#23 – Make Your Own Moves:  Julia Eda Shemesh on Movement  as Medicine, Birth, Motherhood,  and Creative Autonomy

#23 – Make Your Own Moves: Julia Eda Shemesh on Movement as Medicine, Birth, Motherhood, and Creative Autonomy

Author: Katia Khomich October 29, 2025 Duration: 1:00:47
Those of you who know me – know that I love dancing, I love movement. And I was so excited to have Julia Eda Shemesh on this podcast. Julia Eda Shemesh is teaching movement as medicine, as a language, as a tool to claim creative autonomy. She is a life-long dancer, but at some point she had to drop that identity – and become someone who is bringing women back home to their moving bodies as the source of their wisdom, power and freedom. She does this via nature immersion retreats i...

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