Wayward Bodies

About Wayward Bodies

Wayward Bodies is a show exploring our bodies and the messy places they meet the world. Join your host Elle Bower Johnston as she discuss embodiment, body liberation, creativity, healing, and how we show up as our whole selves. You can expect a mix of solo musings and conversations with excellent humans, with a lens of queerness, anti-oppression, body liberation and lots of space for the nuance of being a human.

Publisher

Elle Bower Johnston

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 Aug 2021

Latest episode

21 Dec 2022

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Dec 2022

   Ep 24 | Holding a Light in the Dark

   Here we are at the end of season two, and just rounding on the solstice. In celebration, I’m coming with a present for you: a yoga nidra to come back in and remember your spark. A moment of pause and reconnection with yourself, no matter what is going on around you. Grab a blanket and get cosy. Together we’ll slide our way into deep rest, and hold a light in the dark. That’s everything for this season, my friend. I hope you have a nourishing end to your year, no matter how you spend it. We’ll be back sometime next year. See you then! WORK WITH ME Apply to work with me one-to-one in 2023 (https://calendly.com/an_otherpractice/30min) Download the Radical Rest Studio (https://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/) Join the mailing list (https://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/) LINKS & CREDITS Drop me an email - waywardbodies@protonmail.com (mailto:waywardbodies@protonmail.com) Find more of my work at anotherpractice.com (http://anotherpractice.com/) Join the mailing list (http://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/), my other favourite way to communicate This episode is edited by the radiant Joeli Kelly, with eternal thanks and praises. DID YOU LOVE THIS EPISODE OF WAYWARD BODIES? Want to help other folks find it too? Click here to subscribe on iTunes (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wayward-bodies/id1577529142), and leave a rating & review. Or go old school and just tell your mates. That works too!

2. 

   16 Nov 2022

   Ep 23 | Life is Art with Ava Riby-Williams

   Today, in the final conversation of this season, I'm speaking with Ava Riby-Williams. We talked about living life as a creative act, going slow to go fast, liminal spaces and grey areas that allow us to express our wholeness, and the slow, messy work of liberating ourselves. ABOUT AVA Ava is a queer, British Ghanaian/Indian visionary, living in London. She acts out life purpose as a Creative Facilitator, Artist and Wellbeing guide who celebrates diversity and finds divinity in all of life. She uses arts and healing based practises to guide groups into deeper contemplation of issues concerning identity, oppression and liberation- on personal and collective levels. Ava calls us into deeper self inquiry about our lives and participation in our society, planet and cosmos. She prompts us to get curious and ask... Why are we here? In what way is our liberation all entangled? Find more of her work avazarah.com (http://avazarah.com/) @avazarah MENTIONED THIS EPISODE Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude (https://open.spotify.com/track/2XEFWSnkgjXe4eZ9gDqAgq?si=3f8b7c1ddf664f51) Emergent Strategy (https://uk.bookshop.org/books/emergent-strategy-shaping-change-changing-worlds/9781849352604) WORK WITH ME Be the first to hear about trial breathwork sessions (https://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/) Download the Radical Rest Studio (https://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/) One-to-One Embodiment Guidance (https://www.anotherpractice.com/offerings) LINKS & CREDITS Drop me an email - waywardbodies@protonmail.com (mailto:waywardbodies@protonmail.com) Find more of my work at ellebowerjohnston.com (http://anotherpractice.com/) Join the mailing list (http://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/), my other favourite way to communicate This episode is edited by the radiant Joeli Kelly, with eternal thanks and praises.

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   2 Nov 2022

   Ep 22 | Reclaiming Pleasure and Power with Tamu Thomas

   Today I'm bringing you a conversation with Tamu Thomas. Our conversation wandered through her own explorations of embodiment and her practice of Non-Linear Movement, the role of pleasure, sensuality and joy in women's wellbeing, reclaiming power and sovereignty, and channelling our energy in a generative way, even as we live in oppressive systems. ABOUT TAMU Tamu Thomas is an emotional well-being coach, writer, workshop facilitator, podcaster and Non-Linear Movement practitioner who helps over-functioning, overworking, high achieving women fall in love with themselves so they can make powerful choices about how they live, love and work. Tamu’s work combines somatics, social work and spirituality with science and soulful systems. She is person-centred, evidence-based, trauma-informed, human-paced, nurturing, intuitive, loving and playful. Tamu’s holistic approach to supporting the bodies, minds and experience of her clients makes her work nurturing, deep and unique – just like her. Tamu’s work is informed by her background of sixteen years in social work, somatic coach training, her love of behavioural neuroscience and polyvagal theory, positive psychology, spirituality and joy. Tamu combines these modalities to create a multifaceted body of work that helps her clients stop using anxiety as a productivity tool and stop normalising burnout. Tamu’s work helps her clients understand who they are so they may begin to tend to their needs, feel safe in their bodies, befriend themselves and begin to enjoy who they are. Tamu supports her clients and workshop attendees understand themselves as valuable and worthy of caring for themselves. This enables them to prioritise their own well-being and life satisfaction alongside success and achievement. Her mission is to help women enhance how they live, love and work by recovering from their addiction to toxic productivity. Find more of her work: Website (https://www.livethreesixty.com/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/livethreesixty/) WORK WITH ME Be the first to hear about trial breathwork sessions (https://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/) Download the Radical Rest Studio (https://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/) One-to-One Embodiment Guidance (https://www.anotherpractice.com/offerings) LINKS & CREDITS Drop me an email - waywardbodies@protonmail.com (mailto:waywardbodies@protonmail.com) Find more of my work at ellebowerjohnston.com (http://anotherpractice.com/) Join the mailing list (http://ellebowerjohnston.substack.com/), my other favourite way to communicate This episode is edited by the radiant Joeli Kelly, with eternal thanks and praises.

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