THE BODY KNOWS TRAILER EPISODE 001 Hello, and welcome to The Body Knows Podcast. The show that explores the wisdom of the body, through the experience, teaching and lives of our guests. We are your hosts Marcela and Mat Wakeham, and we are so happy to have you here with us today. MARCELA Marcela is a Senior Yoga teacher and Movement Therapist, and a life-long long practitioner of Yoga, Dance and Pilates. She has 20 years of experience in the field of body awareness, mindfulness and body-mind-movement related practices, and is versed in anatomy and physiology of movement. Over the years Marcela's searched for practices and techniques, which improve our sense of wellbeing, embodiment and self-expression. As a teacher her aim is to allow the student to find the authenticity of the body during practice and take ownership of it, guiding them through the process to find the present moment where mind, body and spirit are in communion. Her style of teaching is immersed in the practice of observing the body as a process, to find health, strength and resiliency. Marcela’s main work is to help the inquirer to find their own voice and recover their birthright, which she believes is the deeply felt sensation of being alive, and able to relate with the environment we live in with grace. MAT Mat benefits from a lifetime of spiritual study, formal practice, training and personal experience. Within this there’s a consistent thread of mindfulness based meditation, supported by loving awareness, concentration and compassion, first learnt on retreat in the forests of Thailand and continued in self-practice and on retreat in the UK. His healing journey over the last 20 years has taken in analysis, hypnotherapy, acupuncture and psychedelic plant medicine. These he combines with external practices too, most predominantly strength and fitness training,  as well as yoga and martial arts, and most recently somatic sexual healing, breathwork and cold exposure. His synthesis of these has led him to discover a natural, embodied simplicity to his understanding of wellbeing and spirit. His journey speaks to the truth that if we want to, and if we’re willing to address the habitual patterns stored in our bodies, we can open to pleasure, conscious connection, and self-love to live guided by the body’s own wisdom. THE BODY KNOWS PODCAST, SPONSORED BY MADE BY COOPERS We are proudly sponsored by Made by Coopers, a modern Apothecary, crafting natural and organic products for your skin and soul. Their products are vegan certified, cruelty free and free from parabens, synthetic colours, fragrances, mineral oils or SLS’s, and the skin care line is derived from plants with the majority of the ingredients are raw and food grade. We love their products and we are sure you will too! Head on over to their shop at madebycoopers.com and use the discount code BODY20 at checkout for a discount. LAUNCH COMPTITION We’re running a competition to win Made by Cooper products, as well as some ceremonial grade cacao in order to take part in an online cacao ceremony run by Marcela, all to celebrate our launch. To enter please subscribe on your favourite platform, download the first three episodes and leave us a review, then send us a screenshot of your review to [email protected]. Closing date Nov 30, 2020. We have a favour to ask you too, please share this conversation with someone who you think it would be of value to. If you share on social media,  remember to tag us so we can see what you have to say. You can follow us at The Body Knows Podcast on Instagram and Facebook.  Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy it, we’ll be back with more shows every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month, and remember, listen to your body because your body knows.