Movement is My Constant

"Are we ever ready for a journey?" In this episode, I sit with Melanie Genssler to explore why journeys are complex and cyclical moments of our lives. The challenge during these moments is to stick to it and understand that everything happening is already part of our emotional and intellectual growth. Each one of us has the ability to craft their own journey using the senses to notice how the body and the mind develop new ideas around common beliefs. Journeys are a common way to illustrate or express a process of which we are central actors and owners of choices we make, both in our conscious and subconscious mind and with Melanie's knowledge we take a step further in diving deeper into different tools that support one’s journey. Grab a pen and notebook as we share enough food for thought to keep you reflecting on your own experience with self-development and growth. This is the second episode of the collaboration between Movement is My Constant and Integrative Health Guide @integrativehealthguide by Melanie Genssler, as we combine knowledge from movement and health to bring you fresh perspectives and ideas to implement, or simply reflect upon. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to receive interesting reflections and content. And do feel invited to share insights over your own experience, or something you heard on the episode. Share this episode with family, friends, and anyone you know will need to hear it. Thank you and Enjoy, MiMC

Ever wondered what collaborations sound like? When two souls come together after the realisation of what it feels to be aligned in values, ideas, and business? Meet my guest: Melanie Genssler, health practitioner and embodied educator, as we start our collaboration by marking that aha! moment. In this pilot episode we set the tone for the collaboration between Movement is My Constant and Integrative Health Guide - Melanie Genssler's project. Through a light and open conversation we share common dreams and you get to know the founder of Integrative Health Guide program, as she is sharing her observations and knowledge from her research. We are also tapping in why integration and movement are the same and yet so different, and how our life experiences create the stories that make us who we are! This episode is an invitation to get familiar to the series of episodes, as well as to wonder about health journeys. What one integrates, what experiences come from that, and how these are results from the quality of our movements. Stay tuned by subscribing on Movement is My Constant website so you won’t miss a singe episode of this series. Thank you for keeping this project moving.

"Every good craftsman conducts a dialogue between concrete practices and thinking; this dialogue evolves into sustaining habits, and these habits establish a rhythm between problem solving and problem finding.” - Richard Sennet, The Craftsman. This quote reflects Anita’s knowledge and the way she dedicates herself to the craft. So much so, she has developed a business out of it, by integrating Aikido principles with leadership programs. Her stance reflects wisdom through a grounded philosophy of life. On this fifth episode we explore this, and I share with you part of my experience with her coach practice, as she guides me through exercises that make me aware of my reactive patterns, when facing stress. Listen to the interview to find out what inspires her and why she practices what she preaches. Enjoy.

“If movement - a coordination of space and time - fails, then the organ does not develop”. Dive into the world of cells and organs with my guest, Mariana Maia Gil, as she takes you through movement from the perspective of a biologist. Take a deep breath and listen to our conversation with a curious mind, while investigating the grand orchestra of movement happening inside your body! Look around you and identify how the environment is always changing. And changing you! Mariana is now starting her PhD research at Gulbenkian Science Institute, in Oeiras, Portugal, and her passion for biology is contagious as she shares her vision for the future in science and why it should include more cross talk synergies.

"I think the body is a source for giving you direction. Nobody can feel the inside of my body, and yet is an important source to figure where I place myself in society". My guest on this episode is Ria Higler. Ria is a teacher at the Academy of Theater and Dance, in Amsterdam. Through her dance career Ria's human approach allows students -inside and outside of school, amateurs and professionals - to create their language through a deep self-awareness. Her movement research is focused on adaptation to space, and listening to the body, as means to create one's identity. Ria's introspection is detailed, meditative, and free of judgement. In her book “Movement Research: Stories and Journeys by Ria Higler” Ria shares her extensive career through the eyes of - what I call her - the dancing anthropologist.

In an open-hearted conversation, I listen to Alicia Ingruber's incredible experience with burnout and how yoga has been her creative foundation for (her) recovery and the way to help others as well. I explore the possibilities of this for the future of work and how it can be used to prevent burnouts. Enjoy!

"There is a relationship between what we do, and our desires, specially in the performing arts" - Miguel Maia, the director of the theater group Cepa Torta referring to the inner desire and the ability we have to explore emotions using dance and theater techniques, to go deeper into a true self, and find movement as a form of self-expression.