E65: Conversation with Rachel Blackman: Somatics and the role of creativity in our sense of agency.

In this podcast episode I had the pleasure of talking with Rachel Blackman. We chat about Rachel, how our somatic awareness, creativity and principle of play can help us nurture our sense of agency, the importance of relationships for co-regulation and trauma healing, and how visualisation and movement help us live richer and more connected lives. 

Rachel Blackman is a Somatic Coach, Trainer and Educator, Mentor, Theatre Maker and Feldenkrais Practitioner. She trains coaches to work with embodied intelligence at The Somatic School. Themes that really bring her alive include creativity and the generative principle, biological intelligence and supporting change at the level of neuroplasticity.

She is an Animist and loves to hold spaces that weave together connections between the sacred, the embodied and our biosphere. Her immediate family live mostly on the unceded territory of the Bungalung and Yugambeh Nations in Australia. Rachel is now in Brighton UK where she lives with her husband Shad and bonus son Akash by the big wild Mama sea.

You can find more about Rachel's work on her website: www.vibrantbody.co.uk