The Embodiment Talks (English): Recent Episodes
Marjon van Opijnen
In this podcast social systems change will be made accessible. In times of societal unrest, political scandals and climate crisis, we, probably unconsciously, question ourselves how to relate to the societal systems in which this is rooted. We often analyse this with our cognition. However, our body anticipates this much faster than our cognition can grasp it.
My name is Marjon van Opijnen, founder of the Embodiment LAB. In this podcast I will unravel the mysteries of our bodies in relation to challenging situations. And how more body awareness can help us to create societal and education change that serves us. I hope that this podcast gives you knowledge and new ideas. And that you can take your role as embodied change agent.
Because….. Concepts and ideas are important to come to change, but if we fail to feel and life through it, little change will happen.
This explorative podcast is about my own search to the relation between societal change and embodiment. I will share background information. I will interview experts and provide exercises. We will think, feel and act!
Great that you are here and I hope you enjoy listening to this podcast!
In this Embodiment Talk, I will have a talk with Bas van den Berg about regenerative education. We dive into innovative educational practices that explore systemic and personal challenges, barriers and opportunities. And creates an education system that is nurturing and healing and prepare students for the challenges of our current and future times and bring their capacity to serve societal transformations in the complex world we are living in.
In this conversation we talk about:
• What is regenerative education
• The difference between educating and learning
• How guiding students is just a part of the whole
• Important aspects for educators to be able to change to regenerative education
• Ideas for your classes and workshops
• The difference between safety and comfort
• And much more….
Bas van den Berg is researcher regenerative education and personal development at the Mission Zero centre of expertise at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. He engages with a leading practitioner, professor, teacher, and/or activist that is trying to connect their educational practice to making the world a more equitable, sustainable and regenerative place. He also launched the Regenerative Education Podcast.
More information about Bas van den Berg
The link to his Regenerative Education Podcast
Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel.
Lisanne van Niekerk, from podcast #14, shares an exercise. This exercise helps you to build more resilience and presence in challenging situations by tuning into inner resources.
Lisanne van Niekerk is an experienced facilitator and breathwork practitioner with a demonstrated history of working with a variety of groups. Skilled in coaching, leading and facilitating transformative processes, personal development and learning by doing.
More information about Lisanne van Niekerk: www.lisannevanniekerk.com
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
In this new episode of The Embodiment Talks I have a conversation with Lisanne van Niekerk. We talk about the value of embodiment and breathwork in sustainable innovations and sustainable change. We look at the integration of systems on the personal and societal level and how they connect and interact.
Questions we address are:
How are we part of bigger systems and how does that show up within us in how we feel and our reactions to this?
Is everything we feel ours?
How do we express what we experience in a healthy way for ourselves and for the system?
How can we use our body as source of wisdom in societal innovation and change?
* How breathwork can help you to become the embodied pioneer you want to be
Lisanne van Niekerk is an experienced facilitator and breathwork practitioner with a demonstrated history of working with a variety of groups. Skilled in coaching, leading and facilitating transformative processes, personal development and learning by doing.
Find information about Lisanne van Niekerk on www.lisannevanniekerk.com.
Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
We will never be ready for the future, but we can prepare ourselves. We are moving from one crisis to the next over the past few years. Individual reactions onto this will not be much different from reactions to societal transformation. They are all rooted in the same survival mechanisms.
A better understanding of these mechanisms and how to deal with this can help you to anticipate your own or other survival reactions effectively and with more compassion. This is where this new episode of The Embodiment Talks is about.
Happy listening!
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
Prema McKeever, from the interview in episode #11, shares an exercise with you. This exercise helps you to become more connected to your own grounding, the gifts of the earth and your lineage.
More information about Prema McKeever
www.premamckeever.com
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
To truly understand what the current societal systems do to our nervous system we need not to only learn about societal systems, but also about the system closes to us: our nervous system. In this episode I interview Prema McKeever about the effects of our current society on our nervous system and our primary reactions to situations.
Prema McKeever works as a somatic therapist in Canada and travels all over the world to guide groups in individual and collective healing processes. Sharing healing processes like the Path of Love and Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release.
In this conversation we talk about:
- The healing potence of group work
- The effect of corporate structure on our nervous system
- We explore some structures that would serve us better
- How resilience builds upon a good support system and what that means for our structures
- How communities can have a healing effect on humanity
More information about Prema McKeever:
www.premamckeever.com
Happy listening!
Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
Peter Merry, from the interview in episode #9, shares an exercise with you. This exercise helps you to become more grounded and stay in your center when facing challenges.
Link to the longer version of this exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pmPEspK9M0
Do you want to know more about Peter Merry: www.petermerry.org
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website (https://www.embodimentlab.nl/) or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel (https://bit.ly/EmbodimentLAB).
It’s difficult to grasp Peter Merry in one word. I calls himself: human being, speaker, educator, energy worker and author. I’d like to add: visionary. In this conversation with Peter we dive in healing our fragmented world. Because when we are fragmented in our inside, w will create a world that is fragmented.
I know very little people that have such a deep understanding of our systems and is also very capable of sharing this in an understandable way. Peter also shares his vision about how to move towards a healthier future for humanity, the planet and our systems.
In this conversation we talk about:
- How the world is fragmented
- How the Integral Theory of Ken Wilber inspires Peter’s thinking
- That we lost our relation with the larger whole when we started developing our egos, a long long time ago
- How this has become the basis of our current systems
- And what the way out could be
More information about Peter Merry:
www.petermerry.org
www.ubiquityuniversity.org
Happy listening!
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website (https://www.embodimentlab.nl/) or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel (https://bit.ly/EmbodimentLAB).
Creating change usually focuses on the future we envision. A future that is better, more sustainable and connecting than our current systems. What we often forget is to acknowledge what we have to let go to come to this change. In this podcast I inquire into the question: “What do we need to let go off to make to change?”
Happy listening!
Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my YouTube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
This guided meditation will help you to tune in with your felt sensations in your body and to become more aware of them.
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my You Tube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
Your body has its own language in which it speaks to you. Unfortunately this is not a language that is part of our curriculum at school. In this podcast a dive into the language your body speaks.
For references please go to the work of:
Giten Tonkov (Feel to Heal & Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release); Peter Levine; Pat Ogden
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my You Tube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
It probably does not come as a surprise that there is currently a lot happening in the world. Many problems, like climate change, civic unrest, poverty, a heatened house market, are symptoms caused by complex systems.You do not navigating those systems and creating change just by your cognition. It also requires us to feel into the desired change.
This episode explores why many of our current problems are rooted in the complex systems that we created. And how we can come to real change of those systems. This is complex and does not just require us to design with our brain, but also with our body.
I'll touch upon the following topics in this podcast:
- What is a system? And what is the difference between systematic and systemic?
- Why is systems change complex?
- Why is embodiment important in societal change?
- How can we use the body in change processes?
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my You Tube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
Embodiment is a notion that is more and more used in different contexts. But.... what is it? In this podcast I will dive into the different understandings of embodiment.
I will talk about:
- What does embodiment mean?
- How can we recognize it?
- What do others see when you are or are not embodied?
- Why do I value a more embodied life?
Enjoy listening!
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Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my You Tube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
Amy Abdou talks with Marjon van Opijnen, initiator of this podcast and founder of the Embodiment LAB.
What are important key moments in Marjon's life that lead to launching this podcast. An interesting conversation unfolds about the 'why' of this podcasts, the necessary education systems change and the essence of embodiment in this and other societal change that we are facing.
Every conversation gives me new insights and deepens my perspective on the relation between systems change and embodiment. This conversation is not just a sharing of my motivation and ambition, it's an inquiry in the choices I've made to come to change in the work I did so far.
Interviewer Amy Abdou is a senior lecturer in social entrepreneurship, sociology & entrepreneurial behavior at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences and IES Amsterdam and a PhD candidate in the department of Science Business Innovation at the Vrije Universiteit. In her research, she explores the organizational logics and roles of social entrepreneurs in resource poor environments.
Do you want to get in touch with Marjon, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date with my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my You Tube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl
In this first episode of The Embodiment Talks, I will introduce what you can expect in this podcast. And how you will be able to you can make embodied change in a turbulent and fragile world.
Happy listening!
Do you want to get in touch with me, send an email to marjon@embodimentlab.nl.
Do you want to know more about the Embodiment LAB, do you want more inspiration or stay up to date to my activities, go to my website or watch my movies on my You Tube Channel.
www.embodimentlab.nl