S10E6 - The Epidemic of Dis-Embodiment in Dating, Career & Rites of Passage
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Release Date: 02/22/2024
The 4 Vulnerability Avoidance Styles
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
If you’re craving more depth in your own embodiment or in the spaces you hold with clients, vulnerability is non-negotiable. It’s the key that opens us up to real intimacy and true transformation. When someone shares vulnerably with me—whether it’s a client, colleague or my child—I know we’ve reached the gold. We’re no longer hovering on the surface. We’re in rich, honest territory. But vulnerability can be confronting. It asks us to feel the tenderness, shame, or discomfort that many of us were taught to avoid. And so, we’ve developed clever strategies—mostly...
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S12E13 - Info Session - Feminine Embodiment Coaching Cert School Tour March 2025
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
How can we weave somatic skills into our client work? What is a Feminine Embodiment Coach? And what makes this style of coaching different to other somatic approaches? We answer these questions (and more) during our Information Session for the Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification. Join Program Founder, Jenna Ward to explore our philosophy, name the techniques great practitioners should have & take a tour of the school & get these questions (and more) answered. This podcast is a preview of our Info Session held in March 2025. Resources mentioned in this podcast:
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S12E12 - Navigating Political Change & Polycrisis in Embodied Ways
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Why Feminine Embodiment is Essential in Times of Crisis We’re living in intense times—so how can we navigate them in embodied ways? Whether you’re navigating cyclones from climate change, destabilizing political regimens or something else closer to home, it’s beyond heart breaking. So what does this have to do with feminine embodiment? (hint, the answer’s everything). There has never been MORE of a need for feminine power on the planet. So how can we access it, and use it, in embodied ways? 💡 Hint: It all starts in the body. During the podcast, we’ll dive...
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S12E11 - WTF is the Feminine?
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
This energy, this force, this dimension that so many of us feel called to… but struggle to define. It’s the missing piece, the thing we crave more of—yet, so many are also uncertain: Is the feminine harmful? Is it just some new-age fluff? And how do we navigate these gendered terms if we’re not about old-school binaries? As an intersectional feminist, deeply committed to liberation for all bodies (including from gender norms) I’ve been in this contemplation, too. For years. In this episode, we’ll explore: The heart of the feminine:...
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S12E10 - Embodied Movement Stories: Intuition & Productivity with Yael Lagana
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
What kind of devotional practice can help you to validate your intuition, so you can be more productive & get more done? The answer is embodied movement practice. Despite the common belief that intuition or feminine depth has no place in business - our guest on the podcast today, Yael Lagna, finds weaving somatic practices into her work (and world) helps her to get so much more done. Yael Lagana joins us on the podcast today for an exploration of her experience of Embodied Movement Practice & journey as an entrepreneur and abuse survivor. Resources...
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S12E9 - Embodied Movement Stories: From Flatlining to Fulfilled with Sarah Schülke
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
If you’re one of those people who “doesn’t feel much”, a kind of flatline without much up or down happening within. Have you ever wondered… Is there truly nothing happening within me? … Or is that I just can’t feel it? One day Sarah Schülke found herself wondering about this exact question. It sparked a journey out of her head, into her body, and onto the path of embodied movement practices. Today we’re speaking with Sarah to explore her experience with: Moving from an inner flatline - to an inner fulfillment by listening...
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S12E8 - Embodied Movement Stories: Farewell People Pleasing with Christina Ryan-Stoltz
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
How do we drop the people pleasing tendencies & assumed identities we’ve taken on… so we contact our wild self? This is big, profound work. Yet you don’t need 10 years of therapy or burning down your entire life/marriage/career to do it. Christina Ryan-Stoltz @she_skool joins us on the podcast today for an exploration of her experience of Embodied Movement Practice & how it’s supported her to contact the self she always knew was there… but wasn’t sure how to access. In this personal retelling Chrstina shares with us: The primal, wild woman within...
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S12E7 - Graduate Spotlight: Working With The Raw Materials of Life, with Hanne-Lina Drott
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Today, 8+ years later, Hanne-Lina joins us from Sweden to speak about the program and how working with the “raw materials of life” has shaped her & her coaching practice. This podcast is part of the Graduate Spotlight Audio Series — showcasing how graduates from the past 8 years have woven the Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification into their bodies, their work & their purpose. Resources mentioned in this podcast: Hanne-Lina Hanne-Lina Hanne-Lina 🎁2 free months in the Garden of Aliveness Community - free guide - at home...
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S12E6 - Graduate Spotlight: From 1-1 to a Million Dollar Business with Anna Rova
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Today on the podcast we’re joined by to discuss how she went from “I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life” to working with over 500 clients. We also speak about why she’s chosen to close that business down & is in the midst of evolving her work in a new direction, backed by the same tools & methods. This podcast is part of the Graduate Spotlight Audio Series — showcasing how graduates from the past 8 years have woven the into their bodies, their work & their purpose. Resources mentioned in this podcast: - free...
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S12E5 - Graduate Spotlight: Fitra & Feminine Embodiment - An Embodied Path for Muslim Women with Raja Avila
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
In today’s conversation, Raja shares her personal journey of discovering embodiment as a way to reconnect with her feminine nature—moving from a life of overwhelm and overachievement to one of relaxation, receptivity, and trust in divine guidance. Through practices rooted in embodiment & her Islamic faith, she has found liberation and healing, for generations current, past and future. If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your body, caught in cycles of “doing” rather than “being,” or longed for a closer connection to your inner nature and divine purpose, this...
info_outlineWomen from all walks of life are experiencing epidemic levels of disembodied. It’s rife!
No matter our cultural background or country of origin, many of us know what it’s like to feel numb, disconnected from ourselves & overridden by what the world demands of us.
Today we’re speaking with three Feminine Embodiment Coaches, all from diverse backgrounds who have found their way home to embodiment work and are supporting their clients to do the same in the realms of dating, career & rites of passage.
In this episode we speak with Anna Rova, Siobhan Barnes, Amy Frankel & Jenna Ward about:
- How these 3 women from diverse backgrounds found their way into the world of embodiment
- We speak about the process & skill of disembodying and what it looked like for them, and for their clients
- Dating and embodiment: Anna shares with us some common themes & challenges modern women face in the dating realm
- Career and embodiment: Siobhan explores navigating career change through an embodied lens
- Rites of passage & embodiment: Amy shares her experience with rage, autonomy & rites of passage for women
Resources From Today’s Podcast
● Anna Rova | Founder of Claimed.com. Dating, Relationships & Feminine Embodiment Coach @annarova
● Siobhan Barnes | Life and Leadership Coach @iamsiobhanbarnes
● Amy Frankel | MPH, Feminine Embodiment Coach, Rites of Passage Guide @amycfrankel
● Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
● Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice
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