2.1 Avni Trivedi: Reconnecting with the Wisdom of your Body
Re-connecting with the Wisdom of your Body
Hello and welcome to a new series of Prompted by Nature! It’s so good to be back! I have some amazing interviews with some incredible, inspiring souls for you and I’m very excited about getting starting up again! I hope you had a wonderful, if slightly different summer. We stayed in the UK and visited family in Somerset and London.
Onto episode one!
In this episode, I speak with Avni Trivedi. Avni is an experienced and intuitive practitioner using touch and movement to help people to connect with their bodily wisdom. She is a Women’s Health and Paediatric Osteopath, Birth Doula, Zero Balancer and Non-Linear Movement Teacher. Her podcast, Speak From the Body’ explores themes such as embodiment, stress, trauma, hormones and pleasure.
In this episode we discuss:
Her relationship with touch and the importance of embodiment in therapeutic practices
Her understanding nature and how it relates to her work
Her advice for anxiety and overwhelm
Her work and experiences as a birth doula
The part her own creativity plays in her work and practice as a body worker
Her work around grief and supporting people through their own grief
Finding confidence in finding your own path and doing what works for you
Her advice for avoiding burnout and the importance of ‘practising what you preach’
Where she feels at her most creative
What she would like you to know and her hope for the future
Avni has a regular gentle and online workshop called ‘Moving Through Loss’, which uses touch, breath and movement to connect with where loss is held in the body. It’s a safe space in which you can work privately. She also has a longer course based on the workshop, which she’ll be announcing soon. https://www.avni-touch.com/moving-through-loss
You can find Avni on her website avni-touch.com and on her beautiful podcast, Speak From the Body, which is available on Apple podcasts. She is also @avnitouch on IG and Twitter
As always, you can find me on my website www.promptedbynature.co.uk where you can find my new outdoor-inspired blog, a few extracts of my own writing and all information about my events if you are a local and need to get out into the woods and re-connect with your creativity. There are a few spots left for my autumn day retreats and weekly writing classes so do pop over there if you’re local to East Sussex and need some forest time! I’m also on IG @prompted.by.nature where you can find my nature-inspired writing prompts and on my personal page @pbn_helen.
Remember to stick around after the interview to hear about the meditation that follows this episode inspired by my interview with Avni.
Enjoy the conversation and I’ll speak to you after!
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Welcome to this meditation and writing prompt for my interview with Avni Trivedi. In this meditation you will re-engaging with your sense of touch in a simple lying down meditation using the hands to ignite your creativity.
As with all prompts, place no judgment on your creativity - just start! :-)
Happy writing, Helen x
