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FreeBody PodcastJupiter Cazimi in Cancer: New Moon Yoga NidraThis yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores space in our bodies and helps plant seeds of manifestation with the new moon. (Starts at 1:40)Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state between wakefulness and sleep. As your brain waves slow down, the body is essentially asleep while the mind remains aware. This activates our parasympathetic system where our body naturally repairs itself (we access this while sleeping every night). Research shows that only 20 minutes of yoga nidra gives...
2025-06-2621 min
FreeBody PodcastGBS Awareness Month: Reconnecting to your Body's Expression with Marianna McClellanIt is Guillain-Barré Syndrome Awareness Month and in this episode of FreeBody, Marianna McClellan, performer and Body Intelligence Movement instructor, shares the journey of her GBS diagnosis while simultaneously discovering that her mother was suffering from late stage cancer. We explore her embodied experience of growing up in the Lower East Side, how illness often challenges us to let go of past identities, and how pain can be an important teacher.
2025-05-291h 17FreeBody PodcastGemini New Moon - Planting SeedsThis yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores space in our bodies and helps plant seeds of manifestation with the new moon. (Starts at 5:15)Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state between wakefulness and sleep. As your brain waves slow down, the body is essentially asleep while the mind remains aware. This activates our parasympathetic system where our body naturally repairs itself (we access this while sleeping every night). Research shows that only 20 minutes of yoga nidra gives...
2025-05-2825 minFreeBody PodcastPisces New Moon Yoga Nidra: Surrender and SparkThis yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores opposites and naturally occurring polarities existing within us and nature. Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state between wakefulness and sleep. As your brain waves slow down, the body is essentially asleep while the mind remains aware. This activates our parasympathetic system where our body naturally repairs itself (we access this while sleeping every night). Research shows that only 20 minutes of yoga nidra gives your body the same benefits as 2...
2025-02-2721 minFreeBody PodcastAquarius New Moon Yoga Nidra: StardustThis yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores opposites and naturally occurring polarities existing within us and nature.
Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state between wakefulness and sleep. As your brain waves slow down, the body is essentially asleep while the mind remains aware. This activates our parasympathetic system where our body naturally repairs itself (we access this while sleeping every night).
Research shows that only 20 minutes of yoga nidra gives your body the same benefits as 2...
2025-01-3022 minFreeBody PodcastYoga Nidra "The Moon, The Sun, and The Lotus"This yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores opposites and naturally occurring polarities existing within us and nature.
Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state between wakefulness and sleep. As your brain waves slow down, the body is essentially asleep while the mind remains aware. This activates our parasympathetic system where our body naturally repairs itself (we access this while sleeping every night).
Research shows that only 20 minutes of yoga nidra gives your body the same benefits as 2...
2024-12-3029 min
Two Mics UpPower Moves with Actress Paton AshbrookIn this exciting episode of Two Mics Up, actress Paton Ashbrook joins the hosts to discuss her dynamic roles across various acclaimed series, including Power Book II: Ghost, Shameless, and House of Cards.
Spotlight on Paton Ashbrook: Paton Ashbrook is best known for her portrayal of Jenny Sullivan, a fierce prosecutor in Power Book II: Ghost. In the show, Jenny navigates the treacherous waters of the criminal justice system while juggling a complicated relationship with Cooper Saxe, played by Shane Johnson.
Paton shares insights into Jenny's relentless pursuit of justice and her strategic use of personal...
2024-12-1754 min
FreeBody PodcastAaron Dean Eisenberg - Transformation Through Physicality, Vulnerability, and MasculinityAaron Dean Eisenberg has undergone major physical transformations for multiple roles. In this episode you'll hear more about Aaron’s experience with these dramatic physical demands while working on The Iron Claw, which fearlessly explores the cost of living in the world as men who are taught that vulnerability or softness equals weakness. We talk about the difference between “hitting the gym to get shredded" and mindful somatic practices like yoga or meditation, and if working out in the gym can be a healing experience, what would that look like?
You can see Aaron in The Deuce and The Iron Claw...
2024-10-221h 15
FreeBody PodcastNikki Calonge - “The Relationship Between Movement and Soul”Today's guest, Nikki Calonge, "studies the relationship between movement and soul." She is a theatre maker and performing artist, a movement educator, akidoka, and yoga teacher who studied movement and dance therapy at Pratt. Nikki’s body story takes us from high school cheerleading, to battling blood disease while in acting conservatory, to the importance of participation as devotion for theatre makers. Nikki and Paton also talk about embodied ethical decision making and their personal takes on mewing vs. face yoga.
If you'd like to share your body story, please reach out on instagram @freebodypodcast , we'd love to hear from yo...
2024-08-271h 24
FreeBody PodcastSasha Clements - Pain Is Not The EnemyToday's guest is Sasha Clements, an actor and health coach who has reversed her autoimmune and chronic pain. She takes us on her winding journey from experiencing pain as young as 10 years old to being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis 14 years ago, and how in 2020, it flared up to a debilitating level, which led to her spending the next few years dedicated to healing herself and getting pain-free. As of today, Sasha is pain-free and on no medication.
If you'd like to share your body story, please reach out on instagram @freebodypodcast , we'd love to hear from you!
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2024-07-2354 min
FreeBody PodcastElly Kace - Catharsis in Yoga, Sound, and Your Own VoiceIf catharsis means "releasing", then it may be an act of healing too. And cathartic healing can be experienced through any somatic modality, from the arts to meditation to bodywork. In today's episode, Brooklyn-based indie singer/songwriter Elly Kace, an expert in the somatics of the voice and yoga, shares her insights about the intersectionality between all these practices and the science behind their healing effects on the body.
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2024-07-081h 01
FreeBody PodcastReflecting on Four YearsIn today's episode Paton reflects over the past four seasons of FreeBody and how its ethos has evolved alongside her own expansion and curiosity when it comes to "freeing our bodies." Paton started this podcast by asking the same initial question to her guests as a launchpad into their body stories: "what is an early and significant body memory that comes to mind, and how do you see that experience rippling out through your life?" Little did she know this would lead to a second passion for somatic study, healing, and teaching.
Paton also shares some thoughts...
2024-05-3013 min
FreeBody PodcastNeil D'Astolfo - No More Hiding: Becoming an Authentic and Mindful ArtistIn today's episode, performing artist, comedian, and creator Neil D'Astolfo shares his journey from being a closeted kid with big dreams and big glasses, to his transformation into the embodied and liberated queer artist he is today. He talks about the societal pressures of meeting certain "masculine" checkboxes in sports and entertainment, the healing somatic experience he had in grad school at Columbia, and how finding meditation and Buddhism has shaped his relationship to his career and to himself.
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2024-05-301h 17FreeBody PodcastPost Egg Retrieval with Paton Ashbrook - FinaleToday's season 3 finale episode is a recap of Paton's egg retrieval surgery (while sick), post-op, recovery, and reflection. She gets news about how many mature eggs were frozen, how long recovery should take, and she shares what this experience has meant to her and what she's learned about herself and her body. Thank you for all your support and lovely messages! Please subscribe, share, rate, and review! Feel free to reach out on our instagram @freebodypodcast with any thoughts and questions. We'll be back soon. Until next time... be well.
2023-06-0540 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 12 - Trigger Shot NightWake up sick. Check. See regular fertility doctor and get another egg update. Check. Cry at acupuncture appointment. Check. Give yourself two brand new trigger shots late at night. Check check.
Almost to the end of this journey! On this last night of administering shots, Paton gives an update and answers your questions from instagram @freebodypodcast, where you can check out the accompanying vlogs for these episodes. Finale episode next week. Thanks for being here and for all your support. Please subscribe, rate, review, and share!
2023-05-2926 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 11Three more nights until egg retrieval day. This episode is all over the place-- trigger warning: Paton talks about the number of eggs the doctor that morning told her to expect. She also goes into an impromptu film review segment. High highs and low lows. She also answers some questions from the community on our instagram @freebodypodcast. Follow over there to watch the vlogs that accompany these podcasts. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review!
2023-05-2226 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Days 9 and 10Today, Paton answers your questions about the cost of egg freezing, shares an update from her doctor on Day 9, and finally discovers her mistake! If you have any questions, tidbits, or comments you want on this podcast, please follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast and send a DM. Please be sure to subscribe, rate, and review!
2023-05-1532 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 8Today we get an update on the estimated schedule for extraction day, Paton makes another mathematical error, and it's Thanksgiving! Paton also answers your questions about how the extraction process works before getting into Day 8. If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast and send a DM. We'd love to hear from you.
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History...
2023-05-0820 min
The Crew Has ItWill Diana Rat on or Stay Loyal to the Family?Diana is arrested for selling drugs on campus and exposes the Tejada family. Monet makes another power move that leads to Dru finding out Gordo was Lorenzo's killer. Paton Ashbrook who plays Jenny Sullivan and Rory Bratter (stunt team) join the show to breakdown this episode with Michael Rainey Jr. and Gianni Paolo. MANSCAPED™ Get 20% off + free shipping with the code CREW at manscaped.com.ShipStation: Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/thecrewMichael Rainey Jr. and Gianni Paolo will be...
2023-05-021h 07FreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 7Today Paton answers questions from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram, and two VIP guests show up during the evening round of shots! If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM.
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who...
2023-05-0123 min
The NYWIFT PodcastActress PATON ASHBROOK & WCW Spotlight VICTORIA DEMARTINThe Starz Power Universe comes to the podcast! Tammy Reese speaks with actress Paton Ashbrook about the latest season of Powerbook II: Ghosts. Penni Malloy Harper has Victoria DeMartin in the Women Crush Wednesdays Spotlight.
We chat about some good news regarding female directors at Cannes, highlight a Brooklyn based short film Not Like The Other Girls by filmmaker Ginger Britt Daniels, which was selected for the upcoming New York Cinefest, and recommend The Diplomat, the latest Walking Dead spinoff and Throughline's "Everyone Everywhere All At Once" podcast episode.
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2023-04-2623 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 6Today Paton answers some questions she received from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram, and a VIP guest shows up during Day 6! If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM.
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may...
2023-04-2419 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 5Today Paton answers some questions she received from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram. If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM.
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This...
2023-04-1726 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day Three and FourOn today's episode, Paton answers a couple questions she received from @freebodypodcast on instagram, before jumping into Days 3 & 4. If you have questions, thoughts, insight, please follow us on instagram and reach out!
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources...
2023-04-1021 min
Kickz N BricksEP. 127 Paton AshbrookPaton Ashbrook dishes on:
-Season 3 of Power Ghost
-Jenny Sullivan and Saxe situationship
-The evolution of Jenny Sullivan and more!
2023-04-0818 min
Kickz N BricksEP. 127 Paton AshbrookPaton Ashbrook dishes on:-Season 3 of Power Ghost-Jenny Sullivan and Saxe situationship-The evolution of Jenny Sullivan and more!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/kickz-n-bricks--5025226/support.
2023-04-0818 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day TwoLast fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites...
2023-04-0324 minFreeBody PodcastEgg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day OneLast fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in the hopes that it reaches other folks navigating fertility treatments who may be looking for more resources and support. This topic tends to be kept very private as it is not only a physically arduous undertaking but an intensely emotional one as well. In sharing her fertility body story, Paton invites us...
2023-03-2721 min
FreeBody PodcastThanksgiving Special: Free Bodies Around The WorldDuring a trip through Europe (Spain, France, Italy) and Iceland, Paton asked people she met along the way (folks from Germany, Bangladesh, England, and more) the same question she asks every guest who comes on the podcast: "what is an early body memory you have that holds significance to you, and why?" While reflecting on the complexities of the Thanksgiving holiday this week, she decided now would be a good time to share these vulnerable and powerful stories that remind us all what to be thankful for: our bodies and all their challenges, lessons, and gifts for our growth.
This...
2022-11-2227 min
FreeBody PodcastFloating, Smoking, and Transcending: Noah GaynorToday Paton speaks with her friend and fellow classmate Noah Gaynor, NY based actor and writer. This incredible conversation touches on body image, plant medicine, unhealthy relationships to exercise, acting, transcendental meditation, floating therapy, healing "ah-ha!" moments, and all those times Paton dragged him to hot yoga before a 14 hour day at Juilliard.
Follow Noah on instagram @_noahgaynor_
IG: @freebodypodcast
More Sources and Resources:
Cannabis is Medicine by Dr. Bonni Goldstein
"White Ferality" by Resmaa Menakem
Medical News Today article about the Endocannabinoid System
2022-07-141h 07
FreeBody PodcastBONUS - Fertility Treatments without Roe V. Wade: Marinda AndersonToday’s episode is the third in our bonus episode series regarding reproductive justice. We’re sharing women’s healthcare experiences as we face a world without the federal protection of abortion rights. Last week I met with my dear friend and fellow actress, Marinda Anderson, who back in 2020 shared her fertility journey of getting her eggs frozen in a daily series on her instagram account @marindaanderson. If you’re curious you should definitely check the videos out, they’re still up. In our talk today, we look at Marinda's personal experience through the lens of today’s America and how the over...
2022-07-0552 min
FreeBody PodcastNeurodiversity, Plant Medicine, and the Need for Destigmatization: Dr. Miyabe Shields, PhDToday’s guest is Dr. Miyabe Shields, a Ph.D cannabis research scientist as well as daily user and advocate for accessible cannabis education. They are a co-host of the podcast Smoke N’ Science where they and Dr. Riley Kirk, PhD explain the facts and their own experiences in using cannabis as medication. Today Miyabe and l talk about the benefits of cannabis use for some of the neurodivergent community, the importance of the endocannabinoid system, the need for destigmatization, and the benefits and similarities there may be between cannabis and our other plant medicine friend, magic mushrooms aka psilocybin.
Foll...
2022-06-2753 min
FreeBody PodcastLiving Intuitively: Kristie LarsonToday you’ll hear Kristie Larson’s body story and her journey to becoming a personal trainer as well as a fitness and intuitive eating coach in NYC. She is the founder of The Feel Good Bunch, an online community of women who are super into fitness and super not into diet culture. We connect on our mutual love for fitness, processing trauma, and Jim Carrey, and we also go into intuitive eating, how exercise can help change certain societal narratives, and how life changing it is to consistently listen to your body’s signals. She is hilarious, grounded, a very...
2022-06-201h 05
FreeBody PodcastBONUS - Theatre Needs Therapy: Shana GozanskyTheatre director Shana Gozansky and Paton have a conversation about the roles of actors and directors, and how they can help make theatre a more equitable, diverse, and ultimately, healing community for all bodies. By all of us accepting ourselves for who we are, shadows and all, we create a world where we can accept *others* too, and live from faith instead of fear. How does all that relate to the entertainment industry and studying the arts? Long story short: Theatre needs therapy. As do we all.
Shana's IG: @shaygo
Freebody IG: @freebodypodcast
2022-06-1650 min
FreeBody PodcastCannabis and Cancer Patient Advocacy: Beth FairchildBeth Fairchild is an artist, activist, and yogi living with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Beth and Paton were introduced through We Go High, a cannabis justice initiative in North Carolina that does incredible work (find them @wegohighnc on instagram). Today Beth talks about her advocacy for breast cancer patients and medical marijuana use, how her relationship to cannabis has evolved, and how getting her cancer diagnosis changed her relationship to her body and herself. Please subscribe, rate, and review!
For more about Beth and her work: bethfairchild.com
Check out wegohigh.info and IG: @wegohighnc
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2022-06-1331 min
FreeBody PodcastBONUS: Be The Network: Amy DannenmuellerThis is the second episode of our current bonus series about women's healthcare and abortion rights. Today's guest is Amy Dannenmueller, an actress and activist born in Wisconsin and forged in the fires of New York City. She shares her personal experiences with Planned Parenthood and the life saving care she received there, as well as her work as a volunteer escort at abortion clinics in the New York Area.
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2022-05-2736 min
FreeBody PodcastEmotional Freedom in the Body: Nicole PondIn today's interview, high-functioning anxiety coach, Nicole Pond, talks about living with an undiagnosed illness for most of her life. It wasn’t until she was 30 and studying medical biology that she was diagnosed with PMDD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder. She explains how her symptoms from PMDD and her own childhood trauma were connected and had caused her chronic depression and anxiety from a very young age. As her fascination of the body on a physical and psychological level grew, Nicole illustrates how this led to her cultivating more emotional freedom in her body. Nicole and Paton also talk about various ac...
2022-05-2348 min
FreeBody PodcastBONUS: Pregnancy, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, and Roe V. Wade: Carrah StamatakisToday's guest is Carrah Stamatakis, a professional singer and mother of two living in Los Angeles. Carrah’s two pregnancies and her subsequent recovery from the first stages of pelvic organ prolapse (aka POP) has given her a unique perspective on abortion rights and how stripping people in this country of this right also strips away their agency over their own lives and very survival. And that a corpse would have more rights to its body than a breathing woman does.
If you’re someone who has not experienced pregnancy, her body story will be *quite* informative, and if you have...
2022-05-1259 min
FreeBody PodcastSustaining Nourishing Systems: Amanda BalarezoToday, trauma informed wellness coach Amanda Balarezo talks about how she discovered the nourishing systems of nutrition, somatic experiencing, and co-regulation that she practices with her clients and her children to heal their bodies. Diagnosed with Lyme, OCD, anxiety, and living with what she later discovered was PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Strep Infections) and more, Amanda thought she’d always be living a life of managing symptoms. And after witnessing her own mother’s life of chronic illness and disease, she knew she had to make significant changes in order to have a different fate. Today she...
2022-05-0959 min
FreeBody PodcastGaslighting the Body: Erica HornthalToday's guest, Erica Hornthal, AKA The Therapist Who Moves You, is a board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed clinical professional counselor. She’s the founder and CEO of Chicago Dance Therapy and creator of the Dance Therapy Advocates Summit. She talks about how her relationship to dance and movement evolved from her childhood experience (where her skill and execution triggered perfectionism) into her adulthood where dance and movement is now an embodiment practice. She helps her clients to get to the root of their emotions, process them, and become more attuned to themselves and their body’s needs through movement. Eric...
2022-04-2558 min
FreeBody PodcastOwning Your Healing: Bryan BlackwellIn today's episode I talk with Bryan Blackwell, fitness trainer and partner at Kaeos Fitness in New Jersey, and fellow podcast host of Live in the Kitchen with Hibachi. What true health looks like for each person is nuanced and Bryan is a wonderful guide in helping his clients figure out what works for them, what makes them feel good, and what creates a sustainable, judgement free, and healthy lifestyle. Bryan talks about his experience with surviving childhood epilepsy, how spirituality and body attunement has helped him heal, and what this looks like as his business, physical journey, and...
2022-04-181h 02
FreeBody PodcastThe Body is Key: Hannah StinsonToday’s guest, Hannah Stinson, is a divine healer, spiritual leader and green witch who helps women heal trauma and energy blockages. We speak a lot about trauma in this episode; Hannah describes disassociating in childhood as a result of experiencing sexual abuse, and how through art, yoga, and spirituality, she was able to find her way back into her body again. As she walks us through living with endometriosis and her emergency liver resection surgery, she explains how she believes her chronic illness was caused by childhood trauma, her recovery, and how everyone in the world needs to read "Wh...
2022-04-041h 06
FreeBody PodcastBecoming Embodied, Part Two: Yarrow BucansLast week we dropped part one of somatic healer and therapist Yarrow Bucan’s body story, and today, part two will pick up right where we left off. There is a reason I split this episode up into two parts— there's a lot to digest here. Today will be a crash course in the healing modalities that have helped Yarrow herself and led her to create the methods she uses directly with her clients today. We talk about polyvagal theory and what cultivating inner safety looks like when it comes to the body. Yarrow also talks about spiritual bypassing and...
2022-03-2144 min
FreeBody PodcastBecoming Embodied, Part One: Yarrow BucansYarrow Bucans is an alchemical healer, a trained clinical therapist, and a yogi. Today is only part one of our interview, covering the chapters and relationships in Yarrow’s body story that lead up to the realization that her purpose in this world is to help people heal. We talk about when she found God on the dance floor of a rave, addiction, maladaptive coping mechanisms, attachment wounds, and how she was able to extract and heal her symptoms of OCD and anxiety. Part two of Yarrow interview will drop in the next week or so, where we will dive mo...
2022-03-1447 minFreeBody PodcastSpecial Mini Episode: Yoga Nidra "The Hawk"As a thank you for continuing to tune in to this pod, I thought I'd change it up a bit this week and offer a 20 minute yoga nidra meditation for you to use at your leisure. Get comfortable, grab a blanket, and get ready to relax and rejuvenate as we head into December! Enjoy.
Please subscribe, rate, and review to keep this podcast going! You can also reach out to us if you have any questions about yoga nidra on instagram @freebodypodcast.
2021-03-1925 min
FreeBody Podcast"No One Knew": Victoria LamasContent warning: Eating Disorders. Today's guest is my sister, Victoria Lamas, who grew up in Beverly Hills and currently works as an artist and model in LA. She very generously shares in detail her years long battle with an eating disorder, all the way from restricting as early at age 12 to bulimia by age 18. We delve into what happened psychologically, how she came clean with our sisters, and how during her recovery, she found modeling with a body positive agency has had a huge impact on her healing.
Follow Vicky on instagram @victorialamas and see her art a...
2021-01-191h 19
FreeBody PodcastDisability is Possibility: Molly JoyceIn this episode powerhouse composer and performer Molly Joyce shares her body story. Today she talks about having an impaired left hand and how her relationship to her disability has shaped and defined her as a musical artist ever since she was seven years old. She'll guide you through her journey towards not only claiming her disability as a part of her identity, but also seeing her disability as possibility rather than limitation. Her works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles including the Vermont, New World, New York Youth, Pittsburgh, Albany, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, as well as the...
2021-01-1154 min
FreeBody PodcastResisting the F*ck-its: Andrea CiannaveiMy guest this week, Andrea Ciannavei, is not only an incredible playwright, she’s a phenomenal TV and film writer for shows like FX’s Mayans MC, and The Path on Hulu, as well as a teacher, and an activist. Today she'll talk about being put on a diet as a kid, navigating sexism and fat phobia in the 80s and 90s, the blending of fitness and activism, her journey toward eventually getting gastric bypass surgery, and that time she climbed up a mountain in Hawaii and had to make her escape down the Stairway to Heaven. *This episode cont...
2021-01-0458 min
FreeBody PodcastBodies Shifting Space: Lee Edward Colston IILee Edward Colston II is an actor, teacher, and writer from Philly. Most recently his writing for season 4 of Fargo has received critical acclaim, and his beautiful play, The First Deep Breath, opened to rave reviews in Chicago almost exactly a year ago. Today, we talk about trauma and how it lives in the body, about Lee’s work as a Corrections Officer and the body language of lying, as well as lessons learned while navigating racist institutions. You can learn more about Lee by following his instagram @thatsmrcolston2u.
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2020-12-2156 min
FreeBody Podcast"We're Miracles": Maja WampuszycBorn to Polish parents in Detroit, Maja Wampuszyc made the move to New York to pursue acting with $500 in her pocket and a push from Uta Hagen herself. Now an actor and a yoga instructor, she talks about navigating the pros and cons of being an outsider, comments from clients at yoga studios, the commercialization of yoga, healing alone during the pandemic, and how witnessing her father’s passing changed how she viewed her own body and it’s purpose. In today's episode Maja guides us through the evolution of her body dysmorphia and how she’s finally decided to mak...
2020-12-1457 min
FreeBody PodcastFind Your Own Truth: Stacy Lynn GouldIn today's episode, actress and creator Stacy Lynn Gould talks about finding mental release at the gym, the dangers of wearing Capezio shoes (#AMDA), undoing stigmas, marathon running, and breaking free of society and her family’s ideas of what success and health look like. She does an amazing job of taking the listener through her determination and anxiety as a child, all the way through to her growth as an adult where she's realized that we might always be in the middle of sorting through and desensitizing the stigmas we put on ourselves. We just can't give up. Yo...
2020-12-0756 min
FreeBody Podcast"The Most Punk Rock Thing I've Ever Done": Joe DexterLos Angeles based and British-born musician and author Joe Dexter, talks about working as a punk rock musician** with Cystic Fibrosis, as well as body image as a performer, the keto diet, tattoos, and that time he caught the Swine Flu on tour. Check out Joe’s instagram @thejoedexter, his band @orange_band, and his twitch at twitch.tv/joe_dexter. He’s also just released his first children’s book As Long As You’re Loved, which you can find on ETSY.
Please subscribe, rate, and review! For more info on this podcast, you can follow us @free...
2020-11-2357 min
FreeBody Podcast"Loving Yourself is an Act of Rebellion": Heather MaeIn today’s episode, extraordinary singer-songwriter Heather Mae shares her body story. She is an award winning musician and a mental health advocate. We talk about being bullied, the evolution of the beauty industry, the stigma of vocal surgery, body liberation, and much more. Check out Heather’s Big Loud Love Club on her Patreon at patreon.com/heathermae and find her on instagram @heathermaemusic or her website heathermae.net.
For more info on this podcast, you can follow us @freebodypodcast on instagram!
2020-11-161h 00
FreeBody PodcastFinding Power: Javian LeFilmmaker and powerlifter Javian Le comes on FreeBody to tell his body story. We cover a lot of ground in this one, discussing things like fitness verses creativity, the fight or flight instinct, harassment and hate crimes, and much more. CW: brief mentions of sexual assault and hate crimes.
You can follow Javian’s powerlifting instagram @let_them_eat_whey and check out his latest short film on nobudge.com . If you'd like to hear more body stories please subscribe, rate, and review! For more info, follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast!
2020-11-0948 min
FreeBody PodcastFrom Attention-Seeking to Seeking Authenticity: Katy CopelandIn this episode Katy Copeland shares her body story; we talk about dance moms, the pressure to be thin, 90's workout tapes, and breaking out of old patterns to give yourself the space to grow. Katy is a choreographer, performer, and fitness instructor in New York City. CW: Eating disorders and swearing. You can follow Katy on instagram @katycopes and check out her choreography reel on YouTube.
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2020-11-0251 min
FreeBody Podcast"We All Belong": Chyla AndersonIn this episode, Chyla Anderson chats with me about growing up as the "tall kid," finding community in CrossFit, and how "we all belong outdoors and outdoors, we all belong." Visit Chyla's website: outdoorismapparel.com and follow her instagram @outdoorism. If you'd like to hear more body stories or have one you'd like to share, please subscribe and follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast!
2020-10-2645 min
FreeBody Podcast"Living a Life of Your Choosing": Alva GardnerIn a frank and open conversation about identity, independence, and priorities, Alva Gardner talks about navigating life with CP (cerebral palsy). We follow her body journey through her childhood and the decision to not have surgery, her transition into college at UC Berkeley, and her specific challenges during the covid-19 pandemic. Full disclosure: a couple of "f-bombs" are dropped. To learn more about Alva you can visit her website at the4-3perspective.com and follow her instagram @alvas_view_from_down_here. If you'd like to hear more body stories or have one you'd like to share, please follow u...
2020-10-191h 07FreeBody Podcast"Working Through Pain": Chelsea Lee WilliamsChelsea Lee Williams is an actor and singer working on Broadway in NYC. While transitioning shows, and soon after dealing with Broadway's shut down due to the pandemic, she dealt with working through severe pain caused by fibroids. In this episode, she shares her body story starting with her childhood in football-loving-Miami and her physical training at various arts conservatories (including The Juilliard School for drama), all the way through her recovery from fibroid surgery today. You can find Chelsea on instagram @chelsea_in_hd or her website www.chelsealeewilliams.com. If you want to hear more body stories p...
2020-10-1245 minFreeBody PodcastThe Simmons to my Fonda: Sam Given Today's guest, Sam Given, is an incredible singer, actor, and fitness instructor in New York City. We dive into conversations about body image, finding community and balance through yoga and exercise, and battling the external pressures of the performing arts industry. CW: eating disorders. You can find Sam on insta @samgivensing and at his website www.samgiven.com. If you want to hear more body stories please subscribe and follow us on instagram @FreeBodyPodcast !
2020-10-0553 min
FreeBody PodcastFreeBody TeaserWelcome to FreeBody Podcast, the podcast for every body. My name’s Paton, I’m an actor and fitness instructor in New York City and I’ll be chatting with folks from all walks of life about their unique physical journeys as they strive toward freedom and joy. New Episodes dropping every Monday starting this October! Please subscribe, share, and follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast
2020-09-1902 min
Eclectic Voices Literary JournalThe Theory of Silence Part 3: TorieIn June 2012, Eclectic Voices produced a completely original monologue play: The Theory of Silence, Details on a Disappearance. It grew out of a writing exercise surrounding the idea of a family mysteriously disappearing from a small town. The show featured monologues from characters in the town, their reactions, theories and experiences about the disappearance. The synopsis: The Johnsons have suddenly vanished. They're just gone, nowhere to be found. Did they meet with foul play? If they did, there's no shortage of potential suspects. There's the neighborhood watch guy; the garbage hunter; the crazy bag lady; the medium; th...
2016-08-0806 min