The Embodiment Coaching Podcast

Mark gives an overview of how the body can be used by trainers and coaches, offering clear theory, real life examples from various clients and practical tools. Suitable for all kinds of facilitators and body geeks thinking of working in this field.  Email: markatintegrationtrainingdotcodotuk  Facebook group: Embodied Page https://www.facebook.com/leadership.coach.training/  Embodied Facilitator Course (EFC): embodiment train-the-trainer courses in London and Moscow; one-day events worldwide: www.embodiedfacilitator.com  Twitter: @warkmalsh  Business website: www.integrationtraining.co.uk  Online learning resource: www.thebodyofcoaching.com  Embodiment applied to yoga: www.embodiedyogaprinciples.com  YouTube channel: 1000+ videos www.youtube.com/user/IntegrationTraining

Jamie joins Mark to discuss her journey in golf, aikido, bodywork peacebuilding and teaching somatics in business. She discusses the life energy that comes though, women's martial arts, citizen diplomacy in communist Russia and the The Middle East, corporate stress management, ascending vs. descending spirituality as illustrated by the start of David, aikido influenced politics, and she offers a centring exercise to try at home. http://www.thekiaiway.com

Experienced dancer and choreographer Laurie discusses modern and postmodern dance, asks "what is dance?", and goes deeply into the philosophy of movement and the mind-body connection. He discusses Leonardo da Vinci's view of movement as expression, TS Elliot, intuition, self-authoring vs. entropy in embodiment and the trap of form. A profound existential dive! http://lauriebooth.com/

Exploring the deep and widely applicable model of cycles. Learn how we are effected by the rhythms of life and how imbalance here may cause issues. Various perspectives such as 5Rhythms and the seasons model, are compared, and exercises given. George Leonard - The Silent Pulse Gabriel Roth - Maps to Ecstasy The Anatomy of Change - Richard Strozzi Heckler The Hero's Journey - Joseph Campbell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey Adam Barley - http://www.adambarley.com/ Mark Walsh videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbkydndvoR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV06pi4JyQ0 The Subjective Flow - The I Cycle Activation-increasing-peaking-containing-decreasing-completing-rest Simplified versions: Wake, awake, sleepy, sleep; or - turning on, on, turning off, off The Relationship Flow - We-Cycle Aloneness-meeting-connecting-dialogue-transformation-completing-departing Simplified version: greeting, relating, parting, alone The Action Flow - It-Cycle Preparing-allowing-starting-doing-completing-reflecting-not doing Simplified version: Prepare, do, stop, don't "To everything there is a season...a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to reap that which has been planted" - Ecclesiastes 3:2, The Bible "Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the heart of the world there is no solidity, there is only dance..." - George Leonard "At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe." - George Leonard

Tatjana joins Mark to discuss embodiment and music, Buddhism and yoga. We explore excellence in yoga teaching, what is yoga anyway (?), yoga history, Zen/ Chan, anatomy training. She describes her journey from growing up in a conflicted Yugoslavia to modern day Berlin, how we embody culture, and Europeans vs American marketing. She also offers some practical meditation practices for urban life. https://www.zenyoga-berlin.de/ https://soundcloud.com/zen-yoga-berlin

Julia is a yoga teacher who specialises in menstruation and "women's issues". She educates Mark about women's cycles and how they effect life and yoga practice, and offers many useful do's and don'ts related to women's bleed. They also hit on gender differences in anatomy and practice, form vs free yoga, Western yoga, yoga in daily life, abuse in yoga, copyright issues vs generosity, hyper-mobility, why more women do yoga than men, shame and menstruation, how men can be left out of modern yoga, and awareness and self-care as the key. She also offers a calming alternate-nostril breathing exercise. Another fun and educational chat. http://finchleyyoga.com/

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Mark's guide to the best embodiment books out there. Slightly biased of course, but many classics from various fields from aikido-based coaching, to embodied philosophy, to body therapy, to meditation, to dance are discussed.

Vince Cullen joins Mark to talk addiction and Buddhism. They discuss what addiction is and how the body the relevant to it, why the body is central to Buddhist practice and how mindfulness can help with addictions of all kinds from alcohol, to drugs, to food to Facebook! Vince and Mark discuss their own addictions, work in prisons, the heaven and hell realms and give practical tools that can help. http://hungryghostretreats.org Hungry Ghost Retreats - http://hungryghostretreats.org/ 5th-Precept Fellowship - http://5th-precept.org/ Nalagiri House Meditation Centre (opening soon!) - http://nalagiri-mindfulness.ie/ Angulimala Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy - http://angulimala.org.uk/ Buddhist Recovery Resources - http://5th-precept.org/fifth-precept-sangha-resources/ A Template for Forgiveness - http://hungryghostretreats.org/template-for-forgiveness/

Adam Wilder on connection, sexuality and authenticity. Comedian, festival host and silent speed-dating organiser, Adam, discusses improvisation, anger, bondage, tantra, male touch, sex positivity, hippie-festivals, spiritual by-passing, internet dating and more with Mark. He also offers some nice embodied relationship tips for listeners. Togethernesslondon.com Shhhdating.com