Show Up & Surrender

a podcast by Biddy

About the podcast

Show Up and Surrender is a podcast born in 2021, from a shared passion of living consciously, wholeheartedly. From knowing that there will be both good and bad, and that most of the magic quite often happens somewhere in between.

Show up & Surrender is about life. From the day to day things as well as the deeper thoughts and ideas. Often in conversation with Marcella and other friends. Since 2022 you will also sometimes hear Biddy's solo musings.

The one thing this podcast always is, is an invitation to you. To pull up a chair, listen and let me know you your thoughts, your experiences. 

All Episodes

Season 4. Episode 2
Join me as I sit down with Ely and Marcella to talk about Motherhood! We share our thoughts, our questions, our struggles and our happiness.
 
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Season 4. Episode 1
Letting go of perfectionism to bring the podcast back...  Iโ€™ve missed putting out the podcast, and I am excited to announce its return. New format, new thoughts.
 
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Season 3, Episode 2: A body that doesn't do what you want it to with Stephen
Join Stephen Lightbown and Biddy as they have an open and honest talk about a topic that's quite hard to talk about for them.
 
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Season 3, Episode 1: Reboot with Biddy
Show Up and Surrender is rebooted and back! In this episode I tell you about what I have been up to at the end of 2022.

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Season 2, Episode 13 - About Quiet (the book), introversion and more with Ely
Join Ely and Biddy as they talk about Quiet, about being introverts in a world where extraversion seems to be ideal we are supposed to strive for.

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Season 2, Episode 12 - About (re)Connecting to Care Practices with Ely
Join Ely and Biddy as they talk about practices that offer (self)care. About how you can sometimes (re)discover a practice.

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Season 2, Episode 11 - A life with Pip with Stephen
In 2021 Stephen wrote & performed A Life With PIP, exploring his experiences of applying for disability benefit. Join us as we talk about it.

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Season 2, Episode 10 - Make it Sacred with Marcella
Marcella's back. Join us to hear updates on her journey after the last episode we recorded together. We catch up and share some of the things that have been on ours minds and in our lives.

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Season 2, Episode 9: Comfort Zone - in or out? With Lina
Some say the best things happen when you move out of your comfort zone. Is that true for you? Join Biddy and Lina as they talk about this!  

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Season 2, Episode 8: About change and trust with Zahnina
Join Biddy as she talks to Zahnina about making life changing decisions, trusting your intuition and the continuous process of self discovery. About acting out of love, instead of fear. About being kind to ourselves and getting to know our inner critics.
 
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Season 2, Episode 7: About being the father of a newborn with Stephen
Join Biddy as she talks to Zahnina about making life changing decisions, trusting your intuition and the continuous process of self discovery. About acting out of love, instead of fear. About being kind to ourselves and getting to know our inner critics.  

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Season 2, Episode 6: Ines Schubi
Ines Schubi helps self-employed women stop stressing about food and their bodies so they can feel confident, energized and invest their new mental space and time into growing their business.Join Biddy in a conversation that inspired her and made her smile.

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Season 2, Episode 5: Intentional Decision Making with Ely
Join Biddy as she talks with Ely about making big decisions. Do you consult your loved ones, or experts? Or do you move inward?

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Season 2, Episode 4: Aging, living and learning from the past - with Eva
Join me as I talk with our recurring co-host Eva about aging, living and learning from the past. We could probably have filled hours on this topic, but we managed to stop ourselves at the 41 minute mark.

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Season 2, Episode 3: About Yoga and Yoga Teacher Training with Stephen
Join Biddy and Stephen as they talk about their experiences with Yoga Teacher Training. Stephen is in the middle of his 200 hour training as we record this episode. They talk about how teacher training changed their view on what Yoga is, about spirituality, Yoga teacher voices, teaching styles and more.

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Season 2, Episode 2: About the Podcast 2.0
After announcing a big change to Show Up & Surrender in the first episode of this new season, the "About the podcast" episode we made last year needed an update. That's why in today's episode Biddy talks about the new format of the podcast and what the podcast is about. It will be one of the very few episodes where Biddy is by herself ;)

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Season 2, Episode 1: Dropping a bombshell
We are back! And we are starting season 2 starts by dropping a bombshell. Marcella has a big announcement to make.

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Season 1, Episode 27: Evamaria Kulovits
In this last episode of this season, we talk to Eva about her work, her life and so much more. We love Eva and are so inspired by her and her work.
 
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Season 1, Episode 26: Journaling
We got a question from one of our listeners: can you make an episode about planners and journals?

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Season 1, Episode 25: Creating space
In this episode we share our best tips to create space.

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Season 1, Episode 24: How do we deal with overwhelm
Sometimes we add on to the overwhelm, by trying to fix our overwhelm. We talk about how we notice overwhelm, and how we deal with it.

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Season 1, Episode 23: Is media evil?
In our social media bubble we hear a lot about how binge watching, or melting into your couch to watch a few movies is not proper self care. ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ข๐™š๐™™๐™ž๐™– ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ก?

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Season 1, Episode 22: Coming Home - bonus
Join us for an extra episode as we look back on our retreat and tell you more about the next event you can join us!

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Season 1, Episode 21: Self care vs Self honesty
A lot of people seem to think self care is only about treating yourself on all things comfortable. But is that really all there is to self care?

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Season 1, Episode 20: Not everyone's cup of tea
Do you ever find yourself worrying about what other people might think of you? Or maybe you have your own business or a job where you find yourself trying to live up to expectations that make you feel uncomfortable? This episode is for you.

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Season 1, Episode 19: Does distance make the heart grow fonder?
In this episode, Marcella shares what these 106 days did to her, the relationship she has with herself and the relationship with her boyfriend.

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Season 1, Episode 18: It's not you, it's me
Biddy learned a lot about herself through the years and through her relationships.

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Season 1, Episode 17: What else to expect
Prepping for the weekend retreat, we are getting more and more excited. About the workshops, about the people who already signed up, about the surroundings @landgoeddehorst, about the sense of community: about everything.

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Season 1, Episode 16 - To Be or Not To Be
Marcella answered 'Not to be', and shared that the insight behind that answer changed her life and the way she looks at herself.

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Season 1, Episode 15: Invitation to join us
๐™’๐™š ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™Ž๐™๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™ช๐™ฅ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™Ž๐™ช๐™ง๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฌ๐™š๐™š๐™ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ง๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ!

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Season 1, Episode 14: Talking to Jeppe Aagaard
In this episode Biddy and Jeppe talk about his journey so far. Join them as they share what showing up and surrendering means to them.

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Season 1, Episode 13: Small Changes
Do you ever feel like you can't really stick to a new habit? Or you want to change something radically, but find yourself back where you began after some time?

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Season 1, Episode 12: Talking to Ely Bakouche
In this episode ๐™€๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™š๐™จ ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ซ๐™ž๐™š๐™ฌ ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ช๐™ฅ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™ช๐™ง๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ญ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ž๐™˜๐™–๐™—๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ.. Why it's so hard to allow yourself to rest? Because it's against the system that is always telling us to go and do.

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Season 1, Episode 11: After this Project I'll have more time.. (and other myths)
We keep thinking: after this project is done... ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜บ.

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Season 1, Episode 10: Talking to Stephen Lightbown
Stephen Lightbown shares his view on showing up and surrendering, especially after the accident that lead to him being a wheelchair user.

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Season 1, Episode 9: Self Talk
Join us as we talk about how we tend to be so much harder on ourselves than we are on others.

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Season 1, Episode 8: Fear of Failure
While listening to Leslie Odom Juniorโ€™s audiobook โ€˜Failing upโ€™, we found ourselves wondering...

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Season 1, Episode 7: Out of Control
โ€˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ?โ€™

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Season 1, Episode 6: 75 Questions Marcella
Youโ€™ve gotten to know our serious and honest side, so in this episode we would love to show you our giggly side as well.

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Season 1, Episode 5: 75 Questions Biddy
Youโ€™ve gotten to know our serious and honest side, so in this episode we would love to show you our giggly side as well.

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Season 1, Episode 4: The Curve
The Curve has become such a big part of both Marcellaโ€™s & Biddyโ€™s life that it was a logical first topic for their podcast.

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Season 1, Episode 3: Introducing Biddy
Meet Biddy, one of your hosts at Show Up and Surrender.

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Season 1, Episode 2: Introducing Marcella
Meet Marcella, one of your hosts at Show Up and Surrender.

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Season 1, Episode 1: About the Podcast
Join us as we talk about why we started this podcast and explain a little more about what you can expect to hear when you join us.

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Biddy's Current Favourites

Season 1, Episode 4:
The Curve

Itโ€™s about how expectations change the way we experience everything we do and everything we feel. What does the Curve have to do with that? 

Season 3, Episode 2:
A body that doesn't do what you want it to with Stephen 

Join Stephen Lightbown and Biddy as they have an open and honest talk about a topic that's quite hard to talk about for them.

Season 2, Episode 13:
About Quiet (the book), introversion and more 

Join Ely and Biddy as they talk about being introverts in a world where extraversion seems to be ideal we are supposed to strive for.

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About your host

Biddy Messchaert

Yoga teacher - Yoga therapist in training - Retreat organizer - Podcast and Book Club host

Biddy is the founder of Yoga Vayu and co-founder and host of The Show Up & Surrender podcast and The Zero Pressure Book Club.

Her one-on-one work with clients has prompted her to study to become a Yoga therapist. This will allow her to support her clients even better in many ways. Working trauma sensitive and with knowledge about how to work safely with people that might be suffering from injury or disease. Her 875 hour training is going well so far and she will start her case study work in the summer of 2024.

She is already a certified Yoga teacher for a variety of Yoga Styles. On her membership she focuses on embodied movement in both flow and restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra. She also hosts workshops and Retreats in the Netherlands, abroad and online! She teaches group and private sessions both online and in the greater Delft area, and wherever Yoga classes and retreats take her! While she loves teaching big groups, her heart makes a happy dance when she teaches small group and one-on-one classes.

You may also know her as the founder of Coming Home Retreats & Workshops.

She lives in Delft with Joost (husband) and Jillian (dog), loves books, music, movies, gaming and so much more!

Contact me at biddy@yogavayu.nl
Find me on Substack: yogavayu.substack.com
Follow me on Instagram: @showupandsurrender & @yogavayunl