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#21: East Forest — Music and the Muse as Medicine for Our Becoming

Posted on October 13, 2020
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In today’s episode, we have the honour of connecting with East Forest, hearing some of his heartfelt stories and practices for listening to the muse, and partnering with sound as a healing agent on his own path home.


As someone who I’ve admired and sat in meditation or ceremony with many times in the past 2 years, it was an absolute gift to dive into live-dialogue with East. We explore the ancient role of music and sound in welcoming the invisible aspects of our fleshly lives, how building a relationship with the muse supports us in our own healing, as well as hear some about his own rituals and practices for remaining the vessel for sound that he is – and we all are!


This one is full. You could jot down many things on pen and paper, or, you could trust that your body will remember – it is all simply reminders after all!


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Guest bio


In today’s episode, we have the honour of connecting with East Forest, hearing some of this heartfelt stories and practices for listening to the muse, and partnering with sound as a healing agent on his own path home.


As someone who I’ve admired and sat in meditation or ceremony with many times in the past 2 years, it was an absolute gift to dive into live-dialogue with East. We explore the ancient role of music and sound in welcoming the invisible aspects of our fleshly lives, how building a relationship with the muse supports us in our own healing, as well as hear some about his own rituals and practices for remaining the vessel for sound that he is – and we all are!


This one is full. You could jot down many things on pen and paper, or, you could trust that your body will remember – it is all simply reminders after all!

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#19: Melissa Michaels — Bodying More of Ourselves & Attuning Together

Posted on September 29, 2020
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Episode description and synopsis


Movement is a universal language that not only supports us in bodying ourselves, moving through trauma and cohering our body-minds, but also accessing ways to be in relationship with others and the more-than-human. Melissa has been a dear friend and guide on my own path to wholeness and it was such an honour to dive into a dancing-dialogue together.


Supporting us in our journey to embodiment and bodying more of ourselves as leaders and stewards of the emerging future, we explore why and how movement is so crucial in coming home to ourselves. How might movement as a practice support us in cultivating coherence and attunement, as embodied leaders?


We dive into the theme of cohering our body-minds and processing trauma stored in the nervous system, dance as a practice for life, building capacity by going so deeply into the body that we can go out without losing our ground, as well as the importance of community in these practices as instruments for attunement.


This is a juicy one! My hope is you get as much joy from Melissa and I’s dance as we did.


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Guest bio


Melissa Michaels, Ed.D., is the Founder and Director of SomaSource Educational Programs and Golden Bridge, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving and empowering the lives of people through body-centered initiatory processes, mentoring, and community action.


She is a first-generation teacher of the 5Rhythms®, mentored by Gabrielle Roth herself, and a Registered Somatic Educator and Therapist (ISMETA). Her doctorate degree is in Education, Leadership & Change.


For the past 30+ years, Melissa has been creating movement-based cross-cultural educational opportunities focusing on the potential that is available at major life thresholds. Mapping the journey from trauma to dynamic well-being, her work utilizes the expressive and social arts to establish body and heart as resources for authentic expression and diverse community connections. Rooted in rhythm and fueled by breath, this work inspires the sacred union between Spirit, flesh, psyche, and deed.


Melissa is the author of the book, Youth On Fire: Igniting a Generation of Embodied Global Leaders

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#18: Dan Doty — Reclaiming Our Emotions and Congruency as Gift

Posted on September 22, 2020
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Episode description and synopsis


What does it truly mean to reclaim our emotions, to live in integrity with our inner and outer lives in congruence? Not only supporting men in their path of healing and renewal, what does this look like as we as a culture come into community congruence? Dan is the Co-Founder at EVRYMAN and has spent many years stewarding a more integrated masculinity.


We touch on the cultural forces at play and balancing both compassion and courage in owning our work as men in restoring a culture that supports all. We also inquire into the importance of description as opposed to prescription in exploring a more inclusive and representative view on masculinity or personhood.


This one’s not just for those who identify as men, it’s for anyone swimming in our culture in this time.


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Guest bio


Dan Doty is a coach, mentor and Co-founder of EVRYMAN which has been named the “crossfit for your emotions” by the New York Times. Supporting men come back into relationship with their emotions, their hearts and their sense of inner-fulfillment is what Dan does so very well!


EVRYMAN is a community, podcast, series of immersions, drop-in groups and more for those who identify as men to support them on their journey into congruence with their inner-world.

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