Hello and welcome to The Breathing Body Podcast - My name is Flurina and I am your host, and I am so happy that you are here.

In this episode I am talking with dancer, researcher, movement therapist and choreographer Hagit Yakira. Together we embarked on a journey to explore so deep and meaningful questions, is the artistic process ever not healing? Why do we dance? What does freedom mean? And how much freedom can we give and live in any given structure? The end result is a conversation, so raw, pure and humble, it brought tears to my eyes whilst we recorded it and is still moving in and through me. This is the breathing body.

About Hagit Yakira:

Hagit is an award winning Israeli choreographer and director of her own company Hagit Yakira Dance which she founded in 2007. Besides working with professional dancers she leads performance projects for the community and non-professional dancers as well. Alongside her work as a choreographer Hagit is a teacher. She has been developing a personal style and way of teaching and her workshops for professional dancers and the community are constantly in demand around the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and Israel. Hagit received her PhD from Trinity Laban/City University. Her thesis is titled: Relational Autobiographical Choreographies - on a new choreographic practice. At present she is an Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger in Norway. Her approach in general, as well as to the movement research, is based on autobiography, and different physical exploration of emotions; she is being informed by her background as a dance movement therapist alongside her background as a performer and a choreographer.

In this conversation we talked about:

• The intimate relationship between the artistic process and healing and the potency of art to reflect back to us what we otherwise might not see, and call out of us all the voices we forgot to express.

• The balance of structure and freedom in dance teaching and how becoming a dance therapist brought meaning and generosity in Hagit`s life.

• Fear as a channel to guide us home to ourselves and how it opens the space to trust what we love.

• How giving birth and becoming mother of twins "landed something" in Hagit`s live and invited her to land into who she truly is.

This is how you can connect with:

• Visit his webpage: www.hagityakira.com

I hope you enjoy this episode and I am looking forward reading your thoughts and comments.

You can find more about my work on my webpage www.flurinathali.com, or follow me on Instagram @flurina_breathingbody

Love,

Flurina

Credits:

• Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.
• Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

Hello and welcome to The Breathing Body Podcast - My name is Flurina and I am your host, and I am so happy that you are here.

Eating disorders, food struggles, body image issue, body shame, … we are living in a world in which many of us live a life disconnected from their bodies, numbing their feelings and neglect their needs. Always running, never arriving.

I am so grateful to open the space again to talk about eating disorder recovery as it is a process full of challenges and GIFTS, teaching us to become our own best coach, learning to listen to our feelings and nurture our needs.

This conversation is for YOU, no matter if eating disorder is part of your history, as my guest, Meg McCabe shares inspiring inputs for daily rest and self-care routines and her story is pure motivation for all of us to listen to our true self and "go all in" with what it tells us to do!

About Meg:

Meg McCabe is a podcaster and mental health professional based in West Hartford, CT. She owns a private Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching practice, and is the Founder of The Recovery Collective, a global, eating disorder recovery community focused on healing through connection. She's also the Host of The Full and Thriving Podcast mental health and personal development podcast that consistently ranks in the top 2.5% of all podcasts globally. She's a passionate educator, speaker, group facilitator, retreat host and mental health advocate. Meg attended the University of Connecticut and has a Bachelor's Degree in Communications. There, she was an active member of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women. Meg enjoys the outdoors, dancing, and snuggling with her Husky-Lab mix, Luka.

In this conversation we talked about:

✨Meg's journey of being fashion model, recovering from an eating disorder and how she became a successful coach supporting other women on their recovery journey too.

✨The power of working through resistance … and that it is through our actions, rather than the intellectualizing of feelings, that we show ourselves we are enough and start to believe it is true.

✨How Meg is dealing with (and celebrating!) bodily changes during pregnancy as a women recovered from an eating disorder.

✨ Meg's project called The Recovery Collective and how you can join her world!

This is how you can connect with:

• The recovery collective: https://recoverycollective.mykajabi.com/
• Meg`s webpage: https://www.meg-mccabe.com/

I hope you enjoy this episode and I am looking forward reading your thoughts and comments.

You can find more about my work on my webpage www.flurinathali.com, or follow me on Instagram @flurina_breathingbody.

Love,

Flurina

Credits:

• Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.
• Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here
• Mix engineer: Jack Gillen, for more information click here