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Wayward Bodies

Wayward Bodies is a show exploring our bodies and the messy places they meet the world. Join your host Elle Bower Johnston as she discuss embodiment, body liberation, creativity, healing, and how we show up as our whole selves. You can expect a mix of solo musings and conversations with excellent humans, with a lens of queerness, anti-oppression, body liberation and lots of space for the nuance of being a human.

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Introducing – The Bear and The Body Witch

Wayward Bodies ·

2024/03/06

Y’all! I have new podcast! Let me introduce The Bear & The Body Witch. Every week Joeli Caparco and I discuss embodiment, queerness, and magic, while also chiming in with our own experiences and insights. In this first episode we got into the necessary constraints of discernment, the pressures of the A+ student hangover, and the importance of giving yourself permission to give things less than 100%. And we also ask the very important question: what colour crayon would you eat?Subscribe to get us

Ep 24 | Holding a Light in the Dark

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2022/12/21

Here we are at the end of season two, and just rounding on the solstice. In celebration, I’m coming with a present for you: a yoga nidra to come back in and remember your spark. A moment of pause and reconnection with yourself, no matter what is going on around you.Grab a blanket and get cosy. Together we’ll slide our way into deep rest, and hold a light in the dark.That’s everything for this season, my friend. I hope you have a nourishing end to your year, no matter how you spend it. We’ll be back

Ep 23 | Life is Art with Ava Riby-Williams

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2022/11/16

Today, in the final conversation of this season, I'm speaking with Ava Riby-Williams.We talked about living life as a creative act, going slow to go fast, liminal spaces and grey areas that allow us to express our wholeness, and the slow, messy work of liberating ourselves.ABOUT AVA Ava is a queer, British Ghanaian/Indian visionary, living in London. She acts out life purpose as a Creative Facilitator, Artist and Wellbeing guide who celebrates diversity and finds divinity in all of life. She uses

Ep 22 | Reclaiming Pleasure and Power with Tamu Thomas

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2022/11/02

Today I'm bringing you a conversation with Tamu Thomas.Our conversation wandered through her own explorations of embodiment and her practice of Non-Linear Movement, the role of pleasure, sensuality and joy in women's wellbeing, reclaiming power and sovereignty, and channelling our energy in a generative way, even as we live in oppressive systems.ABOUT TAMUTamu Thomas is an emotional well-being coach, writer, workshop facilitator, podcaster and Non-Linear Movement practitioner who helps

Ep 21 | Aliveness in Dying Times with Jennifer Patterson

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2022/10/19

Today's episode is a conversation with the breathworker and herbalist Jennifer Patterson.I’m a huge fan of Jennye’s work and it was a joy to get to chat with her. We covered all sorts of ground and you’ll hear us get into the wavy space between medicine and poison, how we can be in our bodies when they’re places of pain or challenge, being in relationship with the land even as city dwellers, and how she’s practicing turning towards aliveness in what she calls ‘dying times’.ABOUT JENNIFERJennifer

Ep 20 | Magic and Power

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2022/09/21

Come pull up a chair, let’s talk about magic and power and feminine energy. In today’s episode I’m going into the ways I’ve been exploring these things over the past year, along with what can get in the way, and how you can follow your own path to a deeper relationship with your power.MENTIONEDYumi Sakugawa mantrasWORK WITH MEDownload the Radical Rest StudioOne-to-One Embodiment GuidanceIn Practice, love letters and monthly live practicesLINKS & CREDITSDrop me an email -

Ep 19 | The Truth in Your Bones with Lisa James

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2022/09/07

I got to talk with my friend Lisa James about creativity, embodied truth, spiritual trust falls and what it’s really like to be a normal, everyday human living in deep connection to spirit.It was such a treat to get to sit down and chat with Lisa, I’m sure you’ll feel her steadying grounded energy coming through as we discuss being in relationship with life and the divine. Our conversation wandered through the feeling of an ‘in your bones’ kind of truth in comparison to cognitive knowledge, the

Ep 18 | Your Life is the Temple with Leila Sadeghee

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2022/08/24

Today's episode is a conversation with the magical Leila Sadeghee. We spoke about the divine feminine, her journey from the art world to mysticism and how we can make our lives the temple in which we connect with the divine.I loved the places we wandered in this conversation. Wandering seems like a fitting word, since we talked about the nonlinear nature of spiritual awakening, and the deep devotion we need to be able to trust that spiralling path. stopping along the way to look at pilgrimage and

Ep 17 | Remembering Our Roots with Marika Heinrichs

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2022/08/10

Today I'm bringing you a conversation that I got to have with Marika Heinrichs all about embodiment and whiteness, rediscovering ancestors and doing what we don’t know how to do.I’m so pleased that I can finally share this conversation with you. Marika and I wandered through our birthright to being in connection with the world and the cultural disconnection we have to clear to return to that. We spoke about having consent and finding lineages that are ours (especially as two white practitioners),

Ep 16 | Embrace Your Brokenness with Theo Wildcroft

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2022/07/27

In this first conversation of Season 2, I had the pleasure of talking with Theo Wildcroft.We spoke about about being in relationship with wildness, neurodiversity, disability justice, the way story creates space for us to exist in wholeness, and the power of embracing your brokenness.ABOUT THEOTheo Wildcroft, PhD is a teacher, writer and scholar working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us. Her research considers

Ep 15 | How to Slow the Fuck Down

Wayward Bodies ·

2022/07/13

Slow down! You’re doing too much! So easy to say but a little trickier to put into practice in a capitalist world.In this episode we talk about the conscious effort to create slowness in your life. Our ego’s love of busyness, rooting into our values, and creating loving boundaries with ourselves and others.WORK WITH MEDownload the Radical Rest StudioOne-to-One Embodiment GuidanceIn Practice, love letters and monthly live practicesLINKS & CREDITSDrop me an email - waywardbodies@protonmail.comFind

Ep 14 | 100 Ways to be Less Exhausted

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2022/06/29

So how do you rest? In today’s episode I wander through my list of 100 Ways to Rest, created for the Radical Rest Studio.We’ll talk about what rest actually is and the different forms of rest we need to thrive, and I gently invite you to become an advocate for your rest, following the unique threads of what brings you back to life.Join me this August for a Summer of Rest. Book your spot before July 6th for £20 off!Want that list of rest? Download the Radical Rest Studio and tune in to get

Ep 13 | Burnout and Emergence

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2022/06/15

Oh hey! It’s been a while and in this episode I talk all about why.I go into burnout, and how we can move through it and back towards a life that feels vibrantly alive. We’ll go into three parts of that puzzle: completing the stress cycle, unlearning urgency, and learning to trust.Download the Radical Rest StudioWORK WITH MEDownload the Radical Rest StudioOne-to-One Embodiment GuidanceIn Practice, love letters and monthly live practicesLINKS & CREDITSDrop me an email -

Ep 12 | Making Space, Going Dark

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2021/11/24

Winter is calling and in this solo ep I talk about making space for integration, getting quiet, and the importance of going dark in a world that asks us to be 'on' all the timeThis is the final episode of season one, and the podcast will be in hibernation until 2022. Thank you so much for being here, your support and enthusiasm makes Wayward Bodies possible.Have a safe and joyful holiday season and I'll be back in your ears in the new year!WORK WITH MEDownload the Radical Rest StudioOne-to-One

Ep 11 | Peeling the Infinite Onion with Naomi Absalom

Wayward Bodies ·

2021/10/27

Today's episode is a conversation with one of my own teachers, and someone I'm lucky enough to call a friend, Naomi Absalom.I loved the winding path of this conversation. It took us some curious places including staying boundaried on social media, learning to tell the truth and hold the charge in your nervous system, releasing the urgency of capitalist hustle, and creativity as an expression of divinity. Oh and the giant onion of awakening. Of course.ABOUT NAOMINaomi is a community builder. Her

Ep 10 | Erotic Embodiment with Kylie Darling

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2021/10/27

Today's episode is a conversation with Kylie Darling about erotic embodiment, the places spirituality and sexuality overlap, and using kink as a way to know yourself.We talked about all sorts of good stuff. The realities of kink (beyond the 50 Shades stereotypes), the interplay of kink and shadow work in accepting all the parts of you, both dark and the light, bringing an attitude of play to your life, both in and out of the bedroom, and the importance of stepping into your desires

Ep 09 | Trusting What’s True with Sarah Jones

Wayward Bodies ·

2021/10/13

Ep 08 | You Can’t Think Your Way In

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2021/09/29

In this solo episode I talk about praxis, imperfect action, and one of the biggest challenges I (and a lot of my clients) deal with in embodiment work - that you can't think your way in.What are you practicing?WORK WITH MEDownload the Radical Rest StudioOne-to-One Embodiment GuidanceIn Practice, love letters and monthly live practicesLINKS & CREDITSDrop me an email - waywardbodies@protonmail.comFind more of my work at ellebowerjohnston.comJoin the mailing list, my other favourite way to

Ep 07 | Stories That Shape Us with Amelia Donkor

Wayward Bodies ·

2021/09/22

Amelia Donkor and I had a potent conversation about the healing potential of story, imperfectly embodying our values, and finding liberation by being in process.Talking with Amelia was such a joy. We meandered through the multifaceted ways that storytelling shapes our lives and the world we live in, including self expression, unlearning stories that were never yours, and the vulnerability of using your voice.ABOUT AMELIAAmelia is an actor, writer and facilitator blending creative arts and community

Ep 06 | Embodying Connection with Cécile Dumont

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2021/09/15

I got to chat with Cécile Dumont (one of my favourite humans) all about touch, connectivity, and fascia - the connective tissue that weaves us together.We also talked about self-care as community care, the challenges and joys of being an empath, and why softening is such an important practice in the world built for hardness. Plus a bonus cameo from the Totoro cat bus! Obvs.ABOUT CECILECécile is an advanced remedial and clinical massage therapist, based in London.Her practice covers a wide range of

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