What a Body Can Do

Our muscles and bones and tissues are shaped by our life experiences, and our life experiences are shaped by our muscles and bones and tissues. This second episode continues to explore the somatic concept of SHAPE, including the social conditions that impact our embodiment. 

Wilhelm Reich was an anti-fascist psychoanalyst, philosopher, and diy scientist during the time of World War II. He was one of the first to insist that the field of psychology should include the body. This is the first episode in a series on the somatic concept of SHAPE. 

In this collaborative episode Zoë and Alana explore the concept of nostalgia. You know the feeling, but what is it? What does it do? How can it be useful? 

We spent several months trying to answer these questions though conversations, musings, poetry and embodiment practices.... and through being stuck at home during lockdown thinking about the past and wondering about the future.

This episode is about what bodies do with the past, where and how it lives in us. It's about nostalgia but it is also about loss and letting go, about grief and resilience. It's about using muscle memory on purpose to feel, process, and shape our experience of life. 

Thanks so much to Alana for this sweet collaboration! 

Anyone who knows me knows that I love Miami and those bright 80's color schemes of pastels and neons. Think Miami Vice or Stranger Things. This episode is an audio story. It's about Miami, and about the kinds of impressions that art and architecture can make on our bodies and beliefs.