What becomes possible when we stop treating the body as an object to control and begin experiencing it as a source of intelligence, expression, relationship, and truth?

In this episode of GET IN, I welcomes internationally respected somatic movement educator, movement scientist, author, and social activist Dr. Martha Eddy.

Together, we explore somatic movement as practices of freedom. Our conversation moves beyond performance to consider how dance can support healing, embodied cognition, self-regulation, resilience, agency, creativity, and meaningful social change.

Martha shares insights from more than four decades of work integrating Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, Body-Mind Centering®, perceptual-motor development, embodied anatomy, education, and expressive movement. She introduces the guiding process of her Dynamic Embodiment method: Observe, Support, and Optimize Options.

The conversation also explores Martha's creation of Moving For Life, a dance and wellness program developed for people affected by cancer; her work bringing movement into schools and trauma-sensitive environments; and her commitment to social somatics, peace education, environmental awareness, and movement-based activism.

How can movement help us rebuild trust in the body after illness? How can dance restore agency across the lifespan? What happens when we allow sensation to become information? Can moving our own bodies help us become more responsive to the needs of the larger social and ecological body?

This is a spacious inquiry into the power of movement to cross boundaries, between science and art, health and expression, the individual and the community, the personal body and the living Earth.

Learn more about Dr. Martha Eddy:

www.drmarthaeddy.com

www.dynamicembodiment.org

Read Dr. Martha Eddy's books:

Mindful Movement: The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action

Dynamic Embodiment® of the Sun Salutation: Pathways to Balancing the Chakras and the Neuroendocrine System

Learn more about Debbie Rosas:

www.debbierosas.com

www.nianow.com

www.niaondemand.com

In this deeply human and hopeful conversation, I sit down with Karla
Mans Giroux, metastatic breast cancer thriver, Co-Director of the Radical Remission
Project, and certified health coach, who has been living with no evidence of disease
since 2016.

After receiving a Stage IV diagnosis that didn't align with her vision for a long, vibrant
life, Karla chose a different path, one rooted in holistic healing, self-empowerment, and
possibility.

Together, we explore the science and soul of Radical Remission. A body of research
examining why some people heal against the odds, and the real-life application of its
key healing factors. This episode is not about replacing medicine, it's about expanding the conversation.
A reminder that healing is layered, personal, and full of possibility.

Learn more about Karla Mans Giroux:

www.artoflivingretreatcenter.org

www.eomega.org

Radical Remission

Radical Hope

Learn more about Debbie Rosas:

www.debbierosas.com

www.nianow.com

www.niaondemand.com

What Does Tai Chi Know About Calm That the Rest of Us Are Still Chasing?

Calm is the most misunderstood kind of power. We treat it as the absence of force, the absence of stress, of effort, of push. Tai Chi makes the opposite case: calm is force that has learned to flow, power that no longer needs to harden in order to be strong. It is a martial art that looks like meditation, that refers to combat and yet heals, that is dance-like and yet is not dance. What sets it apart is one quiet, patient commitment: the soft overcomes the hard.

We are all writing a story with our bodies. The question is whether we write it rooted and flowing, with the full power and the full grace available to us, or braced and forcing. Britta von Tagen has been writing hers, rooted and flowing, since the first time she stepped onto the mat.

Britta is a Nia Trainer who has taught since 1995 and trained teachers worldwide since 2002, a sword dancer who teaches Tai Chi Straight Sword and Kung Fu Broad Sword, and the co-creator, with Adelle Brewer, of the Nia routines Dragon and Mystery, both built around the martial-art personality of Tai Chi. She runs a studio in Boise, Idaho, brings twenty years and a degree in Elementary Education into her Creative Movement for Kids work, and carries a single intention through all of it: Peace on Earth. She doesn't shape the body to fight. She shapes it to root, to soften, and to flow — replacing force with flow, and aggression with intention.

This is a conversation about what it looks like when someone treats their body, their business, and their life as a single practice, observed through the eyes, heart, and body of the Tai Chi practitioner. Britta von Tagen has done exactly that. And in doing it, she has built something her students, her community, and her family can stand on.

Learn more about Britta Von Tagen:

www.brittavontagen.com

Learn more about Debbie Rosas:

www.debbierosas.com

www.nianow.com

www.niaondemand.com