S11E5 - Embodied Parenting: Part 1
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Release Date: 09/26/2024
S14E2 - Coaching v Facilitation: What’s The Difference & The Key Ratio to Reveal Your Practitioner Type
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Want to be the kind of practitioner that supports your clients to discover their own inner knowing (and avoid telling your clients what to)? If you’re the kind of person (like me) who strongly dislikes being told want to do, and wants to avoid the ‘know it all’ coachy stereotype in their client work, there’s one simple test you can apply… In this episode, we unpack: The “ratio” ninja trick that shows what type of practitioner you are Key differences between coaching vs. facilitation (they are oceans apart) Why most embodiment practitioners default to...
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S14E1 - Are You Too Ambitious To Be Feminine? Unpacking Productivity Wounds & Wanting More
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
Many of us (myself, and many of my clients)have a complicated relationship with ambition. We’re high-achieving, smart women who know how to get things done. But often, that productivity comes at a cost. Burnout. Disconnection. Operating from hyper-masculine energy that pushes us past our limits. So, after burning out, we swing the other way. The feminine. The reclined, passive, soft energy. But even in that softness, we start to wonder… Can I still want things? Can I still be ambitious and stay feminine? Can I burn with desire for something and still honour...
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S13E7 - Info Session - Feminine Embodiment Coaching Cert School Tour July 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 July 2025. Resources mentioned in this podcast: -...
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S13E6 - Coming Home to Yourself: Feminine Embodiment with Kate Mellis & Jenna Ward
School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward
In this week’s podcast episode, I’m joined by my dear colleague and fellow Senior Coach & Teacher at the School of Embodied Arts, Kate Mellis. Kate shares raw and powerful insights from her own journey—from clinical psychologist pushing through a Master’s degree while burning out, to a woman learning to trust her body’s quiet messages… and choose a new way forward. “Safety only exists in the tissues of my body when I prioritize my own needs and honoured myself in ways that I had not been for decades.” In This Episode, We Explore: How to find the safety to choose a...
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S13E5 - 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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S13E4 - 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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S13E3 - 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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S13E2 - 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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S13E1 - 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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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...
info_outlineHow can we support our kids to be the most embodied, emotionally intelligent generation ever?
I recently received a request from a podcast listener to speak about embodied mothering.
I’m not an expert in this area, but as a Feminine Embodiment Coach & international founder of a somatic school of training AND parent to two little humans… I do have lots of thoughts on the topic that I’m so happy to share.
Parenting isn’t my body of work. It’s not the space of genius I’m here to contribute to the world. So I haven’t analyzed my parenting in depth to give it language, structures or frameworks (unlike somatic coaching, which I do love to dissect in fine detail!).
Also, I’m a parent to a 8 month old and 5 year old, so there’s a certain level of emotional and physical maturity that my kids have, which might be different if your kids are older, or hold different genders or identities.
Personally I want to be the one to teach my children their values & an embodied culture in how they relate to themselves, others and the world.
In Part 1 (this episode) we’re diving into embodiment for yourself as a mother or parent.
In Part 2 (coming soon) I’m sharing 10 approaches I use to parent my kids.
We’re doing it in this order because you can’t foster deeper embodiment with your kids if you’re not practicing it yourself.
The person you are BEING is the clearest teacher for your child.
I’m not an expert in this area, but as a Feminine Embodiment Coach AND parent to two little humans… I do have lots of thoughts on the topic that I’m so happy to share.
Resources from today’s podcast:
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Primal Feminine Flow - at home embodiment practice