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Listening to our body and its messages help us navigate our lives towards generative and meaningful days. Through our podcast ‘Embodied People’ we offer somatic practices to support you in remembering and living as fully and dynamically as possible through your flesh. Hosted by somatic educators and Laban/Bartenieff movement analysts Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl. Music by Nate Anderson. Image and design by Erin Law.
Episodes
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Season 3, Episode 7: Me/Not Me - Core - Distal Patterning
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Find the center of your body; find the six distal edges. The center is ME, the distal edges take me to the world our there - the NOT ME. In this mini-sode, Colleen reflects on the Core - Distal Pattern of Total Body Connectivity. This motor pattern, started in utero and repeated throughout our lives sets up knowing physically and psychologically in which we experience the differentiation of self and other, and learn to support ourselves and our movement from an alive and adaptable center.
Image by Erin Law
Music by Nate Anderson
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Consider the moving body as a wise counselor to where we put energy in our lives and who we become. Another extra special episode this week as Sarah interviews Colleen on how she has turned to movement as support for the creative unfolding of one's life, including her current research within the large climbable icosahedron (the Maverick), and her model for creativity based on human movement.
An Icosahedron for Two: A Many Sided Look at Making a Duet
Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies: Contemporary Applications by Colleen Wahl
Music by Nate Anderson
Image by Erin Law
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
This SPECIAL EPISODE is an interview with host Sarah Donohue. She discusses her life, how she got where she is and the major themes of her development, especially the important of creative, playful expression in life. She discusses how eh started dancing, her years of rigorous training, the impact on her psychology, and how she teaches now based on it.
She also discusses her most recent work that involves the exploration of grief. Here is a link to that work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bn2QjAmySY
Music by Nate Anderson
Image by Erin Law
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Sometimes we think of our bodies as functional, anatomical and mechanistic, other times expressive, imagistic, creative and meaningful. We circumnavigate questions about how we work with the functional and expressive aspects of our bodies to guide what we pursue in life.
Explore the connections between these tensions in this interview with Juliana Hane - CLMA, dance artist, pilates instructor and candidate in Physical Therapy doctoral program.
Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies
Image by Erin Law
Music by Nate Anderson
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Season 3, Episode 3: Embodied Shoveling
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Learn to shovel better, maybe even with joy along with the difficulties! Sarah brings us tools to increase the connectivity of shoveling to reduce the pain and strain that comes from heaving snow across the drive.
Images by Erin Law
Music by Nate Anderson
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
This is an interview with CLMA and somatic educator Madegan Lynch. One of Madegan's projects has been to work with ballet dancers to increase their skills through somatic practices, including the Laban/Bartenieff approach to movement education and IMS's touch for repatterning. Among other things, Madegan discusses the relationships we develop with our bodies based on how we train it, as well as the importance of core support and grounding.
Please check out her website: https://www.kinesthesiamovementtherapy.com/
While this week's episode is different than usual it highlights how the study of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis can bring new understandings and deeper connections to movement in so, so many areas of life.
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Season 3, Episode 1: Yielding - the bonding that sets up activation
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Yielding as an act of bonding - of connecting to something or someone in order to eventually take bigger action. This mini-sode is an embodied meditation on yielding and setting up an info-energetic pattern that develops tissue tone and is the preparation for bigger action.
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Season 2, Episode 11: Embodying Choice and Options
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Have hopes, wishes and dreams for the upcoming year? Get embodied to live them out.
Colleen connects you to your body - skin, heart, and feet - as wise resources for navigating life with boundaries, love, and movement. What you can experience and know in your tissues, you can feel supported by as you move through life options and choices.
Image by Erin Law
Music by Nate Anderson
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Season2, Episode 10: Kinesphere and the holidays mini-sode with Sarah
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
In this mini-episode Sarah discusses what the Kinesphere is - our personal movement bubble (hence: kinetic sphere). She discusses how our kinesphere morphs and shifts depending on our inner states and the needs we have to engage with our world and relationships. This idea is helpful as we navigate the many pulls and tugs of our holiday engagements. Did you know you can even share your kinsphere with loved ones?!
Image by Erin Law
Music by Nate Anderson
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Season 2, Episode 9: The Satisfaction Cycle: Yield, Push, Reach, Grasp, Pull
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Ever left an activity feeling so physically satisfied - like you had completed a cycle or worked something out? In this episode Sarah and Colleen explore what is referred to by some developmental movement experts as 'the satisfaction cycle' - that is the basic motor patterns that allow us to meet and satisfy our needs.
Yield, Push, Reach, Grasp and Pull is how we reach for what we want, bond and connect to those we love, push away when we want to create distance, take hold and know we've got something, and pull our selves closer to that which we want to be more near.
Join us as we discuss these as motor patterns, as well as psychological energies and metaphors to describe the pulls and pushes of our lives.