Conversations on bodywork and somatic practice
"Pointing the flashlight into the dark."
Most of us carry more than we realize - in our shoulders, our jaws, our hips, our breath. Each episode goes deep into one practice: how it works, what it addresses in the body, and what practitioners have learned from years of working directly with people.
Most of us carry more than we realize - in our shoulders, our jaws, our hips, our breath. What the Body Holds goes deep into one practice per episode: how it works, what it addresses in the body, and what practitioners have learned from years of working directly with people.
One expert, one modality, examined from the inside. Not an overview - the actual thinking behind the work, and what it makes possible for the people who receive it.
Hosted by Johannes Ebert, a de-armouring practitioner working between Berlin and Amsterdam, trained in the Gaia Method.
Available from May 2026
Episode 01 records April 2026. Conversations structured around what the body actually knows - not what we think we should feel.
With Susanne Roursgaard · Gaia Method
The founder of the Gaia Method on how de-armouring developed, what the body reveals when touch becomes the primary language, and why this work remains outside the mainstream.
Guest TBA
A conversation on how the autonomic nervous system holds patterns long after the mind has moved on - and what somatic practice can and cannot change about that.
Guest TBA
The emerging science of connective tissue and why the conversation between research and hands-on practice matters more than either side is willing to admit.
Guest TBA
On the mechanics of breath, its relationship to the diaphragm and pelvic floor, and how restriction in breathing shows up as tension everywhere else in the body.
"Pointing the flashlight into the dark - the same way I work with people on the mattress."
There are conversations happening in practice rooms, training circles, and research environments that never make it to a public forum. Practitioners who have spent years working directly with the body - who know what it holds, what it resists, what it eventually releases.
This podcast exists to bring those conversations out. Not to explain. Not to prescribe. To sit with the questions that the work itself keeps raising.
- Johannes Ebert, host
Johannes Ebert is a de-armouring and bodywork practitioner working between Berlin and Amsterdam. He trained in the Gaia Method and works with myofascial release, Chi Nei Tsang, nervous system regulation, and breathwork.
His practice is built around what the body holds when speaking becomes difficult - chronic tension, defensive patterns, the places where breath stops short. He works with people navigating their body rather than around it.
What the Body Holds is not separate from that practice. It is an extension of it - the same attention, brought into conversation.
If you are a practitioner, researcher, or modality creator working in bodywork or somatic practice and you think a conversation might be worth having - use this form.
General questions about the podcast are welcome here too.
