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Trauma-informed Lens

Soma, Psyche and Soul

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MEET THE HOST

WELCOME, I’m Aneta,

Portrait photo of Aneta Idczak, Founder of The Golden Mandala Yoga-Soma Institute™

I’m your host and the Founder of The Golden Mandala Somatic Coach Academy©, a Trauma-informed Somatic Coach, Trainer and Educator, Senior Yoga and Somatics Trainer, and Embodied Business Mandala™ Mentor and Coach.

I created this podcast for heart-centred practitioners who work or want to work with clients in a more trauma-informed and somatic way.

In this podcast we explore how we can connect with and support others from a more compassionate and embodied space, with focus on the wholeness of our and our client’s felt experience and including our soma, psyche and soul.

We will share somatic practices and tools. You will hear from me and other practitioners who are on a mission to create safer spaces and make a real positive impact within their communities and the world.

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E78: Navigating Holiday Stress: 3 Self-Care Strategies for a Peaceful Season
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E78: Navigating Holiday Stress: 3 Self-Care Strategies for a Peaceful Season

In this episode "Navigating Holiday Stress: 3 Self-Care Strategies for a Peaceful Season", I’m exploring the challenges we all face during the holiday season and sharing three powerful questions and self-care strategies that can help you create a more peaceful and joyful experience. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the hustle, societal expectations, or just trying to juggle everything, this episode is for you. Let's rethink how we approach this season in a slower and more embodied way, and make it truly nourishing.

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E77: Reclaiming Wholeness: Becoming Your Own Medicine
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E77: Reclaiming Wholeness: Becoming Your Own Medicine

In this podcast episode "Reclaiming Wholeness: Becoming Your Own Medicine", I invite you to join me to explore reconnecting with your inner wisdom, embracing your unique needs, and cultivating harmony and peace within yourself. We’ll explore practical tools, ancient traditions, and trauma-informed approaches to help you deepen your self-awareness and find holistic and embodied sense of well-being.

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E76: Reflect, Reconnect, Refocus: A Year-End Practice for Sustainable Growth
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E76: Reflect, Reconnect, Refocus: A Year-End Practice for Sustainable Growth

In this podcast episode: "Reflect, Reconnect, Refocus: A Year-End Practice for Sustainable Growth", I share with you a process I go through myself and take my clients through each year. This process has changed my business in a huge way. As the year comes to a close, it's the perfect moment to reflect on where you’ve been, reconnect with your purpose, and refocus on what truly matters.

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E75: You Are Not a Machine: A Nervous System-Friendly Approach to Work and Life
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E75: You Are Not a Machine: A Nervous System-Friendly Approach to Work and Life

In today’s episode "You Are Not a Machine: A Nervous System-Friendly Approach to Work and Life", I’m sharing a heartfelt reflection inspired by recent conversations with many of you in my coaching programmes - sensitive and conscientious practitioners who are doing incredible work yet feeling stretched, overwhelmed, and disconnected from what your body is asking for. I'm sharing my own exploration too because I’ve been navigating my own version of this inner conflict.

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E74: Let Go of Fear of Being Seen in Your Business - From Visibility to Discoverability
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E74: Let Go of Fear of Being Seen in Your Business - From Visibility to Discoverability

In this episode 'Let Go of Fear of Being Seen in Your Business - From Visibility to Discoverability", I’m diving deep into a topic that comes up again and again in conversations with female practitioners and small business owners: the fear of visibility. This fear can hold us back in ways we don’t always realise - whether it’s showing up on social media, avoiding public speaking, or struggling to launch a new offer. Sounds familiar? Trust me, you’re not alone.

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E72: Slow and Embodied Living for Women in Midlife
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E72: Slow and Embodied Living for Women in Midlife

In today's episode “Slow and Embodied Living for Women in Midlife", I’m sharing insights on what it means to truly slow down and embrace an intentional way of living as a woman over 50. Since celebrating my own journey into my fifties, I’ve felt the call to explore how we can fully acknowledge and deeply honour the unique transitions that come with this Season of Life - from embracing self-care and feminine embodiment to aligning more deeply with our evolving needs and values.

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E71: Breaking Free: Let Go of Shame and Embrace Your Power
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E71: Breaking Free: Let Go of Shame and Embrace Your Power

In this episode, I’m diving into a topic I know many of us can relate to - feeling stuck and not good enough. Whether it’s in your business, your healing journey, or another part of your life, we’ve all experienced that sense of things not moving forward the way we want them to. As we transition from summer to autumn, that feeling can hit particularly hard, especially when we’re dealing with busy schedules or big goals that seem out of reach.

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E70: Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Mental Health for Female Small Business Owners
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E70: Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Mental Health for Female Small Business Owners

Welcome to this special World Mental Health Day episode where we shift the focus to the unique mental health challenges faced by female small business owners. Running your own business is more than just striving for success - it's about managing your overall quality of life, balancing personal responsibilities, and maintaining mental well-being. Join me as we explore the pressures women face in entrepreneurship and how we can protect our mental health while building a business.

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E69: Embodying Confidence: 3 Powerful Shifts for Personal and Professional Growth
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E69: Embodying Confidence: 3 Powerful Shifts for Personal and Professional Growth

In this episode, I dive deep into the connection between mindset and embodiment, sharing three powerful embodied mindset shifts that have been transformative for me on my journey as a trauma-informed somatic coach, trainer, and educator. I reflect on the personal growth I've experienced through somatic practices and my work with women, and how these shifts have helped me step into my power with more confidence and grounded presence. I also offer practical insights on how you can embody these shifts in your own life to enhance both personal and professional growth.

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E68: Honoring the Embodied Journey: Reflections on Growth, Challenges, and New Milestones
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E68: Honoring the Embodied Journey: Reflections on Growth, Challenges, and New Milestones

In this podcast episode I’m taking a moment to reflect and celebrate the journey of growth and transformation. As I record this during our 2024 Virtual Summit, Through a Trauma-Informed Lens: Become an Empowered Changemaker, I’m filled with gratitude for the incredible practitioners and speakers I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with. I also want to share some personal reflections and celebrations from the past two years - from growing our training Institute and launching my 160-hour Trauma-Informed Somatic Teacher and Coach for Women certification to embracing new ways of caring for myself and living alcohol free life, slowing down, and living more intentionally.

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E67: Introduction to The Soma-Psyche-Soul Coaching Method - Embracing Somatic, Psychological & Soulful Dimensions
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E67: Introduction to The Soma-Psyche-Soul Coaching Method - Embracing Somatic, Psychological & Soulful Dimensions

In today's podcast episode I introduce you to the Coaching Method I train female practitioners in our 160-Hr Trauma-informed Somatic Teacher and Coach for Women Training Certification. It is my unique whole person approach that provides a map for a healing journey as well as manifesting your greatest life and purpose. I discuss how you can use this approach for yourself and with your clients.

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E66: Navigating the August Transition: Reflection and Planning with Embodied Wisdom
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E66: Navigating the August Transition: Reflection and Planning with Embodied Wisdom

August can be a strange month when one part of us wants to slow down and rest, spend time with family and enjoy the longer warmer days, and another part urges us to keep working and prepare for the busy Autumn. In today's episode I want to invite you to slow down, pause and reflect on your life and business and connect with what's most important to you. And then plan the rest of your year in alignment with your joy, heartfelt properties and values.

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

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E63: Invitation to the Embodied Feminine Wisdom Retreat
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E63: Invitation to the Embodied Feminine Wisdom Retreat

Today I want to share with you my conversation with Isabelle Griffith about our upcoming 4-day in-person retreat called: Reconnect with Your Embodied Feminine Wisdom.

It’s an intimate retreat for women practitioners, where we will come together with a shared intention to forge deep connections, authentic relationships, to learn and explore in a co-creative and feminine way.

This retreat will take place from 25th to 28th November 2024, in Cotswolds countryside, UK.

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E62: From Inconsistent to Committed - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 6
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E62: From Inconsistent to Committed - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 6

Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

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E61: From Stuck to Inspired and Sacred - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 5
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E61: From Stuck to Inspired and Sacred - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 5

Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

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E60: From Overwhelm to Sustainable Systems with Fabi Belgardt - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 4
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E60: From Overwhelm to Sustainable Systems with Fabi Belgardt - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 4

Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

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E59: From Struggling to Financial Freedom - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 3
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E59: From Struggling to Financial Freedom - Mini-Series "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" - Part 3

Welcome to "Create Your Embodied, Thriving and Sacred Business" Mini-Series where I take you on a journey to reflect on and explore a different way to run your business. A way that allows you to move from daily hustle and grind that is focused on achieving outcomes and sacrificing your health and relationships to a more embodied, sustainable, soul-led and sacred way of making a positive impact in the world.

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