Bonus: Sh*tposting and The Embodiment Conference

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mark Walsh, the proprietor of The Embodiment Conference, was recently challenged by cultural somaticist Tada Hozumi in an Open Letter, penned by Hozumi in lieu of accepting the invitation to speak at the Conference. Hozumi proposed that Walsh look more closely at the exclusionary economy of his ambitious project — specifically, at how it centers white men as the heroes of the somatic techniques that colonialism handed them. The letter, dignified and sincere, offered a concise and workable framing of a fraught issue. Walsh did not respond directly, but on his personal Facebook shitposted about being oppressed by “c*ntery” of social justice “twats.”Those familiar with this aspect of Walsh’s online persona were not surprised. He has openly risen to market dominance in the online somatasphere as a kind of Black Belt culture warrior, a Jordan Peterson in a jock-strap. In this bonus episode, Matthew reviews some of Walsh’s past online hits as a case study of how the wellness world can confuse acting out for freedom, somatic dominance for discipline, and allow charismatic men to weaponize unhealed wounds in the name of authenticity.Show NotesOpen Letter to Mark Walsh and The Embodiment ConferenceThe Embodiment Conference and “somafascism”: commentary from Ben SpatzMark Walsh to 2020 TEC invited presenter (the audio is from 2019)Statement: We need to divest from Mark Walsh and The Embodiment ConferenceYes, Mr. Walsh, there are Black people in Hungary. One of them was born there, in 1980, and is now an MP.Mark Walsh documentation -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	If out of frustration you just deleted all of your yoga spirituality wellness content
1:08.0	from your social feeds this fall, it's possible that you didn't get bombarded with adverts for the Embodiment Conference, which ran for 10 days in October.
1:20.0	But to be honest, the embodiment conference marketing was so
1:23.8	saturating and loud that even if you did filter your feeds,
1:28.3	the conference's founder Mark Walsh has a way of seeming to be everywhere and he might have tracked you down by text or cold call or thrust a flyer in your hand while you lined up for a COVID test.
1:43.0	Walsh is an autodidact embodiment coach
1:46.0	based in the lovely hipster seaside town of Brighton in the UK.
1:51.0	A lot of people say a lot of things about him and that's what my main reporting here will be about.
1:56.0	But one thing that everyone agrees on is that he is a manic dog on a bone marketer with a provocative online game.
2:05.0	And he's brought that game to the world of Somatics,
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