The Artful Athlete
by Ségolène SCHEUER
The Artful Athlete is here to help you find your Voice in Life and in Art! Hosted by Ségolène Scheuer, a Creative and Vocal Empowerment Coach, Performer, Voice Artist and Loony Nerd. Expect a blend of creative and voice health episodes, breathwork and mindful chats to feed your voice Vocally and Creatively. Time to achieve balance and confidence, to let yourself be heard and unlock your Expression and Vocal Power artfully!
Episodes
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Artful Bonus #1 - 3 Things I wish I knew before stopping my podcast
Am I making a comeback?.. I don't know, you tell me! Have you also placed heart project on the shelf? Did life rudely spit you out from its flow onto the river bank? Let's have an unformal little chat! If you're new around here, howdy! 😊 My name is Ségolène, I'm a certified Oxygen Advantage…
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#125 - 2022: Challenging Foundations
Only a couple of days left of 2022, and I'm letting my mind wander to review what this year was about. Sharing quite personal thoughts in this episode, and hoping you'll also take time to review your year and thank the people, places and things that showed up to carry you through. Much love to…
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#124 - FLOW: Find the Pause (Meditation)
Following up from last week's reflection on pausing, here's a little 13min pause meditation to help you slow down in the run up to the end of year festivities. Merry Christmas to you all, and I'll catch you next week for a review of 2022. And remember: PAUSING IS A MUST - PAUSING IS AN ART…
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#123 - Get Comfortable with the Pause
PAUSING IS A MUST - PAUSING IS AN ART Whether it's about catching a break in the middle of a busy day, or creating space in your speech, we should all embrace pausing and slowing down by assessing the benefits we could gain from it. Let's talk pause! _____________________________ Periodontal...
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#122 - Exhale and Voice Flow
Today, in this rush towards Christmas and end of year celebrations, let's slow down and focus on the exhale for 10min. Why is exhaling so important for your voice? Tune in to find out, and get ready to follow along on a little breathing and voicing practice. _____________________________...
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#121 - Directional movement to support your creativity
This week, Im reflecting on the creative conference led by science journalist Caroline Williams, author of "Move! The New Science of Body Over Mind", on the Creative Brain. This episode includes 4 tips to help get your mind outside of the box and kickstart the creative flow. What if we took...
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#120 - Exhibition: Rebel, Rebel at the Barbican
This week I'm taking you with me to Soheila Sokhanvari's exhibition "Rebel Rebel" at the Barbican. A moment of sotrytelling honoring the lives of 28 women form Iran who pursued careers in the arts before the revolution and before it was made illegal for women to sing in public. Rebel, Rebel is on...
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#119 - 3 Supplements for Periodontal Illness
Today I'm sharing with you three supplements I've experimented with over the course of my periodontal illness and guided bone regeneration surgery. There is a lot to talk about when it comes to supplements, but I'd rather revisit the topic further down the line then overwhelm you with too much...
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#118 - Living with Periodontal Illness: Jaw Surgery Anniversary
3 symptoms of periodontal illness I wasn't prepared for In this week's episode I'm sharing with you 3 consequences and symptoms that you may not realise are connected to your periodontal illness. It's been a year and a day since my guided bone regenaration surgery, and while my new bone is…
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#117 - Artful Fuel: Food and Creativity
I had promised you an episode on food for creativity... So, here it is! Let's talk ayurveda, sweetness of life, creative sparks and anchoring! Nutrition is as much about fuelling as it is about supporting and healing the body, mind and spirit from within. Remember, you're the only one who can...
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#116 - FLOW: Z Vibrations
A little follow along voice practice for when your throat is getting itchy and you want to give your voice some TLC. Make sure you drink plenty of water and gentle warming teas to support your voice through seasonal changes AND WEAR A SCARF! Grab your headphones and let's go! Music: The Inner...
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#115 - Creative Date: Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Hello lovely Voices! Remember how a few weeks ago we talked about the importance of taking your creative self out on a date? Well, I did just that and chose to lose myself in starry visions at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition in Greenwich. It left me with a sense of wonder and an...
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#114 - FLOW: Vocal Tone
Here's a 13min follow along Vocal Toning practice to guide the sound to vibrate to the lower parts of the ribcage. There's a lot of great benefits that come from a toning practice. One of them is obviously to allow a more relaxed voice placement: So to make it easier to find a relaxed spoken...
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#113 - 5 Ways to Stimulate Your Creative Flow
I'M BAAACK!!! My voice is back at roughly 8o% which made the recording of this episode so much smoother. I'm also getting the hang of my new recording material - it's not perfect, but it's a lot better than my previous attempts! Today, let's talk creativity. When you're looking to stimulate your...
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#112 - Unwinding Breath Flow
I AM NOT VOICELESS!... But I definitely can't handle recording too much this week. A nasty cold has taken over my throat: so, voice rest, ginger, and trying to stay stressfree in a turbulent week meant that I kept delaying creating this week's episode. I don't want you to go without an episode…
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#111 - What's Creative Health and Creative Wellbeing?
Let's talk creativity, creative health and creative wellbeing. What does creative health means? What does this have to do with fuelling myself? What's creative wellbeing? And what does knitting do to my brain... No, seriously, I promise I'm using it to make a point. How's your creativity going...
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#110 - Setbacks & New Beginnings
After a troublesome week with a huge professional setback, I had to sit myself down and ask myself how to make this September's "New beginning" work, and which areas to focus on in order to REFUEL creatively, energetically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. Voice Deck by Voice Coach Nic Redman:...
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#109 - Summer of Flows: Vocalise
Let the exhale work the sound for you. As voicing is ideally meant to be effortless, let's play with our exhale and introduce the notion that sound needs space, air and relaxation to find voice. Catch you next week for a summery de-brief and some cool announcements! __________ Want to work with…
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#108 - Summer of Flows: Holding Space
And here we are with another flow all about HOLDING SPACE. Be it in our work, our everyday, for others or for ourselves, it is important to remember that sharing our energy, having the space to carry our story and that of those we share paths with can take its toll on the mind and the body.…
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#107 - Summer of Flows: Anchor Down
Another day, another flow! Today, let's drop anchor on the shores of today through a short breath and visualisation flow. I'm also including two links to previous episodes where we explored grounding... Because I know it's been a while! Next week... Holding space! Episode 8 - Grounding:...
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#106 - Summer of Flows: Releasing Pain
Summer of Flows: A series of Subconscious Release Technique, breathwork, meditations and journaling prompts Today's little flow is a gentle meditation and visualisation exercise to help with releasing pain. This flow, I've personnaly used a lot this year to help me deal with the symptoms of...
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#105 - Summer of Flows: A Lion's Pride
Summer of Flows: A series of Subconscious Release Technique, breathwork, meditations and journaling prompts This week's flow is a little guided meditation to invite reminders of our achievements to take form and show us that we have all reasons in the world to be proud of the life we've created…
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#104 - Summer of Flows: Hope
Summer of Flows: A series of Subconscious Release Technique, breathwork, meditations and journaling prompts "Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home." - L. Bardugo This quote filled my heart with a lot of visions and prompted the theme for our first Summer…
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#103 - Changing Course: Making Change Easier for yourself
Ahoy, Voices! This week, let's talk a little about change - while I also tell you what's changing over the next few weeks! Change-ception. Yup, that's what I'm gonna call it. xD Summer of Flows starts next week! I'll release a full Flow Menu on Instagram this week so you'll know what's coming…
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#102 - Meditation: Visualise your Throne
Today's episode is a short visualisation and meditation. Practice seated. Join Bella and I on 24th July at The Lodge.Space 11am to 1pm for a Yin and Breath/Energy Work Session! Limited availability - Book now!...
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#101 - Exhibition - Feminine power: the divine to the demonic
Here's a little reflection on the British Museum's exhibition "Feminine power the divine to the demonic" that I went to see last May. Slightly different from our usual content, I know, but I felt like sharing this reflection and this experience with you. If you're in London and fancy seeing it…
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#100 - Vision and Celebrations
Support The Artful Athlete Podcast on KoFi: https://ko-fi.com/theartfulathlete Happy 100th episode! Today, let's look back to this year and the challenges losing your sight, your vision and your ability to visualise yourself in life. _____________ Want to work with me? Confidence, Empowerment…
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#99 - What to do when... You're disheartened
And here we are episode 99 is up and ready for you. And to day we're dealing with things of the heart. Life has been a bit challenging for me since last August. And over the past few months, I've experienced ups and downs... and was left a bit disheartened by the whole process. So, if you've felt...
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#98 - What's my Why - Part 6 - Breathflow 2: Recharge Your Sun
And here's breathflow number 2 to seal off our "What's my Why" series. And today, let's summon anchoring from the earth and fuel the sun within through visualisation and breath. Celebrating and connecting to your strengths, your values, motivations, achievements and passions. Breathing into your...
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#97 - What's my Why - part 5: Breathflow
Grab some water, a pen and paper... Get comfortable: let's do a little breathflow session to allow you to surrender to the power of your voice. This breathflow is a mix of nasal breathing, sighs, humming and SRT. If you're new and don't know what SRT is, feel free to check out ep 76 - What's SRT?…
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#96 - What's my Why - part 4: Surrender
Reaching the next step in our W H Y exploration: time to surrender. To me, potentially, it's the most difficult step. Not because it requires confidence, but it requires faith and acceptance of all that has been unearthed so far. Let's dive into it together. Listen carefully to the homework at…
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#95 - what's my Why - part 3: where do I add value?
Part 3 of our W H Y exploration! To get to the core of things, you need to ask the big questions. It's necessary to connect to your truth and embody the qualities and skills you developped, are being sollicited for and feel satisfied and fulfilled using. Next stop: Surrender and leap of faith....
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#94 - What's my Why - part 2: 7-day challenge to self-awareness
Let's carry on exploring and connecting to our WHY... And for that, why not make a little game or challenge of it over 7 days? To dive deep into self-awareness, identify your core values, motivations, passions and strength and let these mould your mindset and connection to life. Would you join in…
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#93 - What's my Why - part 1: Connecting to your Purpose and when to ask "why"
NEW "WHAT'S MY WHY" SERIES Let's explore this "why" together using a 3 step method to ger out of the negative loop. In this little introductory episode, we're talking all things finding purpose and why asking "why" isn't always the best thing to do. I'm offering a 20% Discount to all individual...
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#92 - The benefits of taking a break: easter, rituals, and future podcast plans
Hello Voices! I'm back from my little excursion over to Greece! I'm sharing some of the beauty and realisations I've experienced over the past couple of weeks, some exciting creative opportunities I'm embarking on, what's the plan for The Artful Athlete Podcast next AND.... I'm offering a 20%...
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#91 - New Course, Ahoy! What would you like to see next?
I've got a few questions for you... Will you help me shape the future of The Artful Athlete Podcast? I'm still away this week, so this is a pre-recorded episode where I'm letting you in on this transformational and transitional path I'm stepping into. Have a listen... And, send me your thoughts…
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#90 -The Resilient Spirit: Breathflow with Journaling Prompts
This week as promised is a breath and journaling follow along practice! Bring pen, paper and some water, take a seat: let's ask your body to show you the aspects of your life that require some release, and flexibility to build resilience mindfully. Let me know how you enjoyed the session on...
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#89 - Resilience or Endurance: In the end is it all about Discipline?
If you don't bend, eventually you'll break. This is the core difference between Resilience and Endurance. And this is what we're exploring today. Resilience vs Endurance Blog Article: https://thelifeadventure.co/resilience-not-endurance/ BOOK YOUR FREE SESSION HERE:...
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#88 - Building Resilience into your Day - My Resilience Practice
This week's episode is a lot more personal. We've covered some good exercises for building resilience steadily last week. Today, I'm sharing with you how I've incorporated resilience building moments into my everyday. And no, it doesn't mean putting myself through daily hardcore emotional and...
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#87 - 5 Practices to Build Resilience
There's so many lists out there with advice on how to build resilience. These are some practices I found when doing research for this episode. They're all very accessible and will help you find resolve, balance and peace. Resilience is a quality we all need to cultivate in order to bring as much...
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#86 - The 5 Pillars of Resilience
What are the 5 pillars of resilience? When faced with uncertainty, stress and challenges - because you know... Life curve balls happen - which abilities and foundations should you turn to en ensure you stay in charge of this ship? Enjoy the little exercise and let me know if it helped! We'll...
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#85 - What is Resilience and Why should we cultivate it?
Today we're moving on to another topic that's gonna keep us busy for a few weeks: Resilience. Resilience and Mental Toughness aren't the same thing. Resilience and Perseverance also differ. But all could work hand in hand to serve yourself and your Voice over time. BOOK YOUR FREE SESSION HERE:...
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#84 - Values, Change and Belief
Today I'm kind of debriefing the last episode of our Mindful Chat journey. Values, belief, faith, change... There's different ways to look at change. And even if we're told to embrace it, it can seem pretty easier said than done, don't you think? Thank you all for tuning in! Do let me know if…
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Mindful Chat #13 - What is your Essence with Bella Maldener
As it was international woman's day yesterday, I sought out a friend with a head full of hope and wisdom to round us up on this new Mindful Chat series. Bella and I always seem to go deep and ask very big questions whenever we hang out. And today was no exception! She's travelled the world, and...
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#83 - Accepting & Letting Go
Letting go is an art and something that requires regular practice. To accept what's there, understand its nature, see it for what it is... That's the process to let go. It's not a one-step-click-of-the-fingers-magic-solution. It takes time, mindful work and acceptance. Episode 31: Emotions in the...
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Mindful Chat #12 - OCD, Accepting & Letting Go with Robert James
Understanding OCD, Acceptance as a powerful tool to strive forward and coming back to the body. These are some of the learnings of today's mindful chat with OCD & Anxiety coach Robert James. Starting of with some linguistic exploration, all the way to the flavouring of emotions... Through the...
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#82 - What is Vocal Empowerment
What is Empowerment? What is Vocal Empowerment? What are the incredible perks from doing this type of self-work? We're carrying on with the conversation we had yesterday with Chizu Sakamoto so we can better connect to our own Hero's Journey and understand which tools can help us unlock our Vocal...
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Mindful Chat #11 - Empowerment & Remembrance with Chizu Sakamoto
We're carrying on with our Mindful Chat series, and today I called upon one of my oldest friends and mentor: Chizu Sakamoto. She's a Female Empowerment Coach, a profound thinker, and an all round wonderful human with an incredible uplifting power and healing energy. Find out more about Chizu's…
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#81 - Signs of Creative Burnout
Here's a few thoughts that came up following yesterday's mindful chat while reflecting on my own experience of creative burnout and what I've witnessed in friends and fellow creatives. Mindful Chat #10 - Creating for Yourself with Gavin Dunne:...
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Mindful Chat #10 - Creating for Yourself with Gavin Dunne
Mindful Chat #10 with the mind behind Miracle of Sound: Gavin Dunne! We dive into a little of gaming, using emotions to fuel creativity, creative burnout and social media. Recorded on 17th January 2022 - And because Nobody's perfect and I was having all the thoughts I did misquote a couple of…
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About this show
The Artful Athlete is here to help you find your Voice in Life and in Art! Hosted by Ségolène Scheuer, a Creative and Vocal Empowerment Coach, Performer, Voice Artist and Loony Nerd. Expect a blend of creative and voice health episodes, breathwork and mindful chats to feed your voice Vocally and Creatively. Time to achieve balance and confidence, to let yourself be heard and unlock your Expression and Vocal Power artfully!
Hosted by
Ségolène SCHEUER