Oct 5, 2023
I’m excited to have Weena on the podcast today. She happens to
be a dear friend of mine and also one of our rooted team members.
In rooted, Weena is probably the person who more than anyone else,
brings us back to the body, to the impulse of bodily knowing, and
how we can engage with the themes we’re working with in a space
like rooted. Her work is focused on truly experiencing this world
through our bodies. It’s a critical component of what we do. This
conversation was both enjoyable, given our friendship, and felt
somewhat incomplete to both of us, hinting at a possible part two
in the future. It’s a casual, kitchen table talk that went wherever
it wanted to. We begin by discussing perimenopause and its impact
on cognitive functioning, verbal fluency, and the challenge of
showing up authentically in spaces. This is tied to the unlearning
process we’re undergoing and our critique of cultures linked to
supremacist systems. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Weena.
If you want to learn more about her, you can find links to her
Instagram and website below.
Weena’s been working and playing in the worlds of dance, movement
training, and somatic therapies in New York City for the last 25
years.
Her guiding light is to value the interconnected reality of bodily
aliveness (and its absence in the tangible sense). She finds that
aliveness through making dances, facilitating SE+AM group work,
working somatically with folks individually, partnering and
mothering, and in her amazing neighborhood of Jackson Heights.
Weena is passionate about getting to the heart of what shifts our
human-made systems toward that which protects, cares for, and
supports our human needs for mobility, stability, clarity and love.
SE+AM has been her response to that need. SE+AM is a practice Weena
developed that is about making direct contact with the internal,
bodily-felt aliveness within and around us. You can learn more
about SE+AM and experience it for yourself at:
Weena's website: weenapauly.com
Weena's instagram: weenapaulytarr
Weena's Podcast: Reverence For Impulse