YINtentions
Claim This Podcastby Anna Kopacz
Podcast Overview
<p>Some stories don't get told. Not because they aren't true but because no one made room for them.</p><p>YINtentions makes room.</p><p>Women from all walks of life, all ages, all experiences - sharing what their bodies know, remember, and carry. Unresolved. Unpolished. True.</p><p>We don't fix anything here. We don't prescribe. We simply are with.</p><p>If that calls to you, welcome.</p><p>Hosted by Anna Teresa. New episodes every two weeks.</p>
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3/14/2026
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June 1, 2026
Ep.08 - An Endless Exploration [Season Finale]
There is an image of the practitioner: the one who has fully arrived in her own body. Who holds what she teaches not as theory but as lived truth, every day, without fail. The woman recording this episode forgets to stretch. Skips meals. Lays down, every once in a while and sobs at having been disengaged from herself. This episode is about that gap and what becomes available when you say it aloud. In this season finale: the joke of putting yin into a frame · a grandmother and the stories she carries in silence · what unlocks in the body when what hasn't been said finally is · the imposter who teaches presence · grief at the threshold of a new year · poetry written This is not a testimony. It is an act of saying the thing out loud and watching what shifts when you do. (0:00) Intro (1:50) No script, no agenda (8:34) Grandmother (23:03) An endless exploration (37:38) Grief at the threshold (45:56) Gratitude (49:51) Until next season ~~~ Anna Teresa is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. Subscribe to the YINtentions newsletter: https://bit.ly/yintentionsnewsletter
May 15, 2026
Ep.07 - The Midlife Paradox
<p>The world looks at a woman in her forties and sees someone who has arrived. The woman herself is often somewhere else entirely.</p><p>We have been handed the story of the peak: the good age, the clarity, the knowing who you are. But no one speaks to what lives underneath: the exhaustion that won't stop, the race with no visible finish line, the distance between what is seen and what is felt.</p><p>This episode is about that gap.</p><p>In this episode: a letter written from the middle · the path to external arrival and what it required · four women, four shapes of the same distance · what anchoring actually is · an invitation to look in the mirror without apology.</p><p>This is not a resolution. It is a permission to stop pretending the gap doesn't exist and to say thank you for having lived.</p><p>This episode moves alongside conversations with Jenny McGrath (Ep. 02), Anca Damerell (Ep. 04), Cynthia Hansen (Ep. 06), and Robyn Davie (Ep. 05).</p><p><br></p><p>(0:00) Welcome (1:46) A letter from the middle (7:52) Four shapes of the same distance (16:35) Not from a distance (20:15) Look in the mirror</p><p>~~~</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/annakopacz/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Anna Teresa</strong></a> is an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch — supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held.*</p><p>Subscribe to the YINtentions newsletter: <a href="https://bit.ly/yintentionsnewsletter" rel="nofollow">https://bit.ly/yintentionsnewsletter</a></p>
May 1, 2026
Ep.06 with Cynthia Hansen - She Built Belonging from Scratch
What does it mean to be the first person in your genetic line - in both directions - to do something? Anything at all? Cynthia Hansen carries her home in her body. A Korean woman adopted by white American parents, she has lived everywhere and belonged to no fixed geography and she has spent her career building systems that leave no human being at the edges. In this conversation, we move through three generations of women - a grandmother whose unlived potential still travels forward, a daughter of 16 saying things in a school speech her mother didn't know she was carrying, a woman navigating menopause without anyone in her bloodline who has been there before. Through the body as the only geography that never moved. Through what it costs to hold teenagers, aging parents, and yourself: all at once, all from a distance. Through what it means to think of an ending as a beginning. Storykeeper: Cynthia Hansen is the Director of the Adecco Group Innovation Foundation, a global foundation working on workforce transformation and what it means to build economic systems that do not leave human beings at the edges. Connect with Cynthia: linkedin.com/in/cynthiahansen https://www.adeccogroup.com/innovationfoundation Resources mentioned Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective 5Rhythms movement practice All Fours (among others) by Miranda July (0:00) Welcome (5:25) The Women that Came Before - What was Given and What had to be Invented (19:09) The Only Geography that Never Moved (27:22) What it Costs to Hold Everyone (39:55) When the Living System is also the Body (52:03) Who Do I Get to Be ~~~ Hosted by Anna Teresa: an anthropologist, experience designer, somatic trauma-informed facilitator, and storykeeper based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works with women leaders navigating the midlife crunch, supporting them back into the intelligence of their bodies, their cycles, and their stories. YINtentions is where those stories are held. Subscribe to YINtentions newsletter: https://bit.ly/yintentionsnewsletter
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<p>Some stories don't get told. Not because they aren't true but because no one made room for them.</p><p>YINtentions makes room.</p><p>Women from all walks of life, all ages, all experiences - sharing what their bodies know, remember, and carry. Unresolved. Unpolished. True.</p><p>We don't fix anything here. We don't prescribe. We simply are with.</p><p>If that calls to you, welcome.</p><p>Hosted by Anna Teresa. New episodes every two weeks.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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