
Monday May 26, 2025
Pain as a portal, pleasure, and connecting to oneness, with aesha
In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend, aesha rasheed, an incredible body worker and healer, ritual worker and spiritual organizer in service to community wellness, earth stewardship and in support of movements for liberation.
We talked about:
✨aesha’s journey with chronic pain
✨How pain can lead to either disassociation or be a portal into deeper self-awareness
✨How pleasure and pain are connected
✨aesha’s experiences both offering and receiving body work
✨How body work can open up enhanced states of connection
✨The interconnectedness of all things and tapping into states of oneness
✨The microbiome as a way that bodies connect and interact
✨Healing through Energy work and Aesha’s experience as a Reiki practitioner
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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 Grounding & Opening Invocation
00:02:40 Embodiment as spirit expressed through our flesh
00:04:00 How chronic pain was a doorway for aesha deeper into herself
00:06:00 The Threshold Between Pain and Pleasure
00:10:00 How pain can be a pathway to dissociation or connection depending on choice and agency
00:13:00 Working with Therapeutic Pain in bodywork
00:15:30 How practicing body work is a meditative state of attunement
00:20:00 How body work can be an enhanced telepathic state of oneness
00:22:00 How our microbiome is connected to our energy body
00:28:00 How our microbiomes exchange and interact with each other through touch
00:30:00 aesha’s experiences with Energy Work & Reiki
00:33:00 Exploring our connections to states of oneness and how humans can be disconnected
00:38:00 How trauma can lead to numbness and disconnect
00:46:00 Exploring different pathways to connect to oneness
00:47:00 what Aesha loves about her body and ways she experiences pleasure
00:57:00 How we our somatic expressions of earth’s wholeness
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