Grown Women Dance Collective creates cross-cultural, intergenerational, and cross-class connections, encouraging dialogue, empowering thought and action, and building cross-racial alliances through concert dance and wellness programs. Mature dancers challenge the stereotypes of aging and create artistic work that is relevant, accessible and inspiring to diverse and financially challenged audiences. We promote mind and body healing through health and fitness programs and create economic opportuni...
Sep 08, 2020•47 min•Season 4Ep. 75
If the right way is not my nervous system’s way in this moment then I’m going to override what my nervous system is telling me and I’m going to suffer both physically -- physical injury -- but my psychology also suffers because I’ve now disconnected and thought what my system is telling me is not okay .My work was always with complex trauma survivors and so isn’t that what they bring? They’ve been told that what's happening in here either really isn’t happening, because what you see out here is ...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 74
Movement is life. If we go to all life forms, there's movement even breathing in the cells of our bodies -- or in multi-celled creatures -- there’s always movement and vibration and the movement of fluid. It’s through movement that we meet the world and the world meets us, and we have a chance to interact and grow. -- Mariko Tanabe This conversation has been a long time in coming with Mariko Tanabe, Body Mind Centering Faculty and Program Director of Esprit en Mouvement in Montreal. James and I ...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 73
Why should we care about embryology as movement educators? Why should we care if all of our cells are in a creative mode or not? Is there a history in us from the time of the moment of our making that can inform how we express our bodies today? Join me and Debora Kolwey with Body-Mind Psychotherapy creator, Susan Aposhyan, for this wonderful conversation that kicks off our final season. The way I define embodiment is on a cellular level. Cellularly we can be in a physiologically creative mode or...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 72
The first question I wanted to ask Yoga Tune Up creator, Jill Miller, but didn't was how do you perceive your level of success? I didn't because there wasn't a natural opening that wouldn't have left you all feeling like "Why the hell is Chantill derailing this conversation". However...we DID talk about Korean natural gardening, bulimia, hip replacements, learning to walk, and many more strange and offbeat things that are sure to leave you feeling like you just watched a Wes Anderson movie. (Goo...
Jun 13, 2019•1 hr 35 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Anna Hartman is the best of us. She is deeply intelligent and unfailingly kind. She is generous, curious, willing, open, and creative. She cares about people in a way I've seen few others. This interview is a wonderful opportunity to experience the potential of brilliance infused with a willingness to be wrong. Meet my dear friend and colleague, the tinkerer, Anna Hartman. Listen. Delight. Smile. Feel inspired and alive and renewed. Pass it on. {My work as I see it is to} ultimately, get people ...
May 21, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 70
Out. Of. The. Box...And into the sun! Nadine Artemis (it's a name made in heaven), author of Renegade Beauty and Holistic Dental Care, and founder of the natural beauty and wellness elixir company Living Libations, joins James and I for a lively and insightful conversation about the sun, our skin, and our souls. It is sweet, eye-opening, fun, and in places startling -- in the "I'm smiling ear-to-ear because I can't quite believe what I'm hearing but I LOVE IT" kinda way. Listen and have your per...
Apr 12, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 69
The point about curiosity is to be able to be okay with not knowing. If we cultivate the capacity for this -- and this comes from the listening -- we can actually be experiencing and appreciate our present moment reality, vs. the insistence on strategizing, fixing, etc. Then there is openness and even wonder and delight in our curiosity. -- Debora Kolwey Curiosity can mean more than one thing? Curiosity can influence different states of being...free or stuck? What does it mean to listen? WHAT HA...
Mar 27, 2019•1 hr
There may be words somewhere, at some point, but I'm not quite sure what they are. James and I, along with two of our most beloved colleagues, Claudia Moose and Louise Johns, recently spent 4 days in Berkeley, CA with the soulful Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. The topic of our time with her: Engaging Self and Other Through Embodiment. Phew. Yes. What? Shaking. My. Head. Head in hands. Tears. Knowing. Not knowing. This is one of our many "download", WTF just happened/is happening, could this be any mor...
Mar 07, 2019•45 min•Season 3Ep. 67
What happens when we don't strive for perfection but for finding the perfection in what is imperfect? Dr. Suzanne Martin shares with us her journey with scoliosis and how it's manifested in her new book " Spinal Asymmetry and Scoliosis – Movement and Function Solutions for the Spine, Ribcage and Pelvis." It's a clear, expressive, multidimensional, and expansive approach to working with asymmetries in the body especially those caused by scoliosis. The most refreshing thing about her new book is t...
Feb 14, 2019•55 min•Season 3Ep. 66
We are many voices. Thousands more than can be heard here, but we've opened the door for some of those voices to come through. The Curiosity Mashup is YOU. It's what and who inspires you. Like you find yourself in our voices, we've found ourselves in yours. This is literally short and very, very sweet. And we're grateful to those who contributed. Listen. Smile. See yourself. Share. "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." -- Albert Einstein More About Our Contributors Brooke F...
Jan 24, 2019•35 min•Season 65Ep. 3
Wild woman. Wisdom body. The tube. Nervous system neutral. The sacred and powerful minute and a half. Meet Augusta Moore. Movement pioneer, Feldenkrais teacher, survivor, ballet dancer/educator, somatics cosmonaut, your guide to meeting yourself. This episode of the podcast is like reading a chapter from a wonderful and strange novel. It's a peek into the life and teaching of someone called to do the work of the body with arms thrown wide, eyes open and bright, and heart aflame. All of this and ...
Jan 04, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 64
What'd I miss? And what does soap have to do with it? Nothing. But it makes for a fun backdrop for some potentially juicy stuff: labels, identity, growth and learning, becoming discerning and losing our way, finding it again and discovering as if for the first time what it is we do. This is what James and I are up to in this episode. It's a refreshing and honest conversation about asking the WHAT and the WHY of what we do both on paper and in real-life in the studio everyday. We're mashing up th...
Dec 23, 2018•47 min•Season 3Ep. 63
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: App...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 62
Pushing the edges of how we view our human form and human existence in an ever morphing world. Meet Frank Forencich. Founder/creator of Exuberant Animal, health and human adaptation expert, author, and international speaker. Are we really separate from our environment or is nature just an external organ? Why isn't sapience a word we know and endeavor to achieve? How is the "short body" view keeping us held hostage to a diminishing return both physically, intellectually, and emotionally. Interest...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 61
This is a wonderful and rich conversation that if you call yourself a Pilates teacher you DON'T WANT TO MISS. It's an iconic and critical dialogue with one of the teachers who has not only been trail blazing within the industry for 30 years, but is and has been deeply invested in understanding the Pilates system in all of it's power and uniqueness. If you're not a Pilates teacher but a movement teacher of ANY KIND -- or a Pilates enthusiast -- this is one of those conversations that will give yo...
Nov 07, 2018•1 hr 43 min•Season 3Ep. 60
I feel very grateful for the podcast. I'm very appreciative because I teach in Indianapolis and don’t always feel camaraderie. Sometimes I feel I'm kind of isolated with my ideas or my thoughts or even with an every day things like, "Hmmmm, how could I teach that better?" Just simple things too. So then when I listen to the podcast I feel like I’m suddenly united with my people. And I have a community of people that I didn’t even know were thinking about things far beyond what I had imagined. It...
Aug 07, 2018•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 59
I find this very empowering. (Something Jessica said) It's very simple, complex in practice, but so simple to tell somebody…to empower other people; to tell them “You have to learn the rules and then open your box. Allow that lid to open and experiment and try things on and become the teacher you are, not the teacher I am or the teacher someone else is. I think that is such a beautiful way to approach learning. Yael Japha Trainer, PMA®-CPT , Owner of Terrafly Pilates, Denver, CO About the Show D...
Jul 31, 2018•57 min•Season 2Ep. 58
Getting to the end and looking back and going: We have absolutely created a season of podcast shows that reflects our vision. Maybe that doesn't feel like a big deal, but to me it just feels like we are totally doing it. We are absolutely100% totally doing the thing we said we were going to do. -- CL When you're within the episode, in the conversation, then sort of on to the next it seems like little islands. To look back on it and be like that told a cohesive story, there was a thing that happe...
Jul 25, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Chandler is: A true champion of being human, in a human body, in a natural world. Q: What does coming home to your body look like? What I’ve been clicking with more and more lately is something like -- I just call it a practice of sensory stories. It’s like "Hey, think about your favorite smell. Now tell me a story about your favorite smell." Oh, my gosh, I think back to... I was in this bog in Vermont for a field project and we were walking around on this carpet of moss and all around we could ...
Jun 13, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 56
There was this question as to okay if this body mind spirit thing is happening then where the heck is this spirit element. And I think that where it manifested for me was definitely in that area outside of the comfort zone. I would start to explore a concept that I found fascinating that had nothing to do with exercise proper. And in the exploration of that, if I could make it past the discomfort of nerves or ego or insecurity jumping in, if I could make it over that hurdle and drop in, then I c...
May 25, 2018•1 hr 6 min
We now have incredible electron microscopes. We have light technology. We have nano technology. We can illuminate cells and tissue in the way we couldn’t say 20 or even 10, 15 years ago. We have computer technology to integrate into all of those. And that’s fantastic!The downside to that is that we have been specializing and by specializing we’ve been separating and separating, and separating…We’ve so many specialist area now…and I’m not getting out of that for a moment, I saying that’s absolute...
Apr 20, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Kathy was intense. The best line I've ever heard was once this woman said "My friendship with Kathy Grant was hard won. Every friendship Kathy had was hard won." And it's true man. It was a privilege to be a part of her life and world and a friend. And it was not without a price. But you know what, I'd pay it all again and I think so would most people. What do Satchmo, Kathy Grant, donuts, Hawaii and Modern Pilates all have in common? Blossom Leilani Crawford. Obviously ;) This podcast is one of...
Mar 20, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 53
When someone says 'this is too much, I can't do this,' the challenge that they're facing, the can't, is 'I don't know how to contain the experience of feeling this intensity of emotion playing out in my body again." That's really what they 'can't.' That's what the can't refers to and so for me the question is always how do we bring ourselves back to being able to feel that experience but feel it from a place of non-reaction. To be able to feel it and be with it and face it, or maybe face it for ...
Feb 22, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Please visit ThinkingPilates.com for all show notes. Thank you for your patience as we make the transition between hosting the podcast on the Skillful Teaching website and our new, beautiful Thinking Pilates website. Chantill, Debora + James Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 05, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Please visit ThinkingPilates.com for all show notes. Thank you for your patience as we make the transition between hosting the podcast on the Skillful Teaching website and our new, beautiful Thinking Pilates website. Chantill, Debora + James Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 05, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 50
“Tenderness may be the most powerful force in the Universe.” That’s a quote from our rockstar guest, Brooke Thomas. Join James and I as we get deep (squishy, yummy, raw, and real) with podcaster, Rolfer, movement educator, truth-seeker, and all around super cool chic, Brooke Thomas. Brooke is the co-creator of the podcast Bliss + […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 20, 2017•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 49
It’s a whole new season and we are READY to CELEBRATE! In this first episode of Season 2, Debora, James and I go deep into the juicy, fuzzy, feel good realm of celebrating and what it means to celebrate our bodies, ourselves, our practices and just plain being alive. We have so many wonderful NEW things […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 06, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 48
So…this episode is… Hilarious. Totally off the cuff. Insanely honest. Thoughtful. Profound. Goofy. Riddled with lots of juicy language. (Headphones?) And the three of us being exactly who we are hashing out all of the beautiful ideas that have infiltrated our conversations over the past (47 episodes, what?!) season. We talk about: Teaching fatigue The […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 27, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Here we are, our second installment of the Teacher Debrief. A little background if you missed Part 1: Originally Debora, James and I wanted to do a show that brought just the three of us back together to reflect on and unearth some of what we’d been talking about in the 4-5 most recent episodes. […] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 15, 2017•1 hr
