Mindfulness-based approaches help improve our state of awareness, and constitute a pillar on self-care while improving communication with others. 
Moving meditation is one of those approaches.

"Where intention goes, awareness goes. Where awareness goes, Qi follows”

In the 14th episode, I explore the state of awareness. My guest is experienced in this topic. With his range of practices, Karunavira has been teaching mindfulness-based approaches, at Bangor University, as also various mindfulness-Based programs, and counseling, for more than 30 years now.

In this conversation we explore what it means to be aware, and how to practice that quality of state by looking at our current practices, and use it for many things of life: communicating, parenting, leading, listening, or moving.

Kv (as know to his students) shares how his daily practices help him connect with the self, others, and nature, and cultivate the principles of Chi/Qi (energy) that lead to experience a more integrated and purposeful life.

In a month where I celebrate freedom, I question what practices help me experience and honor this purposed life.

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Keep listening. Keep moving.
Thank you - MiMC
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MiMC

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Ep.14 - Karunavira - Awareness is Revolutionary

This month I celebrate awareness. With this conversation my goal is to bring awareness to posture, and what habitual patterns are there. So if you look to change patterns of movement, start a new physical practice, or have an understanding of posture on a higher level, this is a great conversation to get you started.

For this episode I had a great conversation with Gijs, and Nadia. They both work as physiotherapists and movement specialists, at a local gym in Amsterdam. They attend to their clients through awareness on the quality of movement, using strength and mobility exercises, to improve posture and movement habits.

Gijs (the owner) and Nadia share their daily experiences at the gym as they guide clients through exercises that go beyond the fitness-oriented goals, creating instead long-lasting happiness through a balanced and strong body.

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Keep listening. Keep moving.
Thank you - MiMC

Ep.15 - Gijs and Nadia - Move better to Feel better

Without moving, we would become stagnant, and loose the ability to develop ourselves. It’s not just about moving in order to build strong muscles or have a six-pack, or looking like a picture-perfect post on social media. It’s really about moving and building other skills curiosity and awareness qualities.

People often mistake the goal to go to the gym and find small repetitive movement boring, because they are fixed on (very) long term goals. Instead of focusing on the journey to get there, through small steps, and the small discoveries that lead to chances of true personal growth.

This episode brings the continuation of the previous one - episode 15 - with another two colleagues from the Amsterdam based gym Wijs.

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Please share this episode with family, friends, colleagues who you know to be interested in movement and body-mind awareness, to help them inspire through their journey.

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Keep listening. Keep moving.
Thank you - MiMC

Ep.16 - Anna and Derk - Movement and Choice

Join me this time with Mark Walsh aka Mr Embodiment as we explore the what, the why and the how of embodiment as a tool of awareness and choice. 

Mark Walsh devotes his life in bringing embodiment to a wider audience, familiarizing us with tools and practices that tap into our body intelligence. For better self, and better relationships.

Ep.17 - Mark Walsh - Body Intelligence with Embodiment

Join me with designer, author, teacher, and former colleague Ellis Bartholomeus in this New Episode exploring play as a dynamic force that breaks stagnation patterns and takes us on adventures of exploration, growth and outstanding fun!

Play is a fundamental part of who we are as species and is the base for creativity. And creativity is what keeps us alive. ❤️

Ep.18 - Ellis Bartholomeus - How to Make the Magic Happen With Play

“We need to choose differently and be more aware and conscious about what we choose for our body which includes the training” - RT

Listen to this conversation with Rita Terruta. A personal trainer and coach with a fine tuned listening skill that makes the whole difference when working with her clients.

Rita combines many tools like play, awareness, mindfulness, observation, and her 10years of working in the field of sports and movement to create unique moments of movement exploration and movement knowledge for her clients ❤️

We explore:
👉 Movement snacks
👉 The importance of movement and the future of health 
👉 The myths of gym and HIIT training!

And so much more. Rita has a passion for this work and it is shown in the way she expresses her thoughts.

With Rita I will be doing a series of episodes that will touch on different topics, such as movement as we age, and the release of emotions though the release of fascia tensions.

What would you like to know more, from these topics? Feel free to DM/Comment below.

Thank you for listening 🎧

Ep.19 - Rita Terruta - Everyday Movement and the Future of Health

"Laughter is a Social bonding"

Improv teacher, Therapist, Educator, Wonderful Listener and a Man of Linguistics. Meet Andrew through this joyful conversation on why improv comedy isn’t about performance nor (just) the jokes.

Andrew has had an incredible array of experiences in his life, and in this conversation he answers with an honest reflection over the benefit of fear and impulse.

Here we touch on:
👉 What is Improv really?
👉 Laughter!
👉 Fear (without danger) can teach us something

Ep.20 - Andrew Cain - Laughter for Creativity and Bonding

Meet Ben J Munday, my guest on this episode. Together we uncover the power of trust, its relation with the present moment, and the benefit of awareness practices that developed this skill.
His work as a coach focuses on supporting women and empowering them to become the leaders of the present and future, holding and recognising their past as resource to navigate through unknown territory.  

Included in the episode:
👉 a feeling-sensing practice
👉 a meditation practice for awareness
👉 tips on how to come back to the present moment

Make sure to check out Ben's work at https://www.benjmunday.com

I love this conversation because Ben invites me to acknowledge that this podcast is about trusting the process as we navigate through change. Attuned to our trust we evolve as better leaders gracefully enduring the everyday challenges.

Thank you for listening 🎧

Ep. 21 - Ben J Munday - Movement with Awareness for Building Basic Trust

MiCa Meditation

Mindfulness Ceelebration 10min

Mindfulness silence 5min

Mindfulness Choice 2min

Mindfulness walking 5min

Mindfulness standing 8min

Mindfulness integration 5min

Mindfulness Breathing 5min

Mindfulness Sitting ground 10min

Rita Terruta is back again to the podcast! 
Lately we've had some really interesting conversations on the fear of movement, fascia awareness and postural alignments. So I asked Rita to join me again on the show  and share her research and knowledge. 

Why does the fascia matter?
The fascia is a connective tissue that receives input from the external environment and communicates this information to our entire body. 
The fascia receives and also stores information, and that is why we say "we store emotions". It also points to the importance of therapeutical exercise that focus on emotional release through fascia work.

This is a rich episode in which we cover and share, among other things, the following:
👉  What is the fascia?
🤔  Why do we create stories we believe in?
👏 What is good stress?
😎 Cool exercises for the fascia
💛 Changing our mood and postural awareness

Rita has an a deep love for listening deeply to the body and acknowledging the path where one is at.  She brings her passion of movement through the dedication she brings to her daily work.

Thank you for listening 🎧

Ep. 22 - Rita Terruta - Preventive care through movement of the fascia

My guest on this episode is Vix Anderton.
Framing her work as a perfectionist coach and identifying herself as a recovering perfectionism, Vix brings lightness to a heavy topic, which I believe many of us can identify with: Perfectionism.

"I'd like to include perfectionism as part of the human experience". Using the body as an awareness tool that provides the map to the present moment, Vix is inspired to include perfectionism as part of who we are, nurturing the relationship with it, instead of trying getting rid of it.

In this episode we
🤓 Debunk perfectionism
🙌 Learn to frame the why, the how, and the what
👏 Understand that actions are driven by our core needs

Vix has spent years developing her work as a coach and in her own life she realised that perfectionism is a coping mechanism that leads to unhelpful strategies in life, which tend to lead to repetitive behaviours that are not helpful for our happiness and wellbeing.

Make sure to follow Vix and get a copy of her latest book Enough.

Thank you for listening 🎧

Vix Anderton: How to recover from perfectionism with an embodied approach

Today I welcome Katia Khomich to the podcast. 

Our conversation flows between mindfulness, motherhood, mindset and our shared passion for bringing Self-Awareness tools to one of the most demanding roles in our lives: motherhood and parenthood.

Katia combines her teachings with ancient wisdom,  and the educational insights of modern science.

As a mother herself Katia understands the importance of this work for her pregnancy, birthing and motherhood.

In this episode we explore the benefits of mindfulness to:

🤷‍♀️ Accept the unknown
💥 Go through discomfort
💛 Being familiar with emotions

Thank you for listening 🎧

Katia Khomich: How to Move Through Motherhood with Mindfulness

Joséphine Cantona is a Yoga teacher, Functional Patterns instructor and Coach. She is informing students, helping clients and developing her business on movement strategies that can support other practices, and most essentially the everyday movement, including the journeys to recovery.

Josephine's experience from yoga was once rooted in the belief that one such practice would cover body, mind, and soul. 

Josephine's experience from Yoga was once rooted in the belief that such practice would be enough to attain a "perfect" physical, mental and spiritual body.

But soon she found - learning from injuries and new practices - that Yoga could become a much deeper spiritual practice, when supported by other movement strategies that heightened awareness.

On this episode:
💥 Understanding injuries: recovery and myths
🙌 Benefits of moving in different ways
👉 A look into spiritual pillars that support awareness

Thank you for listening 🎧

Josephine Cantona: Diversity in Practices to Improve Movement Patterns

New Episode! This time I am joined by João Palma: teacher, mentor, educator, and life long meditation student.

João shares his thoughts, and teachings on impermanence and how this is best experienced through the body, always bringing a curious attitude.

In this episode we look into:
🤔 Why it matters to embody impermanence
🤯 Why do we get stuck on beliefs of the self 
😌 What to do, to get unstuck and find flow

Thank you for listening 🎧

João Palma: How to Live with Impermanence and Uncertainty

This episode was originally published in February 2020. 
My guest is Mariana Maia Gil, working as a biologist for Cell Biology and Tissue Morphogenesis Lab, IGC, in Portugal.
Mariana is passionate about bridging various scientific areas, enriching scientific discoveries. And in this episode she is describing how, and why, movement is crucial for her work as a biologist. There is no life without movement.

From the Archive - Mariana Maia Gil. Why Movement is Life.

In this episode my guest is Constança Morais, dancer, teacher, therapist, economist, and founder of Release Embodied Arts. This organisation is shifting the way NGO’s and social innovation organisations design systems for social innovation. Constança shares the importance of working with emotions, specially for organisations who are responsible to change systems, and reorient solutions for humans and the planet. Bringing this work to the forefront of change, Constança hopes change makers and leaders in the field will be better connected to their emotions instead of individual demands.
She reinforces that bringing the human dimension to the work (they do, it creates better connections with the different systems that are parts of human life. Otherwise we keep on doing the same (human) errors.
Constança details the process of expressive therapy, how her workshops are led, and clarifies what trauma is (and isn’t).
This episode my interest you if you are a social entrepreneur, or working in social innovation, looking to rethink systems design from a more human centric approach.

Constanca Morais: How to Rethink Social Innovation

In this episode my guest Jorge Beleza, with a PhD on Exercise Physiology, and a special interest on high-altitude mountaineering, is bringing his life-long passion over movement through insightful, and educated research he conducted with a team of experts to understand movement benefits for the prevention of liver disease.  His interest in evolutionary history enriches our conversation as we go through the experiences of movement, specifically by walking in Nature and its impact on our body, mind, and overall wellbeing. Beyond the benefits of being in nature, Jorge points to the unique capacity humans have to adapt and adjust to the environment. This leads to creative thinking and is directly connected to survival and health.  This episode interests anyone seeking knowledge on movement benefits for longevity, and how can walking in nature increases happiness, adaptation skills, and creativity.

Jorge Beleza - Health Benefits of Movement, Exercise, and Walking

In this episode Femke Deckers, Dutch author, workshop leader, and motivational speaker inspires people to become the best version of themselves. After a life changing event, Femke pursued her natural curiosity to search for her why.  

This led her to start a business offering creativity workshops, guiding teams to step outside of the thinking paths and connecting to their hearts: the why behind their work.  Femke is also the author of “Schroef jezelf los” - loosely translated as “Unscrew yourself” - a book about revalidation, resilience, and creativity for life.   

This episode interests you, if you seek to know more about creativity, how to apply this skill in life and work, the attitudes that are at the heart of all creatives, and how creative processes can generate innovation.

Femke Deckers - How to Become a Creative

In this episode award-winning writer Raquel Ochoa, is explaining how bravery and curiosity have built her career as a travel writer. Raquel shares her stories of going to remote places and how it impacted her writing style. How intuition has fed her hunger to experience places and write about them, from a visceral place, a channel of her own experience. Her bravery is a key voice of all her stories.

Recently Raquel has been invited to translate a beautiful essay by Henry Thoreau, a testimony of how moving in Nature, walking step by step, is an exercise in finding true freedom.

For this episode I wanted to know more about this movement in nature as a spiritual experience. Moving in Nature is the direct experience of where our body is, connecting us to the right moment, the true place where we meet our physical self. Which in the end is the most genuine expression of presence. This is true freedom.

This episode interests anyone who is looking to find true freedom. The answer resides in this conversation about movement in nature, and how to develop  bravery and curiosity as tools whenever we feel an urge to challenge ourselves.

Raquel Ochoa - Finding True Freedom with Travel Writing

In this episode yoga teacher Beatrice Savaris shares the wisdom of a life worth of teaching. Long experienced in her personal practice and as a teacher, Beatrice travels between countries to teach students and accompany athletes passing on a deep understanding of the yoga philosophy, physical education, and spiritual development. 

She is sharing with us how wanna teachers should find their voice, an identity that will become a unique exchange of knowledge with the students in front of them. And how finding one’s voice is exactly part of the path of a teacher. There is no shortcuts when becoming a teacher and it’s a lifelong journey of growth.

This episode interests you if you seek to know more about yoga teacher training, and how to apply further yoga philosophy in your life. For teachers, specially of Yoga and mindfulness trainings this is an episode that supports you as you’re building, or reflecting back at your career.

Beatrice Savaris - how to develop teaching skills from yoga philosophy

In this episode, my guest known by the artistic name BSP, shares the direct experience of living with synesthesia. Although labelled as a condition, I find synesthesia a creative ability, and as a singer songwriter and artist, BSP navigates this world with a multiple sensory lens. This allows her to create immersive experiences on stage through sounds, melodies, and imagery on canvas. BSP has performed at the Tate Museum and her audiences have describe it as “her art a connection of voice, sound and paint”. 

Today we talk about synesthesia from a first person experience as we aim to uncover some myths, while hopefully support those who feel outcasts for such ability. 

This episode interests you on BSP's creative process BSP, and also if you wish to know more about synesthesia in the mental health context, or how to improve your creativity through open up the multi sensory experiences.

BSP - The Extraordinary World of Synesthesia

This month I am joined by Mara Morgado, contemporary dancer facilitating dance laboratories for women of all ages. In her Body and Artistic Awareness Journeys - Laboratório do corpo - Mara educates on feminine energy as a healing process to prioritise rest, in a rushed society that priorities productivity.

In our conversation we talk about what is feminine energy, why it is important to explore, support and nourish the female soul, and what can anyone identifying as men do to support women, and female identities.

This episode interests you if you are looking to know how to create balanced working environments, how to establish parity in our societies, and how to educate future generations on feminism, the female body, soul, and energy.

Mara Morgado: healing society with feminine energy

In this episode, environmental engineer and yoga teacher, Inez Aires shares her experience working with prisoners for the Prison Yoga Project, in Portugal. 
Inez challenges how prisons are designed firstly questioning the reintegration process of a prisoner back into society, and then how we commonly see a prison design.

Having travelled in many countries to “drink from the source” by immersing herself in ancestral rituals and spiritual practices, Inez reinforces the idea behind the Prison Yoga Project: to give prisoners access to mental and physical freedom with respect, and responsibility.

This episode interests anyone who would like to know more about volunteer work, namely the Prison Yoga Project, or who is responsible for designing and creating social projects with a human centric approach.

Inez Aires: Prison Yoga Project, How to Gain Mental Freedom

"I think the body is a source for giving you direction. Nobody can feel the inside of my body, and yet is an important source to figure where I place myself in society". 

My guest on this episode is Ria Higler. Ria is a teacher at the Academy of Theater and Dance, in Amsterdam. Through her dance career Ria's human approach allows students -inside and outside of school, amateurs and professionals - to create their language through a deep self-awareness. Her movement research is focused on adaptation to space, and listening to the body, as means to create one's identity. 
Ria's introspection is detailed,  meditative, and free of judgement. 

In her book “Movement Research: Stories and Journeys by Ria Higler” Ria shares her extensive career through the eyes of - what I call her - the dancing anthropologist.

ep3. Ria Higler. Movement Research

"There is a real need for design to be embodied."
How good are you at listening? True empathy comes from deep listening, as an embodied skill. 

Join me in this episode as I interview @MattShearing. Visual artist, embodiment facilitator, and design researcher, Matt brings insights from his travels, his design experience, and studies, and shares his ideas on the qualities behind a good listener.

This is essential in the life of a designer and in the implementation of its methodologies. But also for everyday life, really.

I'm marking this episode with a new adventure: going to youtube. Check out the channel: Movement is My Constant and this episode: Ep13 - Matt Shearing - Somatic Design

Keep listening. Keep moving.

Thank you
- MiMMC

EP.13 - Matt Shearing - Somatic Design

Collecting movement knowledge from the eyes and experiences of teachers, dancers, performers, and philosophers through open conversations made to inspire leaders to design impactful organizational experiences using movement and embodied knowledge.

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