100 episodes

Every week we're gathering together the thought leaders and experts who are helping us all to more happily inhabit our bodies. Whether you're trying to sort out pain or injury in your own body, or are just a lovable body nerd, we're here for you.

Liberated Being Brooke Thomas

    • Education
    • 4.7 • 18 Ratings

Every week we're gathering together the thought leaders and experts who are helping us all to more happily inhabit our bodies. Whether you're trying to sort out pain or injury in your own body, or are just a lovable body nerd, we're here for you.

    Transition Updates

    Transition Updates

    Updates on the Liberated Being podcast and studio, and The Healing Arts Business Incubator at 
    www.brookethomas.me/incubator
     

    • 15 min
    Terrain Medicine and Your Nervous System

    Terrain Medicine and Your Nervous System

    Today I’m talking with Dr. Ginger Nash. Ginger is a naturopathic physician who has been in practice for over 20 years. Her practice centers around nutrition, herbal medicine and homeopathy, with a focus on personalized care and treating the underlying causes of disease rather than just symptom management. Her practice offers some of the best technology available for evaluating whole-body health and her particular specialties are women’s hormone balancing, and immune dysfunction such as allergies and auto-immune disease. She also treats a tremendous amount of patients suffering with the long-term effects of infections like Lyme and its common co-infections and many different types of chronic disease.
    As you may know if you are a regular listener of this podcast, I don’t often talk with Naturopathic Doctors on the show. This show is dedicated mostly to manual and movement therapy as it relates to our being-ness or how we experience ourselves and the world. So it was probably inevitable that I would have a naturopath on the show eventually to talk about true mindbody medicine from a different point-of-view. So today we’re merging the worlds. Usually I’m coming at things from how our soma and nervous system effect our physiology. Today is a glimpse from the other side, talking about how how our physiology effects our nervous system states and mental health and so much more.
    Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbeing.community and we don’t have any social media accounts anymore- so if you want to stay in touch and hear about special events in the embodied practice studio, head to the website and subscribe to our newsletter.
    You can find more of Dr. Ginger Nash’s work at
    www.gingernash.com

    • 51 min
    Bringing Somatics to Schools with Emory M. Moore Jr

    Bringing Somatics to Schools with Emory M. Moore Jr

    Today I’m talking with Emory M. Moore Jr. A health and fitness pioneer and innovator, he created the EM LifeWork TM & EM technique TM methods for holistic fitness, wellness  and body harmony.
    Emory is a multi-certified exercise & movement master teacher and pioneer. With over 35 years of experience, Emory has immersed himself in the study of a myriad of disciplines including, but not limited to martial arts, dance, chi gong, yoga, bodywork, Pilates, Gyrotonic,  somatic training & strength conditioning systems. Not content with having a taste of all things he went for total involvement pursuing decades of study on three continents.
    Emory has taught and trained hundreds of teachers in the US, Germany & Switzerland some of whom went on to sculpt the fitness landscape and help develop the fitness industry as we know it today.
    A resident of Brooklyn, New York, Emory’s passion for teaching and the education of young people, led him to found the ground breaking Embora Studio and to create the wellness-arts organization EM Arts exemplifying the belief that the way to a better healthier society is through inner harmony and the arts. Currently EM Arts serves schools in New York City and we’re going to talk about their work in schools and with teachers and students a great deal today. It’s really beautiful and needed work, I’m sure you’ll enjoy hearing about it. You can read more about his work at www.em-arts.info.
    Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbeing.community. We don’t have any social media accounts anymore so if you want to stay in touch and hear about special events in the embodied practice studio, head to the website and subscribe to our newsletter.

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Co-Creating with Community with Brea Fischer

    Co-Creating with Community with Brea Fischer

    Today I’m talking with Brea Fisher. Brea is the founder of Quan Yin Gongfu and has spent the last 13 years dedicated to the disciplines of Qigong, Taiji, and Gongfu, drawing on focused study and knowledge of Daoist philosophy and lifestyle, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yin Yang theory, and Five Element theory.
    Brea unites the visual arts and the written word with the Chinese internal and martial arts. She carries the lineage of Eagle Claw Turning Style (Ying Zhao Fan Zi Men), teaching Gongfu Palm + Sword, and Taiji forms handed down by Master Sing Chui. You can read more about her work at www.quanyingongfu.com
    Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbeing.community. Our embodied practice studio is www.liberatedbeing.community/studio

    • 53 min
    My Experience of Where Trauma Met Awakening

    My Experience of Where Trauma Met Awakening

    A couple of weeks ago I was talking with David Treleaven about his book and training on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. If you missed that episode- it’s a good one- and you can find it in the podcast player you’re on now or at liberatedbeing.community at the podcast tab.
    This episode is a personal experience with where trauma met what is often referred to as "spiritual awakening" and how my practice, my approach to the practice (and the goal), and some harmful ideas of what awakening is and what it requires dysregulated me and put me into a tough place. And also how I recovered from that and I view the subject of "waking up" these days. Spoiler: it's still in progress. I hope it can be helpful for anyone who is suffering as a result of their practice. We also go through a specific pointer you can use to make sure your practice is working for you instead of against you.
    Also this month Liberated Being is partnering with David Treleaven's Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness training to bring you a chance to go through it at a reduced rate and with some support. To sign up you can go to https://bk738.isrefer.com/go/LB/LB/ and use the code LB400.

    • 31 min
    Conscious Vibrational Leadership with Isha Vela

    Conscious Vibrational Leadership with Isha Vela

    Today I’m talking with Isha Vela. Isha is a psychologist and somatic trauma professional who works as a somatic expressive coach with healers, weavers, change agents, bridge-builders, connectors, and other folxs who feel called to make an impact on the world. She runs the Revolutionary Rompe Reglas community and you can find more of her work at www.revolutionaryrompereglas.com. Her program for conscious leaders, Devotion, is via her work with me page.
    Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbeing.community, and we don’t have any social media accounts anymore- woohoo! So if you want to stay in touch head to the website and subscribe to our newsletter.

    • 1 hr 8 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
18 Ratings

18 Ratings

SophieElizabethT ,

Opens up a whole new world!

I love how Brooke draws experts from across so many different places and disciplines and threads it all together. My eyes have been opened to so many different ideas and I've been inspired to try many different exciting practices. This podcast comes from a places of generosity, passion and inclusivity - wonderful to behold!

RuthD ,

Brilliant resource, thank you Brooke

As a massage therapist attempting to make sense of the 'new anatomy', the new subtleties which are emerging all around us in how we operate, live, function, this podcast has been an incredible gold mine. Thank you Brooke for taking the time to make all these episodes and I was saddened to hear that you will be wrapping this up, but thank you anyway for all you have done. I look forward to hearing about your future projects.

Lucyloo1977 ,

My absolute favourite podcast

I've learned so much from this amazing podcast. Brooke Thomas is a fabulous host and totally on my wavelength. An absolute must for body and movement nerds!

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