The Body Knows - unlocking your inner wisdom with Marcela and Mat Wakeham

Season #1 Episode #33

This week’s episode of Be On Air we interview the extraordinary hosts of The Body Knows podcast, Mat and Marcela Wakeham. Right away we dive into both Mat and Marcela’s origin stories and how they began collaborating on mind-body healing. Some of the topics discussed in depth include understanding our mind body connection and why its important, ways to ground yourself, the influence of western cultural systems, patriarchy, masculinity, self-love, tips for successful podcasting and so much more! Be sure to follow Mat and Marcela and check out The Body Knows Podcast on all platforms. 

Marcella is a senior yoga teacher and a movement therapist and a lifelong practitioner of yoga dance and Pilates. She has 20 years of experience in the field of body awareness, mindfulness, and body mind movement related practices, and is versed in anatomy and physiology. 

Matt benefits from a lifetime of spiritual study, formal practice training and personal experience. Within this, there is a consistent thread of mindfulness-based meditation supported by loving awareness, concentration, and compassion. His healing journey over the last 20 years has taken in analysis, hypnotherapy, acupuncture, and psychedelic plant medicine. These he combines with external practices to most predominantly strengthened fitness training, as well as yoga and martial arts. And most recently somatic sexual healing, breath work, and cold exposure. 

 

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00:00 – Introduction   

04:40 – Mat and Marcela’s origins?

10:54 – Collaboration and beginning a journey together

22:57 – Why get into your body? 

29:14 – How to ground with your body

35:57 – Western cultural system of patriarchy 

39:02 – Ancestral trauma in our DNA 

42:42 – The Body Knows podcast

48:50 – Tips for other podcasters 

53:03 – Group podcast coaching

54:58 – Podcast shoutouts 

58:10 – Final messages

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