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FreeBody Podcast
by Paton Ashbrook
Everyone has a different body story. On FreeBody we give a platform to folks where they can tell their unique stories through the lens of their body. We cover topics from somatic experiencing, healing trauma stored in the body, living with chronic illnesses and disease, navigating racism, ableism, sexism, and how we humans turn to movement, creativity, and connection to heal. Join Paton, actor and yogi, as she chats with folks from all walks of life about their own unique physical journeys and what true health really means. Please subscribe, share, and follow on instagram @freebodypodcast !
Episodes
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Jupiter Cazimi in Cancer: New Moon Yoga Nidra
This yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores space in our bodies and helps plant seeds of manifestation with the new moon. (Starts at 1:40) Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state...
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GBS Awareness Month: Reconnecting to your Body's Expression with Marianna McClellan
It is Guillain-Barré Syndrome Awareness Month and in this episode of FreeBody, Marianna McClellan, performer and Body Intelligence Movement instructor, shares the journey of her GBS diagnosis while simultaneously discovering that her mother was suffering from late stage cancer. We explore her...
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Gemini New Moon - Planting Seeds
This yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores space in our bodies and helps plant seeds of manifestation with the new moon. (Starts at 5:15) Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state...
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Pisces New Moon Yoga Nidra: Surrender and Spark
This yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores opposites and naturally occurring polarities existing within us and nature. Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state between…
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Aquarius New Moon Yoga Nidra: Stardust
This yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores opposites and naturally occurring polarities existing within us and nature. Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state between…
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Yoga Nidra "The Moon, The Sun, and The Lotus"
This yoga nidra practice (translating to "yoga sleep" in Sanskrit) is a guided meditation that explores opposites and naturally occurring polarities existing within us and nature. Yoga nidra is a wonderful practice that brings you into a hypnogogic state: a semi-conscious state between…
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Aaron Dean Eisenberg - Transformation Through Physicality, Vulnerability, and Masculinity
Aaron Dean Eisenberg has undergone major physical transformations for multiple roles. In this episode you'll hear more about Aaron’s experience with these dramatic physical demands while working on The Iron Claw, which fearlessly explores the cost of living in the world as men who are taught that...
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Nikki Calonge - “The Relationship Between Movement and Soul”
Today's guest, Nikki Calonge, "studies the relationship between movement and soul." She is a theatre maker and performing artist, a movement educator, akidoka, and yoga teacher who studied movement and dance therapy at Pratt. Nikki’s body story takes us from high school cheerleading, to battling...
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Sasha Clements - Pain Is Not The Enemy
Today's guest is Sasha Clements, an actor and health coach who has reversed her autoimmune and chronic pain. She takes us on her winding journey from experiencing pain as young as 10 years old to being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis 14 years ago, and how in 2020, it flared up to a…
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Elly Kace - Catharsis in Yoga, Sound, and Your Own Voice
If catharsis means "releasing", then it may be an act of healing too. And cathartic healing can be experienced through any somatic modality, from the arts to meditation to bodywork. In today's episode, Brooklyn-based indie singer/songwriter Elly Kace, an expert in the somatics of the voice and...
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Reflecting on Four Years
In today's episode Paton reflects over the past four seasons of FreeBody and how its ethos has evolved alongside her own expansion and curiosity when it comes to "freeing our bodies." Paton started this podcast by asking the same initial question to her guests as a launchpad into their body...
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Neil D'Astolfo - No More Hiding: Becoming an Authentic and Mindful Artist
In today's episode, performing artist, comedian, and creator Neil D'Astolfo shares his journey from being a closeted kid with big dreams and big glasses, to his transformation into the embodied and liberated queer artist he is today. He talks about the societal pressures of meeting certain...
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Post Egg Retrieval with Paton Ashbrook - Finale
Today's season 3 finale episode is a recap of Paton's egg retrieval surgery (while sick), post-op, recovery, and reflection. She gets news about how many mature eggs were frozen, how long recovery should take, and she shares what this experience has meant to her and what she's learned about…
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 12 - Trigger Shot Night
Wake up sick. Check. See regular fertility doctor and get another egg update. Check. Cry at acupuncture appointment. Check. Give yourself two brand new trigger shots late at night. Check check. Almost to the end of this journey! On this last night of administering shots, Paton gives an update and...
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 11
Three more nights until egg retrieval day. This episode is all over the place-- trigger warning: Paton talks about the number of eggs the doctor that morning told her to expect. She also goes into an impromptu film review segment. High highs and low lows. She also answers some questions from the...
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Days 9 and 10
Today, Paton answers your questions about the cost of egg freezing, shares an update from her doctor on Day 9, and finally discovers her mistake! If you have any questions, tidbits, or comments you want on this podcast, please follow us on instagram @freebodypodcast and send a DM. Please be sure…
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 8
Today we get an update on the estimated schedule for extraction day, Paton makes another mathematical error, and it's Thanksgiving! Paton also answers your questions about how the extraction process works before getting into Day 8. If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on...
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 7
Today Paton answers questions from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram, and two VIP guests show up during the evening round of shots! If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM. Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on...
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 6
Today Paton answers some questions she received from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram, and a VIP guest shows up during Day 6! If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM. Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this...
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day 5
Today Paton answers some questions she received from the @freebodypodcast community on instagram. If you have questions, thoughts, or insights, please follow us on instagram and send a DM. Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed…
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day Three and Four
On today's episode, Paton answers a couple questions she received from @freebodypodcast on instagram, before jumping into Days 3 & 4. If you have questions, thoughts, insight, please follow us on instagram and reach out! Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process...
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day Two
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in...
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Egg Freezing with Paton Ashbrook - Day One
Last fall, Paton decided to freeze her eggs. While embarking on this process quietly and alone, she filmed her experience while administering her shots as a record for herself and her future family. Now months later, during Women's History Month, she's decided to release this footage publicly in...
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Thanksgiving Special: Free Bodies Around The World
During a trip through Europe (Spain, France, Italy) and Iceland, Paton asked people she met along the way (folks from Germany, Bangladesh, England, and more) the same question she asks every guest who comes on the podcast: "what is an early body memory you have that holds significance to you, and...
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Floating, Smoking, and Transcending: Noah Gaynor
Today Paton speaks with her friend and fellow classmate Noah Gaynor, NY based actor and writer. This incredible conversation touches on body image, plant medicine, unhealthy relationships to exercise, acting, transcendental meditation, floating therapy, healing "ah-ha!" moments, and all those…
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BONUS - Fertility Treatments without Roe V. Wade: Marinda Anderson
Today’s episode is the third in our bonus episode series regarding reproductive justice. We’re sharing women’s healthcare experiences as we face a world without the federal protection of abortion rights. Last week I met with my dear friend and fellow actress, Marinda Anderson, who back in 2020...
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Neurodiversity, Plant Medicine, and the Need for Destigmatization: Dr. Miyabe Shields, PhD
Today’s guest is Dr. Miyabe Shields, a Ph.D cannabis research scientist as well as daily user and advocate for accessible cannabis education. They are a co-host of the podcast Smoke N’ Science where they and Dr. Riley Kirk, PhD explain the facts and their own experiences in using cannabis as...
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Living Intuitively: Kristie Larson
Today you’ll hear Kristie Larson’s body story and her journey to becoming a personal trainer as well as a fitness and intuitive eating coach in NYC. She is the founder of The Feel Good Bunch, an online community of women who are super into fitness and super not into diet culture. We connect on…
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BONUS - Theatre Needs Therapy: Shana Gozansky
Theatre director Shana Gozansky and Paton have a conversation about the roles of actors and directors, and how they can help make theatre a more equitable, diverse, and ultimately, healing community for all bodies. By all of us accepting ourselves for who we are, shadows and all, we create a…
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Cannabis and Cancer Patient Advocacy: Beth Fairchild
Beth Fairchild is an artist, activist, and yogi living with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Beth and Paton were introduced through We Go High, a cannabis justice initiative in North Carolina that does incredible work (find them @wegohighnc on instagram). Today Beth talks about her advocacy for...
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BONUS: Be The Network: Amy Dannenmueller
This is the second episode of our current bonus series about women's healthcare and abortion rights. Today's guest is Amy Dannenmueller, an actress and activist born in Wisconsin and forged in the fires of New York City. She shares her personal experiences with Planned Parenthood and the life...
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Emotional Freedom in the Body: Nicole Pond
In today's interview, high-functioning anxiety coach, Nicole Pond, talks about living with an undiagnosed illness for most of her life. It wasn’t until she was 30 and studying medical biology that she was diagnosed with PMDD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder. She explains how her symptoms from…
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BONUS: Pregnancy, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, and Roe V. Wade: Carrah Stamatakis
Today's guest is Carrah Stamatakis, a professional singer and mother of two living in Los Angeles. Carrah’s two pregnancies and her subsequent recovery from the first stages of pelvic organ prolapse (aka POP) has given her a unique perspective on abortion rights and how stripping people in this...
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Sustaining Nourishing Systems: Amanda Balarezo
Today, trauma informed wellness coach Amanda Balarezo talks about how she discovered the nourishing systems of nutrition, somatic experiencing, and co-regulation that she practices with her clients and her children to heal their bodies. Diagnosed with Lyme, OCD, anxiety, and living with what she...
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Gaslighting the Body: Erica Hornthal
Today's guest, Erica Hornthal, AKA The Therapist Who Moves You, is a board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed clinical professional counselor. She’s the founder and CEO of Chicago Dance Therapy and creator of the Dance Therapy Advocates Summit. She talks about how her relationship to...
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Owning Your Healing: Bryan Blackwell
In today's episode I talk with Bryan Blackwell, fitness trainer and partner at Kaeos Fitness in New Jersey, and fellow podcast host of Live in the Kitchen with Hibachi. What true health looks like for each person is nuanced and Bryan is a wonderful guide in helping his clients figure out what…
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The Body is Key: Hannah Stinson
Today’s guest, Hannah Stinson, is a divine healer, spiritual leader and green witch who helps women heal trauma and energy blockages. We speak a lot about trauma in this episode; Hannah describes disassociating in childhood as a result of experiencing sexual abuse, and how through art, yoga, and...
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Becoming Embodied, Part Two: Yarrow Bucans
Last week we dropped part one of somatic healer and therapist Yarrow Bucan’s body story, and today, part two will pick up right where we left off. There is a reason I split this episode up into two parts— there's a lot to digest here. Today will be a crash course in the healing modalities that…
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Becoming Embodied, Part One: Yarrow Bucans
Yarrow Bucans is an alchemical healer, a trained clinical therapist, and a yogi. Today is only part one of our interview, covering the chapters and relationships in Yarrow’s body story that lead up to the realization that her purpose in this world is to help people heal. We talk about when she...
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Special Mini Episode: Yoga Nidra "The Hawk"
As a thank you for continuing to tune in to this pod, I thought I'd change it up a bit this week and offer a 20 minute yoga nidra meditation for you to use at your leisure. Get comfortable, grab a blanket, and get ready to relax and rejuvenate as we head into December! Enjoy. Please subscribe,...
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"No One Knew": Victoria Lamas
Content warning: Eating Disorders. Today's guest is my sister, Victoria Lamas, who grew up in Beverly Hills and currently works as an artist and model in LA. She very generously shares in detail her years long battle with an eating disorder, all the way from restricting as early at age 12 to...
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Disability is Possibility: Molly Joyce
In this episode powerhouse composer and performer Molly Joyce shares her body story. Today she talks about having an impaired left hand and how her relationship to her disability has shaped and defined her as a musical artist ever since she was seven years old. She'll guide you through her…
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Resisting the F*ck-its: Andrea Ciannavei
My guest this week, Andrea Ciannavei, is not only an incredible playwright, she’s a phenomenal TV and film writer for shows like FX’s Mayans MC, and The Path on Hulu, as well as a teacher, and an activist. Today she'll talk about being put on a diet as a kid, navigating sexism and fat phobia in…
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Bodies Shifting Space: Lee Edward Colston II
Lee Edward Colston II is an actor, teacher, and writer from Philly. Most recently his writing for season 4 of Fargo has received critical acclaim, and his beautiful play, The First Deep Breath, opened to rave reviews in Chicago almost exactly a year ago. Today, we talk about trauma and how it…
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"We're Miracles": Maja Wampuszyc
Born to Polish parents in Detroit, Maja Wampuszyc made the move to New York to pursue acting with $500 in her pocket and a push from Uta Hagen herself. Now an actor and a yoga instructor, she talks about navigating the pros and cons of being an outsider, comments from clients at yoga studios, the...
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Find Your Own Truth: Stacy Lynn Gould
In today's episode, actress and creator Stacy Lynn Gould talks about finding mental release at the gym, the dangers of wearing Capezio shoes (#AMDA), undoing stigmas, marathon running, and breaking free of society and her family’s ideas of what success and health look like. She does an amazing…
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"The Most Punk Rock Thing I've Ever Done": Joe Dexter
Los Angeles based and British-born musician and author Joe Dexter, talks about working as a punk rock musician** with Cystic Fibrosis, as well as body image as a performer, the keto diet, tattoos, and that time he caught the Swine Flu on tour. Check out Joe’s instagram @thejoedexter, his band...
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"Loving Yourself is an Act of Rebellion": Heather Mae
In today’s episode, extraordinary singer-songwriter Heather Mae shares her body story. She is an award winning musician and a mental health advocate. We talk about being bullied, the evolution of the beauty industry, the stigma of vocal surgery, body liberation, and much more. Check out Heather’s...
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Finding Power: Javian Le
Filmmaker and powerlifter Javian Le comes on FreeBody to tell his body story. We cover a lot of ground in this one, discussing things like fitness verses creativity, the fight or flight instinct, harassment and hate crimes, and much more. CW: brief mentions of sexual assault and hate crimes. You...
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From Attention-Seeking to Seeking Authenticity: Katy Copeland
In this episode Katy Copeland shares her body story; we talk about dance moms, the pressure to be thin, 90's workout tapes, and breaking out of old patterns to give yourself the space to grow. Katy is a choreographer, performer, and fitness instructor in New York City. CW: Eating disorders and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Everyone has a different body story. On FreeBody we give a platform to folks where they can tell their unique stories through the lens of their body. We cover topics from somatic experiencing, healing trauma stored in the body, living with chronic illnesses and disease, navigating racism, ableism, sexism, and how we humans turn to movement, creativity, and connection to heal. Join Paton, actor and yogi, as she chats with folks from all walks of life about their own unique physical journeys and what true health really means. Please subscribe, share, and follow on instagram @freebodypodcast !
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Everyone has a different body story. On FreeBody we give a platform to folks where they can tell their unique stories through the lens of their body. We cover topics from somatic experiencing, healing trauma stored in the body, living with chronic illnesses and disease, navigating racism, ableism,...
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FreeBody Podcast is created and hosted by Paton Ashbrook.
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