Episode 136: The Body is a Doorway with Katja Markelova
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Katja Markelova. Katja is a somatic healer, educator, and activist.
She is the founder of Tales of Bodyverse - the animate and relational approach to Somatics and to being a highly-sensitive human in this World.
Katja is on a mission of helping practitioners and individuals to re-define the relationship with their individual Body for the sake of re-enchanting the great collective Body in these times of turmoil.
Through her work she is creating equitable, generative, caring spaces, and systems that support healing and being human based on partnership, reciprocity, and belonging.
“Your Body is a doorway to the world full of enchantments”.
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In this episode we talk about:
The Body is a Doorway
Madison & Katja’s experience of having a body & brain that diverges from the norm
How to organize your life to meet divergent body & brain needs
Katja’s experience becoming “the man of the family”
What “never-forever” means when experiencing impossible conditions without choices
The “more more more, faster, faster, faster” energy of corporate that left Katja heartbroken
Moving in kairos time & how it allows big shifts in short amounts of chronological time
Seeing the body as an organism in a hum with everything; we are an ecosystem and in an ecosystem
The journey of re-membering, and how easy somatics can be when we let go of learning in the mental space
Everything we do has consequences, because everything we do changes something
Embracing Neurodiversity: Autism is Not a Pathology & the hidden struggles of femmes
The journey from living a hologram to living authentically
Insights into healing and liberation from Slavic Folklore
Accelerated wellbeing by slowing down with the body
Navigating business with authenticity
And more!
