We recently connected with Phannie Krentzman and have shared our conversation below.
Phannie , we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
My first step in finding my purpose was deconstructing the meaning I had made about living my purpose or the imaginary reality I presumed would exist if I were to find my purpose. Concept can really get in the way of what is, so over about the course of a year I examined basically everything I assumed was true or ‘the way it was’, and broke it down to its simplest expression. This helped me unravel all the judgements I had of the world, others and myself and taught me that the world is made by how we define it, not by how it is. By coming into contact with the world as it is, without my filter, I found myself in deep awe and appreciation of everything. In this space, there is no purpose, there’s just being. Despite the many invisible prison bars I had taken down, freeing me from my perception, I was still not completely fulfilled. I had learned that intuition was the gateway to truly living your dream and though I had lots of training and practice, I still felt like I was running the wrong way. It wasn’t until I learned about humans’ unconscious beliefs and our dysfunctional pattern that keeps us limited that I finally was able to break free from my mundane life and actually go for what was in my heart. I found that honoring what truly matters to me and creating it in the world is my purpose and supporting others into their own knowing of themselves and the ability to do the same. All of this was facilitated by my deep love, curiosity and commitment to the body. The body has taught me through inquiry, injury, emotions, discomfort, disease, heartbreak, training and expression that we are already whole, and when we come from the space of our wholeness, anything is possible.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
What we do at Radical Love Movement has many layers and dimensions, but simply put we support people (individually, workshop-style, and businesses) into being who they are meant to be in the world. We do this through education and practice with their bodies. The one thing we all have in common is having a body, and culturally we are wildly unaware of what a body is or how we can participate with it to achieve inner-harmony and personal agency. We use the body and movement to support individuals into more presence, as a tool for developing attention, and the landscape for understanding who we really are and what it is we’re not. We are passionate about bringing people home to their bodies through somatic practice and training them into their inner-knowing and intuition so that they can know for themselves, becoming the primary creative force in their life.
As the leader of RLM I’ve been obsessed with the human condition and body and the conflict that resides within all of us between our hearts and our heads. I educate and train about the structures in consciousness through the teaching of the paradigm shift happening in anatomy right now. This is a shift is transitioning our understanding of how the body actually works from a 200 year old view of a mechanical body. What’s really exciting about the combining of conscious practice, unveiling unconscious beliefs, and incorporating and enlisting the body is that anybody can do it and when you’re trained in being able to track what’s going on under the surface of your skin you acquire a real opportunity to no longer be a slave to your reactions and assumptions. Another cultural misunderstanding is that our thinking, or frontal cortex is the decision maker of our lives, when in truth emotions are what drive behavior. When we practice intuition and body awareness we learn first had what the driving force is behind the seemingly inescapable patterns we find ourselves in, in life.
In essence we train people back into their innate freedom, and support them with alchemical tools and somatic practice to create what truly matters to their hearts.
From our passion and years of running workshops and one-on-one work we’ve now created a 9 month training program called Through The Body Training Program for individuals to go through. This program is designed to bring you into more connection and understanding of your body from the new lens biotensegrity, to uncover your underlying assumptions that keep you limited, discover what it is your heart truly wants to create in the world, and all the tools and support to make the full 180 shift from our human orientation of being separate and victim to circumstance to the creator of our lives.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
Intuition, body awareness, and the willingness to learn from my own life and mistakes. My advice to folks who are early in their journey to resource someone who will support them truthfully in their vision or in supporting them in finding/refining what it is that they are creating. We train people in creativity and staying with their vision and we know how easy it is for our psychological tension to take us off track, so having someone, like what we do, on your side keeping you true to what you’re creating is more beneficial than any of us want to admit.
If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?
Right now we’re faced with two interesting challenges. One challenge is we are rebranding from our origin as a dance company into the coaching and training company we’ve become. The first 5 years of the company we were focused on our own personal work, creating performances that illuminated and connected people to the human condition, and used our art form as the vehicle. Though we all still have a love of dance, our new focus is getting people trained and coached to create a world that reflects our true being. It’s challenging because we do still use movement (not dance) and education in the way we work but the association with dance seems to put a barrier between us and most people. All you need to work with us is a Human Body and a desire to be free. To help with this challenge we’ve been working with a marketer to help us reformat some of what we do to be more easily consumed and understood as well as creating this new performance work that will be educational entertainment and a fun way to experience and learn more about the Radical Love Movement is all about. The other challenge we are facing is that the work we do is really hard to communicate or display through traditional media and advertising, it’s really something that needs to be experienced, so, as we’ve been getting our name and methods out there we’ve been doing some trades with businesses so they can help describe how the work helped them in creating their successful businesses. Another way we’re bridging this challenge is we have a zoom movement class available for anyone to take at a very affordable rate (first class free) to come get a very bite-sized introduction to what somatic practice and self sensing can create in your life.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.radicallovemovement.com
- Instagram: radlovemovement
Image Credits
Wendy Wetmore Mike Kasprzyk Ariel Elich
