Embodiment Expert Reveals Secrets to Overcoming Stress & Trauma (with Mark Walsh)
The Mark Divine Show
Mark Divine
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Through embodiment practices and trauma education, you can reconnect your body and mind, heal from trauma, manage stress, and enhance overall well-being, while tailoring these practices to your unique needs and experiences.
Mark Walsh, known as "Mr. Embodiment," is an author, podcaster, and founder of the Embodied Facilitator Course. He has trained over 2000 embodiment coaches in more than 40 countries and recently established saneukraine.org, a charity providing trauma and embodiment training in Ukraine. With a background in psychology, martial arts, yoga, and various other disciplines, Mark has taught in diverse settings, from corporate environments to war zones, and has entertained audiences of all ages.
Key Takeaways:
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Embodiment for Trauma Healing: Embodiment practices, such as trauma education and trauma first aid techniques, are crucial for healing trauma, particularly in war-torn areas like Ukraine.
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The Importance of Movement and Body Awareness: Moving the body, especially with awareness through practices like yoga, conscious dance, and martial arts, is essential for stress management, emotional intelligence, and overall well-being.
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Trauma's Impact on the Body: Trauma can cause a disconnection between the body and mind, leading to chronic stress, health issues, and reduced empathy. Embodiment practices help reconnect the body and mind.
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Tailoring Embodiment Practices: Embodiment practices should be tailored to an individual's needs, experiences, and goals, whether they are a soldier, business person, or yoga practitioner, to maximize their effectiveness.
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The Accessibility of Wisdom: Despite the challenges in the world, we live in a unique time where wisdom traditions and practices are more accessible than ever through podcasts, books, and online resources.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Mark Devine show, the thing with trauma is it's most activated when there's nothing you can do. |
| 0:09.4 | Hence torture, rape, my experience at all the soldiers, they most often get traumatized in two situations, |
| 0:16.0 | not when they're running around fighting, it's when they're being shelled and they can't do anything, |
| 0:20.4 | or when they're watching a friend bleed out. |
| 0:23.0 | Again, there's that's what they can do. |
| 0:25.0 | This is Mark Devine show and I'm your host Mark Devine. |
| 0:30.0 | Thanks for joining me today on the Mark Devine show. |
| 0:33.2 | I love to explore what it means to be fearless by speaking to some of the world's most |
| 0:37.6 | interesting, fearless, compassionate, and resilient leaders, folks from all walks of life, stoic philosophers, motivational scientists, nutritional experts, and trauma peace crusaders, like my guest today, Mr. Embodiment, Mark Walsh. Mark is the author of Embodiment working with the body and training and coaching and also Embodied meditation. |
| 0:57.6 | He's the host of the Embodiment Podcast and runs a conference called the Embodiment Conference. |
| 1:02.9 | Obviously, really into Embodiment. |
| 1:05.0 | He's also a founder of the Embodiment Facilitator Course has trained over 2,000 coaches |
| 1:09.3 | in 40 countries. |
| 1:10.5 | He's recently in Ukraine working to help relieve trauma over there through a charity called |
| 1:17.0 | Sain Ukraine.org. Amazing. So he's worked in WarZone. He's an entertainer, he's entertained over 50,000 kids, he's taught at Moscow State University, |
| 1:27.0 | he's lived with a circus in Ethiopia, taught celebrities, and even kissed a princess. |
| 1:31.0 | He's also an Akita Black Belt, and has 25 years of |
| 1:34.4 | 25 years of experience with other martial arts yoga body work |
| 1:37.2 | conscious dance and meditation. |
| 1:39.2 | Incredible. |
| 1:40.2 | Mark thank you so much for joining me on the Mark Divine show. Before I get into the show Mark, |
| 1:43.0 | before I get into the show, I wanted you to know that I'm opening up slots |
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