Podcast appearances and mentions of deborah black

With guests Deborah Black, Noreen Nouza and Ginger Gentile

Your Creative Sparks: WATER can be ALTERED in its STATE from liquid to solid to gas. Our BODIES are about 70% water... get it? Challenge your ASSUMPTIONS. Anything can CHANGE, and it’s ALLOWED to change. CHANGE in the WORLD will come through the BODY. Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Meander along with us as Lobsterbird marks time and space with the illustrious Deborah Black, reflecting on the flow of their lives as performers and artists, how studying embodied practices has altered their paths, and how this momentum is leading to significant change in themselves and the world. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue We often get into habits with time. When we change those habits, a lot starts to come through the channel of creative flow. Water – what time does it hold in it? 6:00 There are many different kinds of water time… snow falling time, still water time, rippling water time, rushing river time…  [4:52] Deborah’s career began with her training as a dancer. She soon learned that she also wanted to use her voice on stage, and it started coming up in her choreographic work. She was looking for a theatre training that she related to, and she found the Viewpoints - her island of dancers and actors coming together to use their bodies in a different way. [8:11] “Corporations aren’t going anywhere, but they want to become more human.” This idea planted in my head that I wanted to be spreading embody practices to people who were not dancers. [13:36] How we get to flow… When water runs on your body, you get to feel all sides of water, even the inside of it. Not like a rock, where you only get to feel the surface. With the Viewpoints, you get to look at your assumptions about the materials of life… time, space, emotion, story… What are those things really? And what is my relation to them? You get to choose. [20:50] How would you explain the Viewpoints to your Grandma? Deborah connects with her ancestry and formulates a unique perspective to describe her embodied practice. [22:55] You can explain the Viewpoints in words, but you must experience it to really get it. We are breaking down time and space into different elements, and putting our attention on them in a new way. Then we can put them back together in new configurations and create new possibilities. [29:20] Artists and scientist are not really that different from each other. They are all researching without having any idea of what the result is going to be, and doing so with the hope that you are going to change someone’s life. [31:11] How can the Viewpoints help us today? Uncovering assumptions! One is that the body isn’t valued. But the brain is not disconnected from the body. Knowledge comes through more than just language. How can we integrate the moving body and the thinking body? [36:14] Anger is a tool. What makes me angry is that art has been placed in a box. Artists have superpowers from being in their bodies. Creating change in our society is calling for embodiment. [43:33] Practicum! Join us in a basic Viewpoints practice called Walk and Stop. Put down whatever you are working on, and prepare to challenge your assumptions. [49:00] Links and resources: Lobsterbird’s new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde Teaching embodiment online is completely possible and totally radical. Deborah Black is a multi-disciplined embodied teacher, energy healer, dancer, and artist. Learn more about her Viewpoints online and in-person workshops, popup dance meetups, and how to work with her personally to help you: Be in your body, Embody post-modernism to create change in your community, and Take your business or project into the size/scale you imagine it to be at DeborahBlack.net. The Six Viewpoints as taught by Mary Overlie include: Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement, Story, and Space. Learn more about working with these deconstructed materials to gain new impact and perspective at thesixviewpoints.com. Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com. Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest. For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero’s Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com. ✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to magic@lobsterbird.com for more details!✨ If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks: There’s a FINE LINE between CRAZY and GENIUS. Many an artist has walked it. APPEARANCES are not at all what they SEEM, and not as important as we make them out to be. In the Land of Infinite Possibilities, when you open yourself to the possibility that ANYTHING can happen, anything CAN happen! Of Legend and Lore and mystical Lands, in this episode we join Lobsterbird and Kelli Reese in glorious green Glastonbury, communing with two ancient tree creatures named Gog and Magog and preparing for the imminent pilgrimage. A new group of pilgrims are arriving to awaken and deepen their unique gifts and skills, to immerse in and surrender themselves to the flow of energy, and to open their hearts and their imagination to a new, magical perspective. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue The energy of the gnarled old oaks called Gog and Magog is extremely grounding. A fire nearly destroyed them, but something powerful and resilient remains. Death and Rebirth. [4:30] Driving by yellow fields growing barley, so bright, with a smell that is incredibly familiar, Sophia can see the elvin jumping. She experiences a deep, visceral knowledge of being supported - by humans and by beings of another realm. We all have that support, if we open our hearts to what’s available. [11:11] Planning pilgrimage involves having a framework AND being open to letting the pieces fall into place. We humans want to plan. We want to feel like we are in control of everything. But that’s what keeps us stuck. Letting go releases us into the flow, synchronicity, and magic. [14:54] Sophia walks through a portal and meets a Druid. Kelli acknowledges that she and Sophia were Druids in a previous life. Power principle: We have access to many different forms of information and many different ways of being. [23:06] We have to see the blood in order to access the beauty. We must allow ourselves to crack open with a willingness to let go and forgive. “The wound is where the light enters you.” ~Rumi [26:26] The Gift the druid gave Sophia – the gift of ceremony. [32:18] Time Warp - Fast Forward! Sophia and Kelli begin the recap of their journey. Picture an indoor spring. A dark cave. A private ceremony. Chanting and singing. Twelve bodies in a circle, lit by candles, their hearts blowing wide open. [33:33] The pilgrims become the students of poetry and movement in a workshop by Deborah Black and Alyson Hallet called “Embodying the Line.” [49:04] Butoh-ic Shamanism? Sophia learns of this healing practice and embodies her new knowledge in an improv performance in the redwood forest around a fire circle. The Gift of Ceremony is revealed! [51:31] After a Reiki healing ceremony at Stonehenge, the pilgrims head to Avebury – the feminine version of the standing stones. Here they were guided by Georgina, a high priestess of Avalon. [54:20] Healing abounds among the pilgrims at the Manor of Chippenham, a 13th century house with crooked stone floors, clawfoot tubs, and spaceship showers. [58:36] Links mentioned in this episode: Lobsterbird’s newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde Kelli Reese’s newest book: The Relationship Roadmap: The Spiritual Guidebook to Ditch the Uncertainty and Find Clarity on Your Marriage Deborah Black is a multi-disciplined embodied coach, teacher, energy healer and artist. Episode 10: Businesses Breaking the Mold: The Author Incubator What is Avalon? A place between mythology and the utopia of a lost kingdom… Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com. Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, leading her latest Vision Quest in the emerald temperate rainforest known as the Pisgah, the “Cradle of Forestry”. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest. For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero’s Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com. ✨The newest pilgrimage is happening in Colorado in August! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, shoot an email over to magic@lobsterbird.com for more details!✨ If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Deborah Black joins Peter to talk about al-Farabi's innovations concerning knowledge and certainty.