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S3 E5: Forgiveness as a Breathing & Somatic Self-Pleasure with Lady J

Emergent Liberation Collective - May 30, 2023 20:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Join 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 g...

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S3 E4: Expanding Autism

Emergent Liberation Collective - October 03, 2022 01:19 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Aisha 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 giv...

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S3 E3: A Spectrum of Rupture and Repair

Emergent Liberation Collective - August 06, 2022 18:40 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In 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 diag...

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S3 E2: Somatic Unwinding for Rupture and Repair

Emergent Liberation Collective - July 13, 2022 16:23 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
This 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 http...

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S3 E1: Introducing Forgiveness

Emergent Liberation Collective - May 12, 2022 16:49 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Kaila 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...

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S2 Ep6: Healing Traditions - Part Two

Emergent Liberation Collective - September 29, 2021 19:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In 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 positiv...

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S2 Ep5: Healing Traditions

Emergent Liberation Collective - September 13, 2021 17:36 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In 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 a...

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S2 Ep 4: Fractals of Desire w/ YaliniDream and Adaku Utah

Emergent Liberation Collective - August 30, 2021 17:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In 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 ...

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S2 Ep3: Orgasmic Yes

Emergent Liberation Collective - August 10, 2021 17:39 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Aisha 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 ple...

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S2 Ep2: Generative Creation

Emergent Liberation Collective - July 27, 2021 01:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Summer 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...

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S2 Ep1: Generative Rest

Emergent Liberation Collective - July 12, 2021 22:26 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In 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 ...

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S1 E2: Trust in Belonging, Ancestor Reverence & Healing w Langston Kahn

Emergent Liberation Collective - February 23, 2021 02:09 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
“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...

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2. Trust in Belonging: Ancestor Reverence and Healing w Langston Kahn

Emergent Liberation Collective - February 23, 2021 02:09 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
“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...

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3. Trust, Inner Listening and Connecting to Earth

Emergent Liberation Collective - February 23, 2021 00:54 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
A 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 pos...

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S1 E3: Trust, Inner Listening & Connecting to Earth

Emergent Liberation Collective - February 23, 2021 00:54 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
A 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 pos...

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S1 E1: Trust in Emergence, A Beginning

Emergent Liberation Collective - February 22, 2021 23:24 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Welcome 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 ...

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1. Trust in Emergence: A Beginning

Emergent Liberation Collective - February 22, 2021 23:24 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Welcome 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 ...

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E 16 | Welcoming Whatever Being Came

Masculine Birth Ritual - August 08, 2019 23:04 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Our final episode is an interview with new Papa, yoga and Buddhism teacher Jacoby Ballard. We talk about the Germination Proclamation he and their partner put out to friends and family, gender and parenting, and preparing to welcome whatever being emerged during birth.  "I really learned from ...

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E 15 | Ask Those Questions

Masculine Birth Ritual - August 06, 2019 19:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
In this interview, Rachel L. Kaplan and I talk about their experience with preterm birth. A friend of Rachel's recently pointed out that there aren't a lot of queer voices being heard about the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU), and even fewer from masculine of center folx -- so she suggested...

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E14 | Meeting People Where They're At

Masculine Birth Ritual - June 02, 2019 19:42 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Our interview today is with Amanda Hayden. Amanda is a certified lactation counselor, social worker, and full-spectrum labor & postpartum doula trained through Ancient Song Doula Services practicing with the NYC Doula Collective. She works a doula and provides counseling and programming support ...

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E13 | I Would Like It If You Would Listen

Masculine Birth Ritual - April 25, 2019 05:35 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
In E13 I talk with Charlie King-Miller about Charlie's experience giving birth in a hospital setting, trying to get listed as "father" on his baby's birth certificate in Colorado, and how he navigated care when he felt that providers weren't listening.    Show notes at: www.masculinebirthr...

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E12 | We Give It So Much Cultural Power

Masculine Birth Ritual - March 18, 2019 21:56 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
In E12 I talk with Greta LaFluer. Greta is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. They're the author of a book called The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America. In this conversation, she and I talk about western medical ideas about gender and approaches to birth i...

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E11 | It's Not Gender Weird, It's Just Weird

Masculine Birth Ritual - March 01, 2019 08:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
In this interview, Rae Goodman-Lucker and I talk about his experiences in preparing for pregnancy and birthing two children. She shares about her struggle to get doctors to believe the severity of his pregnancy fatigue, how he planned a community ceremony in preparation for pregnancy, and her pe...

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E10 | She Protected Her Children From the Bear:

Masculine Birth Ritual - February 15, 2019 08:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
In Episode 10 I talk with Takeya Trayer. Takeya is an artist, mommy to three children, a teacher, and the author of a children's book "My Mommy is My Daddy." In this episode, we talk about her homebirth experience, her community's response to her pregnancy as a Masculine of Center person, how sh...

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Listening to Life

SEEDS Radio - February 07, 2019 20:40 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Join us for our third podcast focused on the challenges and joys of allowing life to live through each of us!  As we embark on a time of change and transition, we take the time to reflect upon what conditions help us move toward authentic self-exploration and expression, even in the face of the ...

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E9 | Buffering the Impacts of Discrimination:

Masculine Birth Ritual - February 01, 2019 08:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
In episode 9 I talk with Miriam Zoila Pérez, the author of the Radical Doula Guide and a reporter that writes about the impacts of racism on birth and health outcomes. We talk about the impacts of racism on birth outcomes, what works to buffer the health effects of discrimination, and what the r...

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E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers:

Masculine Birth Ritual - January 15, 2019 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
E8 | He Was With These Wonderful Queers: an interview with J Carroll on nonbinary single parenting and birth In Episode 8 we talk with J Carroll about their experience of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. J is a transmasculine, nonbinary, queer single parent by choice. In this episode, J and I ...

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The SEEDS Story

SEEDS Radio - December 06, 2018 21:48 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode, we discuss how SEEDS was born and what our vision is for its future. To provide a deeper understanding of what this project means to us, we share from a more personal place in this conversation about our own journies, as well as our hopes and intentions for this unfolding projec...

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E7 | Leading the Way on Body Sovereignty: part two of a conversation with Sara Flores-Boudreaux

Masculine Birth Ritual - December 01, 2018 18:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Midwife Sara Flores-Boudreaux joins us for Part 2 of a conversation about supporting MoC two-spirit, queer, trans, and genderqueer people in birth, wellness, and life. We talk about what she's learned about body sovereignty from MoC people, the opportunity for rituals in the model of midwife car...

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Cataclysmic Trauma Theory

SEEDS Radio - November 27, 2018 19:22 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Join us for our first episode of SEEDS radio!  We'll discuss cataclysmic trauma theory, a home-grown hypothesis that explores the potential lasting impacts from a known cataclysmic event on our globe approximately 12,800 years ago.  This is a deep dive into some of our favorite SEEDS questions, ...

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