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Hosts Mark Walsh and Dr Helen Machen-Pearce offer a weekly podcast for coaches who work with the body. The podcast contains in-depth explorations of embodiment and coaching, with guests from around the world. A light-hearted and practical podcast for embodied coaches, trainers and facilitators. The podcast has been going for eight years and has over 3 million downloads. Past guests include: Gabor Maté, Richard Swartz, Carolyn Lovewell, Shirzad Chamine, Peter Levine, Ken Wilber, Michaela Boehm, Zuby, and Stephen Porges. The Embodiment Podcast on YouTube

Dec 29, 2018

Martial arts teacher Roy Dean joins me today to discuss combat sports and personal growth. We talk about early training in Japan as a teenager, why he started martial arts, how training morphs from self defence to personal growth, martial arts categories, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, ranges, MMA and the UFC, how it’s not like...


Dec 22, 2018

Biodanza teacher Julia Hope Brightwell joins us today. We talk about the trap of trying to transcend the body with spirituality, seroc, butoh, 5Rhythms what Biodanza is and what a class looks like, life force, connection, sexual energy and sexual repression, creativity, the South American feel, how we lose our life...


Dec 18, 2018

Skinner Releasing dance teacher Polly Hudson joins me to discuss her art. We talk life in a dance conservatoire, somatic practices in dance and acting and the advantages of using this approach, being available and compelling through embodiment, embodiment becoming implicit, the use of language in teaching, the birth of...


Dec 14, 2018

Creator of Ancestral Movement Simon Thakur joins me to talk monkeys, martial arts and humans. We chat Asian martial arts, the Indian spiritual look, the pros and cons of the life of a traveling student, evolutionary theory, Flow states in nature, primate movement, movement from other stages of our evolution, why we...


Dec 11, 2018

Trauma expert David Berceli joins me to discuss TRE - Trauma / Tension releasing Exercise - and his experiences with this work across many domains. A real authority in this now popular field and a bloody nice bloke! 

https://traumaprevention.com/