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S.1 E.11 Denee Francese-Smith “Student of the Body”

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Denee Francese-Smith LMT is a student of the body. All of it. The physical, the emotional, the spiritual.  

During our conversation, Denee shares the prelude to listening deeply to her body, when she followed its lead and pivoted from a career in education to taking a big leap in opening up the popular and beloved Sissy’s cafe with, yes, her sister Shani in Uptown Kingston, NY. She talks about the passion, the business, and the eventual decision to step away from it to pursue what her body was next calling her to. 

She is fascinated by the intersection of spirit and science and loves to explore that through her bodywork. Denee doesn’t see the body as separate parts. She sees it as one whole, beautiful system. When you work on one area, something else shifts too. When you’re on her table, Denee is not only thinking about muscles. she’s paying attention to your breath. Your nervous system. The way you hold yourself. The patterns that have formed over time. You’re muscles will soften, but something else softens too. Her work is about helping your body create space. Space in the tissues. Space in your chest. Space in your system. And from that spaciousness, you will move differently, grounded and with an open heart.

Denee shares openly and honestly about her experience in moving through the challenges of letting go, and how she found her voice after the ending of her most recent relationship. We hear about how intuition guides her and how she learned to listen to it. She shares generously her experience with and knowledge of the body and how it relates to her work, what fascia is, its connection to our life’s experiences, and the power of breath work to help move what the fascia holds.

You can learn more about her work and connect with her on her website. 

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S.1 E.9 Ben Brown “Embodying the Feminine and the Masculine”

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Ben Brown is a sound practitioner, visual artist, and New York State-licensed massage therapist whose work resides at the intersection of art, healing, and ancestral resonance. Blending vibrational sound, visual expression, and conscious experiences, Ben creates immersive offerings that provide refuge from social-emotional isolation and invite the mind and body into deeper states of presence, spaciousness, and awareness. 

Guided by the belief that sound art unites inner wisdom and collective memory, Ben crafts listening environments emphasizing the felt sense of vibration and its capacity to recalibrate consciousness and the nervous system. His method explores how frequencies and our senses reconnect us to intuition and the innate wisdom embedded in our bodies. Ben offers individual and group sound meditations and self-care workshops. He currently practices in New York City and the Hudson Valley, NY. 

Our conversation introduces listeners to Ben and his work. We hear about how his trajectory changed and how he landed in his current fields where he feels most aligned. He opens up about his relationship to the feminine and the masculine, anger and smelling like roses. His upcoming events, including a special Soundbath for Peace at Innisfree Gardens and the seasonal Sound Sanctuary at TEMPO in Kingston, can be found on his website and announced on Instagram. https://www.handandtemple.com/events You can find him here https://www.handandtemple.com/ and on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hnd_tmpl/  

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#100 “Goddesses” with Musician & Bodyworker, Natasha Althouse + Artist, Entrepreneur and Community Builder, Stephanie Diamond

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Episode #100!!!! Made it to triple digits!

Today’s special guests are the epitome of the feminine… creative, artistic, talented, nurturing, healing, and mystical. What a pleasure it is to share their stories.

My first guest, Natasha Althouse@musicbynatasha, is a musician, vocalist, wife, mom and holistic bodyworker whose healing practice focuses on postural imbalances, stress induced tension, injury care, and digestive and reproductive health. I met Natasha a few years ago for Mayan Abdominal Massage work and was blown away by the profound nature of what she does, blending massage, sound and energy work together in a very powerful way. We get to chat about life, how and why she makes music, the unique nature of Mayan Abdominal Massage, her connection to Ixchel and so much more. She’s in the studio NOW working on an album which she expects to be birthed into the world sometime in 2020. She even gifts us with a little song during the interview. I cry…again.

Today’s second guest is the multi-dimensional Stephanie Diamond, Artist, Entrepreneur and Community-Builder. She founded Listings Project — listings and other opportunities geared towards artists and creatives — 17 years ago and talks about how it has transformed over the years into a legit community building business! She also facilitates 5-Rhythms and explains how the nature of the experience of dancing 5-Rhythms so closely mirrors the reality of life. Before doing any of those things, Stephanie was and always has been an artist, creating, largely around community. Her Art has been exhibited at MoMA, MASS MoCA, MoMA/P.S. 1, Studio Museum in Harlem, Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Project Row Houses, Philadelphia Mural Arts, SculptureCenter, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, to name a few. We talk about all this, plus the fact that she does not have a smart phone! I want what she doesn’t have!!!

Today’s show was engineered by Manuel Blas at Radio Kingston, http://www.radiokingston.org.

We heard music from our fave, Shana Falana, http://www.shanafalana.com/

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