The Body Knows Podcast
Health & Wellness Podcasts
Exploring the wisdom of the body, and the human capacity for healing, transforming and awakening to life, right here in the body, through the practices, teachings and real lives of our guests. Seeking out experts, luminaries, and everyday practitioners, who are living this truth and the health and happiness it brings. Marcela and Mat Wakeham are at the heart of the show, as a married couple and parents, learning and growing in connection with their guests and audience. The Body Knows mission is to broadcast conversations that inspire an understanding and return to a natural sense of wellbeing.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Health & Wellness Podcasts
Description:
Exploring the wisdom of the body, and the human capacity for healing, transforming and awakening to life, right here in the body, through the practices, teachings and real lives of our guests. Seeking out experts, luminaries, and everyday practitioners, who are living this truth and the health and happiness it brings. Marcela and Mat Wakeham are at the heart of the show, as a married couple and parents, learning and growing in connection with their guests and audience. The Body Knows mission is to broadcast conversations that inspire an understanding and return to a natural sense of wellbeing.
Language:
English
Website:
https://anchor.fm/thebodyknows
Episodes
BONUS EP#013 | Unlocking Your Inner Wisdom | Marcela & Mat Wakeham
9/12/2021
Hello Everyone, It has been a while since we have been in your ears, and it’ll be while yet until we return with a second season of the podcast. However we have this extra conversation we want to share with you, and it’s with us. We were interviewed on the "Be On Air" podcast from The Podcast Farm and we enjoyed it so much that we thought we would share it ourselves. It seems like the perfect mid-season break as it dives into both Mat and Marcela’s origin stories and how we began...
Duration:01:09:14
Bonus EP#012 | Maru Albor Bibian | Cacao Spirit Initiation
5/31/2021
Welcome to another bonus episode of The Body Knows Podcasts. These feature in-depth discussions with some wonderful individuals Marcela is working in partnership with to provide some upcoming somatic offerings. We’d like to think that no matter if you participate in the offerings or not there will be insights and wisdom in these conversation nonetheless.
This bonus episode is very special for Marcela. She is speaking with Maru Albor Bibian, her ceremonial cacao teacher, about one of her...
Duration:01:05:27
Bonus EP#011 | Still Flowing | Yoga & Somatic Training
5/10/2021
Welcome to this bonus episode to the Body Knows Podcast, which Marcela has recorded by herself between seasons. This bonus episode is about the upcoming Still Flowing Yoga Teacher Training, and in conversation we have a former guest of the show; Gemma Mallol, founder of SFYTT, a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Senior Yoga Teacher and Mindfulness teacher. Also Blanche Mullholand, Somatic Movement Educator, Body Worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. And, Marcela Wakeham, Senior Yoga...
Duration:00:49:30
EP#010 | Bruce Parry | A Voice From The Forest
4/5/2021
This is the last episode of SE#01 of The Body Knows Podcast. Thanks to all who have listened throughout the series, to those we have met and spoken with, and who have reached out, inspired by what you have heard. This was our purpose in creating the show and makes our work worthwhile.
Our final guest is Bruce Parry; English documentarian; indigenous rights advocate, author, explorer, and former Royal Marines commando officer. His documentary series for the BBC: Tribe, Amazon, and Arctic...
Duration:01:40:35
EP#009 | Michelle Roberton | Tantra & Living Orgasmically
3/1/2021
This episode of The Body Knows Podcast comes with a * TRIGGER WARNING! * |
Our guest this month is Michelle Roberton; Tantric therapist supporting women, men and couples through releasing fears and limiting boundaries around intimacy, sensuality and exploring the true sense of being a sexual being. She is a licensed Councillor, specialised trauma therapist and body worker, certified by The Association of Somatic and Integrated Sexologists.
Drawing on her own experience of extreme sexual...
Duration:01:18:13
EP#008 | Gemma Mallol | Still Flowing; Yoga, Mindfulness & Somatics
2/1/2021
This month we’re speaking with, Gemma Mallol the originating founder and creator of Still Flowing Yoga Teacher Training. She is a senior yoga and mindfulness teacher, a somatic experiencing practitioner, and body orientated trauma therapist.
What she offers in her teaching is in-depth somatic therapeutic experiences and process through Buddhist insight meditation, embodied journeying and movement practice in and with nature that cultivate resource and regulation in the...
Duration:01:33:47
EP#007 | Ajahn Sucitto | The Wisdom of the Body: A Buddhist Perspective
1/4/2021
This first episode of The Body Knows Podcast of 2021 is with senior, Western Buddhist monk Ajahn Succito, and we could not be happier to be sharing his deep, compassionate, somatic wisdom as we set forth into the New Year together.
Ajahn Sucitto entered monastic life in 1975 in Thailand, but been based in Britain since 1978. He spent fourteen years training under Ajahn Sumedho, the senior Western disciple of the Thai Forest Buddhist master Luang Por Chah, and so is part of that direct...
Duration:01:18:59
EP#006 | Mark Craven | Shaky Humans & the Plane of Possibilities
12/7/2020
This episode of the Body Knows Podcast is with Mark Craven. Mark is a Senior Counselling Psychotherapist for the Royal Trinity Hospice in London, giving support around grief and loss. Our conversation delves into his path, his training and his practice to support the trauma and bereavement of his clients, and their coming to terms with terminal illness, and the end of life. His own early physical trauma lead him on lifelong journey of enquiry to make sense of the human experience. From his...
Duration:01:02:27
EP#005 | James Shaw & Chris Baker | weMove; No Labels, No Boundaries
11/16/2020
Thanks for joining us again for EP#005, and if this is your first time listening we hope you enjoy it, and invite you to stick around and listen to some of our previous episodes too.
For this conversation we spent an afternoon at Whiteheart Crossfit, in the heart of West Sussex, sharing cacao, ceremony, connection, conversation and cold immersion with James Shaw & Chris Baker of weMove.
weMove is a podcast at the forefront of documenting the ‘movement revolution’, hosted by these two...
Duration:01:12:38
EP#004 | Michelle Baker Jones | Psilocybin & the Inner Healer
11/2/2020
This episode of The Body Knows Podcast is with Michelle Baker Jones. We met and spoke at her private practice in Kingston Upon Thames, London, where she works as an integrative psycho-therapeutic counsellor.
Michelle is also a member of Imperial College’s Psychedelic research team where she is a lead guide on their trials comparing psilocybin to anti-depressants for the treatment for depression. She also offers individual psychedelic integration for people struggling to process psychedelic...
Duration:01:30:50
Ep#003 | Clare Osbond & Tim Brown | Dance of Awareness
10/4/2020
EP#003 | CLARE OSBOND & TIM BROWN | DANCE OF AWARENESS Today’s conversation is with two of Marcela’s teachers, Clare Osbond & Tim Brown of the Brighton School for Embodied Therapy, here in our home county of Sussex in the UK. Clare is a body psychotherapist with specific experience in working with trauma, movement and mindfulness. She also has an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, and offers body-centred, movement, and sensorimotor psychotherapy, as well as an ongoing women's movement...
Duration:01:29:52
Ep#002 | Pollyanna Darling | Embodied Ecology
10/4/2020
EP#002 | POLLYANNA DARLING | EMBODIED ECOLOGY
Our first conversation is with Pollyanna Darling, she’s Head Of Community Engagement and CEO Of Treesisters Austrailia. TreeSisters is a grassroots movement supporting the restoration of our planet through tropical reforestation and the empowerment of women.
Pollyanna has been involved in TreeSisters since it was a tiny seed. She volunteered for 7 years before stepping into the core team. She is committed to playing her part in bringing our...
Duration:01:15:26
Welcome To The Body Knows Podcast
9/28/2020
THE BODY KNOWS TRAILER EPISODE 001 Hello, and welcome to The Body Knows Podcast. The show that explores the wisdom of the body, through the experience, teaching and lives of our guests. We are your hosts Marcela and Mat Wakeham, and we are so happy to have you here with us today. MARCELA Marcela is a Senior Yoga teacher and Movement Therapist, and a life-long long practitioner of Yoga, Dance and Pilates. She has 20 years of experience in the field of body awareness, mindfulness and...
Duration:00:04:14