{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP 238: The Body Innate \u2013 Yin Warriorship, Communal Eros, and Leading Atmospheres with Jaye Marolla","description":"In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Jaye Marolla, a bodyworker, martial artist, Qigong teacher, and founder of The Body Innate and the Yin Dojo in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They explore the integration of martial arts, bodywork, and Qigong as a path of healing and sovereignty, and what Jaye calls \u201cyin warriorship:\u201d a reclamation of the warrior archetype rooted in surrender, Eros, and facing one\u2019s own mortality rather than competition or heroism. They discuss how Jaye came to open her home as a dojo, the ancient tradition of merging practice space with living space, and the energetic responsibility that requires. The conversation moves through the role of Eros and sexuality in training spaces, the difference between safety and emergence, the trauma frame versus a vitality frame, and what it means to lead atmospheres rather than follow scripts. They also explore queerness as a state of questioning, the tension between sovereignty and individualism, and the concept of couples dojos as somatic spaces for partnership.   Bio Jaye Marolla is a bodyworker, martial artist, and Qigong practitioner based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she runs the Yin Dojo. She is the founder of The Body Innate and has trained extensively in multiple martial arts traditions including Aikido and Jiu Jitsu, as well as Thai bodywork, which she studied for three years with a master teacher in Thailand. A former Division 1 basketball player, Jaye integrates decades of physical training with Taoist philosophy, somatic practice, and community-based teaching. Her work sits at the intersection of yin warriorship, Eros, and embodied leadership, and she teaches martial arts, Qigong, bodywork, and leadership through emergent, atmosphere-based practice. She also leads couples dojos and collaborates with practitioners including Stephen Jackson on retreats exploring death, embodiment, and communal practice.   What She Shares: \u2013 How the Yin Dojo came to be in her home in Santa Fe \u2013 The ancient tradition of integrating bodywork and martial arts under one roof \u2013 Yin warriorship as a response to cultural chaos and the call of the body \u2013 Vitality and animism versus the pathological medicine frame \u2013 The role of Eros, eroticism, and sexuality in training spaces \u2013 Her journey from D1 basketball to Thai bodywork to martial arts teaching \u2013 Couples dojos as somatic, embodied spaces for partnership \u2013 Queerness as a state of questioning and healthy boundary transgression   What You\u2019ll Hear: \u2013 Kimberly\u2019s introduction to Jaye\u2019s work and their collaboration at Ghost Ranch \u2013 Creating a home-based dojo and the energetic configuration of practice, treatment, and living space \u2013 The interplay of healing and combat knowledge across traditions \u2013 Why body workers need to train their own bodies \u2013 Sovereignty versus taking on others\u2019 energy in bodywork \u2013 Transitioning from an all-women\u2019s dojo to an all-gender space \u2013 The \u201ctoxic masculinity\u201d conversation and the abandonment of the masculine \u2013 Leadership as emergent, atmosphere-based, and rooted in physical training \u2013 The creation of atmospheres: moving away from comparative gaze toward cooperative gaze \u2013 Warriorship as a dying art rooted in death awareness, not competition \u2013 Frames beyond trauma: warriorship, vitality, eroticism \u2013 Training for three years in Thailand and the gray space of becoming a practitioner \u2013 The necessity of being in the flesh in a technological age \u2013 Eros in training spaces: the puritanical bind of encouraging then discouraging the body\u2019s response \u2013 Self-modulation and erotic sovereignty as a resource \u2013 Sovereignty versus individualism: belonging and exile \u2013 The trauma orientation as a cultural and capitalist hindrance \u2013 Simple ceremony and self-reverent practice \u2013 Yin and Yang: growing capacity in both simultaneously \u2013 Emergent teaching versus deterministic scripts in group spaces \u2013 Safety as a placation of wildness versus supportive disorientation \u2013 Queerness as living off the main path and transgressing boundaries healthily \u2013 What \u201cthe layers between\u201d means: space, Yin, and limitless possibility \u2013 Couples dojos: somatic conversations beyond the sexual context   Resources Business: The Body Innate Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico Website: https:\/\/www.thebodyinnate.com\/ IG: @thebodyinnate   ","author_name":"Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson","author_url":"http:\/\/www.kimberlyannjohnson.com\/","html":"