Movement is My Constant

This month I am joined by Mara Morgado, contemporary dancer facilitating dance laboratories for women of all ages. In her Body and Artistic Awareness Journeys - Laboratório do corpo - Mara educates on feminine energy as a healing process to prioritise rest, in a rushed society that priorities productivity. In our conversation we talk about what is feminine energy, why it is important to explore, support and nourish the female soul, and what can anyone identifying as men do to support women, and female identities. This episode interests you if you are looking to know how to create balanced working environments, how to establish parity in our societies, and how to educate future generations on feminism, the female body, soul, and energy.

In this episode, my guest known by the artistic name BSP, shares the direct experience of living with synesthesia. Although labelled as a condition, I find synesthesia a creative ability, and as a singer songwriter and artist, BSP navigates this world with a multiple sensory lens. This allows her to create immersive experiences on stage through sounds, melodies, and imagery on canvas. BSP has performed at the Tate Museum and her audiences have describe it as “her art a connection of voice, sound and paint”. Today we talk about synesthesia from a first person experience as we aim to uncover some myths, while hopefully support those who feel outcasts for such ability. This episode interests you on BSP's creative process BSP, and also if you wish to know more about synesthesia in the mental health context, or how to improve your creativity through open up the multi sensory experiences.

In this episode yoga teacher Beatrice Savaris shares the wisdom of a life worth of teaching. Long experienced in her personal practice and as a teacher, Beatrice travels between countries to teach students and accompany athletes passing on a deep understanding of the yoga philosophy, physical education, and spiritual development. She is sharing with us how wanna teachers should find their voice, an identity that will become a unique exchange of knowledge with the students in front of them. And how finding one’s voice is exactly part of the path of a teacher. There is no shortcuts when becoming a teacher and it’s a lifelong journey of growth. This episode interests you if you seek to know more about yoga teacher training, and how to apply further yoga philosophy in your life. For teachers, specially of Yoga and mindfulness trainings this is an episode that supports you as you’re building, or reflecting back at your career.

In this episode award-winning writer Raquel Ochoa, is explaining how bravery and curiosity have built her career as a travel writer. Raquel shares her stories of going to remote places and how it impacted her writing style. How intuition has fed her hunger to experience places and write about them, from a visceral place, a channel of her own experience. Her bravery is a key voice of all her stories. Recently Raquel has been invited to translate a beautiful essay by Henry Thoreau, a testimony of how moving in Nature, walking step by step, is an exercise in finding true freedom. For this episode I wanted to know more about this movement in nature as a spiritual experience. Moving in Nature is the direct experience of where our body is, connecting us to the right moment, the true place where we meet our physical self. Which in the end is the most genuine expression of presence. This is true freedom. This episode interests anyone who is looking to find true freedom. The answer resides in this conversation about movement in nature, and how to develop bravery and curiosity as tools whenever we feel an urge to challenge ourselves.

In this episode Femke Deckers, Dutch author, workshop leader, and motivational speaker inspires people to become the best version of themselves. After a life changing event, Femke pursued her natural curiosity to search for her why.

 This led her to start a business offering creativity workshops, guiding teams to step outside of the thinking paths and connecting to their hearts: the why behind their work. 
Femke is also the author of “Schroef jezelf los” - loosely translated as “Unscrew yourself” - a book about revalidation, resilience, and creativity for life. 

 This episode interests you, if you seek to know more about creativity, how to apply this skill in life and work, the attitudes that are at the heart of all creatives, and how creative processes can generate innovation.

In this episode my guest Jorge Beleza, with a PhD on Exercise Physiology, and a special interest on high-altitude mountaineering, is bringing his life-long passion over movement through insightful, and educated research he conducted with a team of experts to understand movement benefits for the prevention of liver disease.

His interest in evolutionary history enriches our conversation as we go through the experiences of movement, specifically by walking in Nature and its impact on our body, mind, and overall wellbeing. Beyond the benefits of being in nature, Jorge points to the unique capacity humans have to adapt and adjust to the environment. This leads to creative thinking and is directly connected to survival and health.

This episode interests anyone seeking knowledge on movement benefits for longevity, and how can walking in nature increases happiness, adaptation skills, and creativity.

In this episode my guest is Constança Morais, dancer, teacher, therapist, economist, and founder of Release Embodied Arts. This organisation is shifting the way NGO’s and social innovation organisations design systems for social innovation. Constança shares the importance of working with emotions, specially for organisations who are responsible to change systems, and reorient solutions for humans and the planet. Bringing this work to the forefront of change, Constança hopes change makers and leaders in the field will be better connected to their emotions instead of individual demands. She reinforces that bringing the human dimension to the work (they do, it creates better connections with the different systems that are parts of human life. Otherwise we keep on doing the same (human) errors. Constança details the process of expressive therapy, how her workshops are led, and clarifies what trauma is (and isn’t). This episode my interest you if you are a social entrepreneur, or working in social innovation, looking to rethink systems design from a more human centric approach.

New Episode! This time I am joined by João Palma: teacher, mentor, educator, and life long meditation student. João shares his thoughts, and teachings on impermanence and how this is best experienced through the body, always bringing a curious attitude. In this episode we look into: 🤔 Why it matters to embody impermanence 🤯 Why do we get stuck on beliefs of the self 😌 What to do, to get unstuck and find flow Thank you for listening 🎧

Joséphine Cantona is a Yoga teacher, Functional Patterns instructor and Coach. She is informing students, helping clients and developing her business on movement strategies that can support other practices, and most essentially the everyday movement, including the journeys to recovery. Josephine's experience from yoga was once rooted in the belief that one such practice would cover body, mind, and soul. Josephine's experience from Yoga was once rooted in the belief that such practice would be enough to attain a "perfect" physical, mental and spiritual body. But soon she found - learning from injuries and new practices - that Yoga could become a much deeper spiritual practice, when supported by other movement strategies that heightened awareness. On this episode: 💥 Understanding injuries: recovery and myths 🙌 Benefits of moving in different ways 👉 A look into spiritual pillars that support awareness Thank you for listening 🎧

Today I welcome Katia Khomich to the podcast. Our conversation flows between mindfulness, motherhood, mindset and our shared passion for bringing Self-Awareness tools to one of the most demanding roles in our lives: motherhood and parenthood. Katia combines her teachings with ancient wisdom, and the educational insights of modern science. As a mother herself Katia understands the importance of this work for her pregnancy, birthing and motherhood. In this episode we explore the benefits of mindfulness to: 🤷‍♀️ Accept the unknown 💥 Go through discomfort 💛 Being familiar with emotions Thank you for listening 🎧