Podcasts about liberated body

In this episode of The Pilates Lounge podcast, Katie Crane chats with Courtney Moore, an intuitive healer with a background in Classical Chinese Medicine and energy work. Courtney opens up about her shift from Western medicine to a more intuitive approach, where she helps people uncover how emotional and energetic blockages can show up as physical pain. Katie and Courtney discuss how tuning into our intuition and addressing both the emotional and physical sides of health can create powerful shifts. They share insights on emotional release, the mind-body connection, and practical tools like meditation and movement to help unlock stuck energy and promote healing. This episode is packed with relatable tips and a fresh perspective on wellness. About Courtney Moore Courtney Moore is an intuitive healer based in San Francisco. She combines acupuncture, bodywork, and Reiki in her practice, and also offers remote intuitive readings to clients worldwide. Her passion lies in helping people address the root causes of their pain. She recently launched The Liberated Body, a 12-week course designed to help participants release the emotional and energetic patterns that contribute to physical discomfort. Key Takeaways Everyone has intuition — it's just about learning to trust it. Emotional blockages often lead to physical symptoms. True healing means addressing the emotional and physical aspects together. Practitioners can guide clients to reconnect with their inner knowing. Tools like meditation and journaling can help tap into intuitive insights. Releasing stuck emotions through movement is essential for wellness. A holistic approach, including collaboration with other professionals, amplifies results. Healing isn't a straight path — it's a unique and ongoing journey. Understanding the nervous system is crucial for emotional and physical healing. Every challenge teaches us something valuable about ourselves. Connect with Courtney Moore: [Website link][Social media handles]  Instagram  Facebook  LinkedIn    Take Advantage of our Special Offers!   Claim it now here: https://www.thepilatesprofessional.com.au/free-gift-workshop   Unlock Your Pilates Potential!  Take This FREE 60-second Quiz To Find Out ”What's your Pilates Personality? https://go2.bucketquizzes.com/sf/75440977   Subscribe to our biweekly Pilates Muse newsletter for exclusive updates. https://www.thepilatesprofessional.com.au/the-pilates-muse-publication  

My guest the week is Courtney Moore an intuitive healer trained in Classical Chinese Medicine. She has a clinic in San Francisco where she offers acupuncture, bodywork, and Reiki, and also offers remote intuitive readings to clients around the world. Courtney has recently launched The Liberated Body, a 12-week course on excavating and releasing the energetic and emotional roots of pain in the body. During our conversation Courtney shares about 20 years of work in the healing arts. She also talks about the different ways we can approach and understand pain so that ultimately we can grow through it and reconnect with our true selves. www.courtneymoorewellness.com ---  CREATIVE CONFIDENCE MASTERCLASS https://bit.ly/4eEEgEx HER Inspirations Podcast https://pod.link/165610196 HER Inspirations Mailing List https://bit.ly/45jQ7lH Work with me Creativity & Spiritual Life Coaching: https://www.carolmaewhittick.com/her-coaching Your Awakened Voice https://carol-mae-whittick.thinkific.com/courses/your-awakened-voice Connect with me Carol Mae Whittick website: https://www.carolmaewhittick.com/ Carol Mae Whittick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cazmick/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/Cazmick https://www.facebook.com/carolmaewhittick YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CarolMaeWhittick LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolmaewhittick/ HER Conversations  https://pod.link/1304558894 HER Inspirations https://pod.link/1656101961 Show your support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CMWhittick

If you're ready to go from body hatred to body acceptance and love, this FREE meditation is for you. In this episode I am gifting my listeners with a powerful meditation to help you move the negative emotions you've been having about your body so you can experience liberation, love, and acceptance from the inside. My coaching program, Peace with Food & Soul has officially been RELAUNCHED and begins in 2024.  Will you join us? Find the details here: https://www.bethbasham.com/peacewithfoodandsoulgroupcoaching/ CONNECT MORE WITH BETH! Loving the podcast? You are not alone! If you're like most women, this podcast will kick off your journey and give you valuable insights, but you'll probably find yourself wanting even deeper support and transformation, totally understandable! Here is how to find what you are looking for… Join Peace with Food & Soul, the life-changing group coaching program designed to help you shed food and body guilt for GOOD. Join the free BEYOND INTUITIVE EATING Facebook group Work with Beth 1:1 SOCIAL HANDLES Website: www.bethbasham.com Instagram: @bethbasham.rdFacebook: @bethbasham.rd FOLLOW & REVIEW If you found value in this episode, please follow and leave me a review on whatever platform you're listening through. My mission is to help women end the war with their body and food so they can discover total body confidence from the inside out. When you leave a positive review, mor...

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“There's so much power in the very, very simple things.” Dr. Cynthia Price shares her “I Have a Client Who . . . ” story about a woman under treatment for substance use disorder, who is learning positive things about her body for the first time. It's a beautiful story that will remind us about why we do this work. Plus, there's information on how you can work with Dr. Price to do the kind of manual therapy that helps stressed clients find their way to positive awareness.   Sponsors:   Anatomy Trains: www.anatomytrains.com   Books of Discovery: www.booksofdiscovery.com   Host Bio:                   Ruth Werner is a former massage therapist, a writer, and an NCBTMB-approved continuing education provider. She wrote A Massage Therapist's Guide to Pathology, now in its seventh edition, which is used in massage schools worldwide. Werner is also a long-time Massage & Bodywork columnist, most notably of the Pathology Perspectives column. Werner is also ABMP's partner on Pocket Pathology, a web-based app and quick reference program that puts key information for nearly 200 common pathologies at your fingertips. Werner's books are available at www.booksofdiscovery.com. And more information about her is available at www.ruthwerner.com.                                 Recent Articles by Ruth:                 “Pharmacology Basics for Massage Therapists,” Massage & Bodywork magazine, July/August 2021, page 32,    “Critical Thinking,” Massage & Bodywork magazine, May/June 2021, page 54,                     Check out ABMP's Pocket Pathology: www.abmp.com/abmp-pocket-pathology-app            Anatomy Trains is a global leader in online anatomy education and also provides in-classroom certification programs for structural integration in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, Japan, and China, as well as fresh-tissue cadaver dissection labs and weekend courses. The work of Anatomy Trains originated with founder Tom Myers, who mapped the human body into 13 myofascial meridians in his original book, currently in its fourth edition and translated into 12 languages. The principles of Anatomy Trains are used by osteopaths, physical therapists, bodyworkers, massage therapists, personal trainers, yoga, Pilates, Gyrotonics, and other body-minded manual therapists and movement professionals. Anatomy Trains inspires these practitioners to work with holistic anatomy in treating system-wide patterns to provide improved client outcomes in terms of structure and function.                   Website: anatomytrains.com                   Email: info@anatomytrains.com                    Facebook: facebook.com/AnatomyTrains                   Instagram: instagram.com/anatomytrainsofficial                   YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC2g6TOEFrX4b-CigknssKHA                    Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy   Want to learn how to teach clients fundamental strategies for accessing and sustaining mindful interoceptive attention in order to enhance client embodiment, self-awareness, and emotion regulation? The nonprofit Center for Mindful Body Awareness offers a professional training for therapists who work somatically with clients (e.g., massage therapists, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, yoga therapists, nurse practitioners, etc.). Based on strategies from evidence-based approach Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT), this training is focused on fundamental skills that develop and increase client capacity for interoceptive awareness. The MABT approach is particularly helpful for clients who are disconnected from their bodies due to high stress or patterns of experiential avoidance, chronic pain, or trauma. The Liberated Body podcast interview is a great way to learn about the MABT approach, as are these links to learn about this approach, the training, and MABT research.   The next professional training is September 12–18, 2021 at the Whidbey Institute in Washington State; click here for details and registration.   

What does it mean to be embodied? To start cultivating embodiment, we can often begin by bringing more focus to what it's like to inhabit our body rather than just where we are. The body does a lot more than just act as a vehicle to move the brain around from place to place. Brooke Thomas uses a variety of methods and media to help others onto the path of embodiment. As she joins this conversation, she brings lots of excellent insight into that process to help us start connecting to our genuine lived experience. On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity: What embodiment means to Brooke What the three dimensions of experience are How she starts to help people learn to check in with their bodies Why ease is hallmark of discernment Walking through a sensory practice that Brooke uses to help people start shifting their being Brooke Thomas works in a variety of ways to teach about how to cultivate a relationship with our bodies, and therefore with our being, and how that can have a profound positive impact on an individual and collective level. At its core, her work is a lived inquiry about what it means to shift out of a mental/conceptual lens and into an embodied/experiential lens. This shift truly changes everything about how we meet ourselves and the world. She is a Realization Process teacher who works with clients one-on-one as an embodied coach, and does group work within the online embodied practice community, Liberated Being. She was a Rolfer in private practice for 20 years prior to this work. She has run two podcasts, Liberated Being (formerly known as Liberated Body), and Bliss + Grit, which she co-created with her friend Vanessa Scotto. Links: Judith Blackstone Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich Connect With Brooke Thomas: Website Liberated Being Liberated Being Podcast Bliss and Grit Podcast YouTube Instagram Facebook -- Apply to work with Brodie 1-on-1 Find out how to enroll in the Level Up course (on sale through the end of 2020!) Want to practice attuning to Fundamental Consciousness? Download a free meditation here. You'll also be subscribed to Brodie's delightfully infrequent newsletter; of course you can unsubscribe at any time.

Today's Conversation is with Brooke Thomas.Brooke works in a variety of ways to teach about how to cultivate a relationship with our bodies, and therefore with our being, and how that can have a profound positive impact on an individual and collective level. At its core, her work is a lived inquiry about what it means to shift out of a mental/conceptual lens and into an embodied/experiential lens. This shift truly changes everything about how we meet ourselves and the world. She is a Realization Process teacher who works with clients one-on-one as an embodied coach, and does group work within the online embodied practice community, Liberated Being. She was a Rolfer in private practice for 20 years prior to this work.  She has run two podcasts, Liberated Body which is now beginning again under the name Liberated Being, and Bliss + Grit, which she co-created with her friend Vanessa Scotto. In today’s conversation we talk about the Liberating Being community, her podcasts, social media/reality online personas, embodied coaching, client's "anatomy pop-quiz" and knowing when it's time.You can find more about her work at www.brookethomas.me and www.liberatedbeing.communityAs always, we hope you enjoy the show. If you like what we are putting out, please share positive reviews at wherever you listen to us from. And feel free to share with friends. We’d greatly appreciate it as we are doing these podcasts for your enjoyment and education.You can find more about Andrew at andrewrosenstock.comAnd more about Nikki at nikkiolsen.comMany thanks to Explorers Society for use of their song " All In" from their majestic album 'Spheres' Please check them out here https://open.spotify.com/album/1plT1lAPWEQ1oTRbWOiXm3?si=eAL08OJdT5-sJ6FwwZD50g

As we all spend time at home these days, I've been reflecting on where Liberated Body took me. So I wanted to record an episode that traced that. It all boils down to one question I think: That question is: What is embodiment? It's an exploration from my own experience- certainly not the final word on anything- and I hope it's interesting and useful for you.

Tune into a rich conversation with me and Brooke Thomas where we talk about the embodiment of spirituality and what the crisis is brewing in each of us.Brooke Thomas has been doing embodiment work in private practice for 20 years and is trained as a Rolfer and a Realization Process teacher. Her work sits at the intersection of where the body meets consciousness and how playing with this can shift our way of being in the world. She is the founder of the Liberated Being community, which is dedicated to embodied practice and inquiry, and a co-creator of the Bliss+Grit podcast. Her past podcasting project was Liberated Body. You can find Brooke here:www.brookethomas.mewww.liberatedbeing.communitywww.blissandgrit.comInstagram:@brookethomas108@liberatedbeing@blissandgritpodcastSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21191833&fan_landing=true)

“Wounded healer points back to something that we both hold really sacred, which is like, we're all human beings here. And we're never not human beings as long as we're in one of these things called the human body.” ~Brooke Thomas  Vanessa Scotto is a Counselor, meditation teacher, and Chinese Medicine practitioner whose work integrates spirituality and psychology. In her early 20's, Vanessa's own struggle with depression and anxiety catapulted her on an academic and personal journey. Along the way she earned two Master’s degrees and logged over 20 years of clinical practice.  Brooke Thomas has been in practice as a manual therapist (Rolfing practitioner) and movement educator since 2000. She is also the creator of the Liberated Body podcast. Her work is devoted to uncovering and celebrating how truly wondrous our bodies are; These gorgeous organisms that connect us to our deepest clarity, our world, and each other.  Together, they host the podcast Bliss and Grit: conversations about being on a spiritual path in the modern world. Vanessa, Brooke and Sarah discuss their personal calls to attend to their own healing process, the identity deconstruction that comes with trauma work, and the many paths to healing. Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:  @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Yoga can be a great form of spiritual practice or a method of physical activity. One less common way to practice that deserves attention, however, is through embodiment. Mark Walsh is a powerful advocate and teacher of embodiment through yoga. By focusing on ourselves and how certain posed make us feel, we can really connect with our feeling and our personalities on a deeper level. Mark’s embodiment yoga courses teaches us how to utilize the different archetypes present in yoga poses to strengthen those aspects of ourselves to which we have weaker connections. Embodiment practices can teach us that Warrior two makes us feel confident and warrior-like, but also how we can utilize similar micro-poses in our everyday lives to give us access to those same systems of being. Finding these new connections within our own bodies allows us to also form better connections with the world around us - something that can benefit anyone willing to give it a try.   What you’ll get out of tuning in: How embodiment can change your life Why you should explore different yoga pose archetypes How embodiment can help you achieve deeper connections   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Ebook Shop Embodied Podcast   Common Links: Mark's Website  E-book: Making yoga more meaningful  Embodied Podcast  Catch Yogahealer Black Friday Sweet Deal-EXTENDED!            Show Highlights: 2:40 - Embodiment yoga practices can provide entirely new experiences and challenges in the way we feel in our bodies. what you experience. Actually feeling the differences between child’s pose and warrior poses provide us with a new emotional and psychological point of view that can give us deeper insight into ourselves. 7:45 - A powerful short term  benefit of embodiment can utilizing micro-postures in our everyday lives to achieve certain archetypes in mind and body. Bringing this form of embodiment off the mat can help us engage that pattern, archetype or energy in a beneficial way. 18:40 - In the long term, embodiment can really impact your life. It can lead to better emotional and physical health, as well as stronger and more meaningful relationships. 22:00 - Practicing embodiment allows us to live with deeper integrity. We have access to stronger connectivity and bliss that may not be available to others who avoid exploring themselves and their bodies in this revolutionary way.   Your Favorite Quotes: “In a balanced yoga practice there so many archetypes we move through.” - Cate Stillman “Where are you gazing - where are you directing your attention and energy?” - Cate Stillman “The more embodied you become, the more bliss you have access to.” - Cate Stillman “To be in contact with yourself is to be in contact with others and the planet.” - Mark Walsh   Guest BIO: Mark Walsh has dedicated his life to embodied learning. He founded the Embodied Facilitator Course, Embodied Yoga Principles, Purpose Black Belt and Integration Training. He has taught in nearly thirty countries and made embodiment available online through The Embodiment Podcast and The Embodiment Channel, which has gained over 13 million hits on YouTube. He has a degree in Psychology, an aikido black-belt, and has trained with various body-mind masters and in various approaches, including Non-Violent Communication, body psychotherapy, and meditation. His clients have included Unilever, L’Oreal, Virgin Atlantic, AXA, Shell, Newfield coach training, Liberty Global, Sussex University and The House of Lords. He has worked with peace and trauma projects in Israel/Palestine, Afghanistan, Ukraine, the slums of Brazil, East Africa and with the Sierra Leonian Army. Mark has been featured in articles and podcasts by publications including Elephant Journal, Yoga International, OM magazine, Sivana East, and much more. Embodiment as a general topic for discussion! If you have the time to tune in, this podcast with Liberated Body may inspire further discussion points. Connect with Mark on his website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.     

This episode functions like a little embodiment gift, courtesy of myself and Liam Bowler, who is the creator of the podcast The Body Awake. It is also an appetizer, a teeny tiny appetizer, of our upcoming weekend course: Living Your Body’s Intelligence, this July 28-29 2018 in Seattle. So many of you have gotten in touch with me over the years to say how much you liked the “home play” part of the Liberated Body episodes- i.e. the body-based explorations at the end of each show- so you can think of this as one long home play episode! I hope you enjoy it. If you have listened to Liberated Body and to The Body Awake you know Liam and I are kindred spirits. For both of us our work is dedicated to the larger, and I would say unanswerable inquiries around what is a body? How do we really connect with our bodies and from there with our lives? What gifts does the body have to deliver if we learn how to have an intimate and reciprocal relationship with it? Over the course of our parallel inquiries it becamse clear that it would be really fun and also uselful to do a class together where we can lead people deep into landing in their bodies, but also to bridge the questions around what you do from there? How does becoming more embodied translate in our lives? How do we change our orientation from concepts and thoughts to being led by our felt experiences and why would we undertake that? We get into depth with that in our weekend workshop. In this episode there is taste of that- a somatic meditation led by me, and an embodied movement exploration led by Liam. It’s some “land in yourself” assistance- which is where it all starts.

We now have incredible electron microscopes. We have light technology. We have nano technology. We can illuminate cells and tissue in the way we couldn’t say 20 or even 10, 15 years ago. We have computer technology to integrate into all of those. And that’s fantastic!The downside to that is that we have been specializing and by specializing we’ve been separating and separating, and separating…We’ve so many specialist area now…and I’m not getting out of that for a moment, I saying that’s absolutely fantastic, but what needs to happen is that we all need to take a cleansing breath and stop for a moment. And in that stillness just remind ourselves that there is continuity in the human body. Embryology is a wonderful witness to that because when you think about the developing fetus, the developing embryo, at no stage did any mother ask for somebody to velcro on an upper limb, or have an operation to instal a liver.You grew the upper limb, you grew the liver, you grew the spleen, you self-developed, you self-emerged. Because of that everything is continuous and everything is connected. It could not be simpler. And yet people struggle with that idea. It can be useful at times to talk about parts, as long as we bring ourselves back and remind ourselves that there are no parts in the human body, there are no layers.That is a language of convenience. There are no layers in the human body. Everything from the skin, which is the surface right down to the sandy shores of your bones. Your body is continuous from superficial to deep. There are no truer words spoken.About the ShowThe are good people in this world. There are brilliant, kind, and generous people. There are people who make the world a different place, a better place, and who willingly invite others along.This, my friends, is John Sharkey. A meticulous observer of the minute with a breathtaking view the whole. Clinical anatomist, Exercise Physiologist and founding member of the BioTensegrity Interest Group, John is part of a pioneering group of movement specialists and scientists changing the way we understand and talk about the body.In this episode you will laugh (as always), be deeply moved by John's kindness, and maybe even go cross-eyed as we way down the rabbit hole of nerdy awesomeness.Here are some of the highlights:"The norm in human anatomy is individuality. The norm is not that we are all the same. The norm is that we are all different."The body as a continuum; a continuity of tissue formed from three primary components: fats, carbohydrates, and proteinsMini-me cells that eat brussel sprouts (or not)The power of languageHow are we misinforming our teaching with a misunderstanding of termsThe language of "dynamic tension" and the value of whole-body connected/kinetic chain movementBioTensegrity and how we relate to movement and othersSoft-matter physics and the body in 4-dimensionsAnd Phineas Taylor Barnum + Bernarr MacfaddenListen. Soak it in. Revel. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy...And SHARE.About John SharkeyClinical Anatomist John Sharkey is a world renowned presenter and authority in the areas of anatomy, bodywork and movement therapies.John Sharkey + BioTensegrity: Anatomy for the 21st CenturyBioTensegrity BlogJohn Sharkey at the Pilates Center of Austin (September 7-9, 2018)Other upcoming eventsJohn on Liberated Body with Brooke ThomasJohn on BioTensegrity (a brief video)What’s Coming UpChantillPilates Rules and Why (How) to Break Them with Fusion Pilates EDU.Go there NOW.Developing Your Teacher’s Sixth Sense – A workshop for ALL teachersPilates Sonoma, June 3rd 12 – 3 pmContact beverly@pilatessonoma.com to register$97The 28 Day Fulfilled + Successful Pilates Teacher (online inquiry workshop)July 22ndLearn more HERE.JamesShift Happens – Workshops with James Crader + Aula MaibergLearn more about their touring schedule + Register HERENow with an exciting online component!Momentum Fest – June 22nd -24thLearn more and get ticketsDeboraConscious Practice/Conscious Teaching – 2018 PMA conference.CONGRATS on being accepted, D! No surprise!Connect With UsEmail us at thinkingpilatespodcast@gmail.com or use the form below.Like us on Facebook at The Thinking Pilates PodcastLeave us a review on iTunes.Chantill – chantill@skillfulteaching.com + (707) 738-7951Debora – dkolwey@gmail.comJames – j.crader@evolvedbodystudio.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What a joy to get to chat with Brooke Thomas, whose latest project, the Liberated Body podcast, may be familiar to some listeners here. Brooke and I talk about the subject/object paradox of both having and being a body, using felt sense as a navigation to begin and end projects, and a whole host of other topics we might camp under something like "embodied spirituality." Or maybe "spiritual embodiment." Whatever we call it, I think Brooke is a joy to listen to! Hope you enjoy

For the past 3 years I have talked with somatic visionaries about new paradigms of understanding about the human body- and today is the final episode of the show. I have had the great honor of exploring inner space with the exceptional people I got to interview, and with all of you listeners who have formed such a warm and inquisitive community. For the final episode my dear friend Vanessa Scotto- who is also my co-host over at my new show Bliss and Grit- is talking to me about the whole Liberated Body journey. How it began, how it evolved, what some of the biggest a-ha highlight moments were for me, and why my work is now focused on embodied spirituality.

Today’s episode is a little different! This episode is actually an interview with Judith Blackstone, the founder of The Realization Process- which Vanessa and I both became certified in this spring. I did this interview originally over on my other show, Liberated Body. If you haven’t discovered her work, allow me to introduce Judith to you. She is the creator of The Realization Process, which is an integrated approach to embodiment, psychological, relational, physical healing, and spiritual awakening. Judith is a clinical psychologist and a meditation practitioner and student of contemplative traditions with more than 40 years of experience. She is the author of several books including Belonging Here and The Enlightenment Process, and she is also the co-founder of the Non-Duality Institute which is dedicated to the science and practice of non-duality. In this conversation we’re talking about “the issues in the tissues”, or how emotional pain gets bound in the body- and also how it can be released, what fundamental consciousness is and why it’s useful to attune to it, how your experience of gravity and your fluidity of movement changes with this embodiment work, what happens when people bypass their stuck emotional pain, and how this work can help what I call the “senseys” of the world- the empaths- to do their work and to live fully without feeling overwhelmed much of the time.

Today I’m talking with Judith Blackstone. Judith is the creator of The Realization Process, which is an integrated approach to embodiment, psychological, relational, physical healing, and spiritual awakening. That maybe sounds like a tall order, but I’m here to tell you as someone who has been in the somatic fields for 20 years and who just finished my certification in The Realization Process, it’s the most accessible and glorious embodiment work I have come across. So it’s a delight for me to be able to introduce one of my teachers here on Liberated Body. Judith is a clinical psychologist and a meditation practitioner and student of contemplative traditions with more than 40 years of experience. She is the author of several books including Belonging Here and The Enlightenment Process, and she is also the co-founder of the Nonduality Institute which is dedicated to the science and practice of non-duality. In today’s conversation we’re talking about “the issues in the tissues”, or how emotional pain gets bound in the body- and also how it can be released, what fundamental consciousness is and why it’s useful to attune to it, how your experience of gravity and your fluidity of movement changes with this embodiment work, what happens when people bypass their stuck emotional pain, and how this work can help what I call the “senseys” of the world- the empaths- to do their work and to live fully without feeling overwhelmed much of the time.

Bo Forbes turns the tables and interviews host Brooke Thomas with her own and listener questions. Brooke's personal path with her own body, how learning through the podcast changed the way she sees the body, how she parents based on what she's learned, her current practices (particularly in natural movement and somatic meditation), and what the road ahead looks like are all covered in this closing conversation for season 3.

In todays Fat Black podcast I get to speak all about fascia with Brooke Thomas of Liberated Body. I love this topic because it so crucial to movement. Understanding fascia can really help you move better and be pain free. Those two things will make you perform better. What you have to understand is that you don't have to tolerate movement dysfunction or body aches and pains. Most chronic overuse injuries and mobility woes are reversible. The process is pretty simple... it just ain't easy! Unfortunately Pete had to sit this interview out due to time zone differences but he and I and guests will be back on as normal from next week. In episode 69 of the Fat Black we cover: Why understanding fascia is crucial to your longevity and performance. Everything is connected and our muscles don't actually originate and insert like we were taught in anatomy class! How we move. Compensation patterns and tensegrity. What our soft tissue should really be like. Variations in movement and why it's needed. Communication failure of our bodies biggest sensory organ. Why our feet are SO important. How we keep our fascia health. You can learn all about Brooke and a lot more on Fascia over at here site www.liberatedbody.com or follow her on social media via the links below: Facebook Twitter Episode Sponsors:        

This being the week of Thanksgiving in the US, I am talking about Liberated Body’s self-care, movement scavenger hunt, holiday giveaway spectacular which kicks off on the facebook group (www.facebook.com/liberatedbody) on Friday the 28th. For 9 days I am giving away my favorite self-care gifts for 2014. Each day we will have a different movement to “find” as many times as possible throughout our day, and whoever uploads the best photo or video will win the self-care goodies of the day! In this episode I explain how it works and what will be given away.