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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

Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Season 2, Episode 3: Coming Back to Your Body (guided moving meditation)
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Coming back into your body is a skill and resource towards being present and feeling the pulse of life. In this episode Colleen discusses the practice of coming into your body, feeling yourself breathe, and listening to and following the impulse of movement. She offers a guided practice to come into your tissues.

Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Season 2, Episode 2: Body as Bridge for Navigating Inner and Outer Domains
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
In this episode of Walking with Your Body in Mind, Sarah and Colleen explore the theme of Inner/Outer that is embedded within somatic practices like Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies. They discuss how the body is a bridge between the inner and outer and how our movement helps us receive the messages of both. Two simple guided experiences help the listener feel into it in their own bodies.

Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Season 2, Episode 1: Adventures of My Octopus Body
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Sarah and Colleen are back and reinvesting in this podcast series, now broadening beyond walking to include more areas of your embodied life.
In this episode explore the inner fluid center of the body and its pathways of connection to the distal limbs - think Core-Distal Patterning - and how the morphing of the fluid body supports all form change of the body.

Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Episode 13: The leg bone's connected to the... SPINE!
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Let your psoas take you on a walk. Explore the connections between the upper and lower body through imagery and physical cues. Enjoy the invigorating capabilities of the psoas!
Music by Nate Anderson

Friday Nov 13, 2020
Episode 12: Peer into your psoas!
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Peer deep within to explore the basic anatomy of the psoas. Take a walk to discover the incredible abilities of the psoas, its connections and functions.
Music: Nate Anderson

Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Episode 11: The deep and mysterious psoas
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Dive into the deep mysteries of the psoas with a broad anatomical overview. Walk through the connections, pathways, and incredible efficiency of this lovely muscle!
Music by Nate Anderson

Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Episode 10: Arms, Legs, and Spine: All Mine!
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
In this week's lab explore your spine - the central vertical core of your body and how from your spine emerge limbs - arms and legs that while quite unique carry their own fascinating likenesses. The spine is the bony pathway through which messages move. The three limbs of the upper (head, and arms) and the three limbs of the lower (vestigial tail and legs) grow into and out of each other!
Music by Nate Anderson

Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Episode 9: Exploring Your Spine and Head-Tail Patterning
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
In this lab on the spine, explore your spine as the main pathway and organizer of your Head-Tail connectivity and the central vertical core of your body through which messages pass between head end and tail end.
Music by Nate Anderson

Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Episode 8: Take Your Supple Strong Spine on a Walk
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
This episode dives into the central vertical core of your body - that brilliant shimmering spine and the connection from one end to the other we often call your Head-Tail Pattern of Connectivity. Walk with us as we explore your spine that supports all that you do!
Music by Nate Anderson

Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Episode 7: The Energetic Life of the Pelvis
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Take a walk or wiggle with Sarah through space as we explore the energetic life of the pelvis and two kinetic chains that share the pelvis as a common friend.
Music by Nate Anderson