Movement Is My Constant: Real conversations on movement, mindfulness, and making meaningful change - for creatives, caregivers, and mission-driven humans

This podcast is for the ones who hold space for others—therapists, coaches, educators, healthcare workers, NGO staff, facilitators, and creatives—yet often struggle to make space for themselves.Hosted by Ana, a mindfulness teacher and embodiment facilitator with a background in UX and a passion for thoughtful living, Movement Is My Constant explores how we can stay present, grounded, and resilient while navigating personal growth, life transitions, and the messy in-betweens.Through honest conversations with movement experts, scientists, and thinkers across disciplines, you'll get insights and tools that help you reconnect with your body, build emotional resilience, and move through change with more clarity and ease.You might be wondering..."How can I feel more grounded when life feels overwhelming?""What does mindfulness actually look like in everyday life?""How do I keep giving to others without burning out?""What role does movement play in emotional and mental clarity?""How d

Movement Is My Constant: Real conversations on movement, mindfulness, and making meaningful change - for creatives, caregivers, and mission-driven humans is a health podcast hosted by Ana Maia Marques, with 82 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 82.

Ana Maia Marques hosts Movement Is My Constant: Real conversations on movement, mindfulness, and making meaningful change - for creatives, caregivers, and mission-driven humans, a health show with 82 episodes published.

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  Episode #83

  The Body Speaks Every Day

  Sep 24, 202646 min

  Episode Overview In this episode, Beatrice Brunelli brings a perspective you don't often find in the movement world: one that is equal parts scientific and embodied. A former competitive athlete, engineer, and myofascial yoga teacher, Beatrice has spent years working at the intersection of fascial anatomy, the nervous system, and yoga practice. What emerges is a conversation about what it actually means to train the whole body — not as a collection of parts to manage, but as a living system in constant dialogue with what we do, feel, and experience. What We Cover How a teenager managing breathing problems in swimming and horse-riding competitions ended up charting a path toward myofascial yoga What fascia is, why athletes tend to be more guarded in this tissue, and why that stiffness is something to work with, not against The distinction between good stress and bad stress — and why sport itself is a stressor we rarely name as one The BodyTensFlow® method: how it came to be, why time was the central design problem, and why 30 to 90 seconds of fascial work per area is enough to create a real response in the body What the contrast between Italy and Northern Europe reveals about how differently we relate to the body — and the cultural shift that's already underway in how we train What athletes and coaches would gain from treating movement as a complete system, and what's still standing in the way Resources and Links Beatrice's website: yogamiofasciale.it Beatrice on Instagram: @beatrice.brunelli.yoga About the Guest Beatrice Brunelli is a myofascial yoga teacher, engineer, and creator of the BodyTensFlow® method. After fifteen years as a competitive athlete — first as a swimmer, then in horse riding — she studied energy engineering and worked for a multinational company before returning to movement full time. Her work sits at the intersection of fascial anatomy, nervous system science, and yoga practice, and she now teaches practitioners through a master's programme she developed in myofascial release. Her book on BodyTensFlow® is available in Italian, with more to come. Call to Action Subscribe to Movement Is My Constant wherever you listen. And if this episode landed for you — if you've ever pushed through instead of pausing, or trained the activity without training the system around it — share it with an athlete who might be ready to hear it differently. For more at the intersection of movement, health, and performance, join the newsletter at movementismyconstant.com/newsletter. ️ More Episodes: movementismyconstant.com Follow on Instagram: @movementismyconstant ✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans. Episode Credits Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes Artwork Design by Utterly Create Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

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  Episode #82

  Older Than You

  Sep 10, 20261h 6m

  Episode Overview In this episode, therapist and EMDR trainer Erica Bonham makes the case that trauma doesn't live where we think it does — not in what we know, but in what the body has stored, patterned, and organized around long before the thinking mind gets a vote. Erica and Ana talk through what it actually takes to build a nervous system with more capacity: not bypassing what's hard, but developing the physical ability to stay present to it, one breath and one contraction-and-expansion at a time. What We Cover Why trauma "doesn't care what we know" — the difference between cognitive insight and what's actually stored in the body, and why knowing a boundary is healthy doesn't mean the nervous system will let you set one Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn as physical survival strategies, and what a body stuck in a low-grade, functional freeze can look like day to day Toning the vagus nerve as a literal physical practice — the same logic as building a muscle: it takes consistency, not a single good session, and it can be trained through yoga, breath, tai chi, or running with intention A concrete grounding exercise: hand on the belly, attention two inches below and behind the navel, searching for the still point beneath the surface waves — and why she starts every practice in the lower body before the heart How generational and ancestral trauma gets passed down, including research on epigenetic trauma transmission, and Erica's own work with EMDR and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy around patterns from her adoption that predate her own memory Her EMBERS framework — Energy, Mind, Body, Emotions, Reaction, Senses — for tracing whether a pattern in the body is actually older than the person carrying it The difference between breathwork used to build genuine capacity and breathwork used to bypass a feeling — and the research suggesting that "breathing through" anger can make people less assertive, and "breathing through" guilt can make them less likely to make amends Why nervous system regulation isn't a retreat from injustice or collective struggle, but the physical groundwork that makes it possible to stay present to it without collapsing or shutting down What actually happens in the body — the bracing, the defensiveness — when a word like "racism" or "patriarchy" enters a room, and why that felt response is more honest than the story told about it afterward About the Guest Erica Bonham, LPC, MA, is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado, a certified EMDR clinician, consultant, and trainer, and the founder of AVOS Counseling Center in Arvada, Colorado. She specializes in somatic and attachment-focused EMDR, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and nervous system regulation, with a practice focus that includes the LGBTQ community and trauma related to racial and social injustice, abuse, and spiritual harm. She is the author of Always Enough, Never Done: Volume I: Heal Your Nervous System, Turn Wounds Into Wisdom, and Cultivate Your Inner Badass, and a nationally sought-after speaker on trauma, embodiment, and collective healing. Resources and Links Always Enough, Never Done: Volume I - Erica's book on nervous system healing AVOS Counseling Center — Erica's practice, based in Arvada, Colorado, including her free Nervous System Reset Toolkit (11 polyvagal exercises and 6 guided meditations) Anne Lamott — sober writer Erica references for the idea of trusting the next right step even without seeing the whole path The Body Keeps the Score — the well-known trauma book Erica references, adding that in her field it's often said the brain keeps the score while the body is the scorecard Call to Action Subscribe to Movement Is My Constant wherever you listen. And if this episode landed somewhere, share it with someone who's been told to think their way out of a body that's still holding the story. For more at the intersection of movement, the body, and what's underneath it, join the newsletter at movementismyconstant.com/newsletter ️ More Episodes: movementismyconstant.com Follow on Instagram: @movementismyconstant ✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans. Episode Credits Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes Artwork Design by Utterly Create Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale

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  Episode #80

  Michael Herr: The Weight We Carry Up the Wall

  Aug 19, 202655 min

  Episode Overview In this episode, therapist and climber Michael Herr talks about what actually drove fifteen years of climbing and a decade of boxing — and what happened when he watched a climbing partner nearly die and his body simply refused to climb again. Drawing on his book The Shadow of the Climber, Michael traces how shame and the need to prove something can power real athletic achievement, right up until the moment the body stops going along with it. What We Cover How fifteen years of climbing and an earlier decade of boxing were both, in Michael's words, about controlling his inner world through activities with real danger attached The witnessed climbing accident that left him unable to watch people lead climb, unable to go near ropes, unable to be in the mountains — a full-body trauma response, not a decision Why achievement can run on shame and a sense of inadequacy as much as on love of the sport, and what it feels like to reach a goal and not get "the stamp" — the cup with a hole in the bottom The difference between movement as avoidance and movement as arrival, and how presence and avoidance can live in the same body on the same route A boxing daydream Michael carried for decades — walking to the ring, facing a "monster" — and what happened when he finally stepped into an actual ring at 34 Moving from cognitive behavioral therapy to depth psychology in his own clinical work, and what that shift cost his sense of professional identity The idea of the "golden shadow" — what the people and pro athletes we admire are pointing us toward in ourselves Where Michael's relationship with climbing stands now: mostly on pause, sport climbing over alpine routes, and giving himself permission to move because he wants to, not because something in him is compelling it Resources & Links The Shadow of the Climber: The Psychology of Extreme Sports — Michael's book Carl Jung — psychiatrist referenced for the original concept of the shadow Peter Croft — climbing legend Michael interviewed for the book, known for early hard solos in Yosemite Dean Potter — free solo and BASE-jumping climber referenced in the book, who died in a wingsuit accident Tommy Caldwell — referenced for a line on using climbing as distraction from feeling Rocky Mountain National Park / Longs Peak "The Diamond" — the Colorado alpine climbing Michael describes as the icon of the region About the Guest Michael Herr is a therapist and climber, and the author of The Shadow of the Climber: The Psychology of Extreme Sports. Trained originally as a cognitive behavioral therapist, his own clinical path moved toward depth psychology as he began to recognize how much of his climbing — and before that, ten to fifteen years of boxing — was shaped by forces he wasn't fully conscious of. He has spent roughly fifteen years climbing in and around Boulder, Colorado, with Rocky Mountain National Park as home ground. The Shadow of the Climber draws on his own climbing history, his clinical training, and interviews with figures in the climbing world to look at what pulls people toward extreme sports — and what those sports can end up covering for. Call to Action Subscribe to Movement Is My Constant wherever you listen. And if this episode landed somewhere, share it with someone who's chasing a summit, a fight, or a personal record and has never quite asked themselves why the bar keeps moving. For more at the intersection of movement, the body, and what's underneath it, join the newsletter at movementismyconstant.com/newsletter. ️ More Episodes: movementismyconstant.com Follow on Instagram: @movementismyconstant ✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans. Episode Credits Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes Artwork Design by Utterly Create Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale  

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  Episode #79

  Unlocking Systems Through the Body: Suzanne Roberts on The Great Reconnection

  Jul 15, 202649 min

  Episode Overview In this episode, Suzanne Roberts shares profound insights from her five-decade journey at the intersection of the body, leadership, and systemic change. Her work invites us to see movement as a gateway to wholeness, connecting individual energy to collective systems and societal structures. What We Cover The foundational concept of "The Great Reconnection"—returning to wholeness by remembering what was never lost How disconnection manifests personally, within teams, and in cultural systems The polarity system design and its application to understanding life energy as a dual force within us The importance of honoring the body's signals as the language of systemic health and personal truth Practical steps for cultivating inner calm and stillness through simple physical and mental practices The role of social systems like racism and white supremacy as energetic patterns embedded in the body and collective consciousness Approaches to redesign organizational and societal structures rooted in vitality, unity, and life energy How movement, in a broad sense, sustains us and connects us to our inherent wholeness Resources & Links I't Deeper Than That - Suzanne's book The Great Reconnection - Suzanne's framework Suzanne on Instagram Dr. Stone — identified as the founder of polarity therapy Fernando Flores — referenced for a system of accountability, trust, and feedback George Floyd — referenced in the context of organizational interest in race and systemic racism About the Guest Suzanne Roberts is the Founder of UnifyingSolutions and a transformational speaker, facilitator and author with over four decades of experience guiding leaders and organizations toward sustainable, systemic change. She is the creator of Polarity System Design™- a methodology that empowers individuals and teams to reclaim their inner capacity, lead with clarity, and design cultures rooted in purpose, equity, and lasting impact. Suzanne creates spaces where people can thrive and contribute with clarity and purpose. Her book and documentary, It’s Deeper Than That: Pathway to a Vibrant, Purposeful, Life, will premiere October, 2025. Call to Action Subscribe to Movement Is My Constant wherever you listen. And if this episode sparked something, share it — share it with someone who's been taught to see their body as something to fix, hide, or fear instead of a source of wisdom. For more at the intersection of movement, health, and systems change, join the newsletter at movementismyconstant.com/newsletter . 🎙️ More Episodes: movementismyconstant.com 📱 Follow on Instagram: @movementismyconstant ✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans. Episode Credits Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes Artwork Design by Utterly Create Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram 🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale  

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  Episode #78

  Terrified and Hopeful, All at Once

  Jul 1, 202649 min

  Episode Overview Nine months after fracturing his femur in three places on an obstacle course, G. Scott Graham joins the podcast still mid-recovery — not narrating the comeback from a safe distance, but living inside it. A career coach, Tai Chi teacher, long-distance paddleboarder, Appalachian Trail hiker, and EMT instructor, Scott is also the author of Come As You Are: Five Years Later, a memoir that moves between losing his husband Brian after 31 years together and the unexpected grief of falling in love again with Peter. This conversation traces how movement once became a way of outrunning stillness, what Buddhist philosophy's concept of the "near enemy" reveals about mistaking momentum for avoidance, and why Scott insists equanimity isn't armor — it's the capacity to stay open to what scares you. What We Cover Scott’s transformative experience hiking the Appalachian Trail and how it shaped his identity The distinction between movement as healing versus avoidance, and how to recognize the difference Exploring the practice of Vipassana and its relevance to slowing down and observing the mind The concept of equanimity as openness in the face of fear, not armor How slow movement and Tai Chi cultivate silence in the mind and presence in the body The powerful metaphor of “second arrow” in Buddhist teachings—how our reactions to pain prolong suffering The impact of grief, love, and loss on the body and the mind’s micro-movements toward acceptance The importance of persistence, grit, and pushing beyond comfort zones in recovery and growth The role of stillness in healing and how to distinguish genuine presence from hiding or avoidance Reflections on humor, vulnerability, and the humor in the strangeness of our ideas of strength Resources & Links Come As You Are: Five Years Later - Scott Graham book Scott Graham on Medium Scott Graham website About the Guest G. Scott Graham is an existential handyman — fixing what’s broken, realigning what’s off-kilter, and helping people rebuild their lives with meaning, purpose, and the occasional strip of duct tape. He’s also an author, career coach, business coach, and psychedelic support coach based in Boston, Massachusetts. Scott is driven to help clients follow their “true azimuth” — a direction distinct from “true north.” It’s not about chasing some universal ideal. It’s about identifying what genuinely matters to you. It’s about recognizing the forces that pull your life off course and learning how to adjust so you still arrive where your heart wants to go. When you’re 90 and looking back, your life should feel like it was truly yours — filled with pride, purpose, and meaning. No regrets. Call to Action Subscribe to Movement Is My Constant wherever you listen. And if this episode sparked something, share it — share it with someone who's been taught to see their body as something to fix, hide, or fear instead of a source of wisdom. For more at the intersection of movement, health, and systems change, join the newsletter at movementismyconstant.com/newsletter 🎙️ More Episodes: movementismyconstant.com 📱 Follow on Instagram: @movementismyconstant ✨ Want to go deeper? Explore my mindfulness courses and 1:1 sessions at MiCa Mindfulness — designed to support caregivers, creatives, and mission-driven humans. Episode Credits Produced, Edited and Mixed by Chris Forbes Artwork Design by Utterly Create Music is by Pictures of a Floating World from the Free Music archive.org Be sure to follow and tag Movement is My Constant on Instagram 🎧 Subscribe now and get grounded, insightful episodes that feel like a deep exhale  

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