Ep 62: Heather Vaughan-Southard

Thinking Pilates Podcast

Heather Vaughan-Southard, an intuitive, expansive, creative, thoughtful, and powerful teacher touching people across many realms, professions, cultures and in deep and wonderful ways. If you've ever felt like your work is on the "fringe" or that you want to walk the line and push the edges a bit more but you think it'll never work or you have no idea how to get there this is your episode. Where the spark lies is not necessarily where you think.

A little bit about the BIG things we dive into:

• Approaching social justice through movement
• What is movement design?
• Blending skills and converging fields + flexibility in moving through
• Where are the interesting questions being asked? Higher education or not?
• How is movement holding you back and where is it inviting more possibility?
• What does it mean to define "your work"?
• How we're being compelled to emerge into a different way of teaching movement
• Returning permission to people to experience themselves
• Movement-based Mindfulness ™ + Creative Self-Care
• What is diversity in movement
• Removing judgement and experiencing the honesty of life through movement
• A different look at the power of assessment

Listen. Ponder. Let yourself go. Take it in and listen for YOURSELF in the words...You're in there. Take a deep breath and share.

Note From Heather: Near the end of the episode, I mention assessment and give context to my experience. I want to correct my statement. The MI law has been *interpreted* by some school districts as having a portion of student growth in educator evaluation determined by state test scores, no matter the content area. While for the pilates professional, this detail in a brief comment may not be important, for those who may listen and come from outside the pilates world, I want to clarify.

Technical Note: Unfortunately, we had some technical difficulty with the audio in this episode. Hopefully you will be able to listen past it (it is not throughout or constant) to all of the rich and wonderful conversation. We're sure you will!

More About Heather

• HVS Movement Studies - website
• Movement-based Mindfulness ™
• The Spiral - Deepening Your Teaching Practice

Writings:

• Breath and Substance
• Self-made Armor
• A Life of Quality

Get in touch with Heather - HERE

"When I was teaching in public schools, working with at-risk kids giving them as much of a solid and integrity-filled dance experience that could allow them to a path of in movement and in dance if they wanted that but also knowing that for the majority of them this was just a means for them to experience themselves in a movement based way that would help them function with other people, to function in school. For me that really started to address some social justice themes and what is the movement about, what kind of expression is allow and who gets to explore it. Where in the body does the movement, where is that allowed to exist, and where in the community doest that exist and what does it all matter. and ultimately it brought me to a place where it has been about developing a quality of life, but it’s also really about developing a life of quality.”

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