Hello Universe5 Nov 2025

Returning Home to Our Bodies with Abigail Rose Clarke

Abigail Rose Clarke is a somatic teacher and author whose work invites people back into honest relationship with their bodies, and the world around them.

Abigail speaks about somatics in a way that’s refreshingly un-branded. She reminds us that the body isn’t a self-improvement project but a whole ecosystem that includes our relationships, histories, communities, and the ground beneath our feet.

🌿 What We Talk About

🌱 Living in the Ecotone
Abigail’s discovery of the term ecotone—the meeting place between ecosystems—and how it mirrors the emotional edge where grief and joy can exist side by side.

💫 What Somatics Actually Means
Tracing the roots of the word “somatic” to its original sense of the whole body, and why reducing it to nervous-system regulation misses the point.

🌍 Gravity, Ease, and the Body’s Relationship to Earth
Abigail reframes gravity as an ongoing relationship rather than a force to resist, describing the relief that comes when we let ourselves be held.

🔥 When Wellness Becomes Another Job
A grounded critique of how capitalism turns embodiment into a product to be bought and sold—and what it might look like to reclaim our practices from that system.

💔 Grief, Pain, and the Ground That Holds Us
How the death of her longtime dog brought Abigail back to the simplest somatic truth: that the earth underneath us offers unconditional support when nothing else can.

🌸 G R O W L: A Simple Somatic Framework
Abigail’s approachable method—Ground (or Gravity), Relate, Observe, Widen, Love—offering a way to meet the body with curiosity rather than correction.

💍 Commitment Without Constriction
Reflections on her recent engagement and the ongoing experiment of how two people can choose each other while still allowing change, space, and evolution.

🌕 The Shape of Long-Term Love and Friendship
A re-imagining of commitment that values honesty and aliveness over longevity, and how the health of any bond depends on letting each person keep becoming.

💬 Connect with Abigail

Website: abigailroseclarke.com
Instagram:.instagram.com/abigail.rose.clarke
Book: Returning Home to Our Bodies

💫 Connect with Eva & Kyley

A Gentle & Fierce Path Forward: A Workbook for Staying Present, Committed and Resourced in Times of Crisis
https://portal.kyleycaldwell.com/gentle-fierce-workbook

Sign up for Awakening with Eva for FREE
https://dogged-trailblazer-8821.kit.com/756fe8553d

Torchbearer Workshop with Kyley
https://portal.kyleycaldwell.com/torchbearer-workshop

Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao
Book a discovery call with Eva

Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell
Kyley's free mini-course

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(252)

The End of an Era - Kyley & Eva Say Farewell

It's the final episode of Hello Universe, and we're not going out quietly. Eva and Kyley sit down for one last long, meandering, deeply honest conversation — the kind that made this show what it is. T...

29 Apr 1h 18min

The 7 Deadly Sins with Courtney Smith

Courtney Smith, executive coach and co-author of Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness, joins us this week and we are so excited to talk to her about what it looks like to loosen our grip on being “good,” ...

22 Apr 1h 16min

You Cannot be a Coward at the Pulpit with The Rev. Gerlyn Henry

In this episode, we sit down with Reverend Gerlyn Henry, a Toronto-based Anglican priest whose presence online has been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) shifting how people think about faith, th...

15 Apr 1h 18min

Letting Life Change You with Simona Irwin

Simona Irwin is a Toronto-based mindfulness teacher, somatic practitioner and family constellation facilitator who weaves nervous system tending, deep ecology, and embodied movement into spaces of bel...

18 Mar 1h 25min

Spiritual Tools for Revolutionary Times with Kyley and Eva

Kyley and Eva sit down to talk about what has been happening in North America around ICE, immigration enforcement, and the wave of fear, grief, rage, confusion, and moral distress many people are carr...

4 Feb 1h 35min

Kyley is Catholic again??

After years of unravelling inherited belief systems, questioning authority, and prying spirituality out of the grip of shame, she finds herself back in conversation with Catholicism. What we cover in ...

21 Jan 56min

Our love/hate relationship with being the victim with Kyley and Eva

In this episode of Hello Universe, Kyley and Eva wade unpack how victim consciousness can form as a protective response to real harm, heartbreak, overwhelm, and unmet needs and how it can quietly hard...

14 Jan 48min

Be a Messy B*tch with Kyley and Eva

What does it really means to give yourself permission to be a messy b*tch—especially in the places where it feels hardest. Sparked by Eva being back in Taiwan with her family, this conversation explor...

17 Des 20251h 16min