WF Mel Gutierrez AKA The Body Witch - Your Body Is The First Temple

What this episode covers

This week we're getting embodied with Mel Gutierrez, yoga teacher, a personal trainer, energy healer, co-author of Exposing Yoga Myths, and scientific-minded body researcher who also believes in the realness of magical practices.  We discuss what it means to be a Witch, and further, what it means to be a Body Witch. Together we explore empowerment, pain, pleasure, religion, self-love, quantum physics, and taking Yoga 'off the mat' to view compassion as part of a yoga practice. Mel wants us to radically fall in love with ourselves, touch ourselves in a loving way, talk to ourselves in a loving way and undo the mechanisms of self-judgment - to see ourselves a miraculous beings in this fleshy state. One of Mel's mottoes is "More science, less Woo Woo" but she lives in both of these worlds as education and intuition intersect in her work. Her research (which includes neuro-science, anatomy, physiology, eastern medicine modalities of all kinds, witchcraft, etc.) is what has helped her to create individualized programs to help people even when they didn’t think they could be helped.