The Body Talks

Re-release: Nicho Plowman on the wide road

Rachel Biffin interviews Nicho Plowman, a Vedic meditation teacher and co-founder of one of the world’s most used meditation apps- Insight Timer. He also co-owns Edmund and Amelia, an ongoing project running meditation workshops and retreats in Australia and abroad.Links:Nicho Plowman Vedic Meditation teacherEdmund and AmeliaInsight Timer appRachel sips UNBUSY TEA. For more resources and to check out Rachel's services, go to: thebodytalks.net

What's the meaning of this move? Call out to listeners

For an upcoming episode, Ím doing research about the meaning attached to movement and the shapes human bodies make.  I want to explore how movement is interpreted both from the outside and from within the human doing the moves. I want to explore contexts where it is helpful to offer meaning to moves (i.e. the use of imagery to encourage and support) and where meaning making can be nonsensical or worse, used as a controlling tool to make the human mover feel alienated, dissociated and dis-empowered. So I’ve created a survey of a few questions that will take only a couple of minutes and you can find it here [ ] or Sharing your experience moving your body in the world will help me build an episode that let’s people know they’re not alone in experiencing the, quite frankly, weird and wacky world of human movement. Your voices are so important, are so precious. I can’t wait to hear from you. Rachel Biffin

Body Lines

In this episode of The Body Talks I voice my essay Body Lines, a rumination on the intersection of status quo beauty standards and my body with the support of radical modern thinkers Dr. Devon Price and their book Laziness Does Not Exist and Sonya Renee Taylor and her astounding book The Body Is Not An Apology. Full transcript/blog can be found here Links in the show: Glennon Doyle’s “We Can Do Hard Things”podcast episode Book: The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor Website: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/ Book: Laziness Does Not Exist by Dr. Devon Price Blog by Dr. Devon Price Audre Lorde's Mythical Norm Kaz Cooke's blog Corsets and Shapewear: delightful or dangerous?

Body Work - part 1

Humans love to work when it flows. When they have something to push against, some pressures, it's when we can do our best work.  But, The Commodified Body, and its early Christian values touts a different type of work ethic - using the pillar of "consistency" as part of a mechanistic view of how our bodies should work and how we should produce.  Here, the pillar of consistency is chained to time only and doesn't take into account the whole human body doing the work, and its requirements for play, for rest and for socialisation.  We are being marketed the message that we are singular machines whose businesses rely on us (and our customers) "showing up", "doing the work" at all costs and all contexts. This is not possible in the real world without tiredness, anxiety, and in the worse case, burning out. In this brief episode, I touch on ways "consistency" is viable (and when it's not) and how it can be viewed in healthy terms putting our bodies and businesses front and center. I talk about how I help businesses find their golden thread and bring that to the surface via words and images.   I hope this episode sparks a conversation, that it can lead us to feel better about our bodies working and how we market to them. Have a listen and drop me a line on Instagram @rachel.biffin [http://www.instagram.com/rachel.biffin]  Blog notes for this episode: contentmoves.net/thebodytalks [http://www.contentmoves.net/thebodytalks] Links to mentions in the show: Jeremihah Tower - The Last Magnificent [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5163286/] Dr. Michelle Mazur  [http://www.drmichellemazur.com]

Ronit Plank on "When She Comes Back"

IN THIS EPISODE I BRING YOU AN INTERVIEW WITH RONIT PLANK, AN AMERICAN AUTHOR, PODCASTER, TEACHER AND STORYTELLER.  She’s written a memoir When She Comes Back about her childhood years where, in 1978 , her mother leaves her and her younger sister (Nava)  to live with their father so she could go and follow guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to his now infamous ashram in Pune, India. (This was the guru at the center of the documentary Wild, Wild Country on Netflix). This book is so relevant in our current climate navigating our bodies through all these “market forces”you could say that signal “not enoughness”, “perfectionism”, narcissism, sexism and so many other isms that make up what I call The Commodified Body. The fact the book is about a path to healing from these childhood experiences gave me a feeling of hope, of warmth and of regeneration. It showed me that through the act of writing, compassion, empathy and perspective can be found for both the creator, Ronit and her readers can learn and heal. Enjoy. Full blog/transcript at www.contentmoves.net/thebodytalks [http://www.contentmoves.net/thebodytalks] Links: * Ronit Plank [http://www.ronitplank.com] * Ronit's Instagram [http://www.instagram.com/ronitplank] * Wild, Wild Country [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLS_OM6Puk] * Amanda Montell's book "Cultish" [http://amandamontell.com/]