
62 episodes

The Fight Back Podcast Georgia
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- Health & Fitness
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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"Martial Arts Saved Me" - every martial artist ever. Why do Martial Arts have such a big impact on mental health? On The Fight Back Podcast you'll hear from UFC fighters, University researchers, Women training to battle demons and everyone in between. Georgia and her guests explore trauma, mental health, exercise and all the reasons combat sports help us Fight Back against tough times.
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#63 : Anna Drews: The Polyvagal Theory and Martial Arts
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 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 -
#62: Alex Ueda: Grounded Grit in Jiu-Jitsu
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
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
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#61: Les Bubka: Karate for Mental Health
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
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
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#60: Alex & Laurien Zurhake: The Many Ways Trauma Informed BJJ can Widen your Window of Tolerance
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
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 -
#59: Erik Hein: How to Be a Great Martial Arts Teacher
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 -
#58: Rew Mitchell: Awakening Female Fighters
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
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After my PTSD diagnosis after several sexual aggressions, I’ve been meaning to get back on track into Martial Arts, after years without practicing due same diagnosis, because I’ve done judo before and I was convinced it would help me center the energy in a genuine conscious reconnection with my body . My therapist told me I was ready but I kept being scared without even trying. He recommended me BJJ. Researching for trauma informed care for my own clients, destiny lead me to this podcast. Finished most episodes during one seat-weekend, and next week is my first BJJ class. 😊 Thank you thank you ❤️ Wish a trauma informed class was a prerequisite for all martial arts trainers .