Weightless in Mind, Body & Spirit - Season 8 Episode 1_From Ancestral Movement-Music Practices to Phenomenal Being, A Reprise - Dr. Carol Penn hosts Dr. S. Ama Wray

Weightless with Dr. Carol Penn

**SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• For more information or to Register for Dr. Carol's 90-Day Wildfit Program, which starts on April 14, 2022....send an email to [e-mail] with "WildFit" in the subject line.
• Contact this episode's Super-friend, Dr. S. Ama Wray * www.embodiology.com * Maximize the potential of your breath through liberatory movement. www.joyinmotion.io * https://events.embodiology.com/how-jim-works

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Hosted by Dr. Carol Penn, DO, & Diem Jones this exciting 10-part Series, now in Season 8, is presented by Penn Global Visions and Dr. Carol's team of Super-friends as we explore the worlds of: weight loss; weight loss maintenance; aging in reverse; heart health; optimizing health and well being.

Weightless in Mind Body and Spirit, is designed to assist each participant in the journey of outrageous self-care and how to prioritize themselves on behalf of achieving their best and highest self. Over the course of our show you will learn how to balance your Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system. Tune in to this episode as we discuss "Ancestral Movement" with returning Super-friend, Dr. S. Ama Wray.

Produced by: Kenya Pope, http://goddess.kenyapope.com

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Featured Guest:

Dr. S. Ama Wray – Performance Architect

Dr. S. Ama Wray, TEDx Speaker, has been performing, teaching and choreographing across 3 continents for over 30 years, performing and touring with London Contemporary Dance Theater and Rambert Dance Company across the UK, USA and Europe. As founder and Artistic Director of JazzXchange Music and Dance Company she was Artist-in-Residence at The Royal Opera House and Southbank Center, UK. Improvisation, often seen as the dominion of jazz music is also synonymous with creativity and in 2021, she has launched a new program to bring this insight into the lives of everyday people through a body mind practice called JiM™ - Joy in Motion. This work emerges out a methodology she created known as Embodiology®. It originates from a study of improvisation identified within West African performance practices through which six principles were identified and iteratively tested in western performance contexts to attain their performance efficacy. Committed to recognizing these origins her organization gives royalties back to the rural community with whom she studies Ewe dance and music. These principles are now being translated and applied to illuminate different areas of human communication, across fields such as medical humanities, music, leadership, child development and somatic coaching. Recent publications include chapters in British Dance, Black Routes and The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation. This virtual iteration, developed during this COVID-19 pandemic, led her to provide services to the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, at the University of California Irvine. A former National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts Fellow (NESTA), a UK version of the McArthur Awards, she began her exploration into performance and technology through a concept known as Texterritory produced by Future Physical. These digital terrains continue to be explored through AI 4 Afrika, an initiative she co-founded with choreographers, data scientists, artists, scholars, and entrepreneurs in 2020. Alongside artistic practice she continues her intellectual pursuits, receiving the African Diaspora Emerging Scholar Award from the Comparative International Education Society in 2018. As a public intellectual she has been an invited speaker for the United Nations, Dance/USA, Princeton University, Temple University, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Atlantic Center of the Arts, Florida and New Waves! Institute, Trinidad & Tobago.

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