Emergent Liberation Collective
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe ELC is a podcast about embodiment as a primary vehicle for personal healing, liberation from oppression, and ancestral trauma. Hosted by T. Aisha Edwards, Kaila June, and Chris Morita Clancy, all somatic educators and healers with backgrounds ranging from mental health to movement science. These three explore trauma healing, guide vulnerable conversations with thought leaders and social justice activists, offer stories and poetry, lead embodiment practices and so much more. In these troubling times, Emergent Liberation Collective guides us toward a radical future centered in hope.
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S3 E5: Forgiveness as a Breathing & Somatic Self-Pleasure with Lady J
May 30, 2023 20:58 - 1 hour - 231 MBJoin T. Aisha Edwards and Kaila June Keliikuli in this special release and the closing episode of Season 3. Season 3 is a year long exploration with the experience and force of forgiveness. In this conversation, we talk about rhythm changes, fractals of the Mother Wound, what it means to be a good ancestor, forgiveness over lifetimes and how ELC slow podcasting is becoming a breathing space. The episode includes a listener contribution from Lady J who is an autistic, queer, non-binary artis...
S3 E4: Expanding Autism
October 03, 2022 01:19 - 52 minutes - 87.9 MBAisha and Kaila expand on the discussion about neurodivergence begun in episode 3. We discuss neurodivergent diagnosis, affirmation, trauma healing, disability justice and cultural inclusion. Aisha also intimately explores the impact of autism in xer own family. Topics Kaila and Aisha give a life update Aisha gives more information about the DSM diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and how it differs for AFAB, gender variant and BIPOC folks Aisha gives information about the ...
S3 E3: A Spectrum of Rupture and Repair
August 06, 2022 18:40 - 55 minutes - 94.6 MBIn this special episode, ELC partners with the SquarePeg Podcast, hosted by Amy Richards. Square Peg gives autistic adults the opportunity to hear the lives and stories of other autistic adults. In her conversations, she explores life, love, work, health and relationships with later in life diagnosed folks identifying as femme, trans or nonbinary. Aisha and Amy explore Aisha’s own story of being diagnosed autistic and exploring how this has shaped xer own experiences of rupture and repair. ...
S3 E2: Somatic Unwinding for Rupture and Repair
July 13, 2022 16:23 - 18 minutes - 31.2 MBThis brief episode is a follow up for episode one. In it, Aisha shares a poem inspire by an encounter with a hummingbird and offers a somatic practice for working with the activation of rupture. LINKS: ELC Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective Aisha Edwards https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness Kaila June https://www.kailajune.com/
S3 E1: Introducing Forgiveness
May 12, 2022 16:49 - 44 minutes - 73.4 MBKaila and Aisha return for another season of ELC, sharing ELC’s changes over the hiatus. introduce the seasonal theme for 2022 Forgiveness. Together the two somatic educators explore the anatomy of forgiveness, foreshadowing the topics addressed throughout Season three. Return after a long hiatus and continuing slow podcast Goodbye to Chris Introduction of the theme of forgiveness and why Presence in the multiplicity of right now Surprise! Aisha is autistic!! What does that mea...
S2 Ep6: Healing Traditions - Part Two
September 29, 2021 19:00 - 39 minutes - 68.5 MBIn part two of Healing Traditions Devan Williams, a proud indigenous woman of the Squamish Nation, shares cultural and traditional history and the impact of residential school for the indigenous people of Canada. She asks us to learn the true history of Canada as a first step to creating positive change for the next generations. You are doing just that by listening to ELC's episodes Healing Traditions parts one and two. Thank you. If you are so inspired, please take yet another step, by ...
S2 Ep5: Healing Traditions
September 13, 2021 17:36 - 35 minutes - 58.1 MBIn part one of this two part episode Devan Williams, a proud indigenous woman of the Squamish Nation, talks with Chris about her family’s resistence & resilience in post confederaion Canada. She tells of the healing and hope that they bring in keeping cultural traditions of the Squamish nation alive. Next full doula and body based trauma treatment specialist, Amy Hoare Nassare joins the ELC murmations as our first contributer. Amy shares lessons from flowers about impermance, resilience and ...
S2 Ep 4: Fractals of Desire w/ YaliniDream and Adaku Utah
August 30, 2021 17:34 - 1 hour - 133 MBIn this conversation, Aisha explores following embodied pleasure as the rhythm that agitates for wider social change with YaliniDream and Adaku Utah, two brown queer justice-focused, body-centered transformers of community. TOPICS Defining desire from the body - its connotations, dualities and realms of existence How we become separated from embodied desire and the returning to body intimacy Desire in a queer body, brown body, first generation body Discerning desire from compulsio...
S2 Ep3: Orgasmic Yes
August 10, 2021 17:39 - 30 minutes - 51.1 MBAisha reads from xer blog essay, The Orgasmic Organismic Yes. The essay explores the nuances of a blended YES-NO, the state when our sense of embodied pleasure becomes disorganized by obligation and pain. Xe explores how to cultivate unblending the two, supporting the possibility of embodied pleasure again. After the reading, Kaila guides a somatic practice to discover the felt-sense of pleasure and embodied yes. TOPICS: Gestalt Therapy Theory Trauma physiology and the disembodiment...
S2 Ep2: Generative Creation
July 27, 2021 01:32 - 1 hour - 109 MBSummer 2021 theme on ELC is Desire. We weave this somatic concept throughout each conversation, practice and exploration for this season. In this conversation, Aisha, Kaila and Chris attempt to reclaim desire as a concept associated with hedonism and mindless sexuality as western culture defines it. Together, we create a new working somatic definition for desire with range and nuance that invites the plurality of its light and shadow aspects. Topics: How cultural norms shape how we ...
S2 Ep1: Generative Rest
July 12, 2021 22:26 - 47 minutes - 83.8 MBIn this conversation between Kaila June and Aisha Edwards, we explore concepts of ease and slow as precursors for creativity and are inspired by the pace of nature. We introduce Emergent Liberation Collective as a “slow podcast” and talk about the changes we’ve experienced since putting out our first season. As a practice for cultivating generative rest, Kaila guides a Somatic Groundwork™ practice on yielding and tuning into the support of Earth. TOPICS: Slow podcasting as a focus for on...
2. Trust in Belonging: Ancestor Reverence and Healing w Langston Kahn
February 23, 2021 02:09 - 33 minutes - 58.7 MB“Ancestral liberation is the process of helping our unresolved ancestors to heal the patterns on the level of lineage that keep them stuck, allow them to become true well luminous ancestors and deepen our ability to engage and connect with them as positive forces in our lives so we can transform what has been a burden for us into a powerful blessing.” - Langston Kahn Aisha and Langston discuss: What is ancestral reverence, healing and lineage repair BIPOC-specific needs for ancestral he...
S1 E2: Trust in Belonging, Ancestor Reverence & Healing w Langston Kahn
February 23, 2021 02:09 - 33 minutes - 58.7 MB“Ancestral liberation is the process of helping our unresolved ancestors to heal the patterns on the level of lineage that keep them stuck, allow them to become true well luminous ancestors and deepen our ability to engage and connect with them as positive forces in our lives so we can transform what has been a burden for us into a powerful blessing.” - Langston Kahn Aisha and Langston discuss: What is ancestral reverence, healing and lineage repair BIPOC-specific needs for ancestral he...
3. Trust, Inner Listening and Connecting to Earth
February 23, 2021 00:54 - 17 minutes - 28.6 MBA story and a somatic grounding practice as invitations to enter into your body for support and intuitive guidance. CONTENT Story: Chris explores trust as an embodied sparkle that, if followed, leads one right where they need to be. Enquiry: The language of your body: What are your sign posts? Somatic Grounding Practice: Magda offers a practice to connect our body with the earth. LINKS: ELC Patreon Page T. Aisha Edwards Kaila June Magdalena Weinstein Chris Morita Clancy CON...
S1 E3: Trust, Inner Listening & Connecting to Earth
February 23, 2021 00:54 - 17 minutes - 28.6 MBA story and a somatic grounding practice as invitations to enter into your body for support and intuitive guidance. CONTENT Story: Chris explores trust as an embodied sparkle that, if followed, leads one right where they need to be. Enquiry: The language of your body: What are your sign posts? Somatic Grounding Practice: Magda offers a practice to connect our body with the earth. LINKS: ELC Patreon Page T. Aisha Edwards Kaila June Magdalena Weinstein Chris Morita Clancy CON...
1. Trust in Emergence: A Beginning
February 22, 2021 23:24 - 23 minutes - 41.8 MBWelcome to the Emergent Liberation Collective and our premier episode in this winter season February 2021. Every story has a beginning, this is ours. Follow our journey that began the week of George Floyd’s killing in May of 2020, and unfolded through the seasons of the global pandemic inside a vulnerable process of discovering trust. How do we move and create together at the pace of trust? How do we welcome generative conflict? How do we trust in our ancestors? What is our language of self...
S1 E1: Trust in Emergence, A Beginning
February 22, 2021 23:24 - 23 minutes - 41.8 MBWelcome to the Emergent Liberation Collective and our premier episode in this winter season February 2021. Every story has a beginning, this is ours. Follow our journey that began the week of George Floyd’s killing in May of 2020, and unfolded through the seasons of the global pandemic inside a vulnerable process of discovering trust. How do we move and create together at the pace of trust? How do we welcome generative conflict? How do we trust in our ancestors? What is our language of self...