{"podcast":{"title":"The Brilliant Body Podcast with Ali Mezey","slug":"the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565","podcast_index_feed_id":6712565,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-brilliant-body-with-ali-mezey","website_url":"http://www.alimezey.com/media","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Lygo5hwJ_6KaKlQ4NPLJa0_VFaQrAz1sedML9Bq_X70/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZWEx/ZDZlYzJiNTZmY2E5/NDNkODk5ZjhjZmNm/ZjczNS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Alison Mezey","episode_count":79,"summary":"The Brilliant Body Podcast with Ali Mezey is a forum to learn about and liberate the brilliance of your body. Join me, Ali Mezey, and other body masters to explore pioneering perspectives on what it actually means – and feels like – to be embodied. Whether you feel disconnected from your body due to trauma, shame, pain, cultural conditioning or lack of education or you already feel at home in your body but want to learn to have more pleasure, awareness and access to your body’s guidance – this is the podcast for you. Each one of my trailblazing guests will share their expertise and unique mission to thrive, as a body. Together, we’ll explore how to access and engage the vast, detailed and useful intelligence contained within our flesh. So join us and reclaim your body’s brilliance!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T16:19:23.068050+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565"},"episode":{"title":"Walking Somatic Empathy with JOSEPH CULP: The Mind-Body Process of Walking-In-Your-Shoes","slug":"walking-somatic-empathy-with-joseph-culp-the-mind-body-process-of-walking-in-your-shoes","published_at":"2026-03-12T07:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565/walking-somatic-empathy-with-joseph-culp-the-mind-body-process-of-walking-in-your-shoes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/bd86ca32","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/media.transistor.fm/bd86ca32/6616fe70.mp3","summary":"CONTENT HEADS UP: This episode may inspire you to give the practice of “Walking-In-Your-Shoes” a go on your own. We waive all responsibility for any ensuing mishaps of cramped spaces, being near stairs or inspired bouts of wild and/or naked abandon. On a more serious note, we do discuss heavy subjects like trauma, armoring, drowning, rape and PTSD. But predominantly, we delve into the healing power and intelligence of the body invited into highly conscious motion and given free-reign and guidance to express all that it knows. Also, Walking-In-Your-Shoes can be done just as effectively from a wheelchair or with the capacities of any perambulatory disability. You just have to be a body with the desire to follow how it’s guiding you to feel, see and know. This episode presents a departure from our previous episodes. As in some of our upcoming episodes, we focus here on a specific practice and its transformative techniques aimed at unlocking conscious awareness of the body’s intelligence. While past episodes delved into the philosophical underpinnings of embodiment, this installment offers practical guidance on tangible methods to access your inner knowledge as an opportunity for revelation and growth. SYNOPSIS: Ali discusses a movement-based mindfulness practice called “The Walking-In-Your-Shoes” (WIYS) mind-body process with one of its co-founders, actor and director, Joseph Culp. WIYS is a process that allows the practitioner, in partnership with a facilitator, to address questions or needs through an intuitive questioning of the body-mind through movement. The applications of the questioning process are quite broad and can be applied to everything from healing trauma and managing addiction, to business development or a more organic method of acting. This is another mea…","meta_description":"CONTENT HEADS UP: This episode may inspire you to give the practice of “Walking-In-Your-Shoes” a go on your own. We waive all responsibility for any ensui…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4252,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565/episodes/walking-somatic-empathy-with-joseph-culp-the-mind-body-process-of-walking-in-your-shoes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565/walking-somatic-empathy-with-joseph-culp-the-mind-body-process-of-walking-in-your-shoes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}