Embodied People

Season 4, Episode 9: Guided Meditation the elemental world in your body

Just back from facilitating a retreat at the Keyes Residency on the coast of Maine, this guided meditation connects your body with the elemental world of nature - so tangible and present in Maine. Feel your feet land and connect to the earth, explore your body's topography like one who wanders and explores the earth, notice the swells and emptying of your breath like the waves moving into and away from shore. 

 

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies 

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

 

Season 4, Episode 8: Core Reflections - body, psyche, and central self

The core of the body is a physical place. It is also a place from which we orient, and a metaphor for the image of who we are. In this week's mini-sode Colleen reflects on the relationship between the core of the body and the psychological and felt sense of a core self. 

Co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

Season 4, Episode 7: Embodied Gardening

Want to feel more centered and aline in your body as you garden? This mini-sode with Sarah focuses on ways to feel more alive and centered in your body as you garden... making it even more joyful! Please listen and bring life to your body and your grounds.

 

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

Season 4, Episode 6: Effort and Movement's Field of Sanity

What is a field of sanity in movement? Field of Sanity is a concept referring to expanding the range of movement expression possible. This week's mini-sode Colleen discusses what the Effort category is in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis and why we want to develop a large a range of Effort as possible - thus increasing the range at which we can move and still feel like we are ourselves! 

 

co-hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl 

 

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies 

Music by Nate Anderson

Art by Erin Law

Season 4, Episode 5: How to Spiral and Why You Want To

We talk about Spirals of life and see evidence of spirals all around us. In this episode Sarah and Colleen are together again, and dive into the Spiral in movement - what it is and why you want to be doing them in movement!

 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies

Music by Nate Anderson

Art by Erin Law

Season 4, Episode 4: How to Focus (with the support of your body)

This week we dive into focus and what it means to 'focus' through our bodies. This episode introduce exercises to work with your moving bodies to help you channel your attention with the kind of energy you want to bring to something, including ways to help your brain get more oxygen, and increase blood flow. 

 

Sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies www.imsmovement.com

Hosted by Sarah Donohue and Colleen Wahl www.colleenwahl.com

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

Season 4, Episode 3: How to Design a Movement Practice

If you are listening to this podcast you probably have some forms of exercise and stretching that you already engage in. This week's Embodied People discusses designing a movement practice that goes beyond the familiar weights/walking/yoga practices.

Colleen regularly has clients request individualized movement practices that invigorate and ground them. Listen as she discusses some of the ways she goes about making these movement rituals, and offers some of her own practices as options to get you started. 

Embodied People is sponsored by Integrated Movement Studies imsmovement.com

To book a session with Colleen find her at colleenwahl.com

Art by Erin Law

Sound by Nate Anderson

Season 4, Episode 2: An Interview with Everett on a very physical 6 years

This is an extra special interview with Sarah's son Everett. He is a very physical 6, almost 7 year old. In this episode Everett shares with us what life is like for him in his body, focusing on his progression directly from crawling to running, and the extreme delight of kickball. Sarah shares what it is like to be Everett's mom and how it feels from her perspective to live life through his body. 

Art by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson

Produced by Integrated Movement Studies and Colleen Wahl

Season 4, Episode 1: Touch for Movement Repatterning for self and other

Ever used touch as a way to invigorate your own body or connect with another? How about to create new sensations and new possibilities for movement? This week's Embodied People introduces IMS's Touch for Movement Repatterning (sm) practices including 5 simple Types of Touch you can use on yourself or on others. Touch for Repatterning is a unique and remarkable part of the IMS teaching that holds transformative power. 

 

Image by Erin Law

Sound by Nate Anderson

Season 3, Episode 11: Spiral to navigate complexity with Cross-Laterality

Feeling sensitive to the complexity of life? The navigating of multiple pulls and needs that we are asked to attend to at anytime?

 

This mini-sode explores the Cross-Lateral Pattern of Total Body Connectivity and considers Cross-Laterality as way to bring our bodies into supporting how we navigate the complexities of life. This episode includes a simple guided movement experience, a discussion on the motor development that underpins cross-lateral and a reflection on the connection it has to the brain and learning. Join Colleen for another Embodied People to make your life a little better through your body.

 

Image by Erin Law

Music by Nate Anderson