Embodied People

Season 3, Episode 2: An interview with Madegan Lynch on somatic/Laban for ballet dancers

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. 

Season 3, Episode 1: Yielding - the bonding that sets up activation

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. 

Season 2, Episode 11: Embodying Choice and Options

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

Season2, Episode 10: Kinesphere and the holidays mini-sode with Sarah

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

Season 2, Episode 9: The Satisfaction Cycle: Yield, Push, Reach, Grasp, Pull

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. 

Season 2, Episode 8: Body as Guide for Navigating Change

In this mini-episode Colleen explores how the  moving body is our  most fundamental experience of change - the study of movement is the study of physical change. Much our language for how we experience and navigate change in our lives relates to our moving body. Based on this, Colleen  discusses how we can attune to our bodies as a source of wise council to navigate us through our lives. 

Season 2, Episode 7: Interview with Erin Law on Embodiment, Boundaries, Metaphors, and Technology

In this extra special episode, Sarah and Colleen interview Erin Law. Erin's whose pioneering work in embodiment brings abstract concepts into embodied knowing in a way that we can move towards more lives where our thinking and actions are in alignment. Erin discusses several aspects of their work with embodied practices and connects them to generative action with self and community, including her project "Unraveling Our Whiteness". Okay, just listen! 

Check out Erin's website: https://www.erinlawembodiment.com/

Season 2, Episode 6: Kinetic Chains

In this mini, solo episode Colleen discusses kinetic chains - the pathways of inflow and and outflow that organize our movement. She guides you through several important kinetic chains, the feet through to pelvis and the arms through to tail that bring both stability and mobile, adaptability to the moving body.

Season 2, Episode 5: Finding Center

In this week's episode, Sarah takes the lead and explores the idea of 'finding center'. The conversation includes 'what does it feel like for us to be centered?' and how we pursue being centered, as well as some possible anatomical connections to feeling centered, a guided experience of the interconnected 'balls' of the body, a balancing one's bones, and the ever central navel center!

Season 2, Episode 4: Driving your Embodied Self

Join Sarah in this mini-episode as she drives her 2-hour daily commute down I-15 and takes you through her embodied driving practice. The guided movement meditation offers you resources for staying connected and nimble in your body behind the wheel and easing the tension of high-activation commuting. 

Image by Erin Law

Sound by Nate Anderson