Liberated Being
Formerly Liberated Body, Liberated Being explores what it means to be fully human and how we shift from a mental/conceptual lens to an embodied and experiential lens.
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Ep 106: Transition Updates
01/17/2022
Ep 106: Transition Updates
Updates on the Liberated Being podcast and studio, and The Healing Arts Business Incubator at
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Ep 105: Terrain Medicine and Your Nervous System
06/08/2021
Ep 105: Terrain Medicine and Your Nervous System
Today I’m talking with Dr. Ginger Nash. Ginger is a naturopathic physician who has been in practice for over 20 years. Her practice centers around nutrition, herbal medicine and homeopathy, with a focus on personalized care and treating the underlying causes of disease rather than just symptom management. Her practice offers some of the best technology available for evaluating whole-body health and her particular specialties are women’s hormone balancing, and immune dysfunction such as allergies and auto-immune disease. She also treats a tremendous amount of patients suffering with the long-term effects of infections like Lyme and its common co-infections and many different types of chronic disease. As you may know if you are a regular listener of this podcast, I don’t often talk with Naturopathic Doctors on the show. This show is dedicated mostly to manual and movement therapy as it relates to our being-ness or how we experience ourselves and the world. So it was probably inevitable that I would have a naturopath on the show eventually to talk about true mindbody medicine from a different point-of-view. So today we’re merging the worlds. Usually I’m coming at things from how our soma and nervous system effect our physiology. Today is a glimpse from the other side, talking about how how our physiology effects our nervous system states and mental health and so much more. Liberated Being is at and we don’t have any social media accounts anymore- so if you want to stay in touch and hear about special events in the embodied practice studio, head to the website and subscribe to our newsletter. You can find more of Dr. Ginger Nash’s work at
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Ep 104: Bringing Somatics to Schools with Emory M. Moore Jr
05/25/2021
Ep 104: Bringing Somatics to Schools with Emory M. Moore Jr
Today I’m talking with Emory M. Moore Jr. A health and fitness pioneer and innovator, he created the EM LifeWork TM & EM technique TM methods for holistic fitness, wellness and body harmony. Emory is a multi-certified exercise & movement master teacher and pioneer. With over 35 years of experience, Emory has immersed himself in the study of a myriad of disciplines including, but not limited to martial arts, dance, chi gong, yoga, bodywork, Pilates, Gyrotonic, somatic training & strength conditioning systems. Not content with having a taste of all things he went for total involvement pursuing decades of study on three continents. Emory has taught and trained hundreds of teachers in the US, Germany & Switzerland some of whom went on to sculpt the fitness landscape and help develop the fitness industry as we know it today. A resident of Brooklyn, New York, Emory’s passion for teaching and the education of young people, led him to found the ground breaking Embora Studio and to create the wellness-arts organization EM Arts exemplifying the belief that the way to a better healthier society is through inner harmony and the arts. Currently EM Arts serves schools in New York City and we’re going to talk about their work in schools and with teachers and students a great deal today. It’s really beautiful and needed work, I’m sure you’ll enjoy hearing about it. You can read more about his work at . Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbeing.community. We don’t have any social media accounts anymore so if you want to stay in touch and hear about special events in the embodied practice studio, head to the website and subscribe to our newsletter.
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Ep 103: Co-Creating with Community with Brea Fisher
05/18/2021
Ep 103: Co-Creating with Community with Brea Fisher
Today I’m talking with Brea Fisher. Brea is the founder of Quan Yin Gongfu and has spent the last 13 years dedicated to the disciplines of Qigong, Taiji, and Gongfu, drawing on focused study and knowledge of Daoist philosophy and lifestyle, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yin Yang theory, and Five Element theory. Brea unites the visual arts and the written word with the Chinese internal and martial arts. She carries the lineage of Eagle Claw Turning Style (Ying Zhao Fan Zi Men), teaching Gongfu Palm + Sword, and Taiji forms handed down by Master Sing Chui. You can read more about her work at Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbeing.community. Our embodied practice studio is www.liberatedbeing.community/studio
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Ep 102: My Experience of Where Trauma Met Awakening
05/06/2021
Ep 102: My Experience of Where Trauma Met Awakening
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with David Treleaven about his book and training on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. If you missed that episode- it’s a good one- and you can find it in the podcast player you’re on now or at liberatedbeing.community at the podcast tab. This episode is a personal experience with where trauma met what is often referred to as "spiritual awakening" and how my practice, my approach to the practice (and the goal), and some harmful ideas of what awakening is and what it requires dysregulated me and put me into a tough place. And also how I recovered from that and I view the subject of "waking up" these days. Spoiler: it's still in progress. I hope it can be helpful for anyone who is suffering as a result of their practice. We also go through a specific pointer you can use to make sure your practice is working for you instead of against you. Also this month Liberated Being is partnering with David Treleaven's Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness training to bring you a chance to go through it at a reduced rate and with some support. To sign up you can go to https://bk738.isrefer.com/go/LB/LB/ and use the code LB400.
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Ep 101: Conscious Vibrational Leadership with Isha Vela
04/27/2021
Ep 101: Conscious Vibrational Leadership with Isha Vela
Today I’m talking with Isha Vela. Isha is a psychologist and somatic trauma professional who works as a somatic expressive coach with healers, weavers, change agents, bridge-builders, connectors, and other folxs who feel called to make an impact on the world. She runs the Revolutionary Rompe Reglas community and you can find more of her work at . Her program for conscious leaders, Devotion, is via her work with me page. Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbeing.community, and we don’t have any social media accounts anymore- woohoo! So if you want to stay in touch head to the website and subscribe to our newsletter.
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Ep 100: Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven
04/20/2021
Ep 100: Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven
David Treleaven is a writer, educator, and trauma professional working at the intersection of mindfulness and trauma. He is the author of the acclaimed book Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and founder of the Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM) Community—a group of practitioners committed to setting a standard of care through mindfulness-based practices, interventions, and programs. David focuses on connecting mindfulness providers with the knowledge and tools they require to meet the needs of those struggling with trauma. Through workshops, keynotes, podcasts, and online education, he is closely engaged with current empirical research to inform best practices. His work has been adopted into multiple mindfulness teacher training programs around the world, including UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, and Bangor University’s MA in Mindfulness program in the UK. David is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University and has worked with a number of organizations to bring Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness to their staff and programs. You can find more of his work at and his book, Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness is available all places where books are sold. You can go through the TSM training with us this May! When you sign up at use the code LB400 (code must be used by May 10th) to get $400 off the cost of training, and two live q+a sessions with David and I.
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Ep 99: Uncovering Your Natural Awareness with Diana Winston
04/06/2021
Ep 99: Uncovering Your Natural Awareness with Diana Winston
Today I’m talking with Diana Winston. Diana is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center and the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness. Called by the Los Angeles Times “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness,” she has taught mindfulness since 1999 in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and schools in the US and Asia. A sought-after speaker, she developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices or (MAPS) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation, which trains mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. I hope you enjoy the conversation. You can find more of Diana’s work at . Liberated Being is at www.liberatedbeing.community. We are no longer on any social media, so if you want to hear about when we have retreats or other special events, be sure to subscribe to the newsletter on our website.
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Ep 98: Reclaiming Ourselves
03/30/2021
Ep 98: Reclaiming Ourselves
This is a practice-based episode that speaks more deeply to the issues that were brought up in the last episode, with Jane Clapp, about how social media is changing us. This is from the point of view of a podcast/body-centered mindfulness studio that wants to "make the world a more embodied place" and that is "in the inquiry of being fully human". In the episode, host Brooke Thomas asks if it's possible to be more embodied and fully human and still connected to the social media algorithms with how they are designed to change our brains and behavior. She also gives a guided practice for becoming present by receiving through the senses, a way of falling back in love with the world. Retreat month in the Liberated Being studio begins April 1st. It will be a flexible container for disconnecting from social media and doomscrolling and most importantly reconnecting to our bodies, our beings, our natural environment, and our actual lives. You can sign up at liberatedbeing.community/studio. It’s not an extra program, just a part of monthly or annual membership. RESOURCES mentioned in the episode: The Social Dilemma (documentary) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Jaron Lanier Feels Good Man (documentary)
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Ep 97: How Social Media is Changing Us with Jane Clapp
03/23/2021
Ep 97: How Social Media is Changing Us with Jane Clapp
Jane Clapp is a mindful strength and movement coach, an embodiment educator and a Jungian analyst in training. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work that goes beyond mindfulness, to enmesh each client’s physical condition with the psychological and emotional aspects of their selves while always factoring in that the oppressive systems we live in play out in every system in the body.
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Ep 96: Qigong and the Power of the Formless with Master Mingtong Gu
03/16/2021
Ep 96: Qigong and the Power of the Formless with Master Mingtong Gu
Today I’m talking with Master Mingtong Gu Named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress for Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Master Mingtong is on faculty for Esalen Institute, OmegaInstitute, 1440 Multiversity, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Shift Network. He is the founder of The Chi Center / The Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong, a beautiful 79 acre retreat center south of Santa Fe, NM
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Ep 95: Being Human with Betsy Polatin
03/09/2021
Ep 95: Being Human with Betsy Polatin
Today I’m talking with Betsy Polatin. Betsy Polatin, is an Alexander Technique teacher, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and has her MFA. She is An internationally recognized breathing and movement specialist,, has been teaching for more than forty five years and is currently a master lecturer at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.
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Ep 94: Resting in the Head and the Heart
03/02/2021
Ep 94: Resting in the Head and the Heart
This is a practice-based episode. We are so inundated with information all the time! Even information about being less conceptual and more embodied, as on this podcast lol.
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Ep 93: On Creating with Liam Bowler
02/23/2021
Ep 93: On Creating with Liam Bowler
Liam Bowler is a teacher, bodyworker, and a somatic philosopher. He’s also the creator of The Body Awake podcast which, if you’re listening to this podcast, I can highly recommend!
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Ep 92: Advocacy Meets Embodied Healing
02/16/2021
Ep 92: Advocacy Meets Embodied Healing
Today I’m talking with Caprice Taylor Mendez. Since getting her Masters from Harvard in education, administration, planning and social policy, Caprice has spent the last 30 years supporting social justice in the nonprofit sector.
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Ep 91: Falling Open in a World Falling Apart with Amoda Maa Jeevan
02/09/2021
Ep 91: Falling Open in a World Falling Apart with Amoda Maa Jeevan
This week’s episode is with Amoda Maa Jeevan. It is an outtake from a longer guest teacher gathering that happened with Liberated Being members on November 14th of 2020.
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Ep 90: From Body to Embody with Marika Baxter
02/02/2021
Ep 90: From Body to Embody with Marika Baxter
Today I’m talking with Marika Baxter. Marika has a Masters of Science in Physical Therapy and for 17 years practiced as a physical therapist and Pilates teacher working in particular in the dance medicine world.
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Ep 89: Embodying Healthy Power with Kimberly Ann Johnson
01/26/2021
Ep 89: Embodying Healthy Power with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Today I’m talking with Kimberly Ann Johnson. Kimberly is a Structural Integrator, a Sexological Bodyworker, a birth doula and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
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Ep 88: The End of Trauma with Steve Hoskinson
01/19/2021
Ep 88: The End of Trauma with Steve Hoskinson
Today I’m talking with Steve Hoskinson. Steve is the founder of Organic Intelligence® (OI) and the nonprofit Organic Intelligence Outreach Institute. OI’s Human Empowerment And Resiliency Training (HEARTraining®) is an international personal and professional development training program using OI’s strengths-based, trauma-safe approach for resiliency.
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Ep 87: Pleasure and Play with Constance Clare-Newman
01/12/2021
Ep 87: Pleasure and Play with Constance Clare-Newman
Today I’m talking with Constance Clare-Newman. Over 30+ years of teaching embodiment, Constance has developed a trauma-sensitive, neuroscience-informed approach to embodiment practices that focus on wholeness of being.
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Ep 86: Trauma and Anxiety are Really Strange with Steve Haines
01/05/2021
Ep 86: Trauma and Anxiety are Really Strange with Steve Haines
Today I’m talking with Steve Haines. Steve has been a bodyworker for 20 years primarily in the field of craniosacral therapy. He is now a senior international teacher of craniosacral, and together with his colleague Ged Sumner he wrote the book Cranial Intelligence and founded a training program at bodyintelligence.com. He is also a lead TRE Certification trainer.
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Ep 85: I Am My Ancestor's Dream Come True with Enroue Halfkenny
12/29/2020
Ep 85: I Am My Ancestor's Dream Come True with Enroue Halfkenny
Today I’m talking with Enroue Halfkenny. Since 1993, Enroue has been a practitioner within the nature based, West African, Òrìṣà religious tradition of the Yorùbá people. He was initiated as a priest of Ifá in Nigeria in 2000.
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Ep 84: Courageous Compassion with Laura Banks
12/22/2020
Ep 84: Courageous Compassion with Laura Banks
Today I’m talking with Laura Banks. Laura is a Certified Compassion Cultivation Training© (CCT) teacher through the Compassion Institute and Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE).
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Ep 83: When Resilience Training Gets Really Real with Sarah Histand
12/15/2020
Ep 83: When Resilience Training Gets Really Real with Sarah Histand
Today I’m talking with Sarah Histand who is blending her worlds as a personal trainer, mental health counselor with a masters’ in social work, and an outdoor adventurer to become a mental health-informed adventure fitness trainer
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Ep 82: Expanding the Heart with Will Pye
12/08/2020
Ep 82: Expanding the Heart with Will Pye
Today’s episode is an excerpt from a longer guest teacher gathering with Will Pye that took place on October 27th of 2020 within Liberated Being.
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Ep 81: Embodied Relating to Self, Others, and the World
11/21/2020
Ep 81: Embodied Relating to Self, Others, and the World
This is a homeplay episode! In other words, it's a chance to be guided through some embodied practice. In this case, it's about inhabiting internal space so that we can relate to ourselves, others, and the world in a more present and clear and heartfelt way. At its core, embodied practice has to be relational or it risks being a hobby or, weirdly, a disembodied "thing to do" or object to acquire. Fortunately, this ability to shift the quality of how we relate is also the big win of embodied practice. Check it out and play with it for yourself in today's episode. For more information on the longer embodied relating course that Brooke is teaching in the month of December 2020, you can visit Registration is open now through November 30th.
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Ep 80: Self-Love as a Language of the Body with Vanessa Scotto
11/12/2020
Ep 80: Self-Love as a Language of the Body with Vanessa Scotto
This talk is an excerpt from a longer guest teacher gathering with Vanessa Scotto which took place on May 15th 2020. Vanessa Scotto may sound familiar to you- she is a very dear friend of mine the co-creator of a podcast we ran together for 4 years titled Bliss and Grit which was dedicated to embodied awakening.
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Ep 79: Alchemical Resilience with Nkem Ndefo
11/06/2020
Ep 79: Alchemical Resilience with Nkem Ndefo
This talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Nkem Ndefo which originally took place on September 24th, 2020. Nkem is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. Licensed as a nurse midwife, Nkem also has extensive post-graduate training in complementary health modalities and emotional therapies.
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Ep 78: Stories and Sensation with Pete Blackaby
10/30/2020
Ep 78: Stories and Sensation with Pete Blackaby
In today’s episode this is a talk that is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Peter Blackaby which originally took place on August 28th, 2020. Pete Blackaby is a yoga asana teacher and osteopath, and is the author of the book Intelligent Yoga.
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Ep 77: The Merging Pattern with Isha Vela
09/30/2020
Ep 77: The Merging Pattern with Isha Vela
This talk is an excerpt from a guest teacher gathering with Isha Vela that happened within the Liberated Being embodied practice community. It took place on April 6th of 2020. To give you some context, you’ll hear Isha talking about various survival patterns- you can read more about that via Steven Kessler’s book The Five Personality Patterns. You can find out more about Liberated Being at www.liberatedbeing.community, and more of Isha’s work at www.revolutionaryrompereglas.com.
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