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Pain Removed Performance Improved

Joanne Avison

For 20 years I was a chocolatier; working in the magic and mystery of the liquid crystal medium we call “chocolate”. Then I became a yoga teacher and manual therapist, specialising in soft t...

Episodes

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What Autumn Is Trying to Tell Your Body

As autumn arrives and the days grow shorter, have you noticed a change in your energy, mood or the way your body feels? In this reflective s...

14:12Oct 30, 2026

Why We Can't Separate Our Emotions From Our Bodies

What if the way we understand the human body has been missing something fundamental? 🎥 A quick note: This episode includes several visual d...

27:57Oct 23, 2026

The Scientist Who Saw the Living Body in a Whole New Light

What if the human body is far more connected and extraordinary than we've ever imagined? And what if the way we feel is inseparable from the...

46:49Oct 16, 2026

Candace Pert and the Science That Changed How We Understand Emotion

What if our emotions are communicating through far more of the body than we ever imagined? In this episode, Joanne considers things she lear...

18:47Oct 9, 2026

Ida Rolf, Intuition and the Courage to Break the Rules

What happens when everything you’ve been taught tells you to go one way, but the body asks you to go another? In this episode, Joanne reflec...

32:56Oct 2, 2026

The Woman Who Changed How I Think About the Body

What if the body is doing far more than simply carrying us through the world? Following last week’s exploration of Vanda Scaravelli and lear...

26:48Sep 25, 2026

What Vanda Scaravelli Taught Me About Listening to My Body

What happens when we stop telling the body what to do, and start listening to what it already knows? More than 30 years ago, Vanda Scaravell...

25:03Sep 18, 2026

Emotional Anatomy: Do Feelings Shape the Body?

What if your emotions aren’t separate from your anatomy, but part of the way you move, breathe and express who you are? After sharing her de...

28:53Sep 11, 2026

Why I Stopped Saying “Feet Hip-Width Apart”

What if the way we’ve been taught to stand is getting in the way of how we’re designed to move? After the extraordinary response to last wee...

25:44Sep 4, 2026

Sacred Geometry: 12 Minutes That Changed the Way I Move

What can 12 minutes of gentle movement really change? For this final chapter of Sacred Geometry Series 2, Joanne does something a little dif...

25:39Aug 28, 2026

Sacred Geometry: John Sharkey and the Architecture of Continuity

What if continuity is even more fundamental than tensegrity? In this special episode of Sacred Geometry, Joanne is joined in person by clini...

48:16Aug 21, 2026

Sacred Geometry: Donald Ingber and the Science of Tensegrity

What if tensegrity isn't simply a theory, but something already at work inside every living cell? In this episode of Sacred Geometry, Joanne...

24:46Aug 14, 2026

Sacred Geometry: Tom Flemons and the Human Tensegrity Model

What if the model we've used to explain the human body could never stand up on its own? In this episode of Sacred Geometry, Joanne explores...

23:03Aug 7, 2026

Sacred Geometry: Buckminster Fuller and the World of Tensegrity

What happens when someone gives a name to something that has always existed? Buckminster Fuller didn't invent tensegrity, but by naming it,...

26:30Jul 31, 2026

Sacred Geometry: Kenneth Snelson and the Missing Piece

What if the missing piece in understanding the human body was discovered by a sculptor? In this episode Joanne explores the extraordinary li...

40:34Jul 24, 2026

Sacred Geometry: Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Seeing

What did Leonardo da Vinci see that the rest of the world missed? In the second episode of this new Sacred Geometry series, Joanne explores...

23:05Jul 17, 2026

Sacred Geometry: The Living Architecture of You

What if the geometry of the cosmos is also written within you? Following the extraordinary response to the first Sacred Geometry series, Joa...

31:55Jul 10, 2026

Thank You For Having Me: Everything Was Preparing Me

What if the work you're doing today actually began long before you knew its name? In this concluding episode of Thank You For Having Me, Joa...

11:48Jul 3, 2026

Thank You For Having Me: The Courage to Carry On

What does it mean to carry on when life doesn't go to plan? In this deeply personal episode of Thank You For Having Me, Joanne reflects on a...

22:16Jun 26, 2026

Thank You For Having Me: The Magic We Grow Up Inside

What if the magic of childhood never really leaves us? In this deeply personal episode of Thank You For Having Me, Joanne reflects on the ch...

22:22Jun 19, 2026