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Practical Joy in Hard Times

9/6/2021

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​Conscious Body Conversations Episode 29

Stress and Joy are opposite reactions when it comes to both physical state of being AND emotional experience. What do we do when stress and hard times take over our access to and experience of joy.

In Episode 26 Karen Bayard of Whole Body Laughter and I talked about accessing joy in hard times, today she shares with us expert tips to actually, practically EXPERIENCE IT. Tune in for:

• Adult Temper Tantrums
• The One Minute Album exercise (including giggles!)
• "I Am" exercise
• The Book of Lists to refer to
• Pick your power song and create a power playlist

What I love about this conversation and Karen's practical suggestions is that the year SOMATIC! Meaning we bypass the placating, "just unplug and it will be OK" Sometimes your body needs to FEEL something different to even get on a path remotely in the direction of OK. So if you're not sure things will be OK, or have been hesitant on the path of joy (like me!)...then THIS is worth an hour of your time!

Karen Bayard is the owner of Whole Body Laughter & sees joy as a both a key element of wellness & a revolutionary act. Karen has designed individual wellness experiences, team building playshops, fun-infused training programs, semester-long college level courses & easeful conflict resolution seminars in the US and internationally for Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), United States Air Force, Huntsman Cancer Institute, ProBar, University of Utah, Western Governors University at Disneyland, Salt Lake Community College and more. As a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher, IIN Certified Holistic Health Coach and former Board Member of the Association of Applied & Therapeutic Humor, Karen’s mission is to explore ways of vibrant living and cultivate opportunities to be well utilizing a variety of mediums, with a special focus on embodying joy.

🌐 WholeBodyLaughter.com
📺: @WholeBodyLaughter
👤 @WholeBodyLaughter
🐦 @WholeBodyLaughter
🔗 @WholeBodyLaughter


🌟The Conscious Body Conversation Series🌟 As humans, our relationship with our bodies has taken many twists and turns. In early human history we understood ourselves as spiritual beings. As time marched on and we learned more about how these bodies operate, our understanding of ourselves became more mechanical. This mechanistic view of the body has shed necessary light on the body systems, which has allowed us to innovate solutions to so many problems. And it has also created the space for disconnection, dissociation, and disembodiment.

In this video series, I chat with some of my favorite humans who have insight on how we can explore pathways to greater connection within our own sense of selves, with each other, and as co-inhabitants of this planet today. Inhabiting our own bodies consciously is a necessary experience in progressing the field of whole health. I hope you enjoy these talks.


#consciousbodyconversations #embodiedmovementtraining

Find Jessie Lucas here:


🌐 www.embodiedmovementtraining.com
🔗https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessieblucas
📺 https://www.instagram.com/jessieblucas/
👥 https://www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedmovementtraining

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/c/JessicaLucasvivacious
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Embodiment and Energy Medicine with Donna Becker

8/27/2021

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Conscious Body Conversations Episode 27

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Movement is a crucial part of embodiment. Ancient healing approaches go as far as describing health as motion. Think of it like this - when a creak's water is flowing it is more clear, vital. When the water pools and stagnates, is still, murk collects. Our bodies are like that too. Physical motion is one way to clear this stagnation. Moving stuck energy is another.

In this video, Energy Medicine Practitioner Donna Becker talks to us about simple, practical ways to identify and move stuck energy. She shares the powerful impact of this not only in the current state of your health, but along the timeline of your entire health experience.

Donna Becker is Certified in Medical Qigong and NES Health Bioenergetics and Holistic Wellness.

Find Donna here:
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https://www.facebook.com/DonnaBeckerBetterHealth


🌟The Conscious Body Conversation Series🌟

As humans, our relationship with our bodies has taken many twists and turns. In early human history we understood ourselves as spiritual beings. As time marched on and we learned more about how these bodies operate, our understanding of ourselves became more mechanical. This mechanistic view of the body has shed necessary light on the body systems, which has allowed us to innovate solutions to so many problems. And it has also created the space for disconnection, dissociation, and disembodiment.

In this video series, I chat with some of my favorite humans who have insight on how we can explore pathways to greater connection within our own sense of selves, with each other, and as co-inhabitants of this planet today.

​Inhabiting our own bodies consciously is a necessary experience in progressing the field of whole health. I hope you enjoy these talks.


#consciousbodyconversations #embodiedmovementtraining

Find Jessie Lucas here:
🌐 www.embodiedmovementtraining.com
🔗www.linkedin.com/in/jessieblucas
📺 www.instagram.com/jessieblucas/
👥 www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedmovementtraining
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Embodiment & Animals with Elizabeth Wallace

8/25/2021

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Conscious Body Conversation Episode 26

Sometimes that connection is with an animal. Elizabeth E. Wallace, Intuitive Animal Communicator shares with us how deeply wise information and signals from animals can be in helping us to live our best selves, to be fully embodied.

Meet Elizabeth: "It is such a profound honor to guide and support people as they navigate the grief over the loss of their animal. My sincere intention is that you feel hope in knowing that there is a way through the darkness of this loss. My purpose is to help you bridge the connection to your animal’s Spirit, and help you find comfort in knowing that their love is always there."

Find Elizabeth here:
🌐 elizabethewallace.com/meet-elizabeth/



🌟The Conscious Body Conversation Series🌟

As humans, our relationship with our bodies has taken many twists and turns. In early human history we understood ourselves as spiritual beings. As time marched on and we learned more about how these bodies operate, our understanding of ourselves became more mechanical. This mechanistic view of the body has shed necessary light on the body systems, which has allowed us to innovate solutions to so many problems. And it has also created the space for disconnection, dissociation, and disembodiment.

In this video series, I chat with some of my favorite humans who have insight on how we can explore pathways to greater connection within our own sense of selves, with each other, and as co-inhabitants of this planet today.

Inhabiting our own bodies consciously is a necessary experience in progressing the field of whole health. I hope you enjoy these talks.
#consciousbodyconversations #embodiedmovementtraining

Find Jessie Lucas here:

🌐 www.embodiedmovementtraining.com 
🔗www.linkedin.com/in/jessieblucas
 
📺 www.instagram.com/jessieblucas/
 
👥 www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedmovementtraining
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Accessing Joy in Hard Times with Karen Bayard

8/18/2021

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Conscious Body Conversation Episode 26

Karen Bayard is an expert in JOY. As a comedian and a laughter yoga teacher she not only prioritizes joy but facilitates the experience of joy for others. But for Karen, like for most of us, it's been a hard year+. In this episode, Karen shares that even when times are tough, access to joy can be simple, accessible, and quick.

Listen as she shares her family inspiration for keeping joy as a guiding vision and tips to find it yourself...even if you're stubborn like me!

Karen Bayard is the owner of Whole Body Laughter & sees joy as a both a key element of wellness & a revolutionary act. Karen has designed individual wellness experiences, team building playshops, fun-infused training programs, semester-long college level courses & easeful conflict resolution seminars in the US and internationally for Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), United States Air Force, Huntsman Cancer Institute, ProBar, University of Utah, Western Governors University at Disneyland, Salt Lake Community College and more. As a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher, IIN Certified Holistic Health Coach and former Board Member of the Association of Applied & Therapeutic Humor, Karen’s mission is to explore ways of vibrant living and cultivate opportunities to be well utilizing a variety of mediums, with a special focus on embodying joy.

🌐 WholeBodyLaughter.com
📺: @WholeBodyLaughter
👤 @WholeBodyLaughter
🐦 @WholeBodyLaughter
🔗 @WholeBodyLaughter


🌟The Conscious Body Conversation Series🌟

As humans, our relationship with our bodies has taken many twists and turns. In early human history we understood ourselves as spiritual beings. As time marched on and we learned more about how these bodies operate, our understanding of ourselves became more mechanical. This mechanistic view of the body has shed necessary light on the body systems, which has allowed us to innovate solutions to so many problems. And it has also created the space for disconnection, dissociation, and disembodiment.

In this video series, I chat with some of my favorite humans who have insight on how we can explore pathways to greater connection within our own sense of selves, with each other, and as co-inhabitants of this planet today.

Inhabiting our own bodies consciously is a necessary experience in progressing the field of whole health. I hope you enjoy these talks.


#consciousbodyconversations #embodiedmovementtraining

Find Jessie Lucas here:

🌐 www.embodiedmovementtraining.com
🔗
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessieblucas
📺 https://www.instagram.com/jessieblucas/
​👥 https://www.facebook.com/groups/embodiedmovementtraining
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Embodying Emotions

7/19/2021

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I know you know the powerful relationship between emotions and physical health…and today I thought I’d check in with an Embodied Movement approach to this potent place where we can either be dragged down, or make positive change.

We humans have developed such a funky relationship with our emotions.
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Over time the role of emotions has evolved.


This past year has intensified the physical manifestations of whatever has been lurking under the surface for many of us. I have heard from so many folks that it is no longer optional to let unresolved emotions hide in their body history, that it’s TIME to address these pockets of pain. But the biggest hesitation is not knowing how to effectively do this without breaking down, because let’s face it…it was hard to begin with, and now with the year we’ve had it might just feel overwhelming.

A little human emotion history…

We used to be more intuitive and use them as a useful sense, a guide, a compass. 


Now, for most of us, between storing pain from very real life circumstances, and a culture that tells us continually in overt and covert ways to stuff ourselves, stuff down the flow of emotion in order to get stuff done, we have no idea how we feel, and so do not properly process them.

  • Emotions need to be processed.  
  • They have a flow, a beginning, middle and end.
  • They are molecular, bio-chemical, and your awareness has a LOT to do with this processing. 

When your awareness is not aligned with the truth of your emotions, the emotional experience has a funky influence on your health and sense of wellbeing. That funkiness can show up in a number of ways. Some of us have habitual modes we unconsciously slip into, and sometimes it depends on what is going down.

This funky juncture between the emotional happening and where you put your attention can be MESSY. When the emotions are sloppy and raw it can feel like a blender with the lid blown off and smoothie splattered all over the counter, the walls, and the ceiling. The mess is hard to clean up because the emotions are just everywhere. They’re choppy, hard to handle, hard to look at.


  • Emotions can get stuck. The process of their flow just halted as a defense mechanism to just not deal with the impact for fear of it’s consequences.
 
  • Emotions can be blocked. There may be a build up of emotional gunk and residue from previous unprocessed emotions that holds up the flow of a new emotion.
 
  • Emotions can be confusing. Sometimes the emotion you feel doesn’t quite line up with your understanding of what’s happening. When what you feel and what you are expected to feel (either from yourself or others) aren’t lined up in a “normal” way, that confusion can be disorienting.
 
  • Emotions can be overwhelming. This is one of the most common emotional experiences. Emotions are INTENSE, they are a LOT! It’s part of their nature. And because we have lost our unfiltered relationship with them, when we get hit with a big wave, we go right into overwhelm.
 
  • Emotions can feel inappropriate. Occasionally we experience an emotional reaction that feels like wires must have gotten crossed somewhere. What we feel is not at all what we “should” be feeling based on what is happening. When this happens, there can be a whole cascade of things like shame, disbelief, sabotage, and anxiety that can add pain on top of pain.
 
  • Emotions can feel unwanted. Emotions don’t show up at convenient times. They often give you a slap of dealing with the most impossible waves of feeling at the hardest times. This wishing it weren’t so adds resistance which mucks up the whole emotional process even more.


So what the heck are we supposed to do, when we, as humans, have gone so far down the rabbit hole of not relating to our own emotions? 
  • We MOVE
  • We move with awareness
  • Emotions are fluid, they NEED movement. Physical movement.

When you can get your body’s energy circulating you have a good chance at cleaning up some of the mess, shift what is stuck, dislodge a block, clear up confusion, settle the overwhelm, accept what feels inappropriate, and drop resistance to what is unwanted.
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Movement literally makes room in your body, in your being for the natural flow of emotion.
When emotions can flow, process, and complete they feel true, sensory, connected, resonant, satisfying. 

Movement can even transmute emotion, it can turn nervousness into excitement, anger into empowerment, grief into compassion. 


These emotional experiences: flowing, true, sensory, moving, connected, resonant, satisfying, THESE are evidence of right relationship with emotion. 


Got a story about embodying emotions? I'd love to hear it!
Email me at hello@embodiedmovementtraining.com


Be well,
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Emotional Eating with Eating Psychology Coach Jennifer Miskiel

5/24/2021

 

Conscious Body Conversations Episode 17

In this powerful and rich episode Jennifer peels back the layers in the way of understanding the roll of emotions in our relationship with eating. This is light and refreshing. You’ll leave with a sigh of relief. (Just bare with the couple of video glitches…the sound is 100% the whole time! It’s worth it!)

Find Jennifer here: 
miskieljen@icloud.com
IG: @nourished_and_free
FB: @nourishedandfreeAF

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Be well,
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Presence in Grief for a Full Future with Grief Journey Guide Nancy Loeffler

3/22/2021

 

Conscious Body Conversations Episode 6

In this episode Nancy talks about how presence seeds the future… How we care for ourselves and especially our grief can allow for experiences years down the line that would have otherwise been unavailable. Grief is a path to transformation. She shares her very personal example – “If I had not said yes to my own grief journey along the way, I would not have been able to meet my granddaughter with an open heart 20 yrs later. I would have had too many layers of protection around my heart.”

You can find Nancy at https://beingwithgrief.com

Share your AHAs and ask questions here.
(Please send a request to join the Private Facebook Group if you aren't a member)

Be well,
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Embodied Movement Ninja Tricks for Staying Steady in Pain

2/1/2021

 
Your body is designed to survive…so when something overly ~or covertly~ threatens that, your biological responses are to fight or retreat. Problem is that sometimes things like: “Feel the fear & do it anyway” can trigger this survival instinct and freeze up your vital resources (I bet you know how that feels!) Plowing through and attempting to override this has been the go-to instructions, however when trauma triggers are relentless, this approach can actually bury the issues even deeper.

There is another approach. Going in with a steady awareness that cares for your nervous system.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

*Note: comments are turned off for this blog, I’d love to hear from you over on the post in the Facebook Group

    Jessie Lucas

    Building new neural pathways through movement.

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