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

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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 Introduction 00:04:00 How embodiment is an awareness of the consciousness throughout our body 00:06:00 désirée’s experiences of embodiment as a dancer 00:09:00 Ways désirée comes fully into her body and regulating her nervous system 00:10:00 Connecting with the energetic and astral bodies, and energetic boundaries 00:13:00 Nourishing the body 00:16:00 Healing through dance, energy work, and ancestral connection 00:19:00 How nature and the flowers are our teachers 00:21:00 How embodying our authentic selves is a responsibility 00:23:00 Some of désirée’s experiences in her body 00:27:00 Coming into her path to spread beauty, joy, and love 00:31:00 How to move through fear of fully embodying your authentic self 00:34:00 We’re all here for a special reason on a hero’s journey 00:40:30 How theatre, film, visuals, the curation and creation of beauty are all spells 00:42:00 What is the beauty path? 00:45:30 Being a self-healing guide 00:52:00 How healing is coming back home to oneself 00:54:00 Quantum healing 00:56:00 désirée sings her beauty way song 00:59:00 Ways désirée finds pleasure in her body

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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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

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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Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing!

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro, Terna Bio, and Welcome 00:04:00 Why healing means coming into wholeness to Terna 00:07:00 Healing through connecting to her Ancestors 00:10:50 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 practice 00:16:00 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 consistently 00:25:00 The story of Jin Shin 00:27:00 An easy way to harmonize your energy body by holding your fingers 00:31:00 How are the physical body and the energy body connected 00:32:30 What Terna’s learned as a healer facilitator 00:37:00 Connecting to our wholeness through ancient frequencies 00:39:00 Different layers of mental health issues, tied to living in oppressive conditions, what we inherited, environmental, ancestral 00:42:00 Tips on connecting to our inherent health 00:47:00 Writing to get to come to know herself better and performance as reflecting from the spirit realm 00:50:00 Having fun and joy and pleasure as an essential part of what we came here to do 00:55:00 Exploring our inner dichotomies 00:59:00 Experiences as a 3rd culture people and coming into wholeness