In this episode, Kimberly and Lauren discuss her teaching journey, which led to the restorative exercise techniques Lauren offers in the women’s health field. As a lifelong mover, Lauren went through several different yoga trainings and anatomical frameworks to arrive at a simple truth: there isn’t a right or wrong, good or bad when it comes to understanding your body’s needs. They discuss re-writing injury stories, and consider what leads women to medically intervene at different phases of life. In addition, Kimberly and Lauren talk about raising teenage girls. In this open hearted conversation, two somatic experiencing practitioners talk through their way of practicing what they teach.

Bio

Lauren Ohayon isan internationally recognized yoga + Pilates teacher specializing in core and pelvic floor issues. She has been teaching for the past two decades. Lauren creates online exercise programs that are challenging, unique, safe, sustainable and life-changing.

In addition to yoga and Pilates, she is certified as a Restorative Exercise Specialist™, in Neurokinetic Therapy® and in Anatomy in Motion. The web site Holy Shift yoga was her first online baby and has since become this web site under her own name. Nothing has changed but the name. Learn more at www.laurenohayon.com

What You’ll Hear

• Supporting women in training their bodies
• The intersection of Anatomy and the Nervous system
• The pelvic floor world
• Movement as soothing
• Injuries as a yoga teacher
• Needing to dig less healing wells, instead dig one deep well
• Set one on a path of a more mindful way of moving
• Re-writing the stories of our injuries
• Distinguishing anatomy and biomechanics
• Somatic nervous system approach to exercise
• Feldenkrais technique was a big influence
• Letting your body teach you
• What leads us to try and intervene in our bodies as women at different life phases
• Good filters for not entertaining the cult/“you should” mindset
• Diet and protein
• Being sensory following nature and desire for warmth
• Parenting teens
• A mother who was a very experimental/exploratory teen
• Consent communication and safety
• Restoring your core- a central support system that receives and transmits
• To be restorative is to not approach the body through good/bad right/wrong anatomical frameworks
• Accepting the body’s changes with aging

Resources

IG: @thelaurenohayon

Website: www.laurenohayon.com

With fellow educator and Orphan Wisdom Scholar Johannah Reimer, Kimberly discusses Johannah’s long cultivated journey with Girl Groups that work on collective rites of passage. They explore the difference between weekend and longer form rites of passage processes for girls crossing the threshold to adolescence and womanhood, as well as ways to de-emphasize soul work that doesn't center "the self." Johannah emphasizes the impact she has seen guiding Girls Groups and their families into relationships that reflect boundaries, values, and connection. Johannah talks through her passionate approach to the Matricarchical archetype, as well as their shared thoughts on being a single parent. Johanna describes her upcoming 9-month Girl Group facilitator training “Pathways to Womanhood” where she shares her elemental curriculum, which has been honed over 10 years of work with girls of all ages. Links to a free workshop and the facilitator training below.

Bio

Johannah Reimer is a soulcentric educator, ceremonialist, teen mentor, and an artist of many trades. Trained as a Waldorf teacher, Johannah has been working with children of all ages for over 20 years and holds a particular passion for tweens/teens striving to meet their developmental needs for mentorship and initiation in a culture that has forgotten how to do so. An apprentice of visionaries: Sage Hamilton and Melissa Michaels of SOMA Source, Johannah has worked for many years as a Waldorf teacher under the guidance of her elder Sage, and as an embodied leader for international youth in movement based Rites of Passage with Golden Bridge & Golden Girls Global.

What She Shares

• Initiatory rites for girls crossing the threshold into adolescence

• Village mindedness in a Culture without village norms

• Severance - a death happening in rites of passage

• Stepping into a threshold, into a new phase of being

• What does it mean when girls go on a quest to leave childhood behind and then return back to their parents and community?

• Parents also cross a threshold when their children go on such a quest.

• A year long process that she does with 5th graders

• The conflation of big experiences with rites of passage

• Distinguishing between a rite of passage vs. a threshold

• How short-term retreats are often not living up to the term rites of passage

• Girls Groups are designed for a longer-term structure within a collective

• The power of collective work vs. over-emphasis on the self

• Working with teens you sometimes need an iron fist and a velvet glove

• The power of improvisation when working with teens

• The power of parents letting go of control

• Parents fear of their own children: important to assert boundaries/values and stay connected

• Parents: “Stay true. Stay the course.”

• As a child of divorce, the challenge of being a single parent

• Gathering the men around the son of a single mother

• She describes her upcoming free class for anyone who feels the call to be a village auntie, as well as her intimate 9-month Girl Group facilitator training.

• The power of the Matricarchical archetype and Village Aunties.

Resources

Pathways to Womanhood - Girls Group Facilitator Training

Becoming a Village Auntie (Free Training)

www.wakefulnature.com

In this episode, Kimberly discusses wild mothering, elder mothers, and mothering from our centers with Tami Lynn Kent, returned special guest, women’s health healer, elder mother, and teacher of previous Jaguar classes. We discuss how to remain in true relationship with the feminine, unlearning how we’ve embodied patriarchy, and living and mothering from our feminine centers. She also discusses the challenges of mothering during these times, especially for mothers of teens and young adults. Ultimately, she offers deep wisdom and medicine for staying true to our centers during these fractured times.

Bio

Tami Lynn Kent is a women’s health physical therapist, founder of the original method of Holistic Pelvic Care™ for women, and author of “Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body,” “Wild Creative,” and “Wild Mothering.” She is passionate about the potential in our female bodies and cultivating this vibrant energy that’s meant to run through all aspects of a woman’s life. She draws upon hers daily in mothering three sons now all young adults themselves. Her previous book, “Mothering from Your Center,” is being re-released as “Wild Mothering,” which includes new elder mother wisdom.

What She Shares:

–Deep relationship with the feminine

–Undoing internalization of patriarchy

–Mothering teens during challenges

–Embodied mothering during fractured times

What You’ll Hear:

–Walking in deep relationship with the true feminine

–Boundaries around values and work

–Unlearning embodied patterns of patriarchy within us

–Overcompensation in business

–Bodies giving out from overcompensation

–Women giving up space instead of centering

–Coming into truth of where energy and body are

–Over-extending out of perfectionism and wanting safety

–Helping children find their centers gradually

–Mothering young adults with internet, pandemic, polarization, etc.

–Information is not wisdom

–Importance of listening to embodied wisdom and those with it

–Mothering as a wild journey

–Prioritizing the body and face-to-face

–Embodied presence important to mothering

–Weekly family facetime meetings

–Going through the pandemic with males

–Strain on mothers and families feels higher now

–Lack of safety webs and social supports

–Trends of delaying independence from youth

–Determine of pandemic on isolation and young adults

–Assessing nervous systems after isolating during pandemic

–Embodied care versus smoothing discomfort

–Creative, inspired, moving towards passion, tracking health, connection

–Increase of body images issues in boys

–Getting boys out of looking and more of feeling/felt sense

–Fear of interacting in world

–Tracking and noticing people around us is embodied mothering

–Lost art of tending to home and those around us with presence

–Monitoring screen time for young adults

–Playing online with real peers

–Encouraging children to verbalize online interactions

–Rules as child-specific and season-dependent

–Building trust bridges

–Checking in and checking on

–Creating daily embodied moments with children

–Embodied mothering as the tether

–Presence with children creates more presence within themselves

–Stories we tell our children, stories they hear

–Balancing heavy times as parents

–Lack of deep containers taking toll

–Energetic force pulsing through life

–Reaction versus resonance

–Always new medicine and new hope in true feminine

–Not disassociating from deeper problems

–Living in deep relationship to feminine field

–Tending to our parts of the field is the mending

–Using connection to mystery to do our part

–Repairing a fractured web

–May 11th Mini Mother’s Day Retreat!

Resources

Website: https://www.wildfeminine.com/

IG: @tamilynnkent