Moving into Wellness Podcast
Movement intervention specialists Karin Pleasant, psychotherapist, dance/movement therapist with Muse Creative Arts Therapy, and Gloria Doran Murray, Human Development specialist and creator of the Hansi Inner Child Workshop, combining yoga, meditation and dance, discuss destigmatizing mental healthcare and ways to manage everyday mental health issues.
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Resilience and Refueling: Honoring Ourselves When Depleted
In this episode Gloria chats with Jason Williams, MS, cofounder of Brain Wise Solutions, to discuss resilience. They offer suggestions for ways people can address feelings of overwhelm …
Lifelong Friends in Community
In this bonus episode Karin speaks with her lifelong friend Tenisa Frye about building and maintaining connections with others, touching on how social needs change and ways we've adapte…
Reactions to and Recovery from Betrayal
In this episode Gloria and Karin discuss betrayal, with personal examples of how it affects people and ways they've used body-based interventions to recover from it.
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Making Time in Chaos
In this episode, Karin and Gloria chat about the importance of community and doing 'enough' to support people while in their own life transitions.
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Graduated, But Still Growing: Finding Our Way Back to Wellness
In this heartfelt episode of Moving into Wellness, Gloria is joined by fellow graduates Trevor Dalton and Brendan Crawford for a candid conversation about the challenges of staying grou…
Relocate, Reset, Restart
In this episode, Karin will discuss what has taken so long to post the first 2025 episode, reflecting on thinking that could get in the way of just restarting something you care about. …
Gratitude Meditation
Please enjoy this less-than-10-minute gratitude meditation led by Gloria!
Thank you for supporting our pod and look for more episodes in 2025.
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Takeaway from the Year: Communication
In this episode, Karin and Gloria talk about lessons learned in 2024 regarding communication, including the ideas of opportunities for learning, adaptability to situations, setting boun…
Invisible Symptoms
In this episode Karin and Gloria discuss how emotional challenges may go unnoticed or mischaracterized by others and not always be identifiable or understood by a person who is experien…
Bonus Clip: Freud and Other Ideas
In this bonus clip from the conversation with Regina Scheitel, Karin and Regina talk about mental health interventions, in particular regional focuses, having a specialized vs integrati…
Social Work across the World: Chat with Frau Scheitel
In this episode, Karin chats with former coworker Regina Scheitel, MA, MSW, Ph.D. candidate, who is currently a professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Wor…
Connecting in Travel Abroad
In this episode, Karin and Gloria discuss their experiences overseas, including dancing that brought connectivity and social observations that exhibited common interests for wellness th…
DMT and Forensic Populations: Chat with Alicia Brewster
In this episode, Karin chats with fellow DMT Alicia Brewster, MA, BC-DMT, who has worked for close to 9 years at Department of State Hospitals - Napa. Alicia gives her perspective on wo…
Imposter Syndrome
In this episode, Karin and Gloria discuss ideas about imposter syndrome, including people's discomfort with being a 'beginner' and the effects of comparing ourselves to others.
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Anytime Is the Time to Make a Choice
In this episode Karin and Gloria discuss how the power to learn is to live by making a choice, fears or no fears.
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Embracing Change
In this episode Karin and Gloria discuss how embracing change helps prepare someone to accept and overcome natural and incremental change throughout different stages of life.
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New Year, Same Problems
In the first episode for season 3, Karin and Gloria talk about personal insights for the new year, breaking patterns and the slowness of change, and reasons to continue actively discuss…
Cleansing Water Visualization
In this last episode of the season, Gloria leads a meditation using water as a metaphor for healing, renewal, and growth.
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Longer Sound Experiential
This is the longer sound meditation, edited to include singing bowl, ocean drum, gong, and fire chimes. Next investment: better sound recording in 2024.
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Brief Soundscape
For the end of September, Karin is sharing two separate versions of sound. The challenges with recording and wanting the experience of sound meditation to be ideal were going to lead to…