Moving Toward Meaning

In this episode you'll learn about the body's built-in means of determining ethical decisions: skin in the game.  There's a reason the phrase came into being. The skin is an incredible sense organ, the boundary between you and the world around you. As such it provides a lot of feedback. And that feedback is exactly what's required for ethical decision making. Without an experiential sense of what we find pleasurable and painful, we're unable to relate effectively to other people, and we put those relationships at risk.  Coming back into contact with your own skin gives you a bottom-up sensate experience of being in the world the way you'd like to be.

What happens when we not only change our perspective, but change how we see ourselves altogether? In this episode you'll have the opportunity to listen in and follow along as I guide an audience member through a process of using movement to dismantle his assumptions about himself. You'll see that at times there's incredibly fertile soil in confusion - that in fact comfort with "not knowing" is exactly what's needed for creative problem solving. Along the way you'll hear how together Glenn and I create a context for his own brilliance to emerge. I hope you enjoy.

In this episode you'll come to understand your spine as a compass for living ethically, in alignment with your highest values.  You'll get a firsthand sense of embodied awareness of the spine in space, as well as the tendencies you have of compromising its integrity day-to-day (it's ok - we all have those tendencies). And if you choose to listen all the way through, you'll have a much greater ability to identify when you are and aren't living in alignment.

This is another recorded client session with Lisa. You'll hear how simple it can be to bring awareness to our "stuck spots" and make change possible.  Shortly after our session, Lisa wrote, "After our call, I literally just set up my recording equipment and hit the magic button. It was like the dam broke and I could finally start recording these sessions!" Listen in on this episode to get some insight into how you can break your own creative dams.

In this episode you'll hear me work directly with a member of the audience, John, as he discovers what it means to find his flow and support. You'll have the chance to be a fly on the wall and listen in as we explore unique applications of the "movement as metaphor" idea. And you'll hear just how quickly and simply someone can reach the moment of insight. I encourage you to follow along if you have the space when listening.

The voice is how we get what’s inside us out into the world, and yet the challenge of finding it and speaking it without hesitation can be daunting. There’s a lot of pressure! After all the way you communicate influences your relationships, your work, and pretty much everything else about your life. No wonder so many people hide.  But finding your voice opens doors and creates opportunities. It’s the root of self-expression, and if you’re stifled in that, then you’re going to have a frustrating time moving forward.  In this episode I share some strategies you can use to bring more awareness to how you use your voice, as well as how you keep it quiet. 

In this episode I discuss the embodied patterns of how we consume, whether it’s food, information, or other resources. You’ll learn a bit about information hygiene, how to begin exploring your own relationship with consumption (and information overload), as well as the “Fifth Limb” practice of Ecosomatics.

In this session you’ll learn more about balance: how it works, how it feels, and how to cultivate it more every day. I’ll also guide you through a deeper understanding of over-extending and finding support so that you know how to safely expand your limits without spreading yourself too thin. And to top it all off I’ll show you how to use your posture as the “canary in the coal mine” for better understanding when you’re asking too much of yourself.

In this series we’ll be exploring the connections between what we do, what we say, and what we think. As soon as I sat down to record the first episode I felt a familiar feeling creep in: the anxiety of setting out in the direction of something new! Rather than avoid it, tamp it down, or push through it I  knew we could make something much more useful out of the experience. So the plan for the first episode went out the window, and anxiety became the topic of the day.  In this session you’ll learn the roots of anxiety, its relationship to creativity, and a few practices to come to terms with it more effectively - even making it work for you rather than against.