School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward Jenna Ward

How can we reconnect with the impressions & resources of our ancestral lineage, in somatic ways? 
I recently invited Rani George, a practitioner steeped in both Eastern & Western spirituality, to join us for an exploration of  ancestral reconnection at our The Future Is Embodied Conference. 
During the conversation Rani offered us an experiential practice of expanding our awareness to perceive more of our ancestors, somatically. I just had to share it more widely so today on the podcast we’re joined by Healing Arts Practitioner Rani George. 
 
In this conversation we explore: 
-    Rani’s mystical awakening into her indigeneity 
-    The traumas and resources that are passed down through our ancestors 
-    Rani’s diverse cultural teachers and what they have reminded her of the ‘universal Indigenous Field’ 
-    Why reconnecting with our indigeneity isn’t a modality - but rather a way of living 
-    Jenna & Rani share diverse examples of how our indigeneity speak to us, through the body 
-    Rani guides us on a powerful 15 min experiencing of expanding our bodies wisdom to perceive our ancestors 
-    Two beautiful practices to deepen your ancestral connections 
 
About Rani George 
Healing Arts Practitioner 
http://www.circlefolks.com 
Rani George was raised with the influences of Eastern and Western mystical spirituality and earth-based healing traditions handed down through the generations by her mother. Her adult daughter continues in the line. She has been in private and group practice and served as organizer, consultant, presenter, and teacher in the healing arts for over 30 years. She is a Systemic Constellations facilitator with specializations in Spiritual and Nature Constellations. Her current focus is Ancestral Indigenous Reconnection utilizing embodiment practices, hands-on energy work, and meditative processes to access the indigenous wisdom and resourcing of our ancestors.
 
Resources From Today’s Podcast
●     Rani’s work & website http://www.circlefolks.com 
●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
●      School of Embodied Arts
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How can our businesses be an extension of our embodied values & political views? 
If we’re interested in doing business in more embodied ways, we have to examine how the inherited marketing and business practices many of us have been indoctrinated into are not rooted in the values WE hold dear. 
Today, we’re speaking with Feminist Business Educator Kelly Diels about marketing practices that can shift culture & what it looks like in practice. 
From social media to email marketing, how we choose the images we use and what we actually market, Kelly shares with us practical suggestions for genuinely liberatory practices in business. 
 
In this interview, we explore: 
How Kelly incorporates her political & culture-making practices into her business Transcending the inherited status quo marketing tactics to align selling with your values The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB) & how to know if you’re centering this (or your body of work) in your marketing Strategies Kelly uses in her business to shift culture - from email consent, how she chooses imagery & signal boosting The input Kelly uses to fuel prolific (& powerful) expression Creating consistency on social media when you’re an ebb & flow kind of person   
Kelly Diels is feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. She’s here to raise awareness about how the business-as-usual formulas we learn everywhere actually reproduce oppression. She develops and teaches alternate, feminist marketing tools to help us do it differently (and better).
 
Resources From Today’s Podcast
●     Kelly’s work
●     Kelly on instagram
●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
●      Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice
●      School of Embodied Arts
●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here
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How can we work DEEP in the body without ‘blowing up’ someone’s trauma? 
Almost all somatic practitioners (including embodiment coaches) I work go through a phase of feeling super worried about activating latent trauma & triggering a client. This is a conversation I have with women a lot. 
Sometimes, this fear manifests as an extreme over-abundance of caution, need to “get it right” & hyper-fixation on strategies. 
This results in practitioners holding themselves back from deepening into sensation - to everyone’s detriment, especially the clients. 
 
Today on the podcast we’re speaking with Somatic Psychotherapist & founder of The School of Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy Monique Pangari about somatic approaches to trauma-centric therapy and what practitioners need to know if they are worried about activating latent trauma (plus so much more). 
Monique's training & experience is vast & in this conversation, we explore: 
-    Examples of somatic strategies to support clients in a trauma therapy setting 
-    Why embodied approach are deceptively simple & some of the core components for practitioners to make them work well 
-    The difference between trauma therapy, therapy & coaching 
-    What practitioners need to know if they are worried about activating a client’s trauma 
-    The importance of rupture & repair for practitioners 
-    Attachment styles & the work Monique created for counsellors & psychotherapists
 
About Monique Pangari
Monique Pangari, MEd, SEP, is the creator of Somatic Sand Therapy™, Somatic Expressive Therapies and Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapies™ (SAFE-T). In 2020 she founded 'The School of Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy' where she offers post-graduate training and clinical supervision for professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists. Monique has been practicing Sandplay Therapy and Expressive Therapies with clients of all ages since 2002 and has been training other therapists across Australia since 2008. She began integrating Somatic Experiencing® and Attachment Repatterning into her practice in 2017. Monique has undergraduate studies in Education and Psychology and holds two Masters Degrees. She is also trained in Family Constellations, Circle of Security, Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples, NeuroAffective Touch®, ISHTA Yoga and is currently undergoing further study in Jungian Sandplay Therapy. In addition to offering Training, Supervision and Counselling in her private practice, Monique also lectures part-time at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in the Masters of Counselling program and offers Supervision to Counselling Interns at the University Counselling Clinic. Monique is a Level 4 member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and is a member of the ACA College of Supervisors. 
 
Resources From Today’s Podcast ●      Monique Pangari - Website | Social links | Please open in new window | Pls grab from here
●      Somatic Experiencing
●      Diane Poole Heller
●     Trauma Aware Embodiment Coaching (Podcast by Jenna)
●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
●      Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice
●      School of Embodied Arts
●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here
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2021 was the year of my (mini) professional crisis.
There were big decisions to make, and I was feeling deeply confused about the direction I wanted to grow in professionally & with our school.
What kind of business (& life) did I want to have?
Did I want to blow up my creation?
It took me a long time to find a mentor to help me navigate what was right, for me.
I wanted someone who worked in deeply embodied ways. Someone who would support me if I decided to throw in the towel & make the decision to destroy my creation. And also someone who was a little bit magic. 
Somehow (I think it was the power of Instagram) Rachael Maddox entered my life.
She’d just closed her own Coaching School down (to begin a conception journey) and was making some radical changes in her business model. She was EMBODIED AF. And supported CEOs. We started working together - and I’ve loved her since.
Recently I spoke with Rachael as part of our The Future Is Embodied Conference. Our conversation was a dive into the ethics of embodied business & how Rachael navigates her work as a witch & mentor.
It was such a rich conversation I wanted to bring it to you today, in the hopes you find some “unconventional” courage to follow your path (whatever that is) to the best version of your work in the world.
Of course, I didn’t close down our school, or decide to blow anything up in the end. Which is what I love so much about EMBODIMENT work. It’s an invitation to find YOUR body's truth. Which won’t look the same as anyone else. What’s right for you won’t be right for them. But holding space for ALL the possibilities, even the wild & witchy ones remains something I hold as so valuable.
Resources From Today’s Podcast
●      Rachaels’ website & find her here on Instagram ●      Karpman drama/empowerment triangle ●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches ●      School of Embodied Arts ●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here ●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

I’m 200% here for any experience (or in this case, diagnosis) that supports a woman to inhabit her unique flavor more fully. Adele Wimsett is such a woman. 
 
Today on the podcast, we’re chatting with Adele Wimsett, a UK-based Women’s Health Practitioner specializing in supporting ADHD women to understand the impact their hormones have on their traits, taking a solution-focused approach to creating an ADHD-friendly lifestyle.
 
In this conversation, we explore: 
   How Adele received her ADHD diagnosis & why it was so validating 
-    Rejection sensitivity dysmorphia & other ADHD traits that women can experience 
-    Bridging science and the womb in ADHD, exploring how our hormones & cycles impact symptoms 
-    Gender bias in ADHD research and what the research tells us
-    Menstrual cycle awareness & how Adele uses this to support her neurodivergent symptoms  
About Adele Wimsett 
Women’s Health Practitioner | www.harmoniseyou.co.uk | @harmoniseyou
Adele empowers women to balance their hormones and harness the power of their cyclical nature. She specialises in supporting ADHD women to understand the impact their hormones have on their traits, taking a solution-focused approach to creating an ADHD friendly lifestyle.
 
Resources From Today’s Podcast
Adele Wimsett - www.harmoniseyou.co.uk | @harmoniseyou Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice School of Embodied Arts Leave a podcast review on iTunes here Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here

Women from all walks of life are experiencing epidemic levels of disembodied. It’s rife! 
No matter our cultural background or country of origin, many of us know what it’s like to feel numb, disconnected from ourselves & overridden by what the world demands of us. 
Today we’re speaking with three Feminine Embodiment Coaches, all from diverse backgrounds who have found their way home to embodiment work and are supporting their clients to do the same in the realms of dating, career & rites of passage. 
In this episode we speak with Anna Rova, Siobhan Barnes, Amy Frankel & Jenna Ward about:
How these 3 women from diverse backgrounds found their way into the world of embodiment  We speak about the process & skill of disembodying and what it looked like for them, and for their clients  Dating and embodiment: Anna shares with us some common themes & challenges modern women face in the dating realm  Career and embodiment: Siobhan explores navigating career change through an embodied lens Rites of passage & embodiment: Amy shares her experience with rage, autonomy & rites of passage for women   
Resources From Today’s Podcast ●      Anna Rova | Founder of Claimed.com. Dating, Relationships & Feminine Embodiment Coach @annarova
●      Siobhan Barnes | Life and Leadership Coach @iamsiobhanbarnes
●      Amy Frankel | MPH, Feminine Embodiment Coach, Rites of Passage Guide @amycfrankel
●      Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
●      Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice
●      School of Embodied Arts
●      Leave a podcast review on iTunes here
●      Thought or reflection to share? Leave a comment on Instagram here