by Erin Law

 

Season 6, Episode 4: How to Move through Space - Propulsion from the Tail

In this mini-sode, Colleen guides you to move with more ease and efficiency. Listen as you learn to root through the tail to move through space - much like a fish does. This mobilizes the body and produces freer, easier, more supported movement. It makes it easier, so much easier to move through space!

 

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Art by Erin Law

Sound by Nate Anderson

Season 6, Episode 3: Moving Meditation for the Head and Neck

This short guided movement meditation focuses on the head and neck. As it introduces you to greater awareness of these areas of the body it also explore images and metaphors related to freeing up pain and opening movement potential here.

 

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

Season 6, Episode 2: Embodied Decision Making - tapping into the wisdom of your body

The struggle to make decisions about what is right for you at any given time is something experience over and over in life. This Embodied People is a meditation in the form of a talk Colleen wrote. It guides you to connect to your center and your world around you as you make choices about where to go with your life - in essence where to place your feet on the earth, your hands in what you make and your eyes for where you give attention.

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies. 

And is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl.

 

 

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

Season 6, Episode 1: Awakening to Your Moving Life with Alexandra Beller

We kick off the newest season of Embodied People with an interview with Alexandra Beller! This episode feels important - it explores living a creative life through your moving body, especially somatic resources for more fully connecting to your wise tissues. 

 

Bio for Alexandra Beller

Alexandra has taught for over 25 years in fields spanning dance, theater, and somatics. Her international performance career includes seven years with the Bill. T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company projects with Martha Clarke, John Turturro, and others. Alexandra Beller/Dances was formed in 2001 and she has created over 40 original Dance Theater works for her own, and other, companies. Her choreography has been presented in US theaters and Korea, Hong Kong, Oslo, Cyprus, St. Petersburg, and Poland.

Alexandra holds a BFA/Dance, MFA/Dance, and CMA (Certified Movement Analyst) in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals. She was on faculty at Princeton University from 2015-2022 and currently teaches Somatics, Laban, and Bartenieff as Core Faculty at The Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies. She guest teaches nationally and internationally and creates workshops for her company in Laban/Bartenieff, Directing, Dramaturgy, Pedagogy, Choreography, Dance for Screen, and more. She has a thriving private healing, alignment, and somatic practices. For more info: www.alexandrabellerdances.org or, for choreographic work: www.alexandrabeller.com.

 

Study with her: 

• The Anatomy of Choice: A comprehensive digital course in Laban and Bartenieff: AoC
• Embodied Meaning: a digital course in expressive performance for theater and dance: EM
• Praxispace: an artistic community and library of scores, essays, and choreographic exercises: Praxispace

 

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Embodied People is co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl and sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies.

 

Season 5, Episode 5: Moving Meditation Wishes from Your Moving Body for 2025

It is time to close out 2024 and move into 2025! This episode is a moving meditation. It guides you into your body for the wisdom and guidance to support you in this next year. We begin with a centering and mobilizing practice and then into your heart to listen and receive its messages. 

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Art by Erin Law

Sound by Nate Anderson

 

Season 5, Episode 4: Space Effort and how you organize your attention

This is our final episode in our series on Laban's Effort Factors - Time, Weight, Flow and finally SPACE! Space Effort highlights how our movement reveals the energy of our attention. When is it channeled and laser-like? When is it global and all-encompassing? And, when do you we drop out of Space, such that our thinking selves pause as other energies (Efforts) take focus. 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

And co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Music by Nate Anderson

Images by Erin Law

Season 5, Episode 3: Time Effort - Inner Attitude Towards an Amount of Time

Time Effort is about our inner attitude towards the passing of time - that is how much of we have and how me move in relationship to it. Time can manifest as quickness, urgency, or sustainment and lingering. In this episode Sarah and Colleen explore the Effort quality of Time and how it impacts them.

Season 5, Episode 2: Weight Effort - Put Your Weight Into It!

Ever noticed about how some people have sense of weighty-ness while others are more ethereal? Welcome back to the world of Effort - the study of movement energy and dynamics. This week we explore the Effort Factor known as Weight Effort that connects with how we invest in the mass of our body - do we condense it or rarify it or give up on it?

 

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Music by Nate Anderson

Art by Erin Law

Season 5, Episode 1: Effort - It's not what you do, it's how you do it

Ever noticed that someone could say the same thing in different ways, with different energy and the energetic tone completely colors the tenor of the message? Or that with your closest people you sense their inner life based on the dynamic quality of their moving bodies? In both of these cases you are noticing Effort - the study of the dynamics of human movement...

Welcome to season 5 of Embodied People. We kick off this season with a multi-series look at Effort, or the dynamics of human movement. This episode with Sarah and Colleen back together covers the general concept of Effort and introduces Flow. 

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies and co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Music by Nate Anderson

Art by Erin Law