On Neopeasantry with Artist as Family

In this episode of Hello Stasis, I sit down with Dr. Rae Johnson—somatic movement therapist, social justice educator, and author of Embodied Social Justice—to explore the transformative power of embodiment in both personal healing and collective liberation. Rae shares insights from their decades of work at the intersection of somatics and social change, inviting us to consider how our bodies carry stories of power, identity, and resistance. We talk about how systems of oppression show up in the body, and how somatic awareness can help us respond—not just react—to the world around us. I also reflect on my own experience studying with Rae, and how their teachings have profoundly shaped my activism and life. Together, we discuss embodiment as a radical, everyday practice that reconnects us to our own wisdom and to each other. Whether you're new to somatics or already exploring embodiment in your work or life, this episode offers grounding insights and gentle provocations. Take a breath, tune in, and join us for a deeply nourishing conversation.

In this episode, I interview Podcast Host, Farmer and Nutritionist Kate Kavanaugh. We discuss:   - health of land and bodies - kinship and belonging - why tending to the little things matters a great deal - the wonder of freeze - hope and grief and so much more.  To follow Kate - www.instagram.com/kate_kavanaugh To learn more about my work - www.megberryman.com  

Beth Berry is an author, coach, teacher, adventurer, mother of four daughters, and hopelessly hopeful human. In this podcast we talk about: motherwhelm and why we things feel so hard reimagining our conceptualisation of motherhood starting a revolution from home re-valuing care and examining unmet needs new world thinking developing intimacy with nature and so much more.   To learn more about Beth - https://revolutionfromhome.com To see my upcoming journeys or pre-order your copy of Wilder - www.megberryman.com  

I have a chinwag with Wellfolk Revival's Sarah Stutzman, chatting about: nature as teacher homesteading looking at income different ways building resilience and community the symbiosis between the way we look after land and bodies knowing our limitations  and so much more. For more info on Sarah's work - https://www.wellfolkrevival.com For all our upcoming offers - www.megberryman.com For our consulting work - www.regenerativeways.org  

We finally catch up for a chinwag and chat about: navigating financial stress in business neurodiversity building resilient communities homeschooling pivoting and adapting work and life And so many more things.   For more details on what's coming up - www.megberryman.com For more details on our consulting work - www.regenerativeways.org  

Briony Penn is a naturalist, writer, educator, and broadcaster well known for her indomitable spirit and tireless devotion to protecting endangered species and sensitive ecosystems in her native British Columbia, Canada.   In this episode, Dave chats with Briony about: acting in service to the earth decolonizing and acting counter-culturally the politicisation of nature education  barefoot mapping why we don't act  reconnecting to a past we can be proud of  fostering courage to stand by what you know in your bones For more information on Briony: https://www.brionypenn.com   For more information on Meg's upcoming journeys: www.megberryman.com For more information Dave and Meg's consulting work: www.regenerativeways.org    

A senior yoga teacher, Mei Lai Swan is a certified Embodied Flow™ teacher, with years of study and practice in Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Anusara yoga. From Melbourne, Australia, but now based on the road, she teaches in-depth workshops, retreats and international teacher trainings around the world, with a special focus on nada (sound) yoga, somatic and trauma-informed practices. A trained Doula, she is the founder, previous CEO and ongoing Board Director of Birth for Humankind, a non-profit organisation providing free birth support to women in disadvantaged circumstances.   In this conversation we chat about: - Mei Lai's perspective on post-crisis regenerative recovery and repair from her experience working in flooded-affected communities - the importance of community and co-regulation in times of crisis - health and wellbeing as the cornerstones of regeneration - mobilising and shifting systems for regeneration and recovery - how trauma impacts repair and recovery - community-driven responses to crisis - regenerative leadership.   For more information on the Northern Rivers Community Healing Hub - https://www.nrchh.org/   To learn more about Mei Lai - https://meilaiswan.com/about/   To learn more about our upcoming retreats and events - https://www.instagram.com/megjberryman/?hl=en   For more information on Mei Lai -   

Artist as Family (Meg Ulman and Patrick Jones) live in Daylesford, Australia on Djaara Country on a quarter-acre permaculture plot, home to their  School of Applied Neopeasantry at Tree Elbow University. They practice a unique form of performance art, comprising how they live, get their food and medicine, and move around; performing modes of life making they call permacultural neopeasantry. Meg and Patrick are bloggers, fermentors, writers, public speakers, goatherders, gardeners and video makers who also make music, but mostly they're a family who belong to a bloody great community and a beautiful small patch of sacred forest, and therefore they're much more than the sum of our parts. In this episode we talk about: Meg and Patrick's vision for the world using grief and sorrow as fuel toward living differently de-schooling living communally and resolving conflict stepping into young eldership neopeasantry and using the way we live as activism embodied leadership and regenerative living finding our way back toward indigenous wisdom And so much more. For more info on Artist as Family: https://artistasfamily.is    

Dr Bayo Akomalafe is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of the Emergence Network. In this chat, Dave talks to Dr Bayo about: unschooling and non-schooling community as an organism  trauma as an invitation to reimagine  rupture and repair - individually and collectively surrendering to the non-human world localisation And so much more. To learn more about Bayo - https://www.bayoakomolafe.net To learn more about Regenerative Ways - www.megberryman.com  

I chat with Author of the Art of Frugal Hedonism Annie Raser-Rowland about: how to consume less and live more why frugality and hedonism aren't a contradiction why we're afraid of having and consuming less - and how to overcome it orienting communally and relationally finding sensory pleasure in our mammalian bodies what our bodies are saying about the systems we live in and how to find compassion for yourself and others wherever you are in your regenerative journey. To buy the book - https://www.frugalhedonism.com To see what we're up to - www.megberryman.com