Reclaiming the Body™ is a community podcast exploring decolonized somatics, nervous system support, emotional processing, and the wisdom we carry in our bodies, lineages, and lived experiences.
We'll talk about somatics and nervous system regulation without pretending one "universal" approach works for every body.
This podcast is for anyone who feels called to deepen their relationship with their body—and especially for coaches, practitioners, healers, and leaders who hold space for others.
Hosted by Brenda Lomeli, this podcast challenges the ways mainstream coaching, healing, and nervous system spaces often exclude important context when talking about somatics + our bodies—including the realities our bodies live within: culture, history, race, environment, and systems.
Welcome to Reclaiming the Body™
Episode 5: Knowing ≠ Capacity — Bringing the Body Into Coaching
What happens when you KNOW what to do—but knowing still isn't enough to actually do it?
You understand the strategy. You've examined the beliefs. You've done the mindset work.
And still… you can't seem to follow through.
You find yourself doing the same thing you said you wanted to change— or NOT doing the thing you said you would do.
Because knowing ≠ capacity.
As humans (and coaches), we can cognitively know something and still not yet have the embodied capacity to do it.
In this final episode of the first Reclaiming the Body podcast series, Brenda explores what becomes possible when we stop treating ourselves—and our clients—like brains that simply need better thoughts, better strategies, or more discipline, and begin working with the FULL human.
THE BODY —
Nervous system. Emotions. Patterns. The resources we already carry.
And this isn't just about adding a bunch of 'prescribed' nervous-system techniques.
Brenda breaks down real-life examples of what it can look like to bring the body into moments where knowing alone hasn't created change—and why developing a relationship with your own body is especially important for coaches, practitioners, and leaders supporting other humans.
You'll hear an invitation to stop asking... "Why can't I just make myself do this?"
And begin asking:
"What happens in my body when I try?"
THEN LISTEN.
If you're a coach, practitioner, or leader ready to deepen the way you support humans — through a decolonized lens—
you're invited to the founding cohort of Reclaiming the Body™ Decolonized Somatics Certification.
To get the complete program guide, email Brenda@brendalomeli.com
To join Brenda's email list and stay connected for upcoming Reclaiming the Body podcast series, go to brendalomeli.com.
15 Sept 2026
4: Story Behind Reclaiming the Body — What Becomes Available When We Reconnect With the Body
In Episode 4 of Reclaiming the Body, I'm inviting you to sit with me at my kitchen table while I tell you the deeply personal story behind this work—and what began unfolding when I stopped fighting my body and started listening to her.
I'll take you through the unexpected grief that surfaced after reaching one of the biggest milestones of my career, why mindset could no longer take me where I needed to go, and the journey that led me deeper into my body, generational healing, ancestral guidance, cacao, decolonizing my business, my work and—my own medicine.
I've witnessed HUNDREDS of times, having worked with hundreds of women: that we cannot truly heal our relationships with our bodies while continuing to replicate the very belief systems that taught us to distrust them in the first place.
This is the story of how Reclaiming the Body was born.
Because sometimes the most powerful thing we can do isn't search for something else to learn—it's RECLAIM what was already ours.
Our bodies.
Our wisdom.
Our medicine.
It's time to claim YOUR inheritance.
xo Brenda
ps. If something in you is saying YES to more Reclaiming The Body...
Join the Reclaiming the Body™ waitlist + free email series, where we're continuing to explore decolonized somatics, nervous system support, and reclaiming our relationship with the body.
Join the reclamation:
www.brendalomeli.com/reclaiming-the-body-waitlist
8 Sept 2026
3. What Mainstream Nervous System Work Gets Wrong — Decolonizing Somatics
In this episode, we're talking about what gets missed when somatics and nervous system work remove the body from context—and WHY racism, oppressive systems, economic realities, identity, history, and the conditions of our communities matter when we're talking about the body.
We're getting into accessing safety in our bodies, regulation, emotional processing, and what it actually looks like to support the nervous system without asking ourselves to deny what's REAL.
Because our bodies don't exist outside of our environment.
Our bodies don't exist outside of systems.
Our bodies don't exist outside of the world we're actually living in.
If your nervous-system work requires you to remove racism, oppression, identity, or the actual conditions of your life—the framework is incomplete.
Because sometimes the BODY isn't the problem.
The framework is the problem.
ps. If something in you is saying YES to more Reclaiming The Body...
Join the Reclaiming the Body™ waitlist + free email series, where we're continuing to explore decolonized somatics, nervous system support, and reclaiming our relationship with the body.
Join the reclamation:
www.brendalomeli.com/reclaiming-the-body-waitlist
1 Sept 2026
2. Rebuilding the Bridge — How Colonization Disconnected Us from Our Bodies
What if our disconnection from our bodies didn't happen by accident?
There is history here.
In this episode of Reclaiming the Body, we're exploring what colonization did to our relationship with our bodies—and the bridges that were disrupted between the body and mind, emotions, and ancestral ways of knowing.
I unpack what happens across generations when people are taught that their own ways of knowing are inferior—and the knowledge of the colonizer is authoritative.
I also share a deeply personal story about my own body, my Purépecha ancestry, and how reconnecting with something my body seemed to already know gave me access to a level of safety and groundedness I didn't even know was possible.
My body unlocked a sense of safety that my mind never could.
And while colonization disrupted so much, it did not destroy everything.
Much survived. Much adapted.
Things were protected.
Things were passed down.
Through our families. Our communities. Our practices. Our stories.
And YES, through our bodies.
I walk you through what it actually means to rebuild the bridge (and reconnect with your body) through decolonized somatics—not by simply collecting a list of nervous-system techniques, but by developing a relationship WITH your body.
And sometimes, reconnecting with your body isn't about learning something new.
It's reclaiming what was already there.
LISTEN NOW
xo Brenda
ps. If something in you is saying YES to more Reclaiming The Body...
Join the Reclaiming the Body™ waitlist + free email series, where we're continuing to explore decolonized somatics, nervous system support, and reclaiming our relationship with the body.
Join the reclamation:
www.brendalomeli.com/reclaiming-the-body-waitlist
31 Aug 2026
1. Why Mindset Isn't Enough — And What's Actually Missing
What if mindset was never supposed to do the whole job?
We are not just minds walking around having thoughts.
We have bodies. Emotions. Nervous systems. Histories. Lineages. Environments. And all of these are part of the equation.
In this first episode of Reclaiming the Body, we're exploring what becomes possible when we stop treating the mind as the only source of wisdom—and invite THE BODY back into the conversation.
We'll talk about why an emotion doesn't always need to be changed or reframed, why context matters when we talk about healing and nervous-system support, and what gets missed when coaching and somatic work treat individual experience as though it exists separately from important history, systems, and the world we're living in today.
This is also where I'll introduce you to decolonized somatics—and why some of the 'mainstream' spaces attempting to reconnect us with our bodies still operate through frameworks that center whiteness and erase important context.
This isn't about throwing mindset away.
It's about making our approach whole.
Because maybe you don't always need another thought to think.
Instead, there's another part of you asking to be included in the conversation:
Your body.
LISTEN NOW
ps. If something in you is saying YES to more Reclaiming The Body...
Join the Reclaiming the Body™ waitlist + free email series, where we're continuing to explore decolonized somatics, nervous system support, and reclaiming our relationship with the body.
Join the reclamation:
www.brendalomeli.com/reclaiming-the-body-waitlist
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