Infinite Earth Body Podcast

Embody your authentic self, in joy, beauty, and peace, with désirée

In this episode I interviewed my dear friend and creative collaborator, désirée freda, an artist and self healing guide. offering frequencies of embodied joy, beauty, and peace through sacred song, intuitive movement and quantum healing, past life regression and earth based ritual.
 
We talked about:💫Healing through Dancing💫Energy work and boundaries💫How to release fear of embodying your authentic selves 💫How nature and the flowers are our teachers💫Reminding all of us of our beauty as part of nature💫We’re all here for a special reason on a hero’s journey💫Coming back home to yourself 
You can connect with désirée here:https://www.instagram.com/wildrosesister
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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be 
 
Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing!
CHAPTERS:00:00:00 Introduction00:04:00 How embodiment is an awareness of the consciousness throughout our body00:06:00 désirée’s experiences of embodiment as a dancer00:09:00 Ways désirée comes fully into her body and regulating her nervous system00:10:00 Connecting with the energetic and astral bodies, and energetic boundaries00:13:00 Nourishing the body00:16:00 Healing through dance, energy work, and ancestral connection00:19:00 How nature and the flowers are our teachers00:21:00 How embodying our authentic selves is a responsibility00:23:00 Some of désirée’s experiences in her body00:27:00 Coming into her path to spread beauty, joy, and love00:31:00 How to move through fear of fully embodying your authentic self00:34:00 We’re all here for a special reason on a hero’s journey00:40:30 How theatre, film, visuals, the curation and creation of beauty are all spells00:42:00 What is the beauty path?00:45:30 Being a self-healing guide 00:52:00 How healing is coming back home to oneself00:54:00 Quantum healing00:56:00 désirée sings her beauty way song00:59:00 Ways désirée finds pleasure in her body

Embodying divinity and the holy & sacred all around us, with MawuLisa

In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my beloved friend and embodiment teacher, MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo. MawuLisa is a community based healing midwife, somatic bodyworker, embodiment coach, song weaver, lover of nature & Spirit, a lifelong student of the Healing Arts, and an initiated Diviner & Orisha Priest.
 
We talked about:
Healing as coming into wholeness
Trauma healing through somatics
Maintaining joy & self-care through holding space for others and trauma healing work
How individual and collective healing and liberation movement work are interconnected
How earth based spirituality is part of social justice work
Seeing the sacred and holy in all things, in ourselves and everything around us
MawuLisa’s path as a spiritual midwife
The power of song and music as medicine and part of movements for liberation
Ways MawuLisa finds pleasure in her body
 
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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be
 
Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:06:00 What does healing mean to MawuLisa
00:08:00 MawuLisa’s personal journey of healing through decolonizing spirituality
00:10:00 What embodiment means to MawuLisa
00:13:00 How MawuLisa’s work as a healer began with running rape crises centers
00:19:00 Working with trauma patterns at the level of the body
00:20:00 Working with Generative Somatics
00:22:00 Working with the gut brain and the heart in addition to the head brain
00:23:00 How MawuLisa maintains self-care and joy through doing trauma healing work
00:29:00 How everyone is impacted by the trauma of colonization and being disconnected from our bodies and nature
00:33:00 Honoring our trauma patterns as part of our body’s wisdom through parts work
00:37:30 How individual healing and collective healing and movements for liberation are completely connected
00:40:00 MawuLisa’s understanding of the what Somatics means
00:42:00 How earth based spirituality is part of social justice work
00:48:00 Learning from the wisdom of nature, including learning strategy from ants
00:51:00 How we can all tap into seeing what is holy and sacred all around us and honor the divinity in oneself and everything
00:53:00 What it means to MawuLisa to be a spiritual midwife
00:58:00 The power of repetition and practice
01:02:00 The importance and power of song as medicine for MawuLisa
01:06:00 How music is connected to the movement for liberation
01:10:00 Ways that MawuLisa finds pleasure in her body
01:17:00 MawuLisa sings the ancestor song

Subtle energies, our essential health, joy, and pleasure, with Terna

In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my dear friend and Qi Gong Teacher, Terna Tilley-Gyado. Terna is also a life coach and Jin Shin Jyutsu - Facilitator Healer, and has experience working as a clinical trauma responder, writer, performer, and has master’s degrees in counseling and global mental health, among many other realms of deep study and practice.
Terna shared about:
• Tapping into deeper awareness and subtle energies in your body• Healing as coming into wholeness and having fun• Coming home to be held by our ancestors• Feeling into our essential health & harmony, despite chronic pain and health challenges• How mental health issues are not only individual, but systemic, and a reasonable response to an oppressive world• Allowing ourselves to soften from chronic tension patterns from trauma• Connecting to ancient ancestral frequencies that all of us contain
You can connect with Terna here:https://www.evolutionaryheart.com/
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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be 
Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing!
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro, Terna Bio, and Welcome00:04:00 Why healing means coming into wholeness to Terna00:07:00 Healing through connecting to her Ancestors00:10:50 Coming into Ifa 00:12:10 Terna’s journey of embodiment 00:14:00 Coming into the Art of Jin Shin 00:15:00 Coming into Qi Gong daily practice00:16:00 Dealing with pain & tuning into essential health 00:17:40 Releasing guardedness from trauma, softening, and being able to feel more 00:20:00 Terna’s journey learning Qi Gong which became a stabilizing force to feel better consistently00:25:00 The story of Jin Shin00:27:00 An easy way to harmonize your energy body by holding your fingers00:31:00 How are the physical body and the energy body connected00:32:30 What Terna’s learned as a healer facilitator00:37:00  Connecting to our wholeness through ancient frequencies00:39:00 Different layers of mental health issues, tied to living in oppressive conditions, what we inherited, environmental, ancestral00:42:00 Tips on connecting to our inherent health00:47:00 Writing to get to come to know herself better and performance as reflecting from the spirit realm00:50:00 Having fun and joy and pleasure as an essential part of what we came here to do00:55:00 Exploring our inner dichotomies00:59:00 Experiences as a 3rd culture people and coming into wholeness

Finding Expressive Freedom Through Somatic Voice Work with Stacy

In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my long-time friend, Stacy, an amazing community organizer, abolitionist, healer, musician, and educator.
We talked about:
Somatic voice work and finding freedom of expression
Healing generational body trauma
Stacy’s journey in healing work—from reiki, body work, to vocal sound healing
The major death-rebirth process of transitioning into motherhood
Cycle tracking for contraception  and radical education for embodiment
The healing power of water
 
You can connect with Stacy and listen to her music here:
http://www.instagram.com/erengbergstacy
https://stacyrene.bandcamp.com/album/and-so-it-is
https://open.spotify.com/artist/36VcsF7u2ETcf4yMmi35Cq?si=Ih5GihwxTtqEfvJ4A67oSw
https://www.facebook.com/stacyrenemusic
 
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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be
 
Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing!
 
Chapters:
00:02:30 Stacy sharing about the connection between feeling nervous and the gut
00:04:30 Finding pleasure through rest & singing
00:07:30 Breaking out of generational body trauma
00:10:00 Movement practices outside of ableism & trying to look a certain way
00:12:00 Self-soothing with singing, even in public!
00:14:30 Voice as a manifestation of your spirit
00:15:30 Finding freedom of expression through the voice
00:24:30 Everything is a practice, just keep showing up over and over
00:27:30 Stacy’s journey through organizing healing community spaces, working as a healer, navigating boundaries & self-care
00:35:30 Going through the major life transition, death-rebirth process into motherhood
00:41:00 When Maya and Stacy were first learning about fertility awareness (cycle tracking)  for contraception
00:46:00 Stacy supporting Maya on the path of popular education
00:51:30 Stacy’s experience with the magic of the menstrual cycle, birth, & feeling tapped into goddess energy
00:54:30 The healing powers of water & sauna
00:58:00 Where to find Stacy online & hear her music

Inclusive Body Work, Fat Liberation, and Care Work from Beginning to End of Life, with Mercedez

In this episode, I interviewed Mercedez, who's mission is to create a safe space for massage that's accessible in all the ways she can make it: compassionate, understanding, trauma informed, consent based, queer, and all gender friendly, body positive, and disability friendly.
Mercedez aims to to make receiving bodywork a priority and not a privilege as a woman of color, a person who has experienced trauma, body shaming and queer phobia herself.
We talked about:
her journey as a massage therapist
how she makes her work accessible
how body work can help heal trauma
fat liberation
the importance of care work through all of life seasons, from birth, post-partum, child care, elder care, and end of life care
You can connect with Mercedez at:
https://www.massagebymercedez.com/
 
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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be
 
Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing/producing!
 
00:00:00 Opening & Intro
00:04:00 How Mercedez got into massage therapy
00:05:00 What Mercedez has learned through her journey as a body worker
00:06:00 How Mercedez tries to make her bodywork sessions accessible to all genders, bodies, and abilities?
00:09:30 Healing through giving and receiving body work
00:12:40  What healing has looked like for Mercedez
00:14:00 Mercedez’s experiences in fat liberation activism
00:17:50 Care work with all ages, from birth to end of life
00:22:00 Mercedez’s experience with end of life care for her Grandma
00:28:00 Mercedez’s story from childhood growing up with fat positive family experiences, then facing fat phobia in school
00:31:00 Exploring questions of gender identity and sexuality as a young queer child and coming into more comfort in her body in a young adulthood through the support of community
00:33:00 How body work can change your experience in your body, even feet!
00:34:00 How grief can change how you feel in your body
00:37:00 Feeling in awe of what the body can do despite injuries and changing abilities
00:38:00 Feeling pleasure in your body through community, getting your heart rate up, eating, being in water, decadent baths
00:43:00 How to connect with Mercedez to book or sponsor a massage
00:45:00 Closing
 

How Embodiment Can Heal Trauma & Unlock More Pleasure, with Maya

For our first episode, my friend selma interviewed me and helped me introduce the podcast!
We talked about the cycle seasons of our bodies and the wild journey of embodiment. 
We explored how trauma patterns like disassociation, fight, flight, freeze, fawn are part of the genius of our bodies in helping us survive, but can be patterns that we’re stuck in that can cut off access to pleasure and joy.
I shared about my experiences with anxiety, depression, reprogramming my nervous system, and learning how to be in better relationship with my body through auto-immune symptoms, and chronic health issues.
Our bodies are incredible fascinating universes of consciousness, our cells, our unique fluid bacterial microbiomes, water, and space.
Our bodies are interconnected with nature. Our healing has to happen individually and collectively, on the spiritual and physical dimensions. 
Tune in if you like talking about bodies, healing, pleasure, and expanding through our connection to our bigger earth body.