The Return to Embodiment: consciousness, culture, creativity and flourishing

Kim Rothwell

The Return to Embodiment is love song to the ordinary, the poetic, the implicit world of the body itself as a place of knowing and movement as our very first language. It's a phenomenological exploration of how and what moves us as we travel among the social, cultural, historical, environmental settings in which we find ourselves. Each individual I interview offers particular experiences, grounded in this knowing. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/returntoembodiment

  1. 25 DE AGO.

    Elissaveta on embodiment as bridge between past present and future.

    Elissaveta Iordanova, M.S., MFA, MA is New York State licensed creative arts therapist, and American Dance Therapy Association Board-Certified dance/movement therapist, and ADTA member. She obtained her clinical professional experience as a dance/movement therapist at Maimonides Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, NY. Elissaveta opened her full time private practice Inspired Creative Arts Therapy in 2020. https://inspiredcreativeartstherapy.squarespace.com/ With her extensive experience in both traditional, and modern dance, she bridges Eastern and Western aesthetics and practices. She has been a returning presenter at ADTA conferences, as well as DMT student supervisor. Elissaveta also provides training of people who teach movement and exercise for  senior population to apply mental health component and awareness in their classes.  Elissaveta leads her own dance company ELEA GORANA DANCE COLLECTIVE in NYC and received numerous grants for her creative work. https://goranadance.com/ https://www.facebook.com/GORANADANCE In the past 6 years she has been learning and practicing Argentinian Tango, and uses walking and weight shifts in her therapy work with partners. She initiated and co-hosts monthly social tango event.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/943881446772033

    47min

  2. 10 DE MAI.

    Embodiment in art, in pain and in sculpture with Melanie Cooper Pennington

    In this conversation, I am speaking with Melanie Cooper Pennington. We talk about her own fraught experience of embodiment, how art has allowed her to move pain outside of her body, and how her love of bodies has propelled her sculpture. Melanie Cooper Pennington is an interdisciplinary artist living in Bloomington, Indiana. Pennington recently had solo exhibitions at the I Fell Gallery, (Bloomington, IN), International Center for the Arts, (Monte Castello, Italy) New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, (New Harmony, IN) and at Artlink Contemporary (Fort Wayne, IN) and was featured in group shows at Distortion Gallery(Beacon NY), sUgAr Gallery at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR), ACRE Projects (Chicago, IL), and Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH). She has presented public art projects at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), Chicago Park District (Chicago, IL), and Indianapolis Art Center (Indianapolis, IN). Pennington teaches as a Lecturer in Sculpture at The Eskenazi School of Art, Indiana University Bloomington.www.melaniepennington.com @melaniecooperpennington

    1h2min

  3. 17 DE ABR.

    Is this podcast necessary anymore?

    an inquiry about how a podcast on embodiment fits within our current time. amidst wars and division. i am wondering. how do our acts of creation, of nurturing, of designing and building of gardening craft a future we long to leave our children?

    32min

  4. 09/12/2024

    Cuquis Robledo on Embodiment as Vibration. Freedom. Advocacy. Reclamation. Identity.

    Cuquis Robledo is a mental health counselor in Houston, TX with a passion for incorporating the arts, movement, and advocacy with her clients. Prior to her work as a counselor, Cuquis was a disability advocate and a documentarian, documenting the lives and empowering the voices of people of disabilities and other marginalized communities. Being disabled herself, specifically Cuquis is a Little Person, Cuquis takes pride in working on guiding those with and without disabilities to find their voices and find ways to create empowerment in their lives. Born in a Cuban-American family, Cuquis grew up learning Latin dance when she was two years old. However, a complication with a spine surgery left her almost paralyzed. Through her recovery she used Latin dance as a form of physical rehabilitation while also healing herself emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Since that moment in her life, she’s been incorporating Latin dance and dancing mindfulness in the work she does, inspiring others to find their sense of freedom, belonging and acceptance through life's circumstances using Latin dance.  Learn more about's Cuquis story at https://cuquisrobledo.com/ and her storytelling at https://www.cuquisrobledostudios.com/ and connect with her on instagram @standtallcuquis

    1h15min

  5. 24/10/2024

    Dance as world making through attention and volition with Rebecca Barnstaple PhD

    Rebecca Barnstaple is a dance researcher and clinician who brings dance therapy to people with chronic pain, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's disease. As a postdoctoral fellow at York University in Toronto, Rebecca conducts research on the neurbiological effects of dance on health and disease.

    1h4min

  6. 22/09/2024

    Embodiment as relationship to changing self with Kristina Fluty

    In this conversation, Kristina traces ways her own body and development interfaced with limitations of the dance world, and how she has found home in practices of intenttionally dismantling harmful conditioning and building movement from a posture of love and seeking pleasure in the body. Kristina talks about the therapeutic dance certificate offered through EEIC and the honor of facilitating the unique artistry of each person's unique and changing embodied expression. Kristina states, "we will never know everything about the body. We have to come in here with respect for the mystery of, of all the processes that are always happening that we may never understand and still be with ourselves deeply without knowing why."

    1h11min

  7. 20/07/2024

    Poetry and authenticity with Tārāvajrī

    In this conversation, I am speaking with Tārāvajrī. Leslie McCormick (Taravajri) is a somatic creative, licensed somatic psychotherapist, registered dance movement therapist, poet, and ordained Dharmacharini with the Triratna Buddhist Order. In this conversation we discuss poetry as companion, our shared love of our teacher, Zoe Avstreih, and the phenomena of touch and sound in authentic movement. Tārāvajrī is passionate about embodiment as political resistance: moving from the inside-out and supporting movers into loving relationship with their authentic somatic expression, she denies the patriarchal gaze, fights sexual consumerism, and disappoints Eurocentric, anthropocentric, and heteronormative expectations; instead, she centers felt experience as gateway to personal and transcendental truths. As a long-time practitioner of both authentic movement and Buddhism, Leslie is committed to sharing an embodied spirituality. Keenly interested in the role of beauty in human development and transformation, Leslie regards Truth as the greatest beauty and the simplest, effective expression of Truth as, perhaps, the highest art. She runs workshops and groups in which movers shape works of choreography and writing from the raw material of somatic exploration.Leslie maintains a private practice and makes her home in Tucson, Arizona, the lands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui people. For more information, visit tucsonsomaticpsychotherapy.com.

    1h13min

  8. 01/06/2024

    Ashley Fargnoli on international practices of dance/movement therapy and overcoming burnout

    Ashley Fargnoli is a dance/movement therapist, a licensed psychotherapist, a dance performer, a choreographer, a film maker, a researcher, and a Fullbright scholar. In this conversation, we explore the multicultural origins of embodiment and the ways in which parts of ourselves and are accessed and healed through different styles of dance. Ashley describes working with a performance as therapy model, the importance of creative process in the life of a therapist and also reflects on belonging as a function of participation within a dance community. For more information, visit Ashley's website: https://ashleyfargnoli.com/

    1h7min
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The Return to Embodiment is love song to the ordinary, the poetic, the implicit world of the body itself as a place of knowing and movement as our very first language. It's a phenomenological exploration of how and what moves us as we travel among the social, cultural, historical, environmental settings in which we find ourselves. Each individual I interview offers particular experiences, grounded in this knowing. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/returntoembodiment

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