Following Energy Podcast

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Following energy explores how energy healing and somatic wisdom can be both practical and magical. If you’re someone who does your inner work. If you want to be the change by leveling up in life and leadership. If you’re ready to experience the potency in your heart, belly and bones. Join host Staci Boden--somatic energy author and teacher--for down-to-earth conversations with guests that connect following energy with body wisdom to ignite potential. Energy often talks through work, health, relationships, leadership and life itself, but what is it trying to say? And how can listening to your body become a key for finding your way? Tune in and discover how following energy can help you embody your new paradigm of possibility. Then, download my free beginner’s course to learn how you can start following energy today.

Cover art: Brenda Goddard Designs.

Song: Waking Fire by Sa Ray and the Fade In (shared with permission)

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E5 How Music Lyrics and Insurance Agents Can Free Recovering Good Girls

How can you follow energy in real time? In this episode, Staci invites Flesché Hesch – business coach for working moms and “recovering good girl” – to describe her experience of following energy in daily life. With vulnerable wisdom, Flesché shares how everyday encounters with ancestors, music lyrics and even insurance agents have helped illuminate her unique way of perceiving energy. Follow your senses. Lean into support. Trust yourself. These keys for following energy can help free recovering inner children as well as grow strong wings for braving new magnificent unknowns.

E4 How to Live With Ancestral Trauma in Heartbreaking Times

What does it mean to live with ancestral trauma during heartbreaking times? In this solo episode, host and guide Staci Boden remembers her great-grandmother Baba – family matriarch and Holocaust survivor – as a source of inspiration for those struggling with painful (ancestral) energy triggered by what’s happening in the Middle East. If you’re needing support, Staci shares some simple ways to release energy to help settle yourself. She then reflects on a tool from following energy for heartfelt balance which can also serve the world.

E3: Navigating ADHD with Following Energy

Can following energy be a resource for navigating ADHD? Join Staci and guest psychologist Jesse Kaufman who specializes in ADHD for an incredibly illuminating conversation. As Jesse and Staci explore the nature of ADHD from psychological, somatic, energetic and personal perspectives, they realize just how supportive following energy can be for navigating ADHD inside oneself and daily life. For anyone who has ADHD or knows someone with ADHD, don’t miss this wildly kind and informative episode.

S3 E2: Deep Practical Play: (Some) Benefits of Following Energy

How can following energy benefit your life in a fun, deep and practical way? Staci welcomes Miki Johnson -- kindred traveler, business founder, leadership coach and mom -- who reveals specific ways following energy has led to a “whole life transformation”. As Miki shares about her ability to make (embodied) decisions, transform (codependent) over-giving and meet daily curve balls with a smile, you’ll discover how befriending following energy can invite wise yet practical play into your life.

S3 E1: Meet following energy: The Podcast

It’s a new day. After several years and many episodes, the podcast formerly known as Turning Dead Ends into Doorways is evolving into following energy. What inspired the change and where are we headed next? Join host Staci Boden who shares her origin story with following energy and how current times call for embodied practice. How can following energy help you live into the kind of creative potential which also supports collective healing? Let’s find out together. 

Turning Dead Ends into Doorways Podcast

Season 2

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How do you turn a dead end into a doorway? Practice. Join somatic energy healing author, teacher and guide Staci Boden featuring conversations for people who are tired of pushing and are ready to let go of control by learning how to follow energy. As guests connect everyday stories with eight universal teachers from Staci’s book, you’ll discover keys for thriving through any life circumstance.  

Cover art: Brenda Goddard Designs.

Song: Waking Fire by Sa Ray and the Fade In (shared with permission)

E10 Surrender: The Creative (No Faking) Practice to Birth New Dreams

How can surrender teach you to turn a dead end into a doorway in your life? Surrender is a creative practice for letting go but it can also include holding boundaries and birthing dreams. In this final episode of the season, host and somatic energy guide Staci Boden speaks with somatic experiencing practitioner, organizational consultant and founder of Trauma Literacy, Carlee Adamson, about surrender as the big mama teacher for following energy. As Carlee shares how she left her job and an abusive relationship, you’ll gather practical and energetic wisdom for how letting go and following energy can lead to cultivating power and freedom in your life.

E9 Intentions as Energy Medicine

How can an intention teach you to embody the root and the tip of a living wish? Inviting an intention to become a co-creative dance of discovery each day starts with remembering it. Join host and somatic energy guide Staci Boden and guest poet, author, strategic marketer, and life coach, Sage Cohen as they share wise yet practical lessons from remembering and following the energy of specific intentions in their lives. Along the way, you’ll discover how intentions can become energy medicine for more resilient and powerful living in your world too

E8 Follow the Energy of Your Voice for Change

How can following energy help transform your wounds and activate your voice? Healing includes recognizing core wounds. Yet there comes a time to unwind the energy your wounds hold so they can’t sabotage your life. Join host Staci Boden and musician, activist and Voice of Change facilitator Suzanne Sterling for a conversation connecting sound healing with energy as a teacher. As Suzanne shares openly about how following the energy of voice has transformed her wounds into healing songs and global activism, you’ll start imagining a path towards joyful change in your life.

E7 Finding Intuition Through Your Senses

Rather than an amorphous sixth sense, what if a key for accessing intuition is right under your nose? Somatic energy guide, teacher and author Staci Boden begins this episode with a simpler way to connect with your unique intuition through bodily senses. Next, Adriana Cerundolo -- a sound ceremonialist and Kundalini yoga teacher--joins Staci and shares how intuition has helped her create music as well as find a dream job. Throughout, embracing intuition as a teacher becomes practice for embodying trust and following energy to discover purpose and wisdom each day.

E6 Your Body as a Compass for Trust

What if your body could become a trusted friend? As a nexus for health, pleasure, movement and life itself, body is the doorway for transformation. Join Staci and guest somatic eco-therapy guide Erin Carper who explore how listening to your body when it feels lost or hurt can help you discover new ways to work, dance and live. By learning to trust your body as a teacher, it becomes a compass for following and realizing the energy of your potential.

E5 Choice Outsmarts Control

How can letting go of control increase your power? If you’re a recovering type A personality intrigued and yet nervous about following energy, meet your new best friend: choice. In this episode, Staci starts by connecting choice as a teacher with a tool for transforming codependency. Next, guest Jacqueline Hartman shares how choice has helped her navigate chronic pain and explore change-making work. From there, Staci and Jacqueline laugh hard about the benefits of losing control and embracing choice (with healthy boundaries!) as an agile ally for following energy to create great work. Want a pdf of the triangles? Questions or comments? Staci likes email.

E4 Awareness as a Foundation for Waking Up

What makes awareness a foundation AND a lighthouse for awakening? From a soft whisper of potential to a core realization that takes you to your knees, awareness is essential for becoming more conscious. Join Staci and guest April C. Taylor for a conversation about developing awareness within yourself and daily life. First, they’ll reflect how moving inward to notice can help you begin listening to yourself. Next, they’ll connect the potency of exploring inner worlds with practicing trust. Throughout, you’ll discover the wisdom that awareness offers as a teacher for following energy in your life.

E3 Fear as a Trickster in Your Life

“You’re going to do what? Is that really possible?” Whether it’s a nasty inner voice or churning stomach, fear often meets you on the threshold of change and tries to block the door. This episode begins with Staci sharing a short vulnerable reflection about following the energy of this podcast in real time. Next, guest Liz Smith joins Staci to explore how slowing down to listen to fear as a cast of tricky characters helps you sort and navigate through them. Fear then becomes a profound teacher for developing awareness and potential.

E2 Intentions 101, What Do You Need?   

How can a relationship with an intention teach you to follow energy? Without focus, energy becomes scattered. Instead, choosing a one-word intention pinpoints a quality or aspect of life to explore, and follow. Join Staci and Miki Johnson for a meaningful dive into the power intentions hold. As they share questions and examples of specific intentions, you’ll discover what you need on the threshold of following energy in your life.     

E1: 8 Steps for Living Outside the Box

Are you tired of control and want to let go but don’t know how? In this warm and down-to-earth first episode of season two, author and somatic energy guide Staci Boden speaks directly to listeners introducing why and how the podcast is changing to reflect current times. The focus remains following energy to help people navigate daily unknowns and expand potential. And spoiler alert: journeying outside the box will also include forging a new relationship with eight universal teachers – fear, awareness, choice, body, intuition, energy, intention and surrender.

Season One

E8: Shifting Codependency to Find Choice Inside

Is your kid or spouse driving you up the wall? What about those voices in your head? In a world steeped in codependent relationship, Corona stress is heating up conflict, including within ourselves. Join Staci and guest Miki Johnson, co-founder of Job Portraits, for a paradigm-bending conversation on transforming sticky conflict into productive co-commitment. You’ll learn about two "triangles”--a tool for cultivating choice and creativity to navigate uncertain times. For a free hand-out on the triangles, contact staci@dancing-tree.com.

E7: Navigating a Pandemic with Energy Healing

How can we navigate fear and change in the midst of such global uncertainty? In this special episode, Staci and seasoned energy healer Jane Sanguinetti reveal the value of energy medicine as practical and essential self-care. Rather than some woo-woo notion, energy healing can be a guide and creative compass for releasing worry and embracing joy.

E6: Caring for a Disappointing Parent

How do you show up with compassion and integrity for an aging sick parent who has disappointed you all your life? Meet Marianne, a warm hearted mid-life woman who wants more peace in relationship with her challenging 78 year-old mother. In this honest conversation, Staci holds space for Marianne to identify an intention to help her take care of herself while supporting a mom who loves her but can’t meet her.

E5: Following Intentions for Powerful Living

If 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail, how can we make positive change happen? In this episode, Staci has a lively conversation with long-time sister traveler, Lori. Together, they connect following energy with intention setting as an accessible yet profound transformative practice. Following an intention is a meaningful way to cultivate awareness and choice as inner power which you can carry into any life circumstance. Plus, it's fun.

E4: Seeing Past the Wife into the Woman

As much as we love our kids, surviving the early years of parenting can impact a relationship. Meet Lily, a 41 year-old mom and wife who misses her husband. After years of marriage, what does Lily want? And how can she invite more connection? Join Lily and Staci to explore how long-time spouses can expand from friendship into lovers.

E3: Making Peace with a Relentless Body

How do you navigate constant inexplicable body pain? Meet Levitie, a 38 year-old woman who has been experiencing mysterious stomach issues for three years. Together, she and Staci explore how listening to a relentlessly talking body can facilitate surprising courageous decisions and a different kind of healing inside.

E2: Connecting More with my Mom as an Adult

No matter how old we are or how much therapy we've had, certain moments with our parents can make us feel small and reactive. Meet Adele, a 37 year-old woman who longs to connect more with her mother. What's getting in the way? Join Staci and Adele to practice transforming hurt feelings into awareness so we can get closer with the people we love.

E1: Letting Go of a Dear Friend

Join Staci Boden and Stella for a conversation about old friends. What do you do when you want less and they want more? Does the friendship need to end, or can you find a new way forward together?

  • "Staci Boden has been a steadfast guide for me over the past decade. Her skillful and compassionate insights have influenced my path greatly. She is fierce when it is called for, and a deep listener who nurtures as she teaches. I would not be the woman I am today wthout her support and love."

    Tasha A.

  • "My husband and I found ourselves stuck in some patterns we were having trouble escaping. Working with Staci helped us identify the different ways in which we were effectively communicating and relating, and how we were not. She helped us gain greater understanding of our own energies and how we could create a both-and world."

    Tina S.

  • "Staci's presence in my life has been unyielding and profound. With her support, I have been able to navigate living with depression and anxiety, going through major life/work/relationship transitions, and learning to work with the unknown and the unknowable. Staci never ceases to be a source of nurturance, guidance, and deep, deep care."

    Lisa L.

  • "My beloved and I were fortunate to work with Staci over the course of 2+ years. Her skillful listening and pointed observations helped us to open to changes our relationship needed. The tools and practices along with having a place to talk it out together created a relationship container than holds us today. We would not have made it without her. Thank you, Staci for guiding and loving us."

    Teresa C.

  • "Staci does not lead you into deep places unattended."

    Catherine A.

  • "I started seeing Staci because I felt boxed in and trapped - literally. Staci helped me transform the box and get in touch with aspects of my life that had been long buried. She's provided the space and support to allow those aspects to thrive and flourish, which has helped me grow as a person. I no longer feel trapped and boxed in, my anxiety has diminished, and I've started writing again."

    Carey H.

  • "Staci holds a sacred space better than anyone I have ever experienced."

    Greta V.

  • "With Staci I've begun a journey into my own truth - one I've been afraid to take for this entire lifetime. But it feels as though she holds my hand and grants me space where I can come to trust my own instincts, intuition, and wisdom. When I'm overwhelmed I can rely on the tools I've found instead of various addictions. Sessions with Staci are the most worthwhile work I've ever done."

    Diana C.

  • "Staci Boden is a spiritual midwife, holding you in her arms as you deliver yourself from the pain of the past. I will give you this warning: Do not step into this process with Staci unless you are truly prepared to awaken that which has been sleeping, deep inside of you, for far too long."

    Gwen B.

  • "Staci was a clear, gentle and yet, ever present grounding force that helped me harness my own inner strength to leave an abusive relationship. From there, she's been a touchstone and guide for expanding into my own self-love and self-supportive capacity in its many permutations. I'm so grateful for the depths of Staci's innate wisdom and practical knowledge."

    Jadyn D.

  • "Staci's methods helped me see that healing power is not only real, it is within all of us. Sometimes what it takes is learning a few tools and a lot of support."

    Jay J.

  • "The unique earth-based wise-woman energy healing that Staci offers has allowed me to sit with and move through some of the most difficult transitions in my life with awareness and grace. Her sessions are just the right combination of talk (checking-in), energy work and assessment. I always feel seen, held, and lighter afterwards."

    Hannah E.

  • "Recently I was struck by the (rather frightening) realization that, without Staci, I may have lived the rest of my life having never experienced the profound insight, awareness and healing this deep sacred work offers. Staci is the real deal. Where other practices I've tried have been more saccharine, her teaching is sweet honey, straight from the bee."

    Jenny B.

  • "I trust Staci completely."

    Mel F.

  • "Staci's loving support and wise guidance helped me through a very challenging phase of my life. She not only helped me to make sense of a painful ending with a friend, she also helped me to 'make medicine' out of it. I feel deeply grateful for Staci's integrative approach, wisdom and loving care."

    Lindsay J.

  • "I am forever grateful to Staci and her beautiful book, which came into my life at a time when I was spinning in circles. Nothing compares to the loving container she upholds, the deep energy work and her mama bear presence. Thank you Staci for the ongoing space holding and guidance as I step into my heart work. Much love!"

    Sam L.

  • "I'm in Michigan, so Staci and I work via Skype but she may as well be sitting right next to me. If I'm visualizing sitting by the sea, she will, in that exact moment, mention the sea. If an animal friend or spirit guide shows up for me, Staci knows it immediately. She can detect the precise sensations in my body and intuit how to work that energy. It's uncanny. I may never understand how she does this, but I'm just so grateful for her deep, powerful work."

    Liz J.