This is Episode 9, and I’m delighted to share this conversation with Kim Brodey— a loving and caring elder in my life, and a dear friend. Over the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of spending time with Kim, sharing stories and reflections on life and death, healing and trauma, our relationship with land and nature, and the ongoing practice of cultivating community.

Kim Brodey has a multifaceted background that has included working as a singer/actor, midwife, childbirth educator, and educational change workshop leader (in areas of conflict resolution, and cultural inclusivity). Kim has been an authorized Continuum teacher since 1991 mentored by Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper.

She has over 35 years of experience mentoring and working with groups, couples and individuals in traditional and non-traditional ways. Kim and Jerry have been married since 1983. They have two children, five grandchildren, and a three God children.

To learn more about Kim and Continuum:

https://redcanoestudio.com/who-we-are.html

These podcast episodes are part of my commitment to a fundraiser organized by a close circle of friends who are supporting my journey toward attending the 5Rhythms Teacher Training next year. If you’re curious about why we are fundraising, or if you’d like to support this path, you can learn more here:

https://gofund.me/2ee174312

To learn more about 5 Rhythms in the Toronto community:

https://www.layahjane.com/workshops-with-layah

https://5rhythmstoronto.com/classes/

If you have a story you would like to share about how embodied movement became a medicine for you, or if you have any other inquiries, please get in touch at: ⁠

alejandroczuluaga@gmail.com

With care,

Alejandro Zuluaga

In this Episode we enter a conversation with Maya, someone whom I have intersected with for many years in facilitation trainings and 5 Rhythms workshops. she is a beautiful creative spirit, an energetically fascinating individual, and a a fellow dancer whom I have come to cherish their laughter and their presence in my life.

Maya Nadeem is a somatic coach and creative facilitator, working from a trauma-informed lens, who supports people in reclaiming creative vitality, inner trust, and embodied self-worth. Her work invites more alive, authentic, and self-directed ways of being, particularly where life experience has narrowed expression or connection.

She weaves somatics, creative expression, and energy-based work to support people through periods of transition and reorientation, cultivating greater presence, pleasure, and capacity for life. Her approach is intuitive, relational, and deeply attuned - not about fixing, but orienting toward what is already alive and what becomes possible when we can fully open to it.

Grounded in over 18 years of experience in individual and collective healing spaces, Maya has worked with people impacted by sexual and gender-based violence and traumatic loss, as well as within schools, nonprofits, and organizations. An artist and poet, art, poetry, and writing are living practices that shape her work, serving as bridges between the body, psyche, and the unseen.

To Learn more about Maya:

IG: mayanadeem_

These podcast episodes are part of my commitment to a fundraiser organized by a close circle of friends who are supporting my journey toward attending the 5Rhythms Teacher Training next year. If you’re curious about why we are fundraising, or if you’d like to support this path, you can learn more here:

https://gofund.me/2ee174312

To learn more about 5 Rhythms in the Toronto community:

https://www.layahjane.com/workshops-with-layah

https://5rhythmstoronto.com/classes/

If you have a story you would like to share about how embodied movement became a medicine for you, or if you have any other inquiries, please get in touch at: ⁠

alejandroczuluaga@gmail.com

With care,

Alejandro Zuluaga

This is a very special episode as it is an honour for me to have Layah Jane in this podcast. In this conversation, Layah shares the story of how she came to ho hold space within Toronto's conscious dance community as a 5 Rhythms facilitator.

I first met Layah in 2016, when I began attending 5Rhythms workshops in Toronto. I became deeply engaged and committed to learning from her work and embedding myself in the community she holds space for. Layah teaches weekly in Toronto, and she produces Conscious Dance workshops with visiting international teachers. She is passionate about offering dancers sacred space to experience music and motion as medicine.

Layah is a gifted dancer, a skilled heart-led facilitator, an integral space holder, and an avid, prolific producer. She has been the most influential teacher and mentor in my embodied movement journey. Over the years, we have supported one another through countless dances, workshops, community events, and friendship.

To learn more about Layah:

⁠https://www.layahjane.com/

These podcast episodes are part of my commitment to a fundraiser organized by a close circle of friends who are supporting my journey toward attending the 5Rhythms Teacher Training next year. If you’re curious about why we are fundraising, or if you’d like to support this path, you can learn more here:

https://gofund.me/d47b39cea

To learn more about 5 Rhythms in the Toronto community:

https://5rhythmstoronto.com/classes/

If you have a story you would like to share about how embodied movement became a medicine for you, or if you have any other inquiries, please get in touch at: ⁠

alejandroczuluaga@gmail.com⁠

With care,

Alejandro Zuluaga