
Episode #144
What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You: Embodiment, Movement & Self-Trust with Meg Aris
What if your body has been trying to tell you something for years and the missing piece is simply learning how to listen?In this episode, Eileen sits down with her dear friend Meg Aris, mindful movement teacher, somatic coach, and founder of Wise Moves with Meg. Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis as a teenager, Meg's relationship with her body has been one of deep, sometimes painful, and ultimately profound befriending. That lived experience, along with years of study, is woven into everything she teaches.This conversation moves through autoimmune illness and its unexpected gifts, the difference between acceptance and resignation in the body, the wisdom available in elderly bodies, and a quietly revolutionary question Meg asks in almost every class she teaches: "And what else is here?"In this episode:-Sitting in a bedroom window as a child, looking out at the stars, and knowing there was something bigger-How rheumatoid arthritis at a young age set Meg on her life's path through yoga, Pilates, and eventually somatic coaching-Why a severe flare-up that left her unable to hold a water glass became the turning point that deepened everything-The difference between acceptance and resignation and why it's so important to understand-Why we're wired to notice pain and not flow, and what it takes to consciously redirect attention-Wisdom from working with elderly clients: how finding what the body can do lights the whole thing up-The Wise Body Immersion: a three-month online journey through anatomy, embodiment, reflective writing, and community-What happens when women share the stories their bodies are telling them and how that witnessing ripples-The question that changes everything: "And what else is here?""If we can just slow it down for a moment and acknowledge 'this is where I am, can I love myself here?'" — Meg Aris Join Meg's Wise Body Immersion Connect with Meg on Instagram Join me for the next Wheel of the Year Ceremony Subscribe to Eileen on Substack Take the Which Witch Are You Quiz Order Awaken to the Magic Within Connect with Eileen on Instagram Follow Eileen on Insight Timer Send Eileen an email




