
The Return to Embodiment: consciousness, culture, creativity and flourishing
by Kim Rothwell
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Dance, Somatics and Ecological Embedment with Amelia Burns
Jun 4, 2026
1h 09m 58s
Dance and Ecological Embedment with Amelia Burns
Jun 4, 2026
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Embodiment in eating disorder recovery and beyond with Rachel Lewis-Marlow MS, EDS, LCMHC, LMBT
Apr 25, 2026
1h 03m 57s
Conscious dance practice as access point to humanity and basic goodness with Jenny Macke
Apr 11, 2026
1h 03m 00s
Dr. Suzi Tortora on Medical Dance Therapy with Infants and Embodiment as an Integrating Capacity
Jan 21, 2026
53m 16s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/4/26 | ![]() Dance, Somatics and Ecological Embedment with Amelia Burns✨ | dancesomatics+4 | Amelia Burns | movingstillnesshealing.comEmbodiment and embedment: integrating dance/movement therapy, body psychotherapy, and ecopsychology | — | dance therapysomatic therapy+5 | — | 1h 09m 58s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() Dance and Ecological Embedment with Amelia Burns | In this conversation, I am speaking with Amelia Burns. I found Amelia through her masters thesis article, Embodiment and embedment: integrating dance/movement therapy, body psychotherapy, and ecopsychologyAs a body worker, a dancer and a somatic therapist/dance therapist, Amelia has gathered threads of a myriad different experiences and inspirations to create a tapestry of her work exploring embodiment in relationship with onself, others, and the more than human world. "In writing and reflecting on the themes of embodiment in my life, I feel inspired and excited about continuing to follow the embodied threads of deep listening and embodied conversing through attuning with my body, with others, and with the more-than-human world. Improvisational dance skills of embodyingly following the yes’s have long influenced my ways of being, and I’m sure will persist in guiding me in the future as I cultivate more and more embodied presence in my life and work." ~Amelia BurnsFor more information on Amelia's work and writings, visit: https://movingstillnesshealing.com | — | ||||||
| 4/25/26 | ![]() Embodiment in eating disorder recovery and beyond with Rachel Lewis-Marlow MS, EDS, LCMHC, LMBT✨ | eating disorder recoverysomatic therapy+4 | Rachel Lewis-Marlow | — | — | eating disorderssomatic therapies+5 | — | 1h 03m 57s | |
| 4/11/26 | ![]() Conscious dance practice as access point to humanity and basic goodness with Jenny Macke✨ | conscious dancehumanity+3 | Jenny Macke | jennymacke.cominstagram | — | conscious dancehumanity+5 | — | 1h 03m 00s | |
| 1/21/26 | ![]() Dr. Suzi Tortora on Medical Dance Therapy with Infants and Embodiment as an Integrating Capacity✨ | medical dance therapyinfant mental health+3 | Dr. Suzi Tortora | Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical IllnessThe Dancing Dialogue+2 | — | dance therapyinfants+5 | — | 53m 16s | |
| 12/11/25 | ![]() Embodied Speech: Interviewing the Interviewer with Kimberly Rothwell and Leslie McCormick✨ | embodied speechphenomenology+4 | Leslie McCormick | Embodied Education Institute of ChicagoTriratna Buddhist Order | ChicagoTucson | embodied speechphenomenology+5 | — | 1h 38m 19s | |
| 8/25/25 | ![]() Elissaveta on embodiment as bridge between past present and future.✨ | embodimentdance therapy+3 | Elissaveta Iordanova | American Dance Therapy AssociationMaimonides Medical Center+2 | — | dance therapyembodiment+3 | — | 47m 19s | |
| 5/10/25 | ![]() Embodiment in art, in pain and in sculpture with Melanie Cooper Pennington✨ | embodimentart+5 | Melanie Cooper Pennington | I Fell GalleryInternational Center for the Arts+7 | Bloomington, IndianaMonte Castello, Italy+7 | embodimentart+5 | — | 1h 02m 24s | |
| 4/17/25 | ![]() Is this podcast necessary anymore?✨ | embodimentcreation+4 | — | — | — | embodimentcreation+5 | — | 31m 57s | |
| 12/9/24 | ![]() Cuquis Robledo on Embodiment as Vibration. Freedom. Advocacy. Reclamation. Identity.✨ | embodimentmental health+4 | Cuquis Robledo | Cuban-Americancuquisrobledo.com+1 | Houston, TX | mental healthadvocacy+5 | — | 1h 15m 23s | |
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| 10/24/24 | ![]() Dance as world making through attention and volition with Rebecca Barnstaple PhD✨ | dance therapychronic pain+5 | Rebecca Barnstaple | York University | — | dancetherapy+5 | — | 1h 04m 29s | |
| 9/22/24 | ![]() Embodiment as relationship to changing self with Kristina Fluty | In this conversation, Kristina traces ways her own body and development interfaced with limitations of the dance world, and how she has found home in practices of intenttionally dismantling harmful conditioning and building movement from a posture of love and seeking pleasure in the body. Kristina talks about the therapeutic dance certificate offered through EEIC and the honor of facilitating the unique artistry of each person's unique and changing embodied expression. Kristina states, "we will never know everything about the body. We have to come in here with respect for the mystery of, of all the processes that are always happening that we may never understand and still be with ourselves deeply without knowing why." | — | ||||||
| 7/20/24 | ![]() Poetry and authenticity with Tārāvajrī | In this conversation, I am speaking with Tārāvajrī. Leslie McCormick (Taravajri) is a somatic creative, licensed somatic psychotherapist, registered dance movement therapist, poet, and ordained Dharmacharini with the Triratna Buddhist Order. In this conversation we discuss poetry as companion, our shared love of our teacher, Zoe Avstreih, and the phenomena of touch and sound in authentic movement. Tārāvajrī is passionate about embodiment as political resistance: moving from the inside-out and supporting movers into loving relationship with their authentic somatic expression, she denies the patriarchal gaze, fights sexual consumerism, and disappoints Eurocentric, anthropocentric, and heteronormative expectations; instead, she centers felt experience as gateway to personal and transcendental truths. As a long-time practitioner of both authentic movement and Buddhism, Leslie is committed to sharing an embodied spirituality. Keenly interested in the role of beauty in human development and transformation, Leslie regards Truth as the greatest beauty and the simplest, effective expression of Truth as, perhaps, the highest art. She runs workshops and groups in which movers shape works of choreography and writing from the raw material of somatic exploration.Leslie maintains a private practice and makes her home in Tucson, Arizona, the lands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui people. For more information, visit tucsonsomaticpsychotherapy.com. | — | ||||||
| 6/1/24 | ![]() Ashley Fargnoli on international practices of dance/movement therapy and overcoming burnout | Ashley Fargnoli is a dance/movement therapist, a licensed psychotherapist, a dance performer, a choreographer, a film maker, a researcher, and a Fullbright scholar. In this conversation, we explore the multicultural origins of embodiment and the ways in which parts of ourselves and are accessed and healed through different styles of dance. Ashley describes working with a performance as therapy model, the importance of creative process in the life of a therapist and also reflects on belonging as a function of participation within a dance community. For more information, visit Ashley's website: https://ashleyfargnoli.com/ | — | ||||||
| 2/20/24 | ![]() Embodiment as response with Molly Shanahan | Molly Shanahan is a Canadian-born, U.S.-based choreographer and dancer, educator, thinker, and writer about movement, body, and healing. She makes dances. She supports movers in reinhabiting their own bodies in relationship with other movers, prioritizing deep exploration of movement and inquiry into what human experience and response drives our movement choices, especially within the phenomenon of being seen. For more information about Molly's teaching, performances, writings, and experience, visit https://www.mollyshanahanspiralbody.com/about | — | ||||||
| 1/19/24 | ![]() Embodiment as inquiry with Amber Elizabeth Gray: How am I, in this flesh and blood and love, a part of everything? | In this conversation, Dr. Amber Elizabeth L. Gray asks a series of questions, which deepen us into the question of embodiment and its function to sensitize us to one another and cultivate respect and reciprocity within the more than human world. Dr. Gray is a Dance/Movement Therapist, Somatic & Human Rights Psychotherapist, and long-time yoga and Continuum teacher. She works with survivors of war, torture, human rights abuses and historical trauma and oppression, in the US and in active and post conflict zones, refugee camps, and disasters. Equally activist, artist, advocate, author, mystic and therapist, her clinical, healing, educational and organizational work endeavors to promote reciprocity and empowerment and incite meaningful change. She brings her Polyvagal, Heart & Spirit-informed Right to Embody somatic human rights framework and Body of Change eco-somatic regenerative retreats to communities of therapists, artists, global citizens and change maker world-wide. Amber originated Polyvagal-informed Somatic & Dance/Movement Therapy through 25 years immersive mentoring and exploration of Polyvagal Theory. This work is a survivor-centered, multi-cultural & social justice framework that reflects many years of co-inquiry with her clients to understand how Polyvagal Theory promotes restoration and healing in the body-heart-mind-spirit for survivors of egregious human rights violations. She has been teaching this work globally since 2003 and is the inaugural member of The Polyvagal Institute’s Editorial Board. https://ambergray.com/ Gray, A.E.L., Kennedy, J.R. Marian Chace Foundation 2022 Lecture & Introduction from the 57th Annual American Dance Therapy Association Conference, Heartlines: Gathering Wisdom from Many Streams; Montreal, Canada. Am J Dance Ther 45, 88–108 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-023-09384-7 | — | ||||||
| 1/10/24 | ![]() Introduction to 6th Season of The Return to Embodiment 2024 | In this podcast, I reflect on time spent in the middle of the night with a green sea turtle in the southern great barrier reef, witnessing her toil and labor and eventually, without completing the work of laying her eggs, return to the ocean. I am aware that this podcast itself is a digging a nest, a gathering together stories, and perhaps it will in this new year expand beyond my voice and vision as we adapt into a future not yet imagined. Thank you Josie Rothwell for the mandolin song, "Going Across The Sea" Thank you for listening. | — | ||||||
| 12/13/23 | ![]() Roman Baca on dance as a way to reconnect military veterans to themselves and to their broader communities. | In this conversation, I am speaking with Román Baca. Román is a U.S. Marine Iraq war veteran as well as the co-founder and artistic director of Exit12 Dance Company in New York City. Román was invited to do a TEDx talk in San Antonio in 2013 (https://youtu.be/EjwFMgsQmBI). When I learned of his work, I took the opportunity to visit New York to see his company rehearse and talk with him about his vision. Since then, Román has been a recipient of a Fulbright Award, completed an MFA at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and is now a PhD Candidate at York St. John University in York, UK. His most recent work was called Truths Colliding, an eight week series of workshops at the Intrepid Air and Space Museum in New York brought military veterans, victims of war and civilians together to move and create a final dance performance on the aircraft carrier. I am delighted to share the exciting work Román is doing bringing dance to the stories of soldiers and those impacted by war. | — | ||||||
| 7/6/23 | ![]() Kamaharia Hopkins on embodiment as individual and cosmic phenomena | Kamahria Hopkins, is a therapist, coach and consultant who offers "online therapy for the modern mystic." Kamahria integrates somatic and transpersonal practices including dance therapy and psychological tarot/astrology. In this conversation, Kamahria shares about her work in hospice, as a doula, and as a journalist and how these roles have prepared her to work with clients to reignite their magic and realign their body, mind and spirit. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/23 | ![]() Selena Coburne on embodiment as terrifying but necessary in practice, in ethics and in difference | In this conversation, I am speaking with Selena Coburn BC-DMT, LMHC, LCPC, who is currently serving as the ADTA Standards and Ethics Chair. We discuss the challenges the ADTA is facing as an organization and how the change and growth often involve discomfort and negotiating difference. Selena is a mental health and dance/movement therapist in Great Falls, Montana and an adjunct professor at Lesley University. She is a descendent of Blackfeet, Klamath, Cree, and Pitt River tribes. She earned her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase College in Purchase, NY. Selena's dance/movement therapy training includes the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, NY, and Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a registered dance/movement therapist, she believes in the importance of decolonizing dance as therapy, and culturally inclusive processing as the primary therapeutic principle. Selena has worked with adolescents in the residential treatment center setting and experienced the power of incorporating cultural healing elements in helping adolescents navigate social, emotional, physical, and relational developmental changes. Coburn has presented on Blackfeet cultural dances, Native American perspectives, and participated in panel discussions locally, regionally, and internationally. Selena founded the Native American Affinity Group as part of the Multicultural Diversity Committee of the ADTA and received the Leader of Tomorrow Award in 2020. She has previously served on the Texas Chapter board. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/23 | ![]() Lisa Clark on the pedagogy of embodiment as creative practice of wonderment moving us from the studio into the world. | As a student of art, yoga and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's Body-Mind Centering® work since the 1980's, Lisa Clark describes the how the creative process aligns with embodiment as a practice that begins in subtle movement, incubated with patient curiosity, and expands to engage the myriad relationships within and beyond the body. She describes how this lemniscape of self, other, and the broader world apply both within and beyond the studio. Lisa offers both online and in person learning opportunities to bring fresh persepective and depth to your movement practices. https://www.lisaclarkyoga.com/ | — | ||||||
| 4/4/23 | ![]() Lauren Peterson on dance for every body, repatterning criticism for joy. | In this conversation, I am speaking with Lauren Elise Peterson, a dance therapist and body image coach who uses beginner friendly dance to help people feel confident in their own skin. She combats the messages that emphasize the need to change the body: to tighten, to diminish, to take up less space, to be more like the virtual avatars we are often bombarded by in our social media. Instead, she invites folks to inhabit the body with a focus on what feels interesting, pleasureful or curious. She offers gentle, easily modified movements that build a vocabulary for movement in the body that helps to build an appetite for movement as play, thereby transforming the possibilities found moving and relating. www.laurenelisepeterson.com. instagram: laurenelisepeterson | — | ||||||
| 3/20/23 | ![]() Embodiment through dance education both as preparation for life and joyful participation within community. | In this conversation, I am speaking with Lea, owner and executive director of Body Language Studio and Jeromeskee, co-director and creator of Body Rock Breaking, a championship breaking training program. We talk about the origins of their passion for dance, their past successes professsionally and how they currently channel their experience to prioritize joy, authenticity and leadership through dance education at Body Language Studio. These values also undergird their parenting and support them in cultivating community of excellence and celebration of all students, regardless of age, gender or body type. If you are interested in learning more about their dance education programs, check out their website: https://www.blsdance.com/ The summer 2023 offerings at Body Language Studio are here: https://www.blsdance.com/_files/ugd/9bdc0e_b1e17bb3b93741a99dbabaef84b9e71e.pdf | — | ||||||
| 2/14/23 | ![]() Artistic directors of Khecari, Julia & Jonathan, on embodiment as art making creative process of difference and collaboration | In this conversation, I am speaking with Julia Rae Antonick and Jonathan Meyer, executive & artistic directors of Khecari (https://www.khecari.org/). Khecari ‘creates dance works furthering the transformative power of live bodies witnessing live bodies and advocates for the essential role of art within society, of dance within the arts, and of all artists working within the dance ecosystem.’ Please, visit their website, see the images and videos, and read about their vision. Better yet, experience them perform. And in doing participate in art that engages and transforms. | — | ||||||
| 12/6/22 | ![]() Andy Mangin on embodiment as preparation for the actor, as collective organism, and as delight found in woodcraft. | In this conversation, we talk about embodiment from the perspective of acting practice, examining our shared roots in an acting community and the applications and understandings that grew from those roots. Andy reflects on how the creation of the treatre is a humanizing force, which connects people to themselves and others, crafts shared story and community. Andy Mangin has been at Wheaton since 2005, teaching students how to produce theater in a liberal arts environment. He manages the productions, designs and builds sets, acts, teaches and directs. Some of Andy's favorites have been Will Eno's Middletown and Tony Kushner's The Illusion. He teaches Devised Theater, Directing and Acting classes. With an MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University and a hammer in the other hand, Andy crafts the actual sets as well as the performances for Arena Theatre. Mango Woodworks Link :www.instagram.com/p/Clj4lo1OdUu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link An article about Andy's woodworking: www.twohandsinteriors.com/journal-page/2020/4/21/working-with-a-talented-maker Here is a video about Andy's shakesphere in the park project from 2016. https://youtu.be/Eq-FY6Lvnak | — | ||||||
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