Embodiment Matters Podcast
by Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke
Embodiment Matters is an ongoing, rich conversation about what it really means to be embodied, and why and how embodiment matters so much in our daily lives and in our world. Our guests include wise and insightful teachers from the realms of somatics, Buddhism, meditation, social justice, psychotherapy, movement arts, bodywork, martial arts, neuroscience, environmentalists, indigenous teachers, and more. In our conversations, we explore a wide range of topics around waking up and being embodied, and offer guided practices to help return to your embodiment as a source of wisdom, guidance and intimacy with life. Your hosts, Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke, have been devoted to waking up and being embodied for the last 25 years. They have extensive training and practice in The Feldenkrais Method, Yoga & Yoga Therapy, Structural Integration, Embodied Life, Buddhist Meditation, Tai Chi, Focusing, Ayurveda, and more. They share a passion for sharing potent practices that support peo
Episodes
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A Meeting of Two Rivers of Wisdom: A Conversation with Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) and Dr Jaiya John (Mshkiki Odeh Inini, Medicine Heart Man)
In this episode, we follow a river of a conversation that is a meeting of two beautiful souls, Pat McCabe and Jaiya John. We three, (Carl, Erin and Alexandre) have been deeply moved and influenced by Pat and Jaiya's writings, and presence, and work in the world, and we were inspired to host a...
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Practices of Reconnection and Remembrance and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke
Practices of Reconnection and Remembrance and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke Greetings listener friends, we are so grateful to have you join us for this deep conversation about practices of Reconnection & Remembrance and Why They Matter. This is the third…
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Practices of Depth and Soul and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke
Practices of Depth and Soul and Why They Matter: A Conversation with Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke Greetings, listener friends! We are delighted to share this conversation, the second in a series of three podcasts we're releasing during January 2026. The first is on practices of presence.…
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Practices of Presence and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke
In this podcast, we dive into one of our favorite topics: practices of presence and why they matter. This is the first in a series of three podcasts on practices of presence, practices of depth and soul, and practices of reconnection and remembrance, and why they each matter. These three...
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Men of Depth and Soul: Living in A Good Way: A Conversation With Kedar Brown
In this conversation, we speak with ritualist, healer, and rites of passage facilitator, Kedar Brown, founder and director of the Rites of Passage Council. Our conversation meanders through a variety of soulful topics. Kedar opens the conversation with a beautiful prayer and invocation. We speak…
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In the Absence of the Ordinary: A Conversation with Francis Weller
Greetings listener friends! This is a re-release of a conversation we had with writer, teacher and soul activist, Francis Weller in 2020. We are releasing some of our favorite conversations that are connected with the themes we will be exploring in our 13-month mentoring training, Refugia, which...
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Becoming Refugia: A Conversation with Carl Rabke, Erin Geesaman Rabke and Alexandre Jodun
In this episode, our dear friend and colleague, Alexandre Jodun, interviews us! Alexandre had noticed that over these last six years of the Embodiment Matters podcast, and us (Carl and Erin) interviewing so many extraordinary teachers and luminaries, that you, our dear listers, had not heard so...
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Men of Depth and Soul: A Conversation with Dr. Jaiya John and Alexandre Jodun
Greetings listener friends! We are excited to share this conversation with Dr. Jaiya John. This is the second episode in the Men of Depth and Soul series that Carl is hosting with our dear friend and colleague, Alexandre Jodun. Jaiya is an incredible poet, writer, teacher, and human being and the...
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Men of Depth and Soul: A Conversation with Francis Weller and Alexandre Jodun
In this conversation, we begin a new sub-series of the Embodiment Matters podcast, Men of Depth and Soul, where Carl and our dear friend and colleague, Alexandre Jodun will be hosting interviews around what is being asked of men in these times. We begin the series with our friend and mentor,...
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Open Me: A Conversation with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
We are so excited to share this podcast with the amazing poet and human, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. As Erin mentions in the intro, you might want to have some tissues handy, as we dive right into the deep end, and the conversation is filled with tenderness and beauty. In our conversation…
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Experiential Deep Ecology: A Conversation with John Seed And Skye Cielita Flor
Friends, we are delighted to share this conversation with two beautiful Earth-loving humans, John Seed and Skye Cielita Flor. John is a long-time Earth activist, writer, teacher, musician, who, along side Joanna Macy, helped to grow the body of work called Experiential Deep Ecology or The Work…
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Summoned by the Earth: A Conversation with Cynthia Jurs
In this conversation, we speak with our friend and teacher, Cynthia Jurs, along with our dear friend and cohost, Leilani Navar, of The Turning Season Podcast. Cynthia recently published Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing our World, which is a wisdom book for our times. As...
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Beauty as Ballast, Grief as Guide, Body as Sacred Land: A Conversation with Leilani Navar and Erin Geesaman Rabke
Beauty as Ballast, Grief as Guide, Body as Sacred Land In this conversation between dear friends Erin of Embodiment Matters & Leilani Navar of Turning Season https://turningseason.com/ we dive into rich topics which we'll be exploring in some upcoming online offerings. Beauty as Ballast, Grief as...
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Soul Water Rising: A Conversation with Dr. Jaiya John
In this conversation/ transmission we were so honored to hear Dr. Jaiya John pour forth from the depths of his heart and soul in a way that can't help but touch your own. We were blessed to hear from Jaiya about his background and how he went from being shy and voiceless to a fully-dilated voice...
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Musical By Nature: A Conversation With Zuza Gonçalves
Dear friends, It is such a pleasure to share this conversation with Zuza Gonçalves. I met Zuza at the Bobby McFerrin Circlesongs School, and was so moved by his presence, his kindness, the way he moved around the room, and how he led us in movement, song and body-percussion. It felt to me like...
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Living a Soulful Life: A Conversation with Holly Truhlar and Alexandre Jodun
Greetings, listener friends. We are so happy to share this episode with our dear friends and colleagues, Holly Truhlar and Alexandre Jodun. In our conversation we speak about what it means to live a soulful life, and why it matters. We weave through many topics connected to soul, including being...
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Watering the Seeds of Soul: A Conversation with Holly Truhlar and Erin Geesaman Rabke
Watering the Seeds of Soul A conversation with Holly Truhlar and Erin Geesaman Rabke Find out more about Watering the Seeds of Soul at hollytruhlar.com embodimentmatters.com https://watering-the-seeds-of-soul.mn.co In this conversation we explore how we came into grief work both personally and...
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Embodying Maitri: The Essential Ingredient With Erin Geesaman Rabke
Embodying Maitri: The Essential Ingredient with Erin Geesaman Rabke We're delighted to share with you this podcast where Erin speaks about the practice of Maitri. Maitri is a Sanskrit word often translated as "lovingkindness" but several teachers in our lineage have gone further, naming it...
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Initiation and the Markings of Adulthood: A Conversation with John Wolfstone
In this conversation, Carl speaks with John Wolfstone. John is third-generation settler, working on the Traditional and Unceded territory of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok Peoples. His blood and bones hold Hebraic, Norse and Celtic ancestry, and his spirit is from the Stars. As a wilderness...
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Embodying Reverent Relationship with Marika Heinrichs
Embodying Reverent Relationship with Marika Heinrichs What a pleasure to speak with Marika Heinrichs of Wildbody.ca about somatics, lineages, respect and repair - and what a delight to have such a rich and tender conversation in Rumi's field that sits outside of any rigid and fixed ideas of...
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On Mycelium, Compost, and Animate Sensibilities: A Conversation With Sophie Strand
Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. She believes…
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Animal Body, Deep Time and the Thing We All Long For: A Conversation With Josh Schrei
Animal Body, Deep Time and The Thing We All Long For: A Conversation with Josh Schrei Friends, we are delighted to share this recent conversation with Josh Schrei. Joshua Michael Schrei is the founder and host of The Emerald podcast. The Emerald combines evocative narrative, soul-stirring music,...
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Tipping The Scales Toward Love and Goodness: A Conversation With Mark Nepo
Tipping The Scales Toward Love & Goodness In this beautiful conversation with poet, writer, and teacher Mark Nepo, we begin exploring Mark's beautiful take on what it means to be embodied. Throughout the conversation, we were blessed with Mark's soulful readings of several of our favorites of his...
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Embodying Prayer and Soul Activism: A Conversation With Nan Seymour
Embodying Prayer and Soul Activism In this beautiful conversation, I speak to poet, facilitator and soul activist Nan Seymour, who also happens to be one of my dearest friends. We take as a springboard for our conversation Nan's recently published book of poems called prayers not meant for…
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Embodying Creativity: A Conversation with Liam Bowler
Liam Bowler is a teacher, writer, father, bodyworker and hosts the Body Awake Podcast. He is the author of A Creator's Companion, a beautiful book that explores the many elements of the process of creativity. In our conversation, we speak about embodiment, and embodiment as relationship, and how...
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Entering A Wild Love Affair with The World: Embodiment, Bees, Dream Activism and More. A Conversation with Ariella Daly
Ariella is a beekeeper, writer, teacher, musician and mother living in Northern California. Her work with honey bees came through a lifelong interest in human connection with the non-human world. She is a graduate of the Lyceum, a European shamanic pathway with the bee and the serpent as its...
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We Were Made For These Times: A Conversation With Kaira Jewel Lingo
We Were Made For These Times: A conversation with Kaira Jewel Lingo In this conversation with Kaira, we explore many rich topics including: embodiment and mindfulness as not separate her new book We Were Made For These Times the practice of coming home to ourselves applying these teachings in the...
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You Were Born Into Beauty as Beauty for Joyful Life, and That's The Truth: A Deep and Wide Conversation With Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining
In this rich conversation with wise woman Pat McCabe we explore many topics including embodiment as a core practice of decolonization and her trouble with the word "decolonizing" healing after cultural severance through Indian boarding schools in family history and the power of growing a...
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Embodying Spontaneity: A Conversation With Jozef Frucek of Fighting Monkey
Embodying Spontaneity: A Conversation With Jozef Frucek of Fighting Monkey In conversation, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Jozef Frucek. He and Linda Kapetanea are the creators of Fighting Monkey, which is a beautiful system that weaves together movement, learning, communication,...
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I Wish You Heartbreak- An Exploration of the 19 Ways with Deena Metzger
I Wish You Heartbreak - An Exploration of the 19 Ways with Deena Metzger We're so grateful and honored to begin the 3rd season of the Embodiment Matters podcast by sharing with you this rich conversation with wise elder Deena Metzger. A poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and...
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Deep Liberation: A Conversation With Langston Kahn
Greetings Listener friends, We are delighted to share with you our recent conversation with Langston Kahn. Langston Kahn is a black, queer teacher and shamanic practitioner who specializes in radical human transformation, ancestral healing, and restoring an authentic relationship with our…
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Sacred Instructions: A Conversation With Sherri Mitchell
We're so grateful to be able to share this inspired conversation with the amazing Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset. We absolutely love her book, Sacred Instructions, and highly recommend it! While we only touched on a fraction of the questions we wanted to ask Sherri, we did explore many…
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Embodiment and Social Justice: A Conversation With Reverend angel Kyodo williams and Dr. Scott Lyons
Embodiment & Social Justice We shared such a potent and enlivening conversation with Rev. angel Kyodo williams and Dr. Scott Lyons. In this conversation we talk about an upcoming training they are hosting called the Embodied Social Justice Certification Program. So of course, we talked about some...
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Embodiment and the Journey of Soul Initiation: A Conversation With Bill Plotkin
What a powerful conversation we shared, exploring Plotkin's new book, the Journey of Soul Initiation as well as his vast body of work. Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., is a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural regeneration. As founder of western Colorado's Animas Valley Institute in...
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Take Heart: A Conversation With Kathleen Dean Moore
I'm so thrilled to share this episode with you, dear listeners, in which I have the privilege of interviewing one of my hero-writers, Kathleen Dean Moore, whose 2016 book Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Changewas life-changing for me. In this moving...
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The Embodiment Conference: A Conversation With Philip Shepherd, Brooke McNamara, Mark Walsh and Roma Pijlman
In this episode, Carl speaks with Mark Walsh, Brooke McNamara, Roma Pijlman, and Philip Shepherd about the upcoming free online Embodiment Conference, and the necessity of embodiment in these times. The Embodiment Conference runs from October 14-25, 2020, and features many guests we have had this...
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Embodying Sacred Activism: A Conversation With Cynthia Jurs
Friends, we are thrilled to be able to share our recent interview with the incredible Cynthia Jurs with you. Before sharing her official bio, I want to tell you that I find Cynthia to be one of the most moving human beings I've met in a very long time. Her humility, her wisdom, her bone-deep...
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The Mythic Masculine: A Conversation With Ian MacKenzie
In this episode, Carl speaks with Ian MacKenzie, host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast. Ian MacKenzie is a filmmaker, speaker, and writer who lives on the Salish Sea with his partner and son. His films include Lost Nation Road, Amplify Her, Sacred Economics, Prayer to the Earth, an Indigenous...
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Uncommon Considerations in the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
Uncommon Considerations in the Anthropocene An Interview with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe Friends, we're thrilled to share with you this most recent interview with our dear friend, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo is a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor, proud diaper changer, and passionate about the...
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A Mythic Response to Our Times: A Conversation With Michael Meade
A Mythic Response to Our Times In this profoundly deep and freewheeling conversation we cover so much soulful ground. We begin with one of our favorite topics that Michael Meade has been teaching on for years: Your innate genius. He tells of the origins of his teaching about genius with severely...
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In the Absence of the Ordinary: A Conversation With Francis Weller
Hello, listener friends! We're delighted to share with you our most recent conversation with our dear friend and mentor, Francis Weller, psychotherapist, soul-activist, and author of the life-changing book The Wild Edge of Sorrow, as well as a newly released book of essays which we discuss in…
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In the Absence of the Ordinary: A Conversation With Francis Weller
Hello, listener friends! We're delighted to share with you our most recent conversation with our dear friend and mentor, Francis Weller, psychotherapist, soul-activist, and author of the life-changing book The Wild Edge of Sorrow, as well as a newly released book of essays which we discuss in…
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Embodying A Sacred Relationship With Earth: A Conversation with Steven Martyn of The Sacred Gardener
We had such an enlivening conversation with Steven which we're so excited to share with you! In this conversation we talk about Steven's history - which included leaving civilization as a young man to live in the wild and forage to sustain himself. He eventually felt called to returned to...
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Embodiment and Relationships: A Conversation With Jan Dworkin, PhD
Friends, I had such an inspiring and useful conversation with Jan Dworkin! I loved her unique and powerful definition of embodiment. We spoke about human relationships in so many ways - what makes a "successful relationship" (hint - not just one that lasts forever.) We spoke about relationships…
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Embodying the Spirit of Poetry: A Conversation with Brooke Mcnamara
We had such a lovely and enlivening conversation with beautiful Brooke McNamara, who is a gifted poet, dance-theater artist, zen monk, teacher and mama, and whose poetry we ADORE. In this conversation, we talk about embodiment as a line between suffering and wellbeing. We explore many topics...
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Embodiment Matters Featuring Sharon Blackie
Oh friends, this is such a rich conversation that I'm thrilled to share with you. I (Erin) had the great pleasure of speaking with award-winning writer, Dr. Sharon Blackie, whose written work and online courses I've adored over the past several years. She's the author of several books including…
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Natural Movement: A Conversation with Erwan Le Corre
In this episode, Carl speaks with Erwan Le Corre. Erwan is the founder of MovNat, which is a system of movement and embodied learning that helps people to grow the movement skills, physiological preparedness, and mindsets for practical, adaptable participation in the world. In our conversation we...
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The Work that Reconnects
In this episode, Erin speaks with three trainers of The Work That Reconnects: Mutima Imani, Molly Brown, and Constance Washburn. We explore an overview of this pioneering body of work that includes Deep Ecology, Systems Thinking, and Buddhist practices, developed by root teacher Joanna Macy. We...
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Embodying the Wisdom of Ayurveda With Sunny Rose Healey
In this episode I speak with my dear friend, Sunny Rose Healey, Ayurvedic practitioner and teacher. In this episode we talk about: • a basic introduction to Ayurveda • 4 wise questions to ask to know if a particular regimen is good for you • tuning into natural rhythms in our days and through the...
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Nights Of Grief and Mystery with Stephen Jenkinson
In this episode we speak with Stephen Jenkinson. Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. He has written several books, including Die Wise: A Manifesto For Sanity and Soul, and Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in Times of...
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Embodiment Matters is an ongoing, rich conversation about what it really means to be embodied, and why and how embodiment matters so much in our daily lives and in our world. Our guests include wise and insightful teachers from the realms of somatics, Buddhism, meditation, social justice, psychotherapy, movement arts, bodywork, martial arts, neuroscience, environmentalists, indigenous teachers, and more. In our conversations, we explore a wide range of topics around waking up and being embodied, and offer guided practices to help return to your embodiment as a source of wisdom, guidance and intimacy with life. Your hosts, Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke, have been devoted to waking up and being embodied for the last 25 years. They have extensive training and practice in The Feldenkrais Method, Yoga & Yoga Therapy, Structural Integration, Embodied Life, Buddhist Meditation, Tai Chi, Focusing, Ayurveda, and more. They share a passion for sharing potent practices that support peo
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