Conversations for the Moving Self

Hello, I am Megan, a lifelong movement artist and facilitator. Each week I invite you inside of the honest conversations I have been having with incredibly inspiring movement and wellbeing practitioners, as we unpack the beautiful rollercoaster it is pursuing a lifestyle that is built around movement and wellbeing.Join us as we share and reflect on the moments where movement lights your soul on fire, to the situations where you begin to question everything.

Conversations for the Moving Self is a arts podcast hosted by Megan, with 34 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Megan hosts Conversations for the Moving Self, a arts show with 34 episodes published.

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  Episode #33

  Episode 33 - "Through Care, We Push Each Other to Fly" — Kristina and Sadé Alleyne

  Sep 5, 202646 min

  This week Megan sits down with sister duo Sadé and Kristina Alleyne, founders of Alleyne Dance, to talk about building a decade-long creative partnership as twins, mothers, and artists. From their roots in athletics to founding their own company in 2014, they open up about navigating long-distance collaboration (Kristina in Antwerp, Sadé in London), leading projects solo through pregnancy and new motherhood, and the balance of rigor and care that defines their teaching style. They also dig into the realities of sustaining a dance company financially in a tightening industry, how their athletics background continues to shape the way they train and push dancers safely, and Kristina's move into movement therapy after years of community work on productions like Far From Home . Along the way, they reflect on the informal boundaries that keep sister time and work time separate, and what it really takes to protect your own wellbeing while giving so much to others — especially heading into a busy touring summer with kids in tow. Grab your headphones for an honest, warm conversation about sisterhood, sustainability, and staying rooted in movement

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  Episode #30

  Episode 32 - Building the Garden: Movement, Teaching & the Island Life with Arran Green and Kurty Genevieve

  Aug 8, 202644 minS3

  Recorded live in front of an audience at the Octopus Print Gallery — our first-ever in-person recording — host Megan sits down with two dance educators whose careers span two very different worlds: Mauritius and London. Kurty Linsley Genevieve is a Mauritian dancer, choreographer, and creative educator with 20+ years across ballet, Kathak, jazz, and contemporary, and a gold medal at the Jeux de la Francophonie with Les Frères Joseph. Since 2012 he's been a leading teacher and choreographer at Le Studio Dance School Mauritius. Arran Green is a London-based performer, director, and educator shaped by Capoeira and Hip-Hop, with training through the National Youth Dance Company of England and London Contemporary Dance School. He now lectures at Rambert School and sits on the board of trustees at Sadler's Wells. In this episode: how each of them found movement in the first place (a childhood stage debut, a breakdance competition that turned into a free bus pass), what a working week actually looks like at 20 years into a dance career, and Arran's metaphor of teaching as tending a garden — years of planting now finally being harvested. But the real heart of the conversation is a harder question: not what you do outside the studio to take care of yourself, but what it costs inside it. Both guests get candid about the toll of holding space for other people's ambitions — Kurty on the difficulty of balancing discipline with warmth across a new, more questioning generation of students, and Arran on the quietly self-destructive side of teaching, and the two selves he's had to build to survive it. They close on what's exciting them next — not more dance, necessarily, but who they might become once the routine they've built their whole identity around eventually has to change. Check out Adianna Valentine's It's Just Dance Podcast as well. https://m.youtube.com/@itsjustdancepodcast?ra=m&fbclid=PAZnRzaATgbmJwZG9mAmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp1Tfi1YzuhJwDOIAEwP_dGd8TyOIo1ThBcYtKWELqPKnzrWdOPqLnZPzae8T_aem_ShQgM2L2oehWj0QDkgf9RA

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  Episode #31

  Episode 31 - More Than a Side Hustle: How Massage Therapy and Musical Theater Shaped Bethany Wynn

  Jul 18, 20261h 14mS3

  In this episode, Megan sits down with Bethany Wynn, a Level 5 advanced clinical massage therapist based in London with a background in musical theatre. Bethany shares her journey from performing on cruise ships and UK tours to building a thriving massage practice rooted in compassion rather than the "no pain, no gain" mentality she grew up with in performing arts. They dig into what it really means to take care of your body as a mover or performer, from the loneliness of being sidelined by an injury with zero support, to redefining self-care as something accessible and ongoing rather than a luxury reserved for when things go wrong. Bethany opens up about why she stepped back from performing, how massage and the stage have always been intertwined in her life, and the powerful idea of finding your "village" of people who genuinely have your back. The conversation also covers Bethany's new 16-week research project exploring how clinical massage can support people through grief, plus practical wisdom on listening to your body's whispers before they become shouts, and learning to tell the difference between resistance born from fear and resistance that's your body asking you to slow down. A warm, honest conversation about movement, healing, community, and giving yourself permission to rest (dog cameo included).

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  Episode #30

  Episode 30 - Laurent Roure on Somatic Practice and Yoga, Encouraging Invitations, and Liberation

  Jul 11, 20261h 11mS3

  This episode features Laurent, a yoga and somatic teacher whose approach blends Scaravelli Yoga with Feldenkrais-based somatic work. Laurent has been practicing yoga for over three decades, starting in the disciplined world of Ashtanga in the 90s before discovering a more receptive, listening-based approach through Scaravelli and years of one-to-one study with teachers including osteopath John Stirk and a direct lineage holder of Vanda Scaravelli's teaching. Recorded during Mental Health Awareness Week, the conversation explores what "action" really means when it comes to wellbeing, why self-care often needs to come before we can show up for others, and how Laurent builds a personal toolkit of practices, from cranial-sacral and fascial therapy to self-massage, foot care, cooking, and gardening, depending on what a given week calls for. Laurent and Megan also talk candidly about the current shifts happening in the yoga and wellness world, the tension between traditional and evolving practices, and a shared feeling that a "post-pandemic energy" seems to be resurfacing in people right now. A grounded, thoughtful conversation about returning to the body as a place of safety, and why there's no single right way to practice.

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  Episode #29

  Episode 29 - "No Other Choice" - Olia Poliakova on building a dance career when there was no roadmap

  Jul 4, 202656 minS3

  In this episode, host Megan sits down with Olia Polyakova — Ukrainian-born, London-based movement artist — recorded live in Mauritius, where the two former London Contemporary Dance School classmates have been spending time together. The conversation is warm, candid, and deeply personal, touching on what it really means to build a life around dance. Olia opens up about why she chose to spend holiday time in the studio, and how dancing without stakes or agenda feels less like work and more like taking a shower — something purely for yourself. She traces her path back to growing up in Ukraine, where the only visible models for a dance career were ballerinas or teachers, and how she chose dance anyway — not because she had a plan, but because she simply couldn't imagine anything else. The conversation moves into the honest reality of freelancing: what a bad week looks like (bar work, job hunting, silence) versus a good one (extras work on set, life modelling, studio sessions, photo shoots, club dancing). For Olia, variety isn't stressful — the absence of work is. The two also dig into training, and Olia is refreshingly candid about needing to trick herself into going to class, whether through networking instincts or sheer necessity. Neither of them find showing up easy, and the difference between training inside a structured program versus navigating it alone as a freelancer is a thread that runs throughout. On the creative side, Olia shares how her solo work lives in detailed improvised scores rather than fixed choreography, and how tangible objects — rope, clay — tend to anchor a piece before the meaning fully arrives. Visual and conceptual elements, she explains, emerge from opposite directions and meet somewhere in the middle. It's a genuine, unfiltered conversation about the unglamorous grind and the quiet joys of a life built around movement.

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