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Body Language with Sofia Mella
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Body Language with Sofia Mella is about bodies under pressure—our bodies, moving through culture. The show examines performance, the male gaze, Dark Hollywood stories, Los Angeles, and pop culture. It examines how power, ambition, and being watched shape the nervous system, and what it takes to step out of performance and back into the body. sofiamella.substack.com
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Dead Men Don’t Rape
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sofiamella.substack.com/subscribe Trigger warning, obviously. If I have to traverse the Cornell fraternity group - chat - to - gang - rape, I’m going to have my say. Also: Wanda...
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Free Patreon Bonus - Dolly, Jennifer, & The Bee That Stung Me
I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all you dreamed of. And I wish you JOY! & happiness. And above all this, I wish you LOVE. This is a free bonus. To receive future bonus episodes, subscribe on Substack or Patreon. 🦋 🦋 🦋 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this…
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The Cult Section : FIRE WALK WITH ME
I’m back in the cult section of Video Ezy this week with David Lynch’s version of Re-Animator, Fire Walk With Me . This film, chronicling the last 7 days of Laura Palmer was released to boos and hisses at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Derided and misunderstood by Joe Public & critics back in the...
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Seasons Don't Fear The Reaper
This week: Why I don’t negotiate with the Grim Reaper. Real Yoga, Buddhist death rituals, clinging, surrender, why Lululemon belongs in your Roth IRA, and the evolution of This Body into Body Language. Also: Rick Rubin wants you to bet on Polymarket, Trader Joes bags are the poor man’s Birkin…
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GIFT: Jane's Addiction - A Necromance For The Ages
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sofiamella.substack.com A necromance for the ages. Continuing my journey through the cult section of the 1990s video store, this week I’m diving into Gift — the bizarre, hypnotic 1993 film vehicle from Jane’s Addiction. A Santería...
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Drugstore Cowboy
It's time to take a sentimental journey to the video store. Our first pic from the cult section is Gus Van Sant's game changing second film, Drugstore Cowboy (1989). Join me as I re-watch with the eyes of a world weary adult, vs the teenaged gaze I first cast on this black comedy about a gang of...
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Big Cartel Energy & The Epstein War
The Epstein War, El Mencho’s Blue Balls, and America’s Next Top Model I recorded this from my studio apartment in Los Feliz, in the lobotomizing sunshine of psychedelic Southern California, and despite my suntanned brain tissue. I have thoughts. Thoughts on the BAFTAs disaster during Black…
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Blue Movie 2 - The History of Porn - Berlin Burns, America Buys
Berlin, 1924.Hyperinflation. Maimed soldiers. Cocaine cabarets. Early gender-affirming surgery. Queer films screening publicly. Magnus Hirschfeld arguing homosexuality is innate, not criminal. In this episode of Blue Movie, we trace how the sexual laboratory of the Weimar Republic burned bright…
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Night Blooming Jasmine: Transcendental Meditation
🪷🪷🪷 David Lynch's legacy is forever entwined with the practice of Transcendental Meditation. He was gleefully evangelical about it, describing the practice as a dive within, to the bottom of the ocean of consciousness. But what exactly is TM? Who invented it? How is it different from other…
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"are you ok? I loved the torture video..." Patreon Teaser
Fergie’s big pimpin’ with Epstein and the files; Ketamine, then and now. 💊 🪿The geese take revenge on the late Great Gandolfini; and a journey through my old ipod 📱 from 20 years ago. JOIN PATREON - YOUR SUPPORT KEEPS THIS SHOW INDEPENDENT AND SENDS REAL MONEY TO REAL CAUSES 🧊 ICE OUT🧊...
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BLUE MOVIE - LIVING IN THE RUINS OF PORN'S GOLDEN AGE
Before OnlyFans, before the internet, there were French postcards.Blue Movie from This Body traces the hidden history of pornography and its impact on desire, labor, and culture. From French erotic postcards to stag films, Warhol’s downtown New York, Deep Throat, VHS vixens, and today’s OnlyFans...
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Night Blooming Jasmine: The Black Lodge, The White Lodge, & The Folly of Absolutes
Happy New Year, Night People. January is a holy month for our community, marking the first anniversary of David Lynch's passing, his birthday, Bowie's birthday, and 10 years since the Black Star passed; and now, one year since the LA fires. Let us reflect. Come with me, wont you, on a journey…
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Decolonize Christmas with Assata Shakur!
Merry Christmas from the FBI! This year we lost a real one (another one), Assata Shakur. Freedom fighter, political refugee, mother, and MOTHER. From growing up under Jim Crow, to the Black Panthers, and on to the Black Liberation Army - from COINTELPRO to Cuba, this episode is about hope in…
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Night Blooming Jasmine : Annie, Belladonna Of Sadness
Welcome back to Night Blooming Jasmine. Join me as I visit the myth of Annie Blackburn — a woman written as a narrative fix, then transformed by David Lynch into something spectral and essential. From the convent shadows to Miss Twin Peaks, Annie becomes a guide, a sacrifice, a hinge in Cooper’s...
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Danny Masterson, The Black Dahlia, and the Machinery of Male Salvation - Patreon Teaser!
***Listen to the full episode and whole series on PATREON*** It’s 2001 in Y2K Hollywood — a world of TV stars, Maxim covers, and after-hours in the Hills. A young woman, Ashley Ellerin, is murdered by the man who would become known as the Hollywood Ripper. Around her, a new generation of idols is...
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Lynch & Lolita
What does it costs to live inside a fantasy built by men? On this episode we prod that viper’s nest. David Lynch loved Kubrick’s film adaptation of Nabokov’s Lolita, so much so that he conjured his own Dolores Haze with Laura Palmer. JOIN PATREON We move between fantasy and wreckage. Between...
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BLACK DAHLIA 3 - THE CHAIN - PATREON TEASER
To hear the full episode subscribe HERE The Black Dahlia murder shocked postwar America and ignited a media frenzy that reduced her to pulp headlines and grotesque speculation. The LAPD’s bungled investigation faded into silence, until the incest trial of George Hodel thrust the Dahlia’s specter...
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FULL PATREON BONUS! The Black Dahlia 2: The Sadist's Daughter
:-) ALL. Enjoy the FREE PATREON BONUS, and JOIN HERE for the next installment xox Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the darkness…
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The Sadist's Daughter / The Black Dahlia Patreon Teaser
Enjoy the Teaser and Listen to the Full Episode on Patreon >> Here or on Substack >> here! Elizabeth Short’s life began with abandonment—and ended as a grotesque surrealist tableau, her body transformed into a nightmare that still haunts Los Angeles. But she wasn’t the only girl destroyed by the...
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Angels & Heaven In Twin Peaks
Welcome back Peaks Freaks! Support the pod on PATREON! In Twin Peaks, heaven is not eternal. Angels appear and vanish, offering only brief mercy in a violent world. This episode of Night Blooming Jasmine follows Laura Palmer, Dale Cooper, and the fleeting visions of grace that haunt David Lynch’s...
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The Black Dahlia - The Body In The Lot FULL PATREON BONUS
A free taste of Patreon - JOIN HERE The Black Dahlia murder remains unsolved 78 years later, and Los Angeles has never stopped dreaming about her. Elizabeth Short's story is the story of Hollywood itself. A city that projects it's dark fantasies onto the female body like film on screen, and…
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Night Blooming Jasmine - The Surreal Housewives of Twin Peaks
Welcome back Peaks Freaks! In this installment of Women in Trouble, we enter The Surreal Housewives of Twin Peaks. From Nadine to Sarah, to Shelly to Norma, we explore how Twin Peaks gives space to women at every stage of life — their pain, resilience, shadow selves, and survival. Along the way:...
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Murder, Morphine & Mercury Retrograde PATREON TEASER
A midsummer night’s tease from deep inside the Mojave desert. Join PATREON for the full kit & kaboodle. This week: Dante’s Inferno, The Black Dahlia murder, and morphine’s long journey from poppy du jour to Dilaudid, heroin, and beyond! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...
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Night Blooming Jasmine #4: Blonde, Beautiful, & Dead: Women In Trouble
On this episode of Night Blooming Jasmine, we open the file on Women in Trouble—beginning with the blonde of all blondes: Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe and Laura Palmer—two luminous blondes devoured by image, myth, and men. Join ny séance through Hollywood shadows, Twin Peaks fog, and the ache…
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Night Blooming Jasmine #3 - You Are Here: But Where Is That?
Episode 3, in which we explore maps, disorientation, cursed geometry, and the dangerous liaisons of the dead girls of Twin Peaks. What does it mean to live — or die — in a place where the map fails you? Also - the transformation of Dr Jacoby, Ben Horne's failed attempts at redemption, the…
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Keep Me Hangin' On
Omfg, it's July. I do a mid year check in on the state of the nation, extol my love of fan noise, stoke the flames of my complex trauma... It's Lucinda Williams' memoir, Cardi B’s revenge arc, and why Paula Abdul's Rush Rush video is Keanu Reeves' finest hour. ONLY ON PATREON This is a public...
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Keep Me Hangin' On - Patreon Teaser
Join Patreon🐊 Omfg, it's July. I do a mid year check in on the state of the nation, extol my love of fan noise, stoke the flames of my complex trauma... It's Lucinda Williams' memoir, Cardi B’s revenge arc, and why Paula Abdul's Rush Rush video is Keanu Reeves' finest hour. Only On Patreon! This...
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Night Blooming Jasmine #2 - The Birth Of Evil
A Satanic rocket scientist, the esoteric history of Pasadena, splitting the atom, and the rip in time that ushered in the Scarlet Woman, and ancient evil - Judy herself. Is BOB just the evil that men do, and can he have a birthday? Welcome back to Night Blooming Jasmine. Join me, wont you, as we...
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Night Blooming Jasmine #1 - Where The Treasure Is
Welcome to Night Blooming Jasmine! A limited-series podcast exploring the spiritual, emotional, and cultural impact of Twin Peaks and the visionary work of David Lynch. Hosted by Sofia Mella, this season weaves personal narrative, film history, and philosophical reflection into a lyrical tribute…
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NIGHT BLOOMING JASMINE - Teaser
Welcome to Night Blooming Jasmine A podcast about Twin Peaks, dreams, and the spiritual imagination. I’m your host, Sofia Mella. The show Twin Peaks came out in 1990, when I was 11 years old, and somehow, I understood it perfectly. The fictional town under the shadow of Laura Palmer’s murder…
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Sailing With Phoenix, Ishvara Pranidhana, & Introducing Night Blooming Jasmine
We did it Joe! This is the last episode in the Yoga Ethics For Modern Living Series. A journey that began under a democrat and ended in the desert of our collective souls, lolz. Jk, things are looking up! In this episode: A tribute to Oliver & Phoenix and their saltwater pilgrimage <3 - leaving...
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Svadyaya: Self Study, Hello Kitty Wine, & the Death Rattle of Hollywood?
Welcome back, party people. Yoga Ethics for Modern Living returns with Svadyaya, the yogic principle of self-study—a tool for radical self-awareness and a spiritual survival skill for 2025. Explore what it means to just look at yourself: your patterns, your ego, your addictions, your motivations....
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Fire Walk With Me - Yogic Tapas, The Fire of Transformation - Yoga Ethics For Modern Living
Yoga Ethics continues with Tapas, forging strength in the fires of life. Listen as I grapple with the terror of facing life head on through the lens of surrealist cinema. Also, Taurus season is upon us, the women on board Blue Origin humiliate feminists on a universal scale, I stare down the now...
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SURVIVOR'S GUILT - How To Recognize It & Put It In It's Place
As a result of the LA fires, many are going through PTSD, grief, and slow recovery. Now we're left with complicated feelings of loss and survivor's guilt. Using myself as a case study (whilst grieving all the Case Study houses that burnt down in Altadena and the Palisades!) we traverse the singed...
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The Dude Abides in Santosha - Yoga Ethics For Modern Living Continues!
JOIN THE PATREON! Get in the ring! Yoga Ethics for Modern Living is back for another round. In this episode we talk finding contentment, or Santosha, the second Niyama in the Yoga Sutras. Like Rihanna sang, it's possible to find love in a hopeless place - within. Like The Dude in the Big…
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Everything is GROSS! Time to Take Out the Trash! Yoga Ethics For Modern Living Continues with Saucha!
We’re taking out the trash on this episode of Yoga Ethics for Modern Living, as we take a freestyle look at the first Niyama, Saucha, aka Purity. Of mind, of body, of environment.. Lets gooooooo! Mentioned in the episode: Patanjali Yoga Sutra 2.40 This is a public episode. If you'd like to…
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JK Livin' - Patreon Teaser
On the bonus we explore the pipeline from mental breakdowns to nazism, the relationship between Bianca Censori, autism, and chemtrails, and I get illegally evicted after a catastrophic fire. Strap in and strap on. ONLY ON PATREON PATREON.COM/THISBODYPODCAST This is a public episode. If you'd like...
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2025 Review - ZERO STARS! Anxiety, Exile from LA, ICE Protests, and Using Yoga Ethics To Survive in 25
Live from Yucca Valley, CA, it's 2025 in review. Hint: it's terrible! Join me on Patreon Smile though your heart is aching, Smile even though it's breaking, When there are clouds in the sky you'll get by, If you smile through your fear and sorrow, Smile and maybe tomorrow You'll see the sun come...
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TRULY HARROWED - Patreon Teaser
*** PATREON TEASER *** Apocalyptic thoughts in Q1, Marianne Faithfull's departure from Planet Mother Fucker, my polyamorous 20s, and the importance of having a full tank of gas. It's your premium content Extra Body Bonus! PATREON.COM/THISBODYPODCAST This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
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DAVID LYNCH, ALTADENA, & APARIGRAHA
God is Change. January has been a meat cleaver to the soul, but I'm alive, and to celebrate, I'm back with another installment of Yoga Ethics for Modern Living. In this episode we explore hoarding, grasping, and how what we try to possess possesses us. Handling the seasons of life has never been...
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FIRE NIGHT - BEFORE EVACUATION IN ALTADENA - Patreon Teaser
Recorded in the final hours of life as we knew it in Altadena. PATREON.COM/THISBODYPODCAST The windstorm was upon us, the fire was burning, but we were still waiting for evacuation orders and the end of everything we knew. Also, my final Desert Island Jukebox, featuring Bowie, Lewis, Lymon…
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FULL PATREON BONUS! BREATH OF FIRE #1 - REALITY IS A TRANCE
Happy New Year! Enjoy this FREE PATREON BONUS Guru Jagat flapped onto the Kundalini yoga scene in LA like a bat out of hell, and then all of a sudden, she was dead at 41. Breath of Fire is a tale of sexual misconduct, financial malfeasance, and the hubris of a meglomaniac. Let's gooooo!! FIND THE...
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Patreon teaser: BREATH OF FIRE, The Story of Guru Jagat
Merry Crisis, Happy Chrysler, It's Christmas. Let's watch TV. Guru Jagat flapped onto the Kundalini yoga scene in LA like a bat out of hell, and then all of a sudden, she was dead at 41. Breath of Fire is a tale of sexual misconduct, financial malfeasance, and the hubris of a meglomaniac. Let's...
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Introducing LUIGI'S BOOK CLUB!!! What can we learn about murderous intent from someone's Goodreads page?
NEW POD ALERT! Limited Series : LUIGI'S BOOK CLUB! Luigi Mangione rated The Lorax 5 stars on Goodreads. The first children’s book to address capitalism and ecological disaster, it was distressing in the 70s. Fifty years on, and we’re still waiting for the world to change. Is this why Luigi took...
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SEX, YOGA, & BRAHMACHARYA
Become the master of your domain! The rubber hits the road in episode 4 of Yoga Ethics for Modern Living, where we explore sexual agency through the lens of the Yama, Brahmacharya, non excess. Also, the American healthcare system is criminal, Syria is liberated, and Brad Pitt is a dickhead. This...
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Yoga Ethics: ASTEYA/Non Stealing
The third installment in the Yoga Ethics For Modern Living series, this episode explores the third Yama, Asteya, non stealing, through the lens of Kendrick's beef with Drake, colonization, and conducting oneself with a bit of damn dignity for once. Mentioned in the episode: The Yamas & Niyamas by...
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Exploring TRUTH aka SATYA in Yoga Ethics for Modern Living
What even is truth these days? Explore the second Yama in the Yoga Ethics For Modern Living series through the actions of Mike Tyson, Jake Paul, Joan Didion, through the lens of instagram filters, and the lie of being a "nice person". Truth hurts, but it hurts so good. This is a public episode.…
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In My Masculine Era: Patreon Teaser
It's been a hell week, and I wouldn't blame you if you had 8 doobies to the face right now. Escape with me to Patreon, where I explore the Towers in Watts, learn of the murderous bed-hopping antics of the Womack brothers, and discover the idiosyncrasies of Gen Z icon navel piercing revivalist...
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Live Through This
Jeeeeezus, here we fkn go again. My post-election de-brief. Join the Patreon <3 Email the pod : [email protected] Follow on IG @this_body_podcast This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Balm For Election Stress
High off the Dodgers winning the World Series, I'm popping up to offer my thoughts and prayers as we prepare for the storm that is almost upon us. Just remember your ABCs - Always Be Cool. And eat cats for every meal. DODGERS RULE!!! FREE YOGA NIDRA on Patreon Join Patreon email the pod //...
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Body Language with Sofia Mella is about bodies under pressure—our bodies, moving through culture. The show examines performance, the male gaze, Dark Hollywood stories, Los Angeles, and pop culture. It examines how power, ambition, and being watched shape the nervous system, and what it takes to step out of performance and back into the body.
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