The Return to Embodiment: consciousness, culture, creativity and flourishing

Apr 04 2025 50 ep. 54 mins 87
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The Return to Embodiment is love song to the ordinary, the poetic, the implicit world of the body itself as a place of knowing and movement as our very first language. It's a phenomenological exploration of how and what moves us as we travel among the social, cultural, historical, environmental settings in which we find ourselves. Each individual I interview offers particular experiences, grounded in this knowing. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/returntoembodiment

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Is this podcast necessary anymore?

Apr 04 2025 29 mins  
an inquiry about how a podcast on embodiment fits within our current time. amidst wars and division. i am wondering. how do our acts of creation, of nurturing, of designing and building of gardening craft a future we long to leave our children?

Cuquis Robledo on Embodiment as Vibration. Freedom. Advocacy. Reclamation. Identity.

Dec 09 2024 75 mins  
Cuquis Robledo is a mental health counselor in Houston, TX with a passion for incorporating the arts, movement, and advocacy with her clients. Prior to her work as a counselor, Cuquis was a disability advocate and a documentarian, documenting the lives and empowering the voices of people of disabilities and other marginalized communities. Being disabled herself, specifically Cuquis

Dance as world making through attention and volition with Rebecca Barnstaple PhD

Oct 24 2024 64 mins  
Rebecca Barnstaple is a dance researcher and clinician who brings dance therapy to people with chronic pain, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's disease. As a postdoctoral fellow at York University in Toronto, Rebecca conducts research on the neurbiological effects of dance on health and disease.

Embodiment as relationship to changing self with Kristina Fluty

Sep 22 2024 70 mins  
In this conversation, Kristina traces ways her own body and development interfaced with limitations of the dance world, and how she has found home in practices of intenttionally dismantling harmful conditioning and building movement from a posture of love and seeking pleasure in the body. Kristina talks about the therapeutic dance certificate offered through EEIC and the honor of f

Poetry and authenticity with Tārāvajrī

Jul 19 2024 72 mins  
In this conversation, I am speaking with Tārāvajrī. Leslie McCormick (Taravajri) is a somatic creative, licensed somatic psychotherapist, registered dance movement therapist, poet, and ordained Dharmacharini with the Triratna Buddhist Order. In this conversation we discuss poetry as companion, our shared love of our teacher, Zoe Avstreih, and the phenomena of touch and sound in

Ashley Fargnoli on international practices of dance/movement therapy and overcoming burnout

Jun 01 2024 66 mins  
Ashley Fargnoli is a dance/movement therapist, a licensed psychotherapist, a dance performer, a choreographer, a film maker, a researcher, and a Fullbright scholar. In this conversation, we explore the multicultural origins of embodiment and the ways in which parts of ourselves and are accessed and healed through different styles of dance. Ashley describes working with a performanc

Embodiment as response with Molly Shanahan

Feb 19 2024 63 mins  
Molly Shanahan is a Canadian-born, U.S.-based choreographer and dancer, educator, thinker, and writer about movement, body, and healing. She makes dances. She supports movers in reinhabiting their own bodies in relationship with other movers, prioritizing deep exploration of movement and inquiry into what human experience and response drives our movement choices, especially withi

Embodiment as inquiry with Amber Elizabeth Gray: How am I, in this flesh and blood and love, a part of everything?

Jan 18 2024 92 mins  
In this conversation, Dr. Amber Elizabeth L. Gray asks a series of questions, which deepen us into the question of embodiment and its function to sensitize us to one another and cultivate respect and reciprocity within the more than human world. Dr. Gray is a Dance/Movement Therapist, Somatic & Human Rights Psychotherapist, and long-time yoga and Continuum teacher. She works

Introduction to 6th Season of The Return to Embodiment 2024

Jan 10 2024 8 mins  
In this podcast, I reflect on time spent in the middle of the night with a green sea turtle in the southern great barrier reef, witnessing her toil and labor and eventually, without completing the work of laying her eggs, return to the ocean. I am aware that this podcast itself is a digging a nest, a gathering together stories, and perhaps it will in this new year expand beyond my

Roman Baca on dance as a way to reconnect military veterans to themselves and to their broader communities.

Dec 13 2023 57 mins  
In this conversation, I am speaking with Román Baca. Román is a U.S. Marine Iraq war veteran as well as the co-founder and artistic director of Exit12 Dance Company in New York City. Román was invited to do a TEDx talk in San Antonio in 2013 (⁠https://youtu.be/EjwFMgsQmBI⁠). When I learned of his work, I took the opportunity to visit New York to see his company rehearse and