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S12E11 - WTF is the Feminine?

School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward

Release Date: 01/29/2025

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: what it really is, how we find more of it

  • How to access it responsibly. 

  • I’ll share how I stumbled into this work and why it’s so deeply personal for me.

  • We’ll chat about the 3 books that shaped my explorations 

  • My own ancestral ‘feminine’ roots 

  • We’ll touch on why patriarchy has silenced the feminine

  • How capitalist systems have commodified it and 

  • Why we need this force now more than ever. 

 

The feminine is about the full spectrum of feeling, sensation, live-living-itself-ness.

So if you’re ready to explore the wild, the untamed, and the transformational energy of the feminine, this episode is for you.

 

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