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The Universal Dancer PodcastThe Universal Dancer PodcastEline Kieft, Founder of The Way of the Wild Soul and change-facilitatorDuring my recent interview with Elina Kieft, I was fortunate to learn about her inspiring story and journey. As a dancer, she has developed an incredible sense of creativity and self-expression. Moreover, Elina shared how dancing has enabled her to become a change facilitator, empowering others to be their best selves. Her passion for dance is evident in the way she speaks of it.  She shared her journey of dancing from a young age, through professional training, on to academia, and how her concept of 'the sacred' has been informed through studying shamanism and other world views. ...2023-01-311h 02Remember Your BodyRemember Your BodyS01 Episode06: Mark Walsh on Mark Walsh on intimacy, cultural embodiments, and knowing with the bodyIn Episode 6 of Series 1, embodiment facilitator and trainer Mark Walsh, talks about his new book Embodiment: Moving beyond Mindfulness, which discusses how we can discover wisdom through our bodies and how people from every walk of life and in every day situations  can benefit from connecting or reconnecting with their body.   Other useful links: https://embodiedfacilitator.com https://embodiedfacilitator.com/the-embodiment-podcast/ https://embodiedfacilitator.com/embodiment-conference-2020/ https://www.embodiedyogaprinciples.com Paul Linden: https://www.being-in-movement.com John Vervaeke: https://www.psych.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-vervaeke Gavin Becker: https://gdba.com  2019-11-2500 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyS01 Episode 05: Johannes Birringer on cross overs between body, performance, technology and underground spacesIn Episode 5 of Series 1, Johannes Birringer, choreographer and Professor of Performance Technologies at Brunel University talks to Eline Kieft about his journey into combining dance and performance with technologies, why an evolution of body knowledge is more important to him than a specific identity, how our bodies are educated by environments, sensorial experiences and wearables, and how the unknown can be a fertile learning space for growth, creativity and student-learning. The episode includes some wonderful sound-bites to highlight the variety of environmental and sensorial stimuli, based on Birringer's workshop on “underground spatialities” (for Rice University’s Anthropology students). The...2019-11-0135 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyS02 Episode 07: Juhani Pallasmaa on experiencing architecture through art and sensing, the mind-body continuum and architecture as a giftIn Episode 7 of Series 2 Finnish architect and former Professor  of Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, Juhani Pallasmaa, explains how art and multi sensory awareness lie at the heart of architecture, based on vision and sensing not as automatic mechanisms but cultural matters we learn during childhood, and how seening the mind and body as a continuum and architecture as a verb not a noun is central to his teaching, practice and research.2019-06-0227 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyPeter Merriman on mobility studies and understanding the social, cultural and political dimensions of everyday movementIn Episode 6 of Series 2, leading mobility studies expert Professor Peter Merriman, from Aberystwyth University, talks about the development of the discipline as a field of study in the social sciences, why taking an interdisciplinary approach is important to him and his drive to understand the social, cultural and political dimensions of everyday movement and their impact on national identity and nationalism.2019-05-1525 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyS02 Episode 05: Auxiliadora Gálvez on how profound spatial awareness learned from choreography and the Feldenkrais Method inspires the practice and teaching of radical sustainable architectureIn Episode 5 of Series 2, Auxiliadora Gálvez explains how flamenco and Feldenkrais first stimulated her embodied approach to architectural training. With her students and collaborators on PSAAP, the Platform of Somatics for Architecture and Landscape, at the San Pablo CEU University in Madrid, she explores and experiments on body aware understandings of how humans and environments relate. Making students experience spatial concepts in their bodies has improved student success and creative output, and is why somatic education is now at the heart of Auxiliadora’s teaching, research and architectural practice.2019-05-0328 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyArawana Hayashi on social presencing, improvisation and paying attention to each other in organizational settings, and connecting body and mind for a more awareness-based societyIn Episode 4 of Series 2 Arawana Hayashi, who heads up the Social Presencing Theater program for the MIT-born Presencing Institute in Boston, talks about her efforts to use her background in the arts, meditation and social justice in organisational settings. She discusses the development of the change framework “Theory U”, and how she and colleagues such as Otto Sharmer put it to use working with NGOs, businesses and Governments, to encourage change by developing capacities for thinking about the whole system, and by moving towards compassion- and awareness-based systems.   2019-04-1127 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyTim Ingold on The crisis of ethnography, the problem with embodiment, human becomings and exploding cellosTim Ingold, Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Aberdeen, talks to Ben Spatz about the difference between anthropology and ethnography, the importance of collaboration, skilled practice and playing the cello, why he finds the idea of the body problematic, and why he thinks of people as human becomings rather than beings.2019-03-2527 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyBrian Massumi and Erin Manning on the economic challenge to collectively reorganize how we value moneyIn Episode 3 of Series 2 we continue our discussion with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi from the SenseLab in Canada - (please listen to Part 1 if you haven't already). We discuss the emerging 3 Ecologies Process Seed Bank, and how post-Blockchain technologies could reverse today’s economic balance, to collectively emphasize our qualities of experience, making monetary aspects peripheral to our everyday lives. Further links On the revaluation of Value, Economies to come by Brian Massumi    2019-03-1321 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyErin Manning and Brian Massumi on critical somatic individualisation and why we need more movement in university education and architectureIn Episode 2 of Series 2 Erin Manning and Brian Massumi talk to Doerte Weig about schizo-somatic workshops at the Senselab, and how new ways of thinking and moving with relational openness and group subjectivity would benefit teaching and learning in universities of the future. Further links and resources SenseLab website Three Ecologies Institute 2019-03-0426 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyS02 Episode 1: Gil Hedley on integral human anatomy, fascia and the link between body fat and consumer cultureIn Episode 1 of Series 2 Gil Hedley talks to Doerte Weig about how discovering our inner bodies allows us to experience our bodies as continuous, to accept muscles as scientific mental creations, to understand how our connective tissues fascia enables movement, and how with appreciation for our bodies we can even come to love our fat.2019-02-1526 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyConcerns regarding the body in fieldwork, analysis and writingDr Jonathan Skinner from Roehampton University talks to Eline Kieft about how dance has become integral to his research and teaching and the challenges he has faced as an academic and a dancer on and off the dance floor.2018-12-0427 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyA window on the world: using the body to understand other culturesDoctor Jerome Lewis from University College London talks with Eline Kieft about using his body as part of his research to better understand the lives of hunter-gatherers in Central Africa. Bonus content If you enjoyed Jerome's interview as much as we did, here are some extra clips of him describing his amazing experiences researching the cultures of hunter-gatherers in Central Africa. Being embodied in a duiker's body [audio mp3="http://somaticstoolkit.coventry.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bonus-Diker.mp3"][/audio] Speaking to the fish [audio mp3="http://somaticstoolkit...2018-11-0929 minRemember Your BodyRemember Your BodyBody of knowledgeProfessor Véronique Bénéï from the French National Institute for Scientific Research talks with Eline Kieft about using her body as a source of knowledge in research, teaching and learning.2018-10-2923 minMethodsMethodsRemember your body: a somatics toolkit for ethnographers - Eline KieftA researcher’s physical sensations are widely understood to contribute to their insights into people and culture. Yet there are no adequate courses that teach students how to use their body as a research instrument. It’s a gap that a group of NCRM funded researchers are trying to plug with the development of a somatics toolkit, as Eline Kieft from the University of Coventry explains in this episode of the Methods Podcast.2018-10-1100 min