Embodied Empathy with Stephanie Zalatel

Welcome to Earth Body Podcast. I’m Kate Douglas, Fertility Awareness Educator and founder of Earth Body. Each week, we feature conversations, stories, and essays exploring cyclical wisdom in the modern world.

Today, we're talking about embodied empathy with choreographer and dance artist Stephanie Zaletel.

KEY MOMENTS:

0:25 - How Stephanie came to this practice
2:53 - Caregiving in a personal & professional context
7:19 - What is embodied empathy?
10:06 - The “harmonics of our collective nervous system”
13:30 - Navigating boundaries in embodied work
17:00 - Tools Stephanie uses in practice
22:09 - Where to start when incorporating somatic awareness into your practice
30:32 - What is the most nourishing aspect of your work?

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Stephanie Zaletel (they) is a choreographer, dance artist, performance curator, trauma-informed facilitator, movement coach, and mental health advocate based between Los Angeles, CA and Las Vegas, NV whose work centers intersectional empathy building practices and embodied empowerment in community.

To learn more visit szaltdances.org or Instagram @_szalt_ @icareaboutyourbody

Relevant Links:

• resmaa menakem (somatic abolitionist, author, my grandmother's hands- racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and minds)

• odeya nini (embodied voice)

• heidi ross (food, somatics, play!)

• yumi sakugawa (radical imagining meditations)

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Earth Body aims to nurture cyclical wisdom through access to practices that bring us into dialogue with our inner and outer landscapes.

Through a range of guest artists and teachers, we share classes aimed to support the holistic health of our bodies, our communities, and our planet.

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Episode recorded, mixed, and produced by Kate Douglas

Theme song is by Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez

All content is provided for general informational purposes only. It not medical advice, and should not be construed as such.