The Fight Back Podcast Georgia

Dr Annette Drews is a Professor for Social Medicine who currently does research on the contribution of Martial Arts in trauma therapy.

Due to an accident at 2 years of age, she continued to be accident prone throughout her life. She overcame the physical and psychological consequences of her traumas through awareness based movement practices such as yoga, aikido and Feldenkrais. 

 

Georgia and Anna discuss:


What mindfulness is and the role it plays in trauma healing
Why entering into awareness based movement practices through mindfulness might not work for people with trauma history
The difference between shock trauma, developmental trauma and abandonment trauma
The difference between prey and predator identification
Why being knowledgeable about these concepts can be helpful in the practice of Martial Arts
Why being knowledgeable about these concepts can be helpful for integrating the experience of trauma into resourceful living.
How Martial Arts brought Anna out of "Freeze" and taught her how to transform survival driven energies into creativity, power, joy and love.

 

Please contact Annette via her email: annette.drews@yahoo.

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If this podcast has inspired you to create your own trauma-informed martial arts program, you can register for my 12 week online course here.

 

Thank you so much to Nari for the beautiful song "Shape Me" heard at the beginning and end of this episode. Nari wrote this song about Shape Your Life, a boxing program for self-identified female survivors of violence in Canada. She wrote this song using the words and experiences shared by participants with Cathy Van Ingen. You can find out more about Shape Your Life in my interview with Cathy in Episode 8. You can hear more of Nari's work by going to her Instagram: @narithesaga

Software developer by day, a vessel of life lessons and first-degree black belt jiu-jitsu instructor by night, Alex Ueda made his first foray into jiu-jitsu after attending UCLA, where he majored in physics. A self-declared "fragile perfect" in his schooling and career, through his training, he found uniquely life-affirming perspectives and powerful mindsets that eluded him through university and a lifetime's participation in team sports. These days he enjoys a deep sense of purpose being the catalyst in others' journeys toward their best selves.

Georgia and Alex discuss: 


The meaning behind "Grounded Grit"
Trauma informed Jiu Jitsu
How martial arts hijack your innate survival instinct and put you directly in contact with practices that lead to rooted, authentic, growth

This is a beautiful, deep conversation that I really enjoyed participating in and I know you'll love listening to! 

To contact Alex: 

Instagram: @groundedgrit 

Website: www.groundedgrit.com

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Join the Conscious Combat Club on Facebook to meet fellow listeners of this podcast and help us transform martial arts into more inclusive sports for everybody.

If you'd like to join The Fight Back Project, you'll find the waitlists for Melbourne here and online here.

If this podcast has inspired you to create your own trauma-informed martial arts program, you can register for my 12 week online course here.

Thank you so much to Nari for the beautiful song "Shape Me" heard at the beginning and end of this episode. Nari wrote this song about Shape Your Life, a boxing program for self-identified female survivors of violence in Canada. She wrote this song using the words and experiences shared by participants with Cathy Van Ingen. You can find out more about Shape Your Life in my interview with Cathy in Episode 8. You can hear more of Nari's work by going to her Instagram: @narithesaga

 

Les is the founder of Karate for Mental Health, a disability karate coach and author of Anxious Black Belt and The Dark Side of Karate.

Les and Georgia discuss: 


How karate helped Les
Inclusivity in karate 
Karate as a mindfulness practice 
Why karate can be great for mental health 
How to coach clients with hearing loss 
The importance of creating community 
The difference between karate for mental health and "regular" karate

To contact Les, please email info@lesbubka.co.uk 

On social media you can find Les on instagram: @lesbubka

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Join the Conscious Combat Club on Facebook to meet fellow listeners of this podcast and help us transform martial arts into more inclusive sports for everybody.

If you'd like to join The Fight Back Project, you'll find the waitlists for Melbourne here and online here.

If this podcast has inspired you to create your own trauma-informed martial arts program, you can register for my 12 week online course here.

Thank you so much to Nari for the beautiful song "Shape Me" heard at the beginning and end of this episode. Nari wrote this song about Shape Your Life, a boxing program for self-identified female survivors of violence in Canada. She wrote this song using the words and experiences shared by participants with Cathy Van Ingen. You can find out more about Shape Your Life in my interview with Cathy in Episode 8. You can hear more of Nari's work by going to her Instagram: @narithesaga

 

Alex and Laurien are two BJJ purple belts, active competitors and own a trauma informed martial arts and yoga school in Munich, Germany as well as Off The Zone, an online interactive platform where they help fellow martial artists to become trauma informed.

Georgia, Laurien and Alex discuss:


Both their journeys from suffering sexual harrasment under a coach to founding a trauma informed school 
What trauma is
What the difference is in their trauma informed school vs a regular bjj school 
The potential value of competitions 
Dealing with sexual harrassment at your school 
The pillars of the Off The Zone coaching program 
Why martial arts can be therapeutic
And (of course) why people often say "Bjj saved them" 

To connect with Alex and Laurien check out their website and their instagram. (@off_the_zone) 

You can listen to the book Alex mentioned about play for free on Audible: 

 

Title: Play it Away (A workaholic's cure for anxiety) 

Author: Charlie Hoehn

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Join the Conscious Combat Club on Facebook to meet fellow listeners of this podcast and help us transform martial arts into more inclusive sports for everybody.

If you'd like to join The Fight Back Project, you'll find the waitlists for Melbourne here and online here.

If this podcast has inspired you to create your own trauma-informed martial arts program, you can register for my 12 week online course here.

Thank you so much to Nari for the beautiful song "Shape Me" heard at the beginning and end of this episode. Nari wrote this song about Shape Your Life, a boxing program for self-identified female survivors of violence in Canada. She wrote this song using the words and experiences shared by participants with Cathy Van Ingen. You can find out more about Shape Your Life in my interview with Cathy in Episode 8. You can hear more of Nari's work by going to her Instagram: @narithesaga

Erik Hein has made a career out of teaching. He has taught martial arts, martial arts coaches, elite police teams, emergency services workers and more. Erik is incredibly knowledgeable in the world of motor learning and has written multiple books on the topic (though all in Dutch) and is currently writing a book about martial arts as therapy. 

Erik and Georgia discuss: 


How you can use the three Rs in class
Performance under pressure
Self determination theory  
The attributes of a great martial arts teacher 
How finding kyokushin karate saved Erik's life

For more information about Erik:

https://www.train-de-trainer.org/over-mij/

https://www.erikheinacademy.com/ 

 

To contact Erik:

info@erikheinacademy.com

https://www.instagram.com/erik.hein/

 

Sign up to the Conscious Combat Club newsletter here to get the latest updates about mindful and trauma-informed martial arts practices, clubs and research.

Join the Conscious Combat Club on Facebook to meet fellow listeners of this podcast and help us transform martial arts into more inclusive sports for everybody.

If you'd like to join The Fight Back Project, you'll find the waitlists for Melbourne here and online here.

If this podcast has inspired you to create your own trauma-informed martial arts program, you can register for my 12 week online course here.

Thank you so much to Nari for the beautiful song "Shape Me" heard at the beginning and end of this episode. Nari wrote this song about Shape Your Life, a boxing program for self-identified female survivors of violence in Canada. She wrote this song using the words and experiences shared by participants with Cathy Van Ingen. You can find out more about Shape Your Life in my interview with Cathy in Episode 8. You can hear more of Nari's work by going to her Instagram: @narithesaga

Rew Mitchell is the owner of Awakening Fighters. He supports and promotes female fighters around the world with the online database of athletes he created and maintains.

Rew and Georgia discuss: 


The sexualization of women in combat sports 
How Rew, a male-identified person, came to create a data-base to empower female fighters
Differences between male and female fighters 
The uses of the database 
Future plans for Awakening Fighters

To connect with Rew:You can search "Awakening Fighters" on facebook and instagram or email: info@awakeningfighters.com

If you identify as female, have fought/competed in any discipline and would like to be added to the database, please download the Awakening Profile Questionnaire, fill it in and return it to info@awakeningfighters.com

For Rew's book: Way of the 69 Fists

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-69-Fists-popular-martial/dp/B084DH59GG

To listen to the Taoism Book Rew mentions: Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVbNPQZwL6k

Sign up to the Conscious Combat Club newsletter here to get the latest updates about mindful and trauma-informed martial arts practices, clubs and research.

Join the Conscious Combat Club on Facebook to meet fellow listeners of this podcast and help us transform martial arts into more inclusive sports for everybody.

If you'd like to join The Fight Back Project, you'll find the waitlists for Melbourne here and online here.

If this podcast has inspired you to create your own trauma-informed martial arts program, you can register for my 12 week online course here.

Thank you so much to Nari for the beautiful song "Shape Me" heard at the beginning and end of this episode. Nari wrote this song about Shape Your Life, a boxing program for self-identified female survivors of violence in Canada. She wrote this song using the words and experiences shared by participants with Cathy Van Ingen. You can find out more about Shape Your Life in my interview with Cathy in Episode 8. You can hear more of Nari's work by going to her Instagram: @narithesaga