Movement is My Constant Ana Maia Marques

In this episode, environmental engineer and yoga teacher, Inez Aires shares her experience working with prisoners for the Prison Yoga Project, in Portugal.
Inez challenges how prisons are designed firstly questioning the reintegration process of a prisoner back into society, and then how we commonly see a prison design.

Having travelled in many countries to “drink from the source” by immersing herself in ancestral rituals and spiritual practices, Inez reinforces the idea behind the Prison Yoga Project: to give prisoners access to mental and physical freedom with respect, and responsibility.

This episode interests anyone who would like to know more about volunteer work, namely the Prison Yoga Project, or who is responsible for designing and creating social projects with a human centric approach.

This month I am joined by Mara Morgado, contemporary dancer facilitating dance laboratories for women of all ages. In her Body and Artistic Awareness Journeys - Laboratório do corpo - Mara educates on feminine energy as a healing process to prioritise rest, in a rushed society that priorities productivity.

In our conversation we talk about what is feminine energy, why it is important to explore, support and nourish the female soul, and what can anyone identifying as men do to support women, and female identities.

This episode interests you if you are looking to know how to create balanced working environments, how to establish parity in our societies, and how to educate future generations on feminism, the female body, soul, and energy.

In this episode, my guest known by the artistic name BSP, shares the direct experience of living with synesthesia. Although labelled as a condition, I find synesthesia a creative ability, and as a singer songwriter and artist, BSP navigates this world with a multiple sensory lens. This allows her to create immersive experiences on stage through sounds, melodies, and imagery on canvas. BSP has performed at the Tate Museum and her audiences have describe it as “her art a connection of voice, sound and paint”.

Today we talk about synesthesia from a first person experience as we aim to uncover some myths, while hopefully support those who feel outcasts for such ability.

This episode interests you on BSP's creative process BSP, and also if you wish to know more about synesthesia in the mental health context, or how to improve your creativity through open up the multi sensory experiences.

In this episode yoga teacher Beatrice Savaris shares the wisdom of a life worth of teaching. Long experienced in her personal practice and as a teacher, Beatrice travels between countries to teach students and accompany athletes passing on a deep understanding of the yoga philosophy, physical education, and spiritual development.

She is sharing with us how wanna teachers should find their voice, an identity that will become a unique exchange of knowledge with the students in front of them. And how finding one’s voice is exactly part of the path of a teacher. There is no shortcuts when becoming a teacher and it’s a lifelong journey of growth.

This episode interests you if you seek to know more about yoga teacher training, and how to apply further yoga philosophy in your life. For teachers, specially of Yoga and mindfulness trainings this is an episode that supports you as you’re building, or reflecting back at your career.

In this episode award-winning writer Raquel Ochoa, is explaining how bravery and curiosity have built her career as a travel writer. Raquel shares her stories of going to remote places and how it impacted her writing style. How intuition has fed her hunger to experience places and write about them, from a visceral place, a channel of her own experience. Her bravery is a key voice of all her stories.

Recently Raquel has been invited to translate a beautiful essay by Henry Thoreau, a testimony of how moving in Nature, walking step by step, is an exercise in finding true freedom.

For this episode I wanted to know more about this movement in nature as a spiritual experience. Moving in Nature is the direct experience of where our body is, connecting us to the right moment, the true place where we meet our physical self. Which in the end is the most genuine expression of presence. This is true freedom.

This episode interests anyone who is looking to find true freedom. The answer resides in this conversation about movement in nature, and how to develop bravery and curiosity as tools whenever we feel an urge to challenge ourselves.

In this episode Femke Deckers, Dutch author, workshop leader, and motivational speaker inspires people to become the best version of themselves. After a life changing event, Femke pursued her natural curiosity to search for her why.



This led her to start a business offering creativity workshops, guiding teams to step outside of the thinking paths and connecting to their hearts: the why behind their work. 
Femke is also the author of “Schroef jezelf los” - loosely translated as “Unscrew yourself” - a book about revalidation, resilience, and creativity for life. 



This episode interests you, if you seek to know more about creativity, how to apply this skill in life and work, the attitudes that are at the heart of all creatives, and how creative processes can generate innovation.