What a Body Can Do

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Audio explorations of the body in the social world. An experimental podcast series by Zoë April. Sonically rich audio essays, stories, and sound collages. What if we still don't know all of the wild things that a body can do?

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What a Body Can Do (remixed) Season 3 Trans*cendental sonic meditations on hope and having a body at the end of the world as we know it. A series of audio collaged love letters to the queers and all who live within the liminal spaces, on the margins, and in between worlds. May our imaginations bring us into a new beginning in the middle of all these difficult endings. Listen while laying down, in a forest, submerged in water, or otherwise liminally positioned. <3 Zoë April...

Dec 03, 2024•8 min•Season 3Ep. 2

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What a Body Can Do (remixed) Season 3 Trans*cendental sonic meditations on hope and having a body at the end of the world as we know it This series is an audio-theoretical love letter to the queers and all who live within the liminal spaces, on the margins, and in between worlds. May our imaginations bring us into a new beginning in the middle of all these difficult endings. Listen while laying down, in a forest, submerged in water, or otherwise liminally positioned. <3 Zoë April...

Nov 08, 2024•4 min•Season 3Ep. 1

SHAPE: Muscles, Bones, and Tissues

Our muscles and bones and tissues are shaped by our life experiences, and our life experiences are shaped by our muscles and bones and tissues. This second episode continues to explore the somatic concept of SHAPE, including the social conditions that impact our embodiment. Donate to the podcast at anchor.fm/zo185 Follow me on IG: @body.podcast ThirdspaceSomatics.com Things referenced: Black Skin, White Masks , Frantz Fanon The Hakomi Method , Ron Kurtz...

Dec 14, 2021•11 min

SHAPE: Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich was an anti-fascist psychoanalyst, philosopher, and diy scientist during the time of World War II. He was one of the first to insist that the field of psychology should include the body. This is the first episode in a series on the somatic concept of SHAPE. Sign up for the December practice group on SHAPE (thirdspacesomatics.com/workshops) Support the podcast (anchor.fm/zo185) Follow on Instagram @body.podcast...

Nov 17, 2021•12 min•Season 2Ep. 1

UPDATE

A quick hello and update from Zoë about some exciting changes. New episodes coming next month!

Oct 29, 2021•5 min

Nostalgia

In this collaborative episode Zoë and Alana explore the concept of nostalgia. You know the feeling, but what is it? What does it do? How can it be useful? We spent several months trying to answer these questions though conversations, musings, poetry and embodiment practices.... and through being stuck at home during lockdown thinking about the past and wondering about the future. This episode is about what bodies do with the past, where and how it lives in us. It's about nostalgia but it is also...

May 31, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Pastel Paradise

Anyone who knows me knows that I love Miami and those bright 80's color schemes of pastels and neons. Think Miami Vice or Stranger Things. This episode is an audio story. It's about Miami, and about the kinds of impressions that art and architecture can make on our bodies and beliefs. You can find me on Instagram @body.podcast , and you can support this project here on my Anchor page: https://anchor.fm/zo185 Credits and references: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis ...

Apr 12, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 2

There is no such thing as ideology

This first episode of What a Body Can Do is an audio essay about ideology and why it doesn't exist. Our ideas are not just in our heads, and our actions affect more than our own bodies. When the distinction between mind/body, individual/social, personal/political starts to blur, we need new language. This episode explores "ideology" in general- and whiteness in particular- as constructs that can be and need to be deconstructed. If you like what you hear please subscribe, rate, and share! You can...

Mar 23, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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Coming very soon! An experimental podcast about the wild things that bodies are capable of. Please subscribe and follow me on IG @body.podcast

Mar 05, 2021•4 min

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