Gary: Sexuality, Embodiment, and Security

In this episode Joana speaks with Gary Joplin about his life growing up in the American midwest as a gay man, his struggles with religion and spirituality, and finding his path as a dancer and choreographer. Gary left the US to move to Germany and join a dance company in his chosen second home in Freiburg. After his career as a dancer, Gary needed to find a new direction and discovered a deeper passion for the body as a means to work therapeutically with people. He became fascinated with somatic therapy and now has a private practise as a somatic therapist and coach. In this episode he shares very openly about his inner state throughout the changes in his life, and how his relationship to confidence and security in himself has evolved.  You can find out more about Gary here: http://www.garyjoplin.com

Om Podcasten

Being Underwater is a project about inner life in the digital age. Hosted by social entrepreneur and anthropologist Joana Breidenbach, this series of interviews tries to uncover the language we use to describe our inner worlds, as well as the tools or practices that help us decipher them. These conversations are important to engage in at any time, however with the onset of the digital age, they present a new urgency. As machines and algorithms threaten to know and understand us better than we do ourselves, we are faced with an evolutionary pressure to expand our consciousness and comprehend greater amounts of complexity. We must understand who we are, and what it is that we want, in order to define our relationship with technology, rather than allowing technology to define us. The project was conceived by Joana Breidenbach and edited by Siena Powers. Angus Sewell McCann composed the main theme music, and Vincent Augustus mixed the second theme. All visuals were created by Florentin Aisslinger.