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 formative period of family life shaped by illness, uncertainty, service, and unwavering love. Through the story of her father's struggles, and her mother's extraordinary determination to keep the family moving forward, Joanne explores the quieter forms of courage that rarely make headlines but shape lives nonetheless.

Along the way, she shares memories of family traditions, the purple rose that stayed with her for decades, and the lessons that emerged from growing up inside a household that refused to be defined by difficulty.

You'll hear about:

• The difference between heroic courage and everyday endurance
• How family values shape who we become
• The role of service, responsibility, and loyalty in difficult times
• Why adversity can become a source of wisdom and compassion
• The connection between lived experience, embodiment, and personal growth
• How the people who raise us continue to influence our lives
• Why what is held in the heart is often reflected in the body

Part memoir, part reflection, and part exploration of human resilience, this episode follows the threads of family, love, service, and healing that ran through Joanne's childhood and helped shape the practitioner, teacher, and human being she would later become.

As always, thank you for having me.

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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 childhood experiences, family traditions, and acts of everyday wonder that shaped her life. From rainy day boxes and upside-down days to family rituals, beloved grandparents, and a mother with an extraordinary gift for transforming the ordinary into something magical, this is a story about the environments we grow up inside and how they continue to live within us.

Along the way, Joanne explores a powerful early childhood experience that would later influence her understanding of the body, memory, fascia, and the enduring imprint of our earliest years.

You'll hear:

• How childhood experiences continue to shape us throughout life
• The family traditions that created a sense of belonging and wonder
• Why seemingly small moments can leave lasting impressions
• How early experiences may be carried within the body
• The connection between memory, emotion, and embodied experience
• Why magic is often found in the ordinary
• How love, resilience, and imagination become part of who we are

Blending personal storytelling with reflections on embodiment, family, memory, and human development, this episode explores the weave of experiences that become the architecture of a life.

Part memoir, part reflection, and part exploration of the living body, The Magic We Grow Up Inside is an invitation to reconnect with the child you once were and the stories that continue to shape who you are today.

As always, thank you for having me.

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What does it mean to truly say, “Thank you for having me”?

In this deeply personal opening episode of a new series, Joanne Avison reflects on the final hours recently spent with her mother, Stephani, and the profound sense of gratitude that emerged.

What begins as a story about her passing becomes a tribute to connection, to family, to love and the invisible architecture that shapes a life. Joanne traces the lessons passed down through generations, from an adored grandfather and a thoughtful father to a remarkable mother whose influence will continue in the lives she shaped around her.

You’ll hear:

• The simple phrase that inspired an entire series
• How family values become part of who we are
• Why gratitude can coexist with the sadness of grief
• The stories, sayings, and lessons that shape a life
• What it means to carry those we love forward in our hearts
• How we begin to understand the house that made us
• The connection between Joanne’s lifelong work on fascia and the themes explored in this series

Although this series is more personal than Joanne's usual teaching, it remains deeply connected to the themes that have shaped her work for decades. Just as fascia folds, unfolds, adapts, and develops its own unique architecture, so too do the patterns of our lives. This series explores the people, experiences, and relationships that were being written into us long before we knew how to read them…

The first of four short episodes, Thank You For Having Me is Joanne's tribute and exploration of the patterns, relationships, and experiences that shaped her life, and an invitation to reflect on your own.

Thank you for being here. And, as always, thank you for having me. 🙏

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What if the geometry of wholeness is already expressing itself through you?

In this final episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne explores the dodecahedron: the geometry of ether, the fifth element, and the archetypal pattern of wholeness that underlies all living form.

Drawing together the themes of the entire series, Joanne reveals how the dodecahedron contains the golden ratio within every face, how it relates to self-organisation, completion, and living presence, and why ancient traditions considered it the geometry of the cosmos itself…

You’ll discover:

• Why the dodecahedron is associated with ether and wholeness
• How the pentagon and pentagram express the golden ratio (phi)
• Why five is the archetypal number of life
• The role of decussation and crossing patterns throughout the body
• What chirality reveals about human form and development
• Why sacred geometry is not abstract theory, but living anatomy in motion

From fascia and physiology to Vedic mathematics, the Flower of Life, and the hidden patterns found throughout nature, this episode brings the journey full circle and lays the foundation for the next stage of exploration.

This is the concluding episode of the first Sacred Geometry series, exploring the five Platonic solids and their relationship to fascia, embodiment, human architecture, and the deeper intelligence of life itself.

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What if the breath itself was a geometric event unfolding through your body?

In this episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne explores the octahedron: the geometry of air, breath, dynamic equilibrium, and the poised relationship between opposing forces.

Beginning with a single conscious breath, this conversation journeys through fascia, tensegrity, Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, sacred mathematics, and the hidden geometric principles that shape living form from within.

You’ll discover:

• Why the octahedron represents air and dynamic equilibrium
• How the diaphragm embodies geometric balance in the body
• What the star tetrahedron and Solomon’s Seal reveal about living structures
• How breath connects “earth” and “sky” within the human form
• Why Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man contains hidden sacred geometry
• How tension and compression organise fascia and movement

This episode is part of an ongoing Sacred Geometry series exploring the five platonic solids and their relationship to fascia, movement, awareness, embodiment, and the deeper intelligence of life itself…

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What if the shape of water was also the shape of life itself?

In this episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne Avison explores the icosahedron: the geometry of water, flow, fascia, and living form.

From soap bubbles and spheres to Fibonacci, pi, tensegrity, and the liquid crystal nature of the human body, this conversation reveals why the icosahedron sits at the heart of the living fascial matrix, and how its geometry shapes the way we move, breathe, adapt, and experience reality itself.

You’ll discover:

• Why the icosahedron is the geometry of water and flow
• How spheres are actually high-frequency icosahedrons
• The relationship between fascia, bound water, and tensegrity
• Why living systems are designed to move, not lock
• How Fibonacci, phi, and pi relate to human form
• What “fasciategrity” reveals about the body’s deeper architecture
• Why the body is fundamentally round, responsive, and nonlinear

This episode is part of an ongoing Sacred Geometry series exploring the five platonic solids and their relationship to fascia, movement, awareness, and embodied human experience.

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What if the geometry of the cube was a transient aspect of you before you were even an embryo?

In this episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne explores the hexahedron: the geometry of earth, embodiment, and the earliest sacred geometric patterns of human form…

You’ll discover:

• Why the cube appears briefly during the earliest human development
• How the body grows through geometric patterns rather than mechanical ones
• The deeper symbolic meaning of “earth” within sacred geometry
• How fascia carries memory, responsiveness, and form
• What sacred geometry reveals about the intelligence of life itself

Joanne also explores the tension between the rounded, adaptive nature of living bodies and the straight-lined world we have built around ourselves, and why understanding this changes the way we think about movement, embodiment, and human design.

This episode is part of an ongoing series exploring the five platonic solids and their relationship to fascia, movement, awareness, and embodied human experience.

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What is the simplest structure the body can form… and why does it matter for movement, fascia, and transformation?

Joanne continues this popular new Sacred Geometry mini-series by exploring the first true three-dimensional form: the tetrahedron.

Following on from the previous episode on zero, this conversation moves from potential into form. Joanne explains how four points create the first possible volume in space, and why this shape is not just mathematical, but deeply relevant to the living body… In fact, the tetrahedron is a foundational pattern of structure, transformation, and organisation within fascia and movement.

You’ll discover:

• Why four points create the first three-dimensional structure
• How the tetrahedron represents transformation and “fire”
• The role of triangulation in structural integrity
• How fascia distributes force through dynamic relationships
• How geometry underpins movement, stability, and adaptability

Drawing on anatomy, embryology, tensegrity, and somatic awareness, Joanne connects the tetrahedron to how the body actually forms, moves, and responds in real life.

This episode is part of an ongoing sacred geometry series, where each instalment explores one of the five platonic solids and its relevance to the human body, movement, and embodied awareness.

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