The Movement for Every Body Podcast
The Movement for Every Body Podcast
Podcast Description
The Movement for Every Body podcast is hosted by Dr Marcia PT, your chronically ill friendly neighborhood physical therapist, certified yoga teacher, and author of a book by the same name. Join Dr Marcia as they discuss all things accessibility, autonomy, and making movement feel better with fitness coaches, wellness practitioners, and healthcare providers.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of accessibility, body image, grief, and movement, with episodes like 'Ballet, Bodies, and Moving Through Grief' that delve into the emotional aspects of movement and caring for loved ones. Other topics include the impact of patriarchal standards in fitness and wellness, self-care, and the importance of recognizing individual needs in movement practices.
The Movement for Every Body podcast is hosted by Dr Marcia PT, your chronically ill friendly neighborhood physical therapist, certified yoga teacher, and author of a book by the same name. Join Dr Marcia as they discuss all things accessibility, autonomy, and making movement feel better with fitness coaches, wellness practitioners, and healthcare providers.
What is so freeing about dance? What makes us fear self expression? Can a workout still count if it’s fun? Let’s talk about it! Join Dr Marcia and her guests Kirwin, Ashantis, and Ashley as they discuss all things joyful movement through various forms of dance. Across our guests we have backgrounds in mental health, education, music, physical therapy of course, pole dances, line dances, zumba, swing dance, blues dancing, and flow arts.
Takeaways
- Consent always matters, you choose how to move your body with others.
- It’s okay to be a beginner, especially with different forms of dance.
- Having fun does not make dance & movement any less of a workout.
- Take expectations from others out of your journey and discover yourself.
- Dance is both an art and a skill, which can be practiced.
Sound Bites
- “Why is throwing it back in a circle an act of liberation?”
- “At what point do we cast aside the fear and live the life that we have?
- “It blows people's minds that you accommodate yourself”
- “I’m free to move however I’d like, and I’m gonna do that”
- “I can do something that’s not for men”
Links
Ashley Williams @xtremehiphopwithashley_
https://linktr.ee/xtremehiphopwithashley_
Ashantis Jones @IamAshantis
https://www.ashantisjones.com/
Kirwin @RVA.flows
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