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Wayward Bodies is a show exploring our bodies and the messy places they meet the world. Join your host Elle Bower Johnston as she discuss embodiment, body liberation, creativity, healing, and how we show up as our whole selves. You can expect a mix of solo musings and conversations with excellent humans, with a lens of queerness, anti-oppression, body liberation and lots of space for the nuance of being a human.
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Y’all! I have new podcast! Let me introduce The Bear & The Body Witch. Every week Joeli Caparco and I discuss embodiment, queerness, and magic, while also chiming in with our own experiences and insights. In this first episode we got into the necessary constraints of discernment, the pressures of the A+ student hangover, and the importance of givin…
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Here we are at the end of season two, and just rounding on the solstice. In celebration, I’m coming with a present for you: a yoga nidra to come back in and remember your spark. A moment of pause and reconnection with yourself, no matter what is going on around you. Grab a blanket and get cosy. Together we’ll slide our way into deep rest, and hold …
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Today, in the final conversation of this season, I'm speaking with Ava Riby-Williams. We talked about living life as a creative act, going slow to go fast, liminal spaces and grey areas that allow us to express our wholeness, and the slow, messy work of liberating ourselves. ABOUT AVA Ava is a queer, British Ghanaian/Indian visionary, living in Lon…
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Today I'm bringing you a conversation with Tamu Thomas. Our conversation wandered through her own explorations of embodiment and her practice of Non-Linear Movement, the role of pleasure, sensuality and joy in women's wellbeing, reclaiming power and sovereignty, and channelling our energy in a generative way, even as we live in oppressive systems. …
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Today's episode is a conversation with the breathworker and herbalist Jennifer Patterson. I’m a huge fan of Jennye’s work and it was a joy to get to chat with her. We covered all sorts of ground and you’ll hear us get into the wavy space between medicine and poison, how we can be in our bodies when they’re places of pain or challenge, being in rela…
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I got to talk with my friend Lisa James about creativity, embodied truth, spiritual trust falls and what it’s really like to be a normal, everyday human living in deep connection to spirit. It was such a treat to get to sit down and chat with Lisa, I’m sure you’ll feel her steadying grounded energy coming through as we discuss being in relationship…
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Today's episode is a conversation with the magical Leila Sadeghee. We spoke about the divine feminine, her journey from the art world to mysticism and how we can make our lives the temple in which we connect with the divine. I loved the places we wandered in this conversation. Wandering seems like a fitting word, since we talked about the nonlinear…
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Today I'm bringing you a conversation that I got to have with Marika Heinrichs all about embodiment and whiteness, rediscovering ancestors and doing what we don’t know how to do. I’m so pleased that I can finally share this conversation with you. Marika and I wandered through our birthright to being in connection with the world and the cultural dis…
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In this first conversation of Season 2, I had the pleasure of talking with Theo Wildcroft. We spoke about about being in relationship with wildness, neurodiversity, disability justice, the way story creates space for us to exist in wholeness, and the power of embracing your brokenness. ABOUT THEO Theo Wildcroft, PhD is a teacher, writer and scholar…
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Slow down! You’re doing too much! So easy to say but a little trickier to put into practice in a capitalist world. In this episode we talk about the conscious effort to create slowness in your life. Our ego’s love of busyness, rooting into our values, and creating loving boundaries with ourselves and others. WORK WITH ME Download the Radical Rest S…
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So how do you rest? In today’s episode I wander through my list of 100 Ways to Rest, created for the Radical Rest Studio. We’ll talk about what rest actually is and the different forms of rest we need to thrive, and I gently invite you to become an advocate for your rest, following the unique threads of what brings you back to life. Join me this Au…
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Oh hey! It’s been a while and in this episode I talk all about why. I go into burnout, and how we can move through it and back towards a life that feels vibrantly alive. We’ll go into three parts of that puzzle: completing the stress cycle, unlearning urgency, and learning to trust. Download the Radical Rest Studio WORK WITH ME Download the Radical…
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Winter is calling and in this solo ep I talk about making space for integration, getting quiet, and the importance of going dark in a world that asks us to be 'on' all the time This is the final episode of season one, and the podcast will be in hibernation until 2022. Thank you so much for being here, your support and enthusiasm makes Wayward Bodie…
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Today's episode is a conversation with one of my own teachers, and someone I'm lucky enough to call a friend, Naomi Absalom. I loved the winding path of this conversation. It took us some curious places including staying boundaried on social media, learning to tell the truth and hold the charge in your nervous system, releasing the urgency of capit…
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Today's episode is a conversation with Kylie Darling about erotic embodiment, the places spirituality and sexuality overlap, and using kink as a way to know yourself. We talked about all sorts of good stuff. The realities of kink (beyond the 50 Shades stereotypes), the interplay of kink and shadow work in accepting all the parts of you, both dark a…
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Today's episode is a conversation with Kylie Darling about erotic embodiment, the places spirituality and sexuality overlap, and using kink as a way to know yourself. We talked about all sorts of good stuff. The realities of kink (beyond the 50 Shades stereotypes), the interplay of kink and shadow work in accepting all the parts of you, both dark a…
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In this solo episode I talk about praxis, imperfect action, and one of the biggest challenges I (and a lot of my clients) deal with in embodiment work - that you can't think your way in. What are you practicing? WORK WITH ME Download the Radical Rest Studio One-to-One Embodiment Guidance In Practice, love letters and monthly live practices LINKS & …
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Amelia Donkor and I had a potent conversation about the healing potential of story, imperfectly embodying our values, and finding liberation by being in process. Talking with Amelia was such a joy. We meandered through the multifaceted ways that storytelling shapes our lives and the world we live in, including self expression, unlearning stories th…
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I got to chat with Cécile Dumont (one of my favourite humans) all about touch, connectivity, and fascia - the connective tissue that weaves us together. We also talked about self-care as community care, the challenges and joys of being an empath, and why softening is such an important practice in the world built for hardness. Plus a bonus cameo fro…
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Eliza Khinsoe and I spoke about the pleasure of food, what non-diet nutrition looks like, and reclaiming food as a place for connection, heritage and joy - so much more than calories and nutrients We got into all sorts of good stuff, from her lightbulb moment realising the implicit biases present in the traditional approach to nutrition, to the mes…
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Aisha Nash and I got together to talk about diet culture, the unwellness of the wellness industry and the importance of being a troublemaker. This conversation was a whirlwind of big topics, and there are links to dive deeper in the notes below. We covered lots of ground, roaming from the insidious nature of diet culture, to the ways that cultural …
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I had the pleasure of talking with Jo Ottman of Liminal Moon about art, tattooing and owning your freaky magic. We got into all sorts of good stuff including finding the confidence to be weird, the embodied magic of tattooing, the importance of critical thinking in our spiritual practices, and how to embrace liminality and the unknown. ABOUT JO Jo …
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Today I'm talking with Rose Noir about the power of clothing. We got to chat about clothing and self expression, how we can make space in our wardrobes to embody all the different pieces of us, reclaiming agency around what is sexy, and the ways that the fashion industry screws us up. ABOUT ROSE Rose creates costumes and clothing for humans of all …
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Okay, so what IS embodiment? Seems like it might be good to start a podcast about embodiment with a definition of terms. In this solo episode, I attempt to do just that. TUNE IN TO HEAR… An imperfect and ever evolving definition of what embodiment actually is, what it isn’t, and why it matters An exploration of the three facets of embodiment - body…
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