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Reverence for ImpulseSeason Recap & What’s NextReverence for Impulse Is an unscripted and unplanned podcast with me, Weena Pauly-Tarr and my brother Tim Pauly, both working in the worlds of somatics: exploring bodies and all they hold/do/feel. We start each guest encounter with a few minutes of meeting each other without words, through the language of our bodies, before we press record and bring it to a conversation. This is not a hard hitting agenda or getting to the bottom of things. It's about finding each other in the not-knowing. We’re here for the spaciousness, the awkwardness, the silli...
2025-07-0422 min
Holistic Life Navigation[Ep. 265] Embodied Performing: How To Actually ENJOY Feeling SeenHow does it feel to express yourself in front of others? Are you at ease? Excited? Tense? Frozen? Is stress keeping you from having a voice and expressing yourself because being seen feels dangerous?Luis uncoupled his own performing from a traumatic experience in childhood. This shift allowed him to move from burning out after performing to loving the gooeyness of performing, which he now feels ease around. He shares his two favorite practices for supporting the body through the process. Want more support in learning how to be an Embodied Performer? Join us August 15-1...
2025-06-0820 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Kerri KellyA movement artist, wellness activist and author of the book American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal, Kerri is recognized across communities for politicizing wellness and bridging personal transformation with collective change. With over 20 years experience as a yoga teacher and embodied facilitator, she has been instrumental in supporting healers, activists, organizers, and changemakers in working with the body as a site of healing, power and transformation. Kerri is known for making waves in the wellness industry by challenging norms, disrupting systems and mobilizing people to act. Rooted in the understanding that...
2025-05-301h 17
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Akilah S. RichardsAkilah S. Richards is a grief literacy educator, Certified Integrative Thanatologist, and Savor coach who supports people through the often-overlooked losses of life—not just death, but shifts in identity, role, and relationship. Her work helps people slow down, honor what’s ending, and listen for what still wants to live. For over a decade, Akilah was a leading voice in the global unschooling movement, helping families reclaim autonomy, question hierarchy, and build consent-based relationships. That legacy of liberation now lives through her grief and joy work, where she invites us to trade performance for presence and urge...
2025-05-091h 09
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Luis MojicaLuis Mojica is a somatic therapist, trauma nutritionist, and founder of Holistic Life Navigation, where he teaches thousands of people around the world how to recover from stress and trauma. He uses whole foods, self-inquiry, and Somatic Experiencing as tools to find safety within yourself. Through Holistic Life Navigation, Luis offers online courses and webinars, in-person workshops and retreats, trauma-informed support groups, a monthly membership and newsletter, a weekly podcast, and a popular YouTube channel filled with insights and interviews. To find out more, visit holistic life navigation Embodied Preformer Reverence...
2025-04-111h 07
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Daniel FoorDaniel is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. For more see: www.ances...
2025-04-111h 24
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Christal BrownCoach Christal #TheVisionCoach; Mother|Artist|Educator|Disciple|Coach|Author, is the Chief Visioning Officer of Steps and Stages Coaching Facilitation and Consulting the Founder of INSPIRIT, Project: BECOMING and the creator of the Liquid Strength training module for dance. She blends her creativity, background in education, and spiritual insight into the practice of establishing, structuring, and implementing visions in the lives of individuals, institutions, corporations and families. For over 10 years Coach Christal has worked with creatives, entrepreneurs, educators and executives, to help them clarify their vision and accelerate their results. Coach Christal is adamant that no professional development can...
2025-02-211h 15
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Finn DeerhartAs an AASECT Certified sex and intimacy coach, I help gay and queer men ignite their eroticism and step into their emergent selves. Through my courses, workshops, retreats, and private sessions, men learn tools to confront their limitations, unravel internal narratives of shame, and spark deeper human connections—grounding themselves into a deeper experience of life. I also create educational erotic content and provide on-site erotic coaching for various organizations, including Himeros TV, an online service that provides explicit educational content for queer men. I co-host the weekly Himeros Backstage podcast which can be heard on Apple Podcasts, Sp...
2025-01-311h 07
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Kai Cheng ThomKai Cheng Thom is an author, performer, somatic coach, and conflict resolution practitioner based in tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. She is the author of six award-winning books in various genres, including poetry, creative non-fiction, and children's picture books. Kai Cheng is a lead teacher at The Embody Lab, as well as a faculty member at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education, where she has helped train hundreds of therapists, coaches, somatic sex educators, and other embodiment professionals. Website: https://kaichengthom.com Instagram: kaichengthom Reverence for Impulse Is...
2025-01-101h 21
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with jess prettyjess pretty is on a quest for pleasure that transcends time and the spaces she claims to reside in. her practices include writing, teaching, cooking, singing, conjuring, and dancing. pretty received an MFA in Dance with a minor in Queer Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. she has shown her work at the Chocolate Factory Theater, La Mama Experimental Theater Club (2017 La Mama Moves Festival), New York Live Arts (as a 2016/17 Fresh Tracks artist), CATCH!, Gibney Dance Center, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, the CURRENT SESSIONS, panoply performing arts space, Green Street Studios, and three...
2024-12-2059 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Antonio RamosAntonio Ramos was born and raised in Puerto Rico where he trained in jazz, salsa and African dance. He later received a B.F.A. in Dance from Purchase College/SUNY. Antonio began his career performing with Ballet Theatre of Puerto Rico, Ballet Hispanico of New York, Ballet Concierto and Ballet Municipal (Puerto Rico). More recently, Antonio has performed with choreographers Mark Dendy, Neil Greenberg, Kari Hooas, Luis Lara Malvacias, Jeremy Nelson, Stephen Petronio, Merian Soto, Kevin Wynn, Ori Flomin and Donna Uchizono, among others. Antonio has taught at the University of Puerto Rico, Ballet de San Juan; Ballet...
2024-12-0658 min
Tending the Roots: Composting ConversationsOn SE+AM: Relational Courage and Creative Aliveness w/Weena Pauly-TarrIn this episode, we dive into a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with the brilliant Weena Pauly-Tarr, creator of SE+AM—a body-centered practice that blends Somatic Experiencing + Authentic Movement. In a time of heightened polarization and disconnection, SE+AM offers a profound way to explore how we show up in relationship—with ourselves and others—and how we can begin to recognize and move beyond our patterned ways of relating into spaces of choice, and creativity. Through this conversation, Weena shares how SE+AM reveals the dynamics that shape our connections and opens up new possibilities for being together in mor...
2024-11-2835 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Weena & TimReverence for Impulse Is an unscripted and unplanned podcast with me, Weena Pauly-Tarr and my brother Tim Pauly, both working in the worlds of somatics: exploring bodies and all they hold/do/feel. We start each guest encounter with a few minutes of meeting each other without words, through the language of our bodies, before we press record and bring it to a conversation. This is not a hard hitting agenda or getting to the bottom of things. It's about finding each other in the not-knowing. We’re here for the spaciousness, the awkwardness, the si...
2024-11-1319 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Soleil HepnerRead more about Soleil Hepner here Soleil Hepner Bio Check her trainings on the link below: https://www.soleilhepner.com/training/somatic-session-therapy-training-2024
2024-09-061h 35
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Laura RaffaLaura Raffa is a licensed creative arts therapist, with board certification in dance/movement therapy and a certified group psychotherapist. She is also a certified authentic movement practitioner and has facilitated authentic movement groups in private practice as well supervised several dance/movement therapy interns. She is also a crisis intervention trainer. Laura began her career treating patients through dance/movement therapy during a graduate school internship on Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward in 2005. She has experience working with children afflicted with cancer, patients with autistic spectrum disorder, and forensic patients through her work at Sloan Kettering, Montefiore Hospit...
2024-07-1747 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Daniel Bear Davis Daniel Bear Davis began training in Somatic Experiencing in 2012. He brings an understanding of the body that is informed by 15 years of experience as a body worker and a lifetime of experience as a dancer and movement educator.Daniel sees clients one-on-one and in groups, on-line and in nature. His one-on-one work is also influenced by cultural somatics - the recognition of the larger web of human and non-human relations in which our somatic experience is situated. Sessions often thread the personal within the larger webs of ancestral lineage, nature, culture, and so much more. He works effectively with and...
2024-06-1451 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Jane ClappJane Clapp is a Jungian Psychoanalyst (IAAP), a Registered Psychotherapist and an expert in the inseparable relationship between the body and psyche. The purpose of analysis and embodiment is to open us up TO BEING MOVED by life again and to fall back in love with being alive. She live in wonder and awe of the strength of the human spirit and the unique ways we all long to express and manifest who we truly are in our relationships and in the world. Jane believes in the power of understanding the body and psyche together to recover...
2024-05-1756 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Leslie Kaminoff Leslie Kaminoff is a yoga educator inspired by the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar. He is recognized internationally as a specialist in the fields of yoga, breath anatomy and bodywork. For over four decades he has led workshops and developed specialized education for many leading yoga associations, schools and training programs in America and throughout the world. His approach to teaching combines intellectual rigor, spontaneity and humor, and is always evolving. Leslie is the founder of The Breathing Project, a New York City based educational non-profit dedicated to advancing educational standards for yoga teachers and other...
2024-04-242h 00
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Laura KhoudariLaura Khoudari is a trauma-informed wellness writer, coach, and storyteller. Her work and book Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at Time (Wonderwell, 2021) have been recognized across the fitness and mental health industries as well as major media outlets like NPR and The New York Times. Her personal essays have appeared in Archetype and Human Shift Magazine. Website: laurakhoudari.com Instagram: @laurakhoudari Reverence for Impulse is an unscripted, unplanned and (hopefully) unedited podcast with me, Weena Pauly-Tarr. Together with my guests, we’re asking what is alive in this mom...
2024-03-291h 55
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Mariana BuccozziMariana's Bio: One of my greatest passions is being in relationship. I love sharing, learning, teaching, being in presence with others and observing the unique impact that relationships have on each of us. I am a psychologist, psychotherapist, master trainer of systemic-relational psychotherapists and teacher in trainning in Somatic Experiencing. My clinical work with individuals, families and couples integrates psychotherapy and SE which allows me to navigate relational issues with a special attention to the body and its wonderful physiology. For me there is nothing more beautiful than being able to accompany my consultants and...
2024-03-1553 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Nick DuranNick Duran Bio: My therapy practice is person-centered and trauma-informed, emphasizing collaboration and skill building. I utilize techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), play therapy, somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness, EMDR, and expressive arts therapy to address unhelpful ways of thinking and the bodily impact of stress and trauma. I meet clients where they are and offer treatment that is LGBTQIA+ affirming and culturally responsive. I am devoted to working with individuals facing various issues, including anxiety, depression, bipolar, ADHD, grief, and life transitions. I believe individuals are the experts of their lived experience, and therapy is...
2024-02-1351 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Tim PaulyTim's Bio: Whatever I do, the same skills apply across the board: empathy, honesty, collaboration, improvisation, and shared vision. So whether the arena is work, family, or partnership, these are the values I bring. A heart-forward curiosity has guided my path through professional life. The immeasurable value of getting outside my comfort zone led me overseas and into a career helping other Americans do the same. Meditation and questioning of cultural norms opened the door to the sacred field of end-of-life care. My love for community and new ways of collaborating took me to the forefront of...
2024-01-091h 39
J. Brown Yoga TalksWeena Pauly - "Impulse Towards Aliveness"You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium. Weena Pauly, creator of SE+AM (Somatic Experiencing + Authentic Movement) and host of the Reverence for Impulse Podcast, talks with J about reclaiming how your body wants to move and the focus of seeing and being seen. They discuss sturdy containers for letting the unknown be revealed, nothingness and staying with trembling discomfort, distinguishing impulse from being impulsive, attributing value, power dynamics and reciprocity of w...
2024-01-0848 min
Stage WhisperWhisper in the Wings Episode 322Join us on the latest Whisper in the Wings from Stage Whisper, as we continue to celebrate the performing arts with a new work from performers/creators, Weena Pauly and Katie Workum, entitled, Monster Mourning. On this episode we discussed the origin of this show, the fabulous message behind it, as well as had a fantastic discussion regarding the arts themselves. So don't miss out on this great conversation! And be sure to get your tickets now!Monster Mourning January 14th, 19th, and 20th@ Kestrels (200 Sixth St, Brooklyn, NY)Tickets and...
2024-01-0731 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Michelle PhillipsMichelle Phillips, as a healer, facilitator, and ‘liberation strategist’ shares practice as a mental and spiritual wellness practitioner joining us from the Pacific Northwest, unceded Duwamish and Coast Salish territories. Michelle is an agent of liberatory change, supporting individuals, leaders, and organizations with grief, relational, and anti-oppressive principles and strategies. As a former hospital chaplain, Michelle’s practice often integrates forgotten spiritual and bodily intelligence, grief and loss, and healing wisdom from the diasporas to facilitate intergenerational healing and transformation. Michelle Links Reverence for Impulse is an unscripted, unplanned and (hopefully) unedited podcas...
2023-12-211h 28
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Fabio Tavares Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist who’s been forever obsessed with the human body in action. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15. Since moving to NYC in 1999, Mr. Tavares has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson, Anna Kholer, Anne Bogart & SITI Company just to name a few. He danced with STREB for 14 years where he was the Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Mr. Tavares taught at Pace University and curr...
2023-12-041h 24
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - David ThomsonDavid Thomson is an interdisciplinary performing artist and creator, a “Bessie" awardee who has worked extensively across the fields of dance, music, performance and theater. He initiated The Artists Sustainability Project to expand the discourse and practice of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment within the arts community. Instagram: davidthomson.nyc www.davidhamiltonthomson.com The Artist Sustainability Project Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019 Reverence for Impulse is an unscripted, unplanned and (hopefully) unedited podcast with me, Weena Pauly-Tarr. Together with my guests, we’re asking what is alive in this moment...
2023-10-251h 15
Tending the Roots: Composting ConversationsBack to Bodily Knowing with Weena Pauly-TarrI’m excited to have Weena on the podcast today. She happens to be a dear friend of mine and also one of our rooted team members. In rooted, Weena is probably the person who more than anyone else, brings us back to the body, to the impulse of bodily knowing, and how we can engage with the themes we’re working with in a space like rooted. Her work is focused on truly experiencing this world through our bodies. It’s a critical component of what we do. This conversation was both enjoyable, given our friendship, and felt somewh...
2023-10-051h 10
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - Nick BeemNick grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan, where he is currently raising two young children of his own. He started practicing yoga in 2000 as an antidote to the head-centrism of college. He found it to be a beautiful combination of spiritual practice and exercise, a way to contemplate cosmic ideas as they manifest in the particular pleasures and pains of human life. When not teaching, running his studio Grateful Yoga, or parenting, Nick likes to contemplate the fruitful intersections of yoga, Buddhism and science. He explores these ideas weekly in his newsletter Within Us and Wi...
2023-09-281h 08
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Lauren OhayonLauren Ohayon is internationally known for her ability to help her clients find their blind spots, compensations, and preferred patterns that are holding them back. She is the founder of Restore Your Core® (RYC®), an online program which empowers women to heal from core / pelvic floor difficulties and be strong, long, mobile and functional. Lauren is the creator of the RYC® Method and ICCP (the Interactive Client Centering Protocol) which empower professionals to create transformative, lasting healing for clients with pelvic floor / core issues. With more than two decades’ experience as an intern...
2023-09-041h 09
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Anie BoudreauAnie is a powerful visionary and embodied academic with over 20 years experience and training in the fields of contemplative psychology, yoga therapy and psychedelic integration therapy. Through their own personal journey of brain injury and long term chronic pain they have developed a program called the Embodied Wonderment Method, which is a compassionate and trauma informed methodology that can be applied to psychedelic integration or any modality that helps people build resilience by compassionately integrating difficult or challenging life experiences. You can find them at School of Reverence, their online education space, where you can experience their teachings and...
2023-09-041h 20
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Jesse DangerJesse is a wild mess driven mostly from a subconscious necessity to move and learning maybe only from the reflections he has on those experiences. He has matriculated and coalesced a convergence of creative minds and movers who do some pretty nifty things. The Movement Creative holds classes and sessions, writes books, makes videos, and pontificates freely and often on ethical mental social and physical movement. Who knows what they will do next! Learn more about Jesse here: www.themovementcreative.com Follow Jesse's Instagram: The Movement Creative Reverence for Impulse is an unscripted, unplanned...
2023-09-042h 28
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse - with Esi WildcatEsi Wildcat is a Somatic Practitioner and Ceremonialist, an Ordained Priestess of Isis, a Shakta initiate and yogini in the lineage of Sri Vidya, certified holistic health practitioner, and interdisciplinary healing artist with over 20 years of expertise. She envisions a world where all humans harness the power to intuit and maintain wellness and aliveness in all areas of their lives. Esi is passionate about conversations that create change, as a spaceholder for the primal emotions that often have no place in our contemporary world – grief, rage, despair, anger. As a bridge builder to the New Ear...
2023-09-042h 10
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Luis MojicaThis second episode is featuring Luis Mojica. Luis Mojica is a trained somatic therapist, whole foods nutritionist, and founder of Holistic Life Navigation. He teaches people all over the world how to heal trauma by listening and relating to the body. Through Holistic Life Navigation, Luis offers a 6-week course, monthly membership, small groups, a free podcast, and a popular Instagram page. His teachings include whole food nutrition, self-inquiry, and Somatic Experiencing as tools to develop safety within the body. Learn more about Luis Here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/ Follow Luis on Instagram h...
2023-06-0852 min
Reverence for ImpulseReverence for Impulse with Molly Caro MayThis first episode is featuring Molly Caro May. Molly Caro May is an author of two books, teacher, and holder of space. For 13+ years, she has facilitated personal story workshops for hundreds of people across the globe. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and focuses on where language/voice and the animal body meet each other. Her mission is to democratize expression and explore, in good company, the healing alchemy between story and nervous system. Learn more about Molly Here: https://www.mollycaromay.com/ Follow Molly on Instagram. Join us in-person fo...
2023-04-212h 01
Movers MindsetWeena Pauly-Tarr: Therapy, motherhood, and impulseWhat experiences and practices shape the transition from structured movement disciplines to embodied, intuitive forms of movement and healing?
Weena Pauly-Tarr shares her history of dance, her brief encounter with parkour, and how those experiences have led to where she is now. She unpacks her work with somatic therapy, and the profound changes motherhood has brought to her life and practice. Weena reflects on her current interests in embodiment and impulse, and discusses her search for what is next.
"The only thing I've ever wanted in my life—clearly and said out loud—was to be a...
2019-05-291h 04