S10E9 - Trauma & The Embodied Arts with Monique Pangari
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Release Date: 03/13/2024
What Is Embodiment? How Embodiment Found Me (Jenna’s Story)
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
How Embodiment Found Me (And Changed Everything) Embodiment has a way of finding us, whispering quietly and planting a curiosity inside us—often long before we even know what the word means. That was true for me. Back when I was a hospital pharmacist, I had no concept of “embodiment.” But something in me longed for more. My body was trying to tell me that what I was living… wasn’t it. I was sick—literally—Monday through Friday. I did all the tests, took all the medications, but the nausea wouldn’t go. My body knew. I was sick of the system I was part of. I didn’t know...
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Taste of Feminine Embodiment Coaching in Action, with Jenna Ward
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Could Feminine Embodiment Coaching be the missing link to creating the somatic depth you’re craving in your client work, the grounded confidence you yearn for in your practitioner skills, and the sustainability you need to create a rich livelihood of service…. (Even if you’re brand new to coaching or still have further to go on the ‘embodiment’ path yourself) If you’re yearning to move beyond mindset tools & get to the root of what’s holding you (& your clients) back… If you’re called to service, but sense you’re not (yet) bringing your most potent...
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What I’m Willing To Pay For (& When a Library Card Will Do)
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Want to know the secret to avoid adding (yet another) course to your ‘never quite finished’ shelf? We’ve all bought a training (or five) that didn’t deliver. Perhaps… You lost interest halfway through The star-studded lineup of teachers turned out to be an incohesive mess The pricing looked too good to be true (and it was) The mentors had no vibe & couldn’t hold a resonant space These experiences are a rite of passage. We’ve all been there, as we figure out how to discern the meaningful experiences from the mediocre ones. The difference between...
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How To Take Your Clients DEEPER….
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Looking to bring more depth to the clients you work with? This is one of the most common yearnings for practitioners we partner with. But how to do it? What are the ingredients for more depth? I’m breaking it down on today’s podcast…. Whether you’re a new practitioner, or already have 200 modalities under your belt, many of us sense there’s deeper layers to access. We feel it for ourselves, and we want to share it with our clients. In the podcast we’re diving into: The 3 key ingredients to bring more depth to your client sessions Why so many highly...
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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...
info_outlineHow can we work DEEP in the body without ‘blowing up’ someone’s trauma?
Almost all somatic practitioners (including embodiment coaches) I work go through a phase of feeling super worried about activating latent trauma & triggering a client. This is a conversation I have with women a lot.
Sometimes, this fear manifests as an extreme over-abundance of caution, need to “get it right” & hyper-fixation on strategies.
This results in practitioners holding themselves back from deepening into sensation - to everyone’s detriment, especially the clients.
Today on the podcast we’re speaking with Somatic Psychotherapist & founder of The School of Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy Monique Pangari about somatic approaches to trauma-centric therapy and what practitioners need to know if they are worried about activating latent trauma (plus so much more).
Monique's training & experience is vast & in this conversation, we explore:
- Examples of somatic strategies to support clients in a trauma therapy setting
- Why embodied approach are deceptively simple & some of the core components for practitioners to make them work well
- The difference between trauma therapy, therapy & coaching
- What practitioners need to know if they are worried about activating a client’s trauma
- The importance of rupture & repair for practitioners
- Attachment styles & the work Monique created for counsellors & psychotherapists
About Monique Pangari
Monique Pangari, MEd, SEP, is the creator of Somatic Sand Therapy™, Somatic Expressive Therapies and Somatic Attachment Focused Expressive Therapies™ (SAFE-T). In 2020 she founded 'The School of Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy' where she offers post-graduate training and clinical supervision for professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists. Monique has been practicing Sandplay Therapy and Expressive Therapies with clients of all ages since 2002 and has been training other therapists across Australia since 2008. She began integrating Somatic Experiencing® and Attachment Repatterning into her practice in 2017. Monique has undergraduate studies in Education and Psychology and holds two Masters Degrees. She is also trained in Family Constellations, Circle of Security, Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples, NeuroAffective Touch®, ISHTA Yoga and is currently undergoing further study in Jungian Sandplay Therapy. In addition to offering Training, Supervision and Counselling in her private practice, Monique also lectures part-time at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in the Masters of Counselling program and offers Supervision to Counselling Interns at the University Counselling Clinic. Monique is a Level 4 member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and is a member of the ACA College of Supervisors.
Resources From Today’s Podcast
● Monique Pangari - Website | Social links | Please open in new window | Pls grab from here
● Trauma Aware Embodiment Coaching (Podcast by Jenna)
● Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
● Primal Feminine Flow – Embodied At Home Movement Practice
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