{"podcast":{"title":"Becoming Your Best Version","slug":"becoming-your-best-version-3288450","podcast_index_feed_id":3288450,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/54765080/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.marialeonardolsen.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/14070400/14070400-1653618081522-158301d87ef86.jpg","author":"Maria Leonard Olsen","episode_count":271,"summary":"Award-winning podcast about living your best life, by Maria Leonard Olsen & her inspiring guests. Maria is a lawyer/journalist/author who seeks to amplify women's voices to share about their lives, work & life lessons. She graduated from Boston College & Univ. of Virginia Law. She served in the Clinton Justice Dept. and is a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Her latest book, 50 After 50--Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life, has helped thousands reinvigorate their lives. Maria is a two-time TEDx speaker and one of her Talks was chosen as a TEDx Editor’s Pick, a designation given to fewer than 1% of TEDx Talks. See MariaLeonardOlsen.com and follow @FiftyAfter50","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450"},"episode":{"title":"A Conversation with Katie Asmus, Somatic and Nature-Based Therapist, International Teacher/Speaker, Ceremonialist and Rites of Passage Guide","slug":"a-conversation-with-katie-asmus-somatic-and-nature-based-therapist-international-teacher-speaker-ceremonialist-and-rites-of-passage-guide","published_at":"2026-05-15T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/a-conversation-with-katie-asmus-somatic-and-nature-based-therapist-international-teacher-speaker-ceremonialist-and-rites-of-passage-guide","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maria-leonard-olsen/episodes/A-Conversation-with-Katie-Asmus--Somatic-and-Nature-Based-Therapist--International-TeacherSpeaker--Ceremonialist-and-Rites-of-Passage-Guide-e3domfg","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO6020179193.mp3","summary":"With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching, mentoring and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others and the earth. She believes strongly in the power of spending time in nature as a way to deeply listen inward, and has a long history of creating, practicing and facilitating personally meaningful, culturally relevant ceremonies and rites of passage. Katie also has had a 30-plus-year career working with therapy and coaching clients and over 20 years teaching wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, ecotherapy and somatic therapy at a graduate level. Currently, Katie directs and facilitates rites of passage trainings and experiences, sees therapy and coaching clients, guest teaches and trains therapists and healers through The Somatic Nature Therapy Institute in Colorado, though she also has online offerings. She is known for saying that “Inner work is world peace work.” https://www.somaticnaturetherapy.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/somatic-nature-therapy-institute https://www.instagram.com/somaticnaturetherapy/ https://www.facebook.com/somaticnaturetherapy https://www.youtube.com/@infosomaticnaturetherapy https://www.tiktok.com/@snti_boulder https://www.pinterest.com/somaticnaturetherapyinstitute/nature-therapy/","meta_description":"With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching, mentoring and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporate…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1560,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/episodes/a-conversation-with-katie-asmus-somatic-and-nature-based-therapist-international-teacher-speaker-ceremonialist-and-rites-of-passage-guide/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/a-conversation-with-katie-asmus-somatic-and-nature-based-therapist-international-teacher-speaker-ceremonialist-and-rites-of-passage-guide.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}