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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.
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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
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Season 4, Episode 4: How to Focus (with the support of your body)
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
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
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Season 4, Episode 3: How to Design a Movement Practice
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
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
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Season 4, Episode 2: An Interview with Everett on a very physical 6 years
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
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
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Season 4, Episode 1: Touch for Movement Repatterning for self and other
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
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
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Season 3, Episode 11: Spiral to navigate complexity with Cross-Laterality
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
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
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
You have a left side, you have a right side. These two sides of your body are distinctly different, even having their own personalities... In babies and toddlers we see this pattern develop in their crawling and creeping as they make their way to vertical. We feel it in our (adult) selves as we see and perform our side-sided-ness. And we hear it in our language 'on one hand' and 'on the other hand' as we make decisions. Body-Half helps us make decisions, feel into what is right for us, and clarify our perspectives. Join Sarah for a quick run through this Pattern of Total Body Connectivity!
Art by Erin Law
Music by Nate Anderson
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Season 3, Episode 9: Locomotion and Expression in Upper - Lower Patterning
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
The Upper-Lower Pattern focuses differentiating and connecting the Lower Body and the Upper Body. The lower body excels at how we locomote, that is move from one place to another, and the upper body emphasizes how we express ourselves and communicate. When our movement reflects a connected and congruent relationship between Upper and Lower we can move about our lives with greater ease... In this mini-sode Colleen walks us through some basic aspects of the Upper-Lower Pattern of Total Body Connectivity.
Music by Nate Anderson
Image by Erin Law
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Your spine is a messenger between your big brain and brilliant body. In this mini-sode with Sarah, explore how the spine's internal balancing capacity teaches you balancing not just in your head, but throughout your whole body! The spinal nerves move your brain throughout your whole body. Another way to think of this is intention in the tail end, attention in the head end.
Image by Erin Law
Music by Nate Anderson
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