Embodiment Matters Podcast

About Embodiment Matters Podcast

Embodiment Matters is an ongoing, rich conversation about what it really means to be embodied, and why and how embodiment matters so much in our daily lives and in our world. Our guests include wise and insightful teachers from the realms of somatics, Buddhism, meditation, social justice, psychotherapy, movement arts, bodywork, martial arts, neuroscience, environmentalists, indigenous teachers, and more. In our conversations, we explore a wide range of topics around waking up and being embodied, and offer guided practices to help return to your embodiment as a source of wisdom, guidance and intimacy with life. Your hosts, Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke, have been devoted to waking up and being embodied for the last 25 years. They have extensive training and practice in The Feldenkrais Method, Yoga & Yoga Therapy, Structural Integration, Embodied Life, Buddhist Meditation, Tai Chi, Focusing, Ayurveda, and more. They share a passion for sharing potent practices that support people in becoming more embodied, more mindful and aware, more rooted in liberating kindness, and more free in all ways; as well as more able to bring their unique gifts forth to benefit the world. They live in Salt Lake City, and can be found at bodyhappy.com

Publisher

Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Apr 2018

Latest episode

11 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

69 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Apr 2026

   A Meeting of Two Rivers of Wisdom: A Conversation with Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) and Dr Jaiya John (Mshkiki Odeh Inini, Medicine Heart Man)

   In this episode, we follow a river of a conversation that is a meeting of two beautiful souls, Pat McCabe and Jaiya John. We three, (Carl, Erin and Alexandre) have been deeply moved and influenced by Pat and Jaiya's writings, and presence, and work in the world, and we were inspired to host a conversation introducing these elders, who each carries such potent medicine for our times. Together, Pat and Jaiya weave through many themes including power, protection, trickster energy, the sacredness of water, the importance of finding one's joy, and how to support young ones in this time. This conversation is also a beautiful love letter to the lands of Northern New Mexico, where Pat lives and Jaiya grew up. Woven throughout the conversation is the theme of sacred remembrance, and the importance to not forgetting who we are, and why we are here at this time. We hope you enjoy the conversation, the pace and the pauses, the tone of voice, the songs, the humor, and the quality of reverence and respect and Jaiya and Pat each embody with such grace. Dr. Jaiya John (Mshkiki Odeh Inini, Medicine Heart Man) was orphan-born on ancient Indigenous Anasazi and Pueblo lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized ancestral Baba, freedom worker, medicine poet, and keynote speaker. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression. The mission has donated thousands of Jaiya's books in support of social healing, and offers grants to displaced and vulnerable youth. He is the author of numerous books, including Daughter Drink This Water, We Birth Freedom at Dawn, Fragrance After Rain, and Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya writes, narrates, and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of The Gathering, a global initiative and tour reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social healing and liberation. He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University, and has spoken to over a million people worldwide and audiences as large as several thousand. Jaiya holds doctorate and master's degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow with a focus on intergroup and race relations. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine through independent research with Tibetan doctors and trekked to the base camp of Mt. Everest. He is a Lewis & Clark College Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. His Indigenous soul dreams of frybread, sweetgrass, bamboo in the breeze, and turtle lakes whose poetry is peace. For more on Jaiya, visit his website (https://jaiyajohn.com/). Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women's Nation and Men's Nation, in being functional members of the "Hoop of Life" and upholding the honor of being human. Her primary work at the moment is: • The reconciliation between the masculine and feminine, Men's Nation and Women's Nation • Remembering, recreating or creating anew a narrative for the Sacred Masculine • Addressing the Archetypal Wounding that occurred in our misunderstanding and abuse of technology in prayer, ceremony and science You can find more about Pat's work at https://www.patmccabe.net And you can find more about our dear brother, Alexandre Jodun and his wife Alyona Kobevka at https://www.ahealingbridge.com

2. 

   17 Jan 2026

   Practices of Reconnection and Remembrance and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke

   Practices of Reconnection and Remembrance and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke Greetings listener friends, we are so grateful to have you join us for this deep conversation about practices of Reconnection & Remembrance and Why They Matter. This is the third in a series of podcasts on Practices of Presence, Practices of Depth and Soul, and Practice of Reconection & Remembrance and Why They Matter. We begin with a favorite line from dear Dr Jaiya John: "It is not that we have so much to learn. It is that we have so much to remember. We are alive in the colonizing centuries of the Great Forgetting. Let us journey now into this new era upon us of the Great Remembering. We need teachers gifted not at cold instruction but at Loving reunion. We need homecoming." We have so much to remember. We follow the muse through many topics related to reconnection and remembrance. We speak about the long tail of our human history and ancestry, and how it has only been roughly 1-2 generations since the technological revolution, only 20 since the industrial revolution, just 600 since agriculture, and at least 200,000 generations before that - of being humans in intimate relationship with the living world. We speak of this long ancestral inheritance in terms of foundational human intelligences that many modern humans have forgotten, that we can always remember and return to. Movement intelligence, ritual intelligence, village mindedness, rhythmic intelligence, sensitivities to the natural world and so much more. We reflect on naturalness, and what is different in the learning process when we are remembering a capacity that is natural yet perhaps forgotten or unpracticed, and what kinds of practices offer the soil conditions that support the blossoming of our naturalness and uniqueness. We speak about the importance, from our Tibetan Buddhist lineages, of short glimpses, repeated many times. We share many ways to return to our embodied presence, our connection with the Earth, ways to return to what is most essential and important, over and over and over through the day. May you enjoy the conversation! And, if you are as lit up about these topics as we are, please share the episode with your friends and networks. We really appreciate it. To find out more about our Refugia training program, visit https://embodimentmatters.com/refugia/

3. 

   14 Jan 2026

   Practices of Depth and Soul and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke

   Practices of Depth and Soul and Why They Matter: A Conversation with Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke Greetings, listener friends! We are delighted to share this conversation, the second in a series of three podcasts we're releasing during January 2026. The first is on practices of presence. The second, (this conversation) is on practices of depth and soul. The third will be on practices of reconnection and remembrance. We explore in each epsiode what these are and why they matter. These three realms of practice are woven through the foundation of our upcoming 13-month depth training, Refugia, which begins in early February, 2026. What are practices of depth and soul? Why do they matter? We begin with a line from Michael Meade: "Slow and down are the primary movements of soul." Erin shares a beautiful quote from Francis Weller pointing toward a mythopoetic definition of soul. We explore honoring depth and soul in a culture that tends toward the spiritual and the transcendent. We touch on many practices of depth and soul and why they matter, including growing an apprenticeship with sorrow, embodying one's unique genius or soul medicine, what it means to grow one's adult presence, the importance of the imagination and the imaginal, how to be in relationship with our wounds and sacred limps. We honor those from whom we have learned about soul, including Michael Meade, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Jaiya John, Francis Weller, Maya Angelou, James Hillman, and so many more. We hope you enjoy this dive into depth and soul as much as we did. To learn more about Refugia, visit embodimentmatters.com/refugia (http://embodimentmatters.com/refugia) "Soul rebellion precedes social rebellion, which is why the first and last revolution work occurs in the soul. In the soul." – Jaiya John

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YouTube views

8,959

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

67 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100

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Quality

68

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

92

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