Episode 19: Chocolate, fascia and the spark of life. With Dr. Joanne Avison.
Today's episode is all about chocolate, fascia and the spark of life - yes, this is a deep, magic and mysterious conversation - just how recovering from eating difficulties can feel like or did feel for me.
About Joanne:
Joanne Avison is an author, illustrator and specialist in fascia, myofascial movement and manual therapy. The 2nd edition of her book "Yoga Fascia Anatomy and Movement" precedes a new illustrated series including "Myofascial Magic in Action", "Fasciategrity – the Magical Interface", "The Heart-centred Embryo" and "Somatic Archetypes". Through archetypal awareness, Joanne teaches how fasciategrity redefines the unified nature of human form and self-expression through everyone's unique movement patterns. An ordained minister, Joanne's doctorate in Spiritual Science includes study and practice as teacher / practitioner of Restorative Yoga, Surat Shabd Yoga, Structural Integration and Sacred Contracts - archetypal patterns and the movement of magical inner awareness. Joanne invites us to tune in to ourselves and understand our own biomotional intelligence from the inside out.
During our conversation Joanne shared how she spends most of her time travelling the world working mainly with practitioners teaching her work and how she witnesses her students get confidence that «there is nothing wrong with me, I am embodied, I am.» She described this as «watching lightbulbs go on, a process of bringing ourselves home - where the magic happens». And of course this is exactly what this podcast is about and what healing is about - coming back home and acknowledging the wholeness you are and have always been!
In this conversation we talked about:
Joanne's journey from being a chocolatier to speaking «fluent fascia» …
… and teaching practitioners worldwide in her role as a «spiritual scientists»
Why we need to let go of thinking about our body as a biomechanical machine …
… and acknowledge the crystal liquid matrix of fascia!
How we can engage the latter through movement!
What embodiment means and that we can never not be embodied!
What the embryo has to teach us.
Yes, this is a power talk of an episode and just so heart-warming, inspiring and encouraging! Listen, enjoy and then go and follow your own wild heart and do all those things which make you feel alive. This is our birth right.
I hope you will enjoy this episode and I am so much looking forward hearing from you - share with me how listening to Julie inspired and nurtured your yoga practice from anew and what you took from this conversation.
More information about Joanne's work:
Engage with Joanne on social media @joanneavison
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