Embracing our innate birthing wisdom can lead to profound healing and empowerment for both mothers and babies.

Today, I have Catalina Clark with me, and she shares her journey from traditional midwifery to supporting women who are interested in free birth, challenging conventional notions about childbirth along the way.

So, whether you're expecting, curious about alternative birth practices, or interested in women's health, this conversation will offer you fresh perspectives on one of life's most fundamental experiences: childbirth.

In this podcast episode, Catalina takes us through:

- Who she is as a midwife of healing.

- What is Freebirthing?

- Exploration of birth as a somatic experience.

- Distinction between a "midwife of healing" and traditional licensed midwifery

- Her personal birth experiences and somatic journey.

- Physiological aspects of birth.

- The importance of completing healing cycles.

- The changing landscape of birth practices.

- The legal aspects of midwifery and birth support in different states.

And so much more!

Did you know that our thoughts, beliefs, and physical practices can literally shift our reality and health outcomes?

In this enlightening episode, I engage in a profound conversation with Christina Kantzavelos, a psychotherapist dedicated to helping clients navigate the complexities of chronic illness.

Christina's unique approach intertwines elements of timeline hopping, interdimensional reality, body morphine, and epigenetics to address chronic illness and pain.

In this episode, Christina takes us through:

- The concept of "timeline hopping" and “interdimensional reality.”

- How changing our mindset can alter our life trajectory.

- Role of body morphine and epigenetics in managing chronic illness and pain.

- Connecting with like-minded people to facilitate a transition from pain to power.

- Her personal experience of challenging timeline shifts.

- Transforming life trajectories.

And so much more!

Christina Kantzavelos is a California-based psychotherapist, writer, advocate and artist. She received her Bachelor’s and Master's of Social Welfare (MSW) from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and her Masters of Library and Information Sciences from San Jose California State University (SJSU). She has visited over 30 different countries and documented most of it on social media.

However, it was in completing the Camino de Santiago (500-mile pilgrimage across Spain) at the end of 2015, where she realized her strong affinity with writing. She decided to start BuenQamino, an award-winning, gluten-free and health-conscious lifestyle travel publication.

In clinical practice (Begin Within Today), she treats those with chronic illness, including Lyme disease, and physical, developmental, and age-related disabilities. She also published the Begin Within Daily Health Wellness Journals for chronic illness and mental wellness that she is now turning into an app, called WithinMe.

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Did you know you can explore your own creative processes as pathways to healing and self-discovery?

Creative practices can be powerful tools for processing trauma, moving through somatic programming, and fostering resilience.

Today, I’m excited to have Jai Knight, who offers a unique perspective on the healing power of art and embodiment practices.

In this podcast episode, Jai takes us through:

- Their journey as an artist and their discovery of ancestral artistic connections

- The role of art in processing trauma and personal transformation

- The transition from recreating trauma through art to healing and presence

- The practice of ritual tattooing and its healing potential

- Somatic awareness in artistic practices and daily life

- The importance of grounding and embodiment in creative and spiritual work

- The integration of Hanna Somatics in Jai's tattoo practice and personal life

And so much more!

Jai knight is an interdisciplinary artist and ritual hand poke tattooist. Their work integrates metaphor and symbol as a tool for communicating deep messages that expand beyond the verbal, the subjective, and into the collective narrative. The work they create is an intimate processing with an individual or group, slowing down time into the kairos.

Through Jai’s own investigation of slowing down through intensive wilderness emersion, 9-year meditation practice, lifelong art practice, crafting their own artistic material including paper, paint, ink, and fibers, and training as a regenerative land and social systems designer, emotional cpr practitioner, and somatic movement junkie informs the work and experiences they share with the world. Their work has always dealt with transforming trauma into creative action.

Their most recent project as channel, creator, illustrator, and author of House Oracle Project weaves together intimate and shared experiences of processing how to be at home in a changing world. This resulted in hundreds of collaborative meaning-making sessions, transformative paper-making workshops, a collaborative publishing project, and more.

Their projects have recently been supported by Arcosanti foundation, CA Artsconnection, and the public arts advisory council of 29palms.

Jai’s work was also invited into several residencies including High Desert Test Sites, Lookout Arts Quarry and Ute mountain studios. Jai currently resides in Joshua Tree, CA where they regularly offer ritualistic tattoos and live simply comnected with land.

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Did you know that our physical and emotional experiences influence our business journeys? Creating a safe space for energy and giving back to the body can lead to increased energy and flow, leading to more clients and a better work-life balance and overall well-being.

Today, I’m excited to host Amanda Renouf, a Business Operations Coach & Fractal COO. She shares insights on the connection between somatic awareness, self-worth, and the ability to receive abundance, offering practical advice for entrepreneurs looking to balance strategy and manifestation.

In this episode, Amanda takes us through:

- Her role as a Business operations coach, including her specialization in helping DFY (Done For You) coaches streamline and automate their businesses.

- Her journey from doing corporate PR to becoming an entrepreneur and business coach.

- Entrepreneurial expansion and capacity, and the importance of creating a safe space to receive more clients.

- Packaging offers, developing inner leadership, and setting up automation systems.

- The importance of creating an aligned hustle; balancing the drive for success with aligned actions.

- Importance of balancing structured, strategic tasks (masculine) with intuitive, creative activities (feminine).

- How to create safety, receptivity, and alignment within yourself as an entrepreneur to attract clients and opportunities that are an energetic match for you.

- Practices for tuning into your body wisdom to discover what energies you need more or less of in your business.

- Creating systems that support sustainable business growth.

And so much more!

Amanda is a Business Operations Coach & Fractal COO who is on a mission to help DFY service providers + online defy coaches automate & simplify their business so they can focus more on living their life and serving their clients from overflow.

She’s been featured in Forbes, BBC News Business Insider, HuffPost, MindBodyGreen and has done brand collabs with Thinkific and Hellobar on her marketing & business leadership strategies. And believes you deserve to have the freedom you set out to get when you started your business!

Stay connected with Amanda on social!

Instagram: @expansionwithamanda

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Here’s the business receiving mode checklist: https://www.expansionwithamanda.com/business-receiving-mode

She had been outsourcing control and knowledge of her body to the "experts" ever since she was a child. And even in becoming a "body expert" herself, she still was experiencing an internal disconnection from her body that became amplified during the birth of her daughter and her postpartum experience. She felt deeply that something needed to change.

She needed a sense of belonging and ownership within her own physical experience of life. Somatics, and specifically Hanna Somatics, has been a powerful doorway to regaining and actually creating an embodied sense of self and personal authority within her!

Today, I have with me Zoe Hewett, a yoga teacher, exercise physiologist, and mother of two who recently graduated from the Radiance program. She’s here to take us through how Hanna Somatics has impacted her life, career, and experience of motherhood.

In this episode, Zoe takes us through:

- Her traumatic birth experience and how she felt disconnected from her body and power.

- Her somatic exploration journey and how she found it profound and empowering.

- Her journey through the Radiance program and what she learnt, including honoring her own knowing, asking for what she needs, and setting boundaries.

- How the subtle, slow, Hanna Somatics movements allow the nervous system to release chronic tension patterns layer by layer.

- How she incorporates somatic principles when working with clients healing from injuries.

- How both effort and rest are beneficial, and finding the balance is crucial for preventing burnout and injury.

- How healing happens in a non-linear, quantum way as we renegotiate the past and build new capacities in the present moment.

And so much more!

Zoe Hewett is an exercise physiologist, Bikram yoga teacher, and mother. As a former elite athlete, via the PhD experience, and by observing her daughters’ early years, movement, and the study of movement’s effects on the human experience, has been her language for most of her life. In recent years she discovered somatic movement, which then distilled into a focused dive into Hanna Somatics, which presented a whole new - yet old! - way of treating stress and chronic pain.

Living with the benefits of her own evolving somatic movement practice, Zoe can’t help but share somatic principles with clients in both her exercise physiology and yoga work. She is excited to see where her life work takes her as she continues to work with people from a whole person, somatically aware perspective to facilitate each individual’s self-healing journey.

Most women undergo different fears and confusion that come with the midlife transitions, including early menopause changes. But how do we embrace the change and reconnect with the wisdom of our bodies?

Embodiment, intimacy, and somatic intelligence play crucial roles in facilitating women's midlife transformation. Through somatic work and embodiment practices, women can navigate the transition with a deeper connection to themselves, fostering emotional and physical healing and empowering them to embrace change with courage and resilience.

Today, I have Shae Elise Allen, and she explains the transformative world of somatic work and midlife transitions.

In this podcast episode, Shae Elise Allen takes us through:

- Her personal journey of disconnection from her body after childbirth and how that led her to somatic and sexual education work.

- The importance of safety, trust, and heart-centered work in somatic therapy, especially for women.

- Her midlife transitions and early menopause experience, including her initial fear and confusion around the changes.

- The initiation into a deeper embodiment through the disruption of menopause.

- Trusting the intelligence of the body and the expansive potential of this transformative process.

And so much more!

Shae Elise Allen is an embodiment educator, speaker, somatic coach, and transformational guide supporting women at midlife. Shae teaches and speaks on embodiment, intimacy, somatic intelligence, vulnerability and courage, and midlife alchemy and supports women to repattern their sexual and body stories, guiding women to lead from a safe, empowered, and expansive connection to their body. Her vision is for women to know their truth as self-honoring, paradigm-shifting leaders and creative channels in today’s world.

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