YINtentions

Anna Kopacz
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Some stories don't get told. Not because they aren't true but because no one made room for them. YINtentions makes room. Women from all walks of life, all ages, all experiences - sharing what their bodies know, remember, and carry. Unresolved. Unpolished. True. We don't fix anything here. We don't prescribe. We simply are with. If that calls to you, welcome. Hosted by Anna Teresa. New episodes every two weeks. Learn about Yin Rhythms : https://www.yinrhythms.com/

  1. Oct 2

    Ep.13 with Ruby May - My Nervous System needs Pleasure

    What happens when the practice that taught you to trust your body turns out to be the one thing your body takes away? Before most of her friends had bled, Ruby May was already fascinated by the thing nobody in her house would name. That thread ran for decades. A yoga teacher in her twenties who did not yet know how far she lived from her own body. Then seven years of charting a single cycle, day by day, on paper, until she could read herself the way you read weather. Two and a half years ago it stopped. Not quietly. Three weeks of bleeding, nearly a hospital, and then the map she had spent a decade learning was simply gone. This is a conversation about what a woman does when the territory she was walking disappears, and about the world she is trying to feel her way through - a world with good language for emotion and nowhere to put any of it. Rage with no schedule to appear in. Community that stops being agreeable. And the question she has started asking herself instead, which is harder than the one she began with. Storykeeper: Ruby May is a mentor, facilitator and writer, and a devoted student of the Feminine, having been initiated into embodied feminine spirituality through her own body and menstruality practice. Among those things, she serves as community lead for the alumni of Red School, a global school of embodied feminine spirituality. Connect with Ruby: https://rubymay.co/ | Substack: https://rubymay.substack.com/ | IG: @.ruby.may. Resources mentioned: Red School, and Wild Power - Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer: https://www.redschool.net/Book: The map of the inner seasons, and the practice of cycle tracking on AmazonArticle: Yang is the midwife, Yin is the mother - Ruby's Substack essay, June 2026 Chapters: (0:00) Welcome · (4:20) There's gold in here · (12:41) A threshold you cross · (18:54) Just do it, and you'll activate something · (30:42) What does healthy rage look like · (40:03) I wish it was just a given · (57:11) Yang is midwife and Yin is the mother · (1:04:13) A Sicilian ice cream, ten minutes from the door ~~ Anna Teresa is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. Related Course + Workshops at Yin Rhythms Womb Shakti - 8 week course on conscious presence in your own body, and the discovery of your inner pleasure. (in Polish & in English)Fire Festival, Samhain - seasonal celebration of the changing of seasons, online for women-onlyRhythmic Movement - library of practices to deepen the experience with and in your body, just as she is. Coming SoonYINtentions Field Notes - Cyclical newsletter decoding the tensions and intentions that live in our body.

    Ep.13 with Ruby May - My Nervous System needs Pleasure

  2. Sep 25

    Ep. 12 - There Is No Going Back

    A voice follows the body onto the dance floor and keeps score. Too slow. Too angry. Too deep. Years of practice do not quiet it. It came along to a 5Rhythms class in Budapest, in a room full of strangers, and it is still there in Kraków three years later, on the other side of a camera. This solo travels from a few lines I wrote by the sea in 2020 to ten days of recording the rhythmic movements, an unfinished map of rhythms for validating our own distinct cycles. It is about the pace that belongs to you, and what it asks for when the world is moving to someone else's. It ends at a threshold, with a question still open. Welcome. Come as you are. Resources mentioned: Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves5Rhythms, the movement practice of Gabrielle RothWomb Shakti (EN): https://www.yinrhythms.com/womb-shaktiŁono Shakti (PL): https://www.yinrhythms.com/lono-shakti Chapters: (0:00) The rhythm of the waves · (2:49) Too slow, too angry, too deep · (6:04) Someone else's rhythm · (9:01) Its own pace of rigour · (12:12) Turning · (14:42) If I crack open ~~~ Anna Teresa is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. About this work + offers: www.yinrhythms.com

    Ep. 12 - There Is No Going Back

  3. Aug 14

    Ep. 11 with Silvija Tomčik - My body will know how to die

    What happens when the part of you the world taught you not to speak of turns out to be the one that was always telling the truth? At a school reunion, someone asked Silvija Tomčik what she does now. She said she teaches a movement practice most of the room had never heard of. Her old schoolmate said: I always knew you would do something that doesn't exist yet. Two things her mother and grandmother taught her, without meaning to, about living in a woman's body. We don't talk about it. And we don't have much choice about it. She has spent thirty years doing the opposite. This is a conversation about what the body carries when the mind is full of everyone else's voices. A no she rehearsed on a dance floor a year before she needed it. Anger that does not need a target. And what a body already knows about a life it has not lived yet. Storykeeper: Silvija Tomčik is a 5Rhythms teacher who found Gabrielle Roth's Maps to Ecstasy at twenty-one, in a country learning to breathe again after war, and carried the practice home to Croatia and the Balkans. She has spent thirty years since teaching movement as a way back to the body. Connect with Silvija : https://plesritmova.net/ IG: @silvija5rhythms | Mixcloud Silvija's playlists Resources mentioned: Gabrielle Roth, Maps to Ecstasy — the book that started itThe 5Rhythms — flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, stillnessWaves, Voice and Vision — Silvija's own book of notes on life through the body Chapters: (0:00) Welcome · (4:30) Inheritance · (15:32) What is 5Rhythms · (36:50) A rehearsal for something that hadn't happened yet · (41:26) Somewhere to be wild, and nobody to aim it at · (54:09) Remember who I was, and who I will be ~~~ Anna Teresa is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. About this work + offers: www.yinrhythms.com

    Ep. 11 with Silvija Tomčik - My body will know how to die

  4. Jul 31

    Ep.10 with Tiffany May Yan Chan - Can We Afford it ?

    What happens when a woman who set out to change the world finds that the world most in need of attention is the one inside her? Tiffany Chan had done everything right, and somewhere along the way she had gone hollow, the colour of her grey sweater. Then a stolen passport in a city far from home, a prayer she had never said before, a white car coming through the air, and nothing was arranged the way it had been. What she carried out of that is love. Love as the most sophisticated intelligence a leader has, and a question she now brings to the people she works with. Not whether we can afford to bring love into leadership. But what is its absence already costing us, and can we afford not to. Storykeeper: Tiffany May Yan Chan is a writer, speaker and advisor working at the intersection of love, power and leadership. She served as a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum, and now works with leaders developing embodied consciousness for systems change. Connect with Tiffany: https://tiffanymchan.com/ https://lovepowerleadership.substack.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanymayyanchan/ (0:00) Welcome (4:44) The women who came before (12:39) What that world cost, in the body (23:06) The prayer, and the car (58:42) The only safe room in the building (1:04:21) Whatever is inside gets created outside (1:19:28) Joy as the highest contribution ~~~ Anna Teresa is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. About this work + offers: https://www.yinrhythms.com/

    Ep.10 with Tiffany May Yan Chan - Can We Afford it ?

  5. Jul 31

    Ep. 09 - There is Not One Intelligence.

    We are handed one intelligence and told that it is the intelligence. The mind. The reasoning. The part that can show its working. And then we spend a life wondering why the answers we are given about our own lives don't fit. There is not one. There are many, and they are already speaking - in the body, in emotion, in timing, in need, in relationship, in the land, in the ones who came before. Each with its own language. Each able to say something the others cannot. This episode is about what happened to those languages, and who we handed them to. It is an invitation to notice which of these languages you have been fluent in, and to stop asking someone out there to translate it for you. Welcome. Come as you are. Resources mentioned: Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves - from the chapter "Marking Territory: Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness" (0:00) Welcome (1:14) Losing touch with the knowing (4:39) There is not one intelligence, there are many (11:31) Finding your own instruments (15:36) You already speak one ~~~ Anna Teresa is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. About this work + offers: https://www.yinrhythms.com/

    Ep. 09 - There is Not One Intelligence.

  6. Jun 1

    Ep.08 - An Endless Exploration [Season Finale]

    There is an image of the practitioner: the one who has fully arrived in her own body. Who holds what she teaches not as theory but as lived truth, every day, without fail. The woman recording this episode forgets to stretch. Skips meals. Lays down, every once in a while and sobs at having been disengaged from herself. This episode is about that gap and what becomes available when you say it aloud. In this season finale: the joke of putting yin into a frame · a grandmother and the stories she carries in silence · what unlocks in the body when what hasn't been said finally is · the imposter who teaches presence · grief at the threshold of a new year · poetry written This is not a testimony. It is an act of saying the thing out loud and watching what shifts when you do. (0:00) Welcome (1:50) No script, no agenda (8:34) Grandmother (23:03) An endless exploration (37:38) Grief at the threshold (45:56) Gratitude (49:51) Until next season ~~~ Anna Teresa is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. About this work + offers: https://www.yinrhythms.com/

    Ep.08 - An Endless Exploration [Season Finale]

  7. May 15

    Ep.07 - The Midlife Paradox

    The world looks at a woman in her forties and sees someone who has arrived. The woman herself is often somewhere else entirely. We have been handed the story of the peak: the good age, the clarity, the knowing who you are. But no one speaks to what lives underneath: the exhaustion that won't stop, the race with no visible finish line, the distance between what is seen and what is felt. This episode is about that gap. In this episode: a letter written from the middle · the path to external arrival and what it required · four women, four shapes of the same distance · what anchoring actually is · an invitation to look in the mirror without apology. This is not a resolution. It is a permission to stop pretending the gap doesn't exist and to say thank you for having lived. This episode moves alongside conversations with Jenny McGrath (Ep. 02), Anca Damerell (Ep. 04), Cynthia Hansen (Ep. 06), and Robyn Davie (Ep. 05). (0:00) Welcome (1:46) A letter from the middle (7:52) Four shapes of the same distance (16:35) Not from a distance (20:15) Look in the mirror ~~~ Anna Teresa is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held.* About this work + offers: https://www.yinrhythms.com/

    Ep.07 - The Midlife Paradox

  8. May 1

    Ep.06 with Cynthia Hansen - She Built Belonging from Scratch

    What does it mean to be the first person in your genetic line - in both directions - to do something? Anything at all? Cynthia Hansen carries her home in her body. A Korean woman adopted by white American parents, she has lived everywhere and belonged to no fixed geography and she has spent her career building systems that leave no human being at the edges. In this conversation, we move through three generations of women - a grandmother whose unlived potential still travels forward, a daughter of 16 saying things in a school speech her mother didn't know she was carrying, a woman navigating menopause without anyone in her bloodline who has been there before. Through the body as the only geography that never moved. Through what it costs to hold teenagers, aging parents, and yourself: all at once, all from a distance. Through what it means to think of an ending as a beginning. Storykeeper: Cynthia Hansen is the Director of the Adecco Group Innovation Foundation, a global foundation working on workforce transformation and what it means to build economic systems that do not leave human beings at the edges. Connect with Cynthia: linkedin.com/in/cynthiahansen https://www.adeccogroup.com/innovationfoundation Resources mentioned Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective5Rhythms movement practiceAll Fours (among others) by Miranda July (0:00) Welcome (5:25) The Women that Came Before - What was Given and What had to be Invented (19:09) The Only Geography that Never Moved (27:22) What it Costs to Hold Everyone (39:55) When the Living System is also the Body (52:03) Who Do I Get to Be ~~~ Hosted by Anna Teresa: an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch, supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. About this work + offers: https://www.yinrhythms.com/

    Ep.06 with Cynthia Hansen - She Built Belonging from Scratch
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Some stories don't get told. Not because they aren't true but because no one made room for them. YINtentions makes room. Women from all walks of life, all ages, all experiences - sharing what their bodies know, remember, and carry. Unresolved. Unpolished. True. We don't fix anything here. We don't prescribe. We simply are with. If that calls to you, welcome. Hosted by Anna Teresa. New episodes every two weeks. Learn about Yin Rhythms : https://www.yinrhythms.com/

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  • Creator
    Anna Kopacz
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
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