Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson

What Pam Shares: The importance of understanding our bodies and why self-exploration is crucial Feminism as it relates to social empowerment and education Embodied sex education- Take Back the Speculum What You'll Hear: What feminism is right now How to overcome being disempowered sexually Understanding what sex positivity really means "Take Back the Speculum" How understanding your body can change your life Self-pelvic mapping Menstrual extraction- what is it and who does it? 2nd wave of Feminism Depictions of clitoral anatomy in textbooks Sex education in schools, and the switch from reproductive education to whole human education The importance of touch, and learning to cope during quarantine Finding joy in the opportunities this pandemic has provided Summary: Pam Samuelson, a close friend and educator/bodyworker at Embodywork, joins us to talk about feminism, understanding your sexual body, and how to make the steps towards knowing yourself more intimately. Pam discusses the importance of carrying on the feminist conversations started by the founders of the movement, and how we as a whole can improve the status quo. Bio: Pam Samuelson is a practitioner and advocate of somatic therapy, exploratory bodywork, and meditation. Founder of Embodywork, Pam finds joy in helping others understand their bodies and teaching that transformation is possible if you know how to find it. Pam is an outspoken advocate for female empowerment, still actively in conversations with some of the leaders of feminist movements dating back to the 60's. Resources: https://embodyworkla.com/

What Matthew Shares: The impetus to ensure the information we intake pertaining to disease is factual Understanding the conflation between science and hope Why hope and hopeless are two sides of the same coin Why being "hope-free" is an important skill to learn What You'll Hear: Germ Theory versus Terrain Theory Why have masks become political? Impact of Coronavirus The danger in the political divide of mask wearers Politicization of Coronavirus amongst society and academia Republicans and New Age spiritual Nazis Racial impacts of how we frame these conversations The problem of hope Vaccinations in this context Relationship to death and to children How our world viewpoint effects pandemic response Is it ok to speak metaphorically about the disease? To personify it? Matthew Stillman has spent years studying both Eastern and Western spiritual practices. Currently working as a creative approach consultant in New York, Matt applies the skills he's learned over his many years of seeking to help others overcome the obstacles they face. Though his ability to listen to others and have nuanced conversation, Stillman has become a liaison amongst academics and the spiritual world. Bio: Matthew Stillman is a writer, consultant, and co-founder of Primal Derma. Matt has worked one-on-one with thousands of people to help them understand, transform, shift, and sometimes solve their problems. From poverty to religion, Stillman has contributed to a wide range of projects with the goal of raising awareness and understanding towards these issues and practices. Resources: https://primalderma.com/ https://stillmansays.com/ Twitter - @stillmansays

What She Shares: The historical foundations of the consolidation of whiteness Collective Healing vs. Personal Healing-- How Are They Related-- are they automatic? The timeline of the emergence of the new wave of identity politics and its impact What You'll Hear: The role of collective and individual healing in race relations Beginning of "whiteness" as a concept How whiteness has manifested into what is seen throughout the world today Societal role of immigrants within early America How other groups view whiteness Acknowledging white privilege Differentiating between white guilt and white privilege, and how to use it for change Understanding why identity politics are so strong today The role of white people within minority studies How to turn understanding and solidarity into change How racism is institutionalized and indoctrinated The power shift of White = Good to White = Bad Resources: How Jews Became White Folks by Karen Brodkin Sacks The Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsitz

Alicia Fajardo is the owner of Transformations Studio in Portland, Oregon and creator of The Fajardo Method of Holistic Biomechanics®. This modality focuses on nervous system health and biomechanics, which include body structure, alignment, and healthy, supported movement. Because biomechanics are dictated by the nervous system state, understanding basic nervous system function and how the nervous system responds to stress is necessary for understanding the modality. What you'll hear: - The influences and modalities that helped Alicia create her method, Holistic Biomechanics - What is motor learning? - How Alicia played with motor learning to influence her brain and help her body heal something that nothing else would - Understanding mirror neurons - How our biomechanics influence our thoughts - An example from a client session - The original design of yoga and how it impacts us today - optimal location of the diaphragm - What is the valve system - The Valve System and how yoga influences it- digestion, rate of activity, ANS functions - Yoga is designed to slow the valve system, to abate hunger and bodily needs for long periods of time. - What speeds up the Valve System? - How Kimberly went against the grain to address her prolapse with compression - People's first instincts are often the best - How the Valve System relates to fascia - Fascia and immunity - How diet and nutrition affect nerve regeneration - Positive impacts of cholesterol - CBD, THC and the nervous system- neurotoxicity - How synthetically engineered CBD and THC differs from the organic, wild marijuana plant - Alcohol also affects the fascia and the nervous system, but in a very different way; what can be metabolized - The regenerative process and the typical rate of recovery for the myelination of nerves Find more at www.transformationspdx.com.

In this roundtable episode, Jaguar alumni Meryl Yecies speaks about her experience with Jaguar and interviews 3 women who recently participated in the most recent Jaguar offering Jaguar in the Time of Cholera a course created to provide somatic tools and support during the quarantine.. Tune in to hear from Meryl, Leilani, Alissa, and Chessa as they share their unique experiences with the jaguar work.

Three women share their stories of how Activate Your Inner Jaguar changed their lives, business, sex, and relationships.

What Sarah Shares: Her own history with an auto-immune disease and how she healed herself through dietary changes Pleasure as the antidote to stress Working from her creative center How to expand your meal repertoire What You'll Hear: How our food cravings are often not what our bodies need Being attentive to what you might be needing from the foods you crave Understanding that food allergies are not static Changing your health by reducing stress Building in ways to slow down your day Finding a shopping and cooking system that supports you and your needs Having flexibility in your diet to support your body's current needs Increasing the quality of the foods you eat to reduce inflammatory responses Understanding that losing weight is not always about exercising more and eating less Basing your dietary choices on how you feel, not how you look Why removing sugars is so important for solving health mysteries Checking in with your diet as you age and change Why meat consumption can be important for menstruating and postpartum individuals Cleaning your diet by removing chemicals Learning more about health effects of alternative sugars common in 'health' foods Finding dietary balance with kids Using batch cooking to keep your weekly food options open Understanding how some cravings show you where you may be deficient Using cleansing properly Thinking of food as nourishment rather than numbers and nutrition Making decisions from wanting to feel good not necessarily to feel good Accepting and enjoying your body

What She Shares: How the birth of her three children set her on her path Discovering ways to connect to your pleasurable sensations Practicing one minute of self-pleasure as a meditation What You'll Hear: Healing birth trauma and changing the narrative Listening to the body and hearing its message Reclaiming your connection with your body through birth Being present and available for the ecstasy of birth Letting go of the checklist mentality and having a full system experience Opening yourself to pleasure to consciously use it during birth Expanding your capacity to hold energy through mindful self pleasure Integrating trauma as much as possible before birth Working to expand pleasurable sensation in the body Practicing pleasure in a calm and relaxed state so that it is available in charged situations Sourcing energy from a distant source when you feel stuck Doulas as energy holders in birth spaces Taking care of yourself through connection to your body How presence and connecting to Source is helpful in the first 6 weeks of postpartum Knowing that birth workers are as important to moms as moms are to babies Finding ways to build pleasure and support into your system Learning to rest when you need

What Rachelle Shares: Stepping into our next maturation level as adults How our experiences being gestated and born impact us through life Why the physiological birth requires safety and protection What You'll Hear: Returning to personal authority and innate wisdom The long-ranging impacts of gestation and birth on an infant Creating healthy, high-functioning adults in the future by prioritizing the care and health of mothers Making decisions during pregnancy and birth to support your child's capacity in life Aligning ourselves with Thriving Life Principles instead of Death Principles Understanding how separating a mother and baby at birth may impact the baby's attachment patternings Knowing how the use of Pitocin during birth effects postpartum depression rates Attending to our family's health and wellness by respecting our physiology Working through fear so that we can align with Thriving Life Understanding that intense experiences are not automatically traumatic Heading the radical call to re-center our power and authority as women Connecting to our food and water sources Birthing in safe and protected environments Protecting the hormonal blueprint of labor and birth The difference between a mental idea of safety and a physical understanding of safety Why interacting while wearing masks feels incoherent to our systems How the imprinting of being born impacts us in every single decision we make Bringing implicit patterns into conscious awareness to begin changing them Looking at this choice point of humanity through the 7 Fires Prophecy · Remembering the essentials of being human

What She Shares: Why psoas is a central part of birth Shifting from concept to physical movement in your tissues Psoas as innate expression Being coherent with nature Beginning your journey home to yourself What You'll Hear: Consciously maintaining our agency throughout the birth continuum Separating cultural conditioning from our animal-ness Trusting the animal body's knowledge of birth Unlocking your physical organism How ancestral trauma appears in different bodies Learning to shape shift to prepare for birth Why a supple, hydrated, expressive psoas is important for knowing oneself Trusting your own power Understanding the power dynamics between insurance companies, OBs, and birthing women Why your birthing experience affects your rite of passage into motherhood Examining appeasement and fawning responses Why it can feel so exhausting to try to maintain coherence with our animal bodies The difficulty of actively defending ourselves during birth The difference between controlling ourselves and expressing ourselves Finding your biological intelligence in your core The nervous systems as expression Why investing in your birth experience is a radical and loving act Making birth choices that support the earth and the human species How your birth experience affects your infant's nervous system How a sedentary lifestyle impacts a developing fetus Separating consciousness from the nervous system Psoas as "muscle of the soul" Landing into your bones and embracing the fetal curl