Practices of Reconnection and Remembrance and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke

Greetings listener friends, we are so grateful to have you join us for this deep conversation about practices of Reconnection & Remembrance and Why They Matter. This is the third in a series of podcasts on Practices of Presence, Practices of Depth and Soul, and Practice of Reconection & Remembrance and Why They Matter.

We begin with a favorite line from dear Dr Jaiya John: "It is not that we have so much to learn. It is that we have so much to remember. We are alive in the colonizing centuries of the Great Forgetting. Let us journey now into this new era upon us of the Great Remembering. We need teachers gifted not at cold instruction but at Loving reunion. We need homecoming."

We have so much to remember.

We follow the muse through many topics related to reconnection and remembrance. We speak about the long tail of our human history and ancestry, and how it has only been roughly 1-2 generations since the technological revolution, only 20 since the industrial revolution, just 600 since agriculture, and at least 200,000 generations before that - of being humans in intimate relationship with the living world.

We speak of this long ancestral inheritance in terms of foundational human intelligences that many modern humans have forgotten, that we can always remember and return to. Movement intelligence, ritual intelligence, village mindedness, rhythmic intelligence, sensitivities to the natural world and so much more.

We reflect on naturalness, and what is different in the learning process when we are remembering a capacity that is natural yet perhaps forgotten or unpracticed, and what kinds of practices offer the soil conditions that support the blossoming of our naturalness and uniqueness.

We speak about the importance, from our Tibetan Buddhist lineages, of short glimpses, repeated many times. We share many ways to return to our embodied presence, our connection with the Earth, ways to return to what is most essential and important, over and over and over through the day.

May you enjoy the conversation!

And, if you are as lit up about these topics as we are, please share the episode with your friends and networks. We really appreciate it.

To find out more about our Refugia training program, visit https://embodimentmatters.com/refugia/

Practices of Depth and Soul and Why They Matter: A Conversation with Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke

Greetings, listener friends!

We are delighted to share this conversation, the second in a series of three podcasts we're releasing during January 2026. The first is on practices of presence. The second, (this conversation) is on practices of depth and soul. The third will be on practices of reconnection and remembrance. We explore in each epsiode what these are and why they matter. These three realms of practice are woven through the foundation of our upcoming 13-month depth training, Refugia, which begins in early February, 2026.

What are practices of depth and soul? Why do they matter?

We begin with a line from Michael Meade: "Slow and down are the primary movements of soul."

Erin shares a beautiful quote from Francis Weller pointing toward a mythopoetic definition of soul.

We explore honoring depth and soul in a culture that tends toward the spiritual and the transcendent. We touch on many practices of depth and soul and why they matter, including

• growing an apprenticeship with sorrow,
• embodying one's unique genius or soul medicine,
• what it means to grow one's adult presence,
• the importance of the imagination and the imaginal,
• how to be in relationship with our wounds and sacred limps.

We honor those from whom we have learned about soul, including Michael Meade, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Jaiya John, Francis Weller, Maya Angelou, James Hillman, and so many more.

We hope you enjoy this dive into depth and soul as much as we did.
To learn more about Refugia, visit embodimentmatters.com/refugia

"Soul rebellion precedes social rebellion, which is why the first and last revolution work occurs in the soul. In the soul." – Jaiya John

In this podcast, we dive into one of our favorite topics: practices of presence and why they matter.

This is the first in a series of three podcasts on practices of presence, practices of depth and soul, and practices of reconnection and remembrance, and why they each matter. These three interweaving spheres and practices are the foundation of the curriculum for our 13-month Refugia training program that begins in February 2026.

How important it is to have practices that help us remember and return to presence over and over through the day!

We speak of growing an embodied ground, and how movement can either deepen the sense of split and objectification, (doing something to our body) or can deepen intimacy with life – through embodiment. We speak of how when we learn how to learn, and learn how to deepen presence through movement, this can touch every aspect of our lives.
We speak about our approach to meditation (not mind control!) and the importance in this speedy world of taking time for stillness, silence, and spaciousness.
We speak of the present moment as being vast enough to hold the past and future, to hold the ancestors and future ones.

So many rich topics, quotes, and practices in this conversation. We hope you might enjoy it as much as we did.

To find out more about our Refugia training, you can visit https://embodimentmatters.com/refugia/

To join us in our weekday online embodied meditation practice, you can visit https://embodimentmatters.com/meditation/