

The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
Mark Walsh
A twice-weekly conversational offering for coaches, embodiment teachers and anyone who sees the body as more than a hunk of meat.
Embodiment Unlimited hosts Mark Walsh, Karin Van Maan and Christina Dohr interview leaders and innovators from embodied disciplines. Mindfulness, trauma therapy, martial arts, meditation, somatics, yoga, and movement practices generally, are all discussed, with educators, academics and experts from around the world. The flavour is usually light-hearted and practical.
www.embodimentunlimited.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfgLCTiNzVpIeL_j7Icxh8w
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Certificate of Embodiment Coaching course : https://embodimentunlimited.com/cec/
Embodiment Unlimited hosts Mark Walsh, Karin Van Maan and Christina Dohr interview leaders and innovators from embodied disciplines. Mindfulness, trauma therapy, martial arts, meditation, somatics, yoga, and movement practices generally, are all discussed, with educators, academics and experts from around the world. The flavour is usually light-hearted and practical.
www.embodimentunlimited.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfgLCTiNzVpIeL_j7Icxh8w
https://www.instagram.com/warkmalsh/
Certificate of Embodiment Coaching course : https://embodimentunlimited.com/cec/
Episodes
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May 27, 2023 • 48min
507. Embodied Shamanism : Caroline Carey
Embodiment elder Caroline joins me to talk concours dance, shamanism, trance states, spirit guides, animism, soul retrieval (vs trauma), sovereignty, out of body expediences, Tolkien, mandorlas, edgewalking, the creative journey and writing. A far ranging lovely chat. Find more from Mark here: www.embodimentunlimited.com Caroline Carey Website www.middleearthmedicine.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CarolineCareyDance/ Insta https://www.instagram.com/carolinecarey__ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinecarey/ Caroline is known as an elder within the arena of conscious embodiment, a Soul-Worker, shamanic guide, creativity mentor and professional counselor. She has a beautiful blend of wisdom and humour, as she shares her life experience through teachings of the heart, she has worked internationally for over twenty five years. Caroline supports her clients by guiding them to explore and unravel their negative beliefs, reclaim what has been missing and implement their soul purpose by finding new perspectives from life stories and discover how those new perspectives might be more advantageous to themselves and others. Her story is one of surviving and thriving against the odds, of finding resilience through trauma recovery. In sharing her journey, a reclamation of an innocence once lost, she offers the reader hope and inspiration, guiding them to follow the whispers of spirit and the path of their soul.

May 25, 2023 • 52min
506. Embodied Intimacy : Buster Rådvik
Body-centred therapist Buster joins me to talk trauma, Osho, catharsis, success, public relationships, ethics in the intimacy world, therapists as rock stars, trust, embodied skills, coming home, touch, goal orientation, intimacy in mainstream culture and we have a fun tussle. An important one if you’ve ever longed for a softer more connected world. For more from Mark Walsh including courses and in-person workshops: www.embodimentunlimited.com Find Buster: www.embodiedintimacy.com www.busterradvik.com Buster Rådvik (M.A Psychology) is the co-founder of Embodied Intimacy, the creator of Embodied Intimacy Training and a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist in private practice. With an MA in Psychology, Couples and Family Therapy, he specialises in trauma and attachment related issues around intimacy, sex and relationship. Buster’s dharma is being by example and leading with integrity. He has a reputation for his candid emotional awareness and ability to reveal himself, transparently, no matter how awkward and messy. His warm, open style gives permission for people to come home to their humanity.

May 24, 2023 • 44min
505. Decadence : Mark Walsh
Decadence - what is it and what to do about it. In this special solo episode I breaks down the decline of Western Civilisation and describe how embodiment is one solution to this. https://embodimentunlimited.com/

May 19, 2023 • 58min
504. Attachment Specialist : Adam Lane Smith
Adam Lane Smith brings his eloquence and extensive expertise to talk families, relationships, male and female attachment tendencies; including how shared experiences build trust and commoraderie as well as shared goals creating long-term healthy affiliations. Traversing a quick fire WW1 generation all the way to the present 'Alpha' trauma-bing, just for fun! Before coming to the present day and why has it all got so crazy? Is there a solution? And, how can attachment play a major part in the future the generation's ability to stay connected by learning to collaborate admist conflict. Do not miss this one! More embodiment at www.embodimentunlimited.com About Adam Lane Smith: Adam is an Attachment Specialist with more than 14 years as a mental health professional. Many of those years were spent as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He has created communities on his social media accounts making attachment help accessible to thousands of his account's followers. adamlanesmith.com Social media accounts: TikTok, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram Articles / book links: - New York Post Article: We must stop using a female model to treat men’s mental health - Daily Mail Article: Genius Life Hack - Book: Slaying Your Fear

May 18, 2023 • 55min
503. Pedestrian Choreography : Erik Iversen
Dance teacher and bodyworker Erik joins me to talk ice hockey, Gabrielle Roth, the history of 5Rythms, Heller Work, how experience shapes us, injuries, what bodywork teaches us, children, puberty, Gay and Katie Hendricks, chairs, and working in school. A good conversation with an elder. Rind out more about embodiment here on our website www.embodimentunlimited.com for courses, free embodiment legends videos and our community online and in-person. Links: https://www.erik.iversen.ca/ www.kiteparade.co) Instagram: @erikmiversen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-iversen-036454176/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erik.iversen.140 About Erik ErikIversen is a founding member of the 5Rhythms worldwide community. He co-produced and was in the first training with Gabrielle Roth in 1981 and became one of her first workshop producers out of Montreal in the 1980’s. Over the next 40 years, he taught the 5Rhythms as well as maintaining a one-one-one bodywork practice; over time he integrated the wisdom he gained from hands-on work with the insight from guiding thousands of dancers on the dancefloor. In 2016, he graduated from of the 2-year Leadership and Transformation training at the Hendricks institute, and is now a certified coach. In 2017, Erik co-founded Kite Parade Co (www.kiteparade.co) and in 2020, he designed the Somatomy™ series, a 3-Module training that guides participants through an in-depth, experiential understanding of their anatomy and offers powerful tools for creating deep presence and flow through movement and conscious embodiment.

May 12, 2023 • 58min
502. What is embodiment? Why does it matter?
From our 'Best of The Embodiment Conference' series. In this episode an 'embodiment legends' panel answer these two clarifying questions. A great one for optimists, skeptics and those who are new or old to the term, practices and field of embodiment. For the purposes of this episode the embodiment legends are: Ken Wilber Michaela Boehm Philip Shepherd Michelle Boulé Steve Hoskinson Leslie Kaminoff Ilan Stephani Dylan Newcomb Gil Hedley If you are interested in becoming an embodiment coach visit www.embodimentunlimited.com And for this year's Live Embodiment Coaching Certificate / LECC https://embodimentunlimited.com/lecc/

May 11, 2023 • 60min
501. The Importance of Shadow Constellations : Nir Esterman
Shadow Constellations combine the healing potential of both Family Constellations and Shadow Work, connecting Intergenerational Healing with Self-Parts Integration in novel ways. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” C.G. Jung The Shadow is the realm of the unconscious into which we put what we repress and deny, what we disown and can’t acknowledge. The Shadow is ‘born’ to the family we are born into and into the culture(s) we are brought up in. Embodied shadow and constellations trainer Nir joins Mark Walsh to talk projections, marriage, transference, trauma, the victim triangle, Bert Hellinger, “soul”, cultural trauma, Poland, inter/generational resourcing, gurus, and power. A deep wonderful conservation. Live Embodiment Coaching Certificate https://embodimentunlimited.com/lecc/ Website www.embodimentunlimited.com The Embodiment Podcast channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZzsLp6HCOJhT_qS5RLB_w Nir Esterman : https://www.niresterman.com/ https://www.facebook.com/nir.esterman https://www.instagram.com/niresterman https://www.linkedin.com/in/niresterman/ Bio: Nir Esterman is a Teacher of Embodied Shadow work and Family Constellations. Nir is also a body psychotherapist (Grinberg method). Nir has been the Embodied Shadow work teacher for EFC Russia for seven years. For the last 20 years, Nir has been working with people and teaching therapists, facilitators, coaches and other professionals how to work more deeply and the same time, more safely with a broader range of clients and issues. He teaches online and in-person in Israel and abroad and presents at a variety of conferences.

May 10, 2023 • 1h 21min
500th Special Episode!
For this 500th episode Mark chats with his mentee Ranko Ceric about the podcast, embodiment and life. The bigger picture with some “under the hood” insights. Thanks for listening! Enjoy a free gift worth more than $100 on us and we hope to see you in-person soon: https://members.embodimentunlimited.com/product/podcast-newsletter-bonus/ You may also enjoy Ranko's recent conversation with Mark "Slavs and Dogs" https://youtu.be/x-qenbLY770 Subscribe to our new The Embodiment Podcast youtube channel to watch all our latest episodes.

May 3, 2023 • 60min
499. Gil Hedley : Movement and Anatomy What's the Fuzz-!
From our Best of The Embodiment Conference series the outstanding Gil Hedley. Watch the full length video and subscribe to our podcast youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/Cpl7uWRRz8I Free stuff: www.embodimentunlimited.com Join the community on our app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/embodiment-app/id1631331117 Embodying your fascia in movement. Time stamps: 0:00 mins Expand our experience of our embodiment. Embodiment anchors us to our human body and we are all connected by that human experience. The body is a gift to be received and explored. We notice differences to appreciate that which unites us all. Embodiment as being present, consciously aware of our bodies and beyond. Where it all began going from an academic who spent most of his time at his desk to studying massage and anatomy and then moving to the lab and science to exploring fascia - in this atom in the universe and from that the human form. 07:00 - Superficial fascia Integral anatomy Using it in meditation - concentration going into the body with the mind Rejecting and accepting your resources - the psychology of this vital component of the body Nourishing, nurturing, protecting Your consciousness having a focused awareness in fascia Fascia or fat in the face and integral part of communication Expression within the body and movement Appreciation for that which our culture diminishes 22:00 mins - Fuzz Peri-fascia Connective tissue Wet membrane Anatomy of differential movement 31 mins - Fluid potential vs stuck Social Cultural 43:00 Deep Fascia Q & A Bio Gil Hedley For the past 29 years, through Hands-On Human Dissection Workshops in the laboratory, worldwide lecture presentations, and online events, I have encouraged thousands of fellow "somanauts" to appreciate, explore, and embody the wonders of the human form. There are plenty of free resources here for those who are simply curious to learn more about our shared human form. For those of you who are interested in deeper and more specific anatomical explorations, my Explorer Membership includes hundreds of hours of continuing education to support your professional work from an Integral Anatomy perspective. https://www.gilhedley.com/

May 2, 2023 • 1h 2min
498. The Drama of Not Being Enough : Ilan Stephani - Best selling author
Taken from the Best of The Embodiment Conference. Keynote speaker Ilan Stephani -Bestselling author of the book »Lieb und Teuer takes us through the bodily practice and compassionate discourse of being enough. Ilana the heady looping drama of programmed response, trauma and habitual thinking to embodiment, through movement, integrative breath and regulation we reconnect, stronger, more centred to discern, ignite and flourish. Watch the full length video here and subscribe to our new podcast channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZzsLp6HCOJhT_qS5RLB_w Free stuff and subscribe here: www.embodimentunlimited.com Bio Ilan Stephani is a Berlin based bestselling author, speaker and researcher on how to shift collective paradigms and un-learn cultural conditioning to gain back our natural orgasmic aliveness. She walks the talk with endless curiosity, humor and ongoing research in the fields of Embodiment | Sexuality | Trauma | Health | Mysticism. Ilan gained nation-wide attention with her bestselling book »Skin and Games – What Sexwork Taught Me About Love«. Ilan offers online courses, in-person retreats and year intensives in both German and English. Ilan shares her radical perspectives and practical insights through her popular global youtube channel and her podcast »YoniOnAir«.