Creation for Liberation Podcast

In this episode, Lama Rod and Chetna talk about:

In this episode, Feroza and Chetna talk about:

• The creative process being a spiritual one, and how honoring that is transcending the inner critic that says “you’re a fraud”

• Feroza’s relationship with her creative muse

• Creativity rising up in her like water that have to be poured out based on experiencing a lot of emotions

• Creativity also rising up in her when her muse comes gently knocking

• Developing a relationship with her muse where there is a trust and patience

• Honoring her body’s request to make music, even though “no one is asking for it”

• Her joining Creative Somatic Alchemy which was a journey back to her creativity and herself after a medical trauma 

• The impact of community connection in her creative practice

• Negotiating with her muse, speaking to her nicely, and treating her well

• Revolving her life around her intuition and honoring that there’s always time to pause

• Setting herself up to have no excuse to pause by walking with a notebook and pen to honor the whisperings

• The felt sense of music from her muse and music from her mind, based on the sensations in her body and emotions

• Creating music that invites people to feel, and recognizing that many people aren’t ready or willing to go there

• She asks the question, “what does your soul say?” “what does your heart say”, and focuses on offering her music to folks who are thirsty for this

• The important activism in art that invites us to feel and rest, to give water to the fire of the world

• Her experience with Mosaiceye community as her fellow witches and unicorns, and what it helped steward in her to create differently than she has before

• Being held in graceful accountability made her want to be herself even when she felt sad, how it helped her be honest

• The challenge and beauty of sharing music and watching folks listen, receiving affirmation and being together in it

• The permission to play and flow with herself and within her collaborations

• Grace and grit being invitations she took on and accepted from her learnings

• Taking generative space from creative practice, whether it be music, ceramics, relating and conversing; to rest and give space for divine alchemy to have a hand

• Bringing open experimental energy to creative practice like Dee Dee from Dexter’s Lab (lol)

• The difference between “passion” and doing what she needs to do, because “I am, therefore I create.” 

• The deeper we get in touch with our creativity the more likely we’ll be disrupting systems that oppress our creativity, and we need community to do this hard work and play.

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In this episode, Ameera and Noa talk with Chetna about:

• What life is like lately for each of them at the time of recording this conversation at the end of February, around 140 days after October 7th

• What “peace” means to each of them today, alongside the violence that they’re actively threatened by daily

• How Ameera holds the human need to defend and protect against violence while working for peace

• Why each of them are committed to the work and mission of Tomorrow’s Women

• Ameera’s background in joining the organization for cross-border collaboration when she was a teenager

• How their empathetic and connecting conversations give them both resilience and hope in humanity despite the violence

• What they each want us as activists outside of Palestine and Israel to be aware of and how to be supportive in this time of crisis

• How they keep hope when the war goes on and people lose faith in the future

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In this episode, Chetna shares:

• The Chetna Unfolding newsletter where she’s been publishing more recently about longing and depression as portals, second arrow suffering, the addiction to binary thinking, and more

• Ahimsa and nonviolence, and the confusing contemplation about what peace means today

• The day count and loss of 30,000 Palestinian lives, 1,400 Israeli lives, and uncountable plant and animals lives taken by genocide

• An introduction of Hawah Kasat, an award-winning educator, community organizer and yogi among other things

• HawaH talking about “negative peace” and “positive peace” 

• How the negative/positive peace binary helps her understand to some degree, but also has its limitations

• HawaH talking about the nuance of nonviolence

• Binary-thinking as a strategy to make quick moves in a panic

• The illusionary clarity of binary-thinking that leaves little room for nuance and complexity

• How relying on panic to carry us forward f*cks us over even more by fueling even more panic and suffering.

• The distracting suffocating binary of enough and not enough in regards to our activism

• The present-traumatic stress caused by over-consuming media 

• How there is no one-right way and to believe and assert on others that there is one right way to think, to be, to act right now may be a perpetuation of domination and separation

• The inquiry: “how can I expect to steward- from my dysregulated nervous system- a New Earth that’s wholly different from the one built by dysregulated nervous systems?” 

• The inquiry: “how can I- and we- be influences of change in the world without perpetuating colonial cultures of separation and domination?” 

• The inquiry: “how can I expect to disrupt the cycles of trauma and fear when I’m acting from my trauma and fear?”

• Her desire to normalize when and what we don’t actually know…and to open to the possibilities of connection and healing in that unknown.

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In this episode, James and Chetna talk about:

• Art as alchemy and permission to be bold and expressed

• The importance of leaning into creativity during these times of violence, multiple genocides and divisiveness

• How art is often born out of suffering, and how James’ creativity is fueled by grappling, pain and what feels hard to make sense of

• Turning the pain, the lead, into beauty or gold; releasing or purging sadness through liberating art

• Art as a service to ourselves to transmute, and offering a light to others who need it too

• How art has been and can be an agent of change, revolution, and liberation

• Creativity representing sovereign consciousness and our ability to respond

• In times of conflict, different people have different roles, and the role of the artist is to offer better alternatives and plan visions and dreams in the collective consciousness

• Owning the art that feels good for each of us, and letting ourselves be in the front row seat to our art and process, is important for the abundance and prosperity of our creativity

• Artists are there to remind us that we have sovereignty over our own consciousness, and give permission to listen to the callings within us that might be oppressed in our society and culture

• Rising in our leadership and being the leaders we want to see and stop looking for institutional validation, that could mean being of service to the people immediately around us

• The Human mind as an amazing tool, but not the only tool; and how we need both the head and heart, facts and feelings

• James’ creative process beginning in his emotions and bodies, and his ideas coming downstream from his emotions

• The head and the ego being great to edit, craft or finish and launch a project

• The Yin and Yang of the creative process, and need to stop repressing the Yin and feminine energy

• The need of an awakening of the Goddess within all of us, and return to intuition to guide us

• How individual creativity comes from balancing the divine and masculine energies

• Creativity as a spiritual practice, and the magic of creating something out of nothing

• We’re all baby Gods creating things from imaginations that are portals to other dimensions

• Listening to the whispers to birth mystical illuminations in everything that we make

• How the Muse is attracted to dedication, devotion and discipline

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In this episode, Chetna talks about:

• Some of Chetna’s recent longings

• The pain and ache of longing, and the inevitability of it as humans

• The distinction between the content of our longings and Longing itself

• The human tendency to chase after the longings, as symbolized by hungry ghosts

•  The clarity, awe, love and truth that comes with being with longing, especially in community

• How contemporary and ancient mystics, from Rumi and Hafiz to John O’Donohue and Michael Mead have recognized the power and portals of longing

• How our heart’s longing can lift our chins up to our north stars, our purpose and highest values

• The interconnection between longing, desire and needs, values

• The shame that comes up with honoring our longing amidst the oppressive systems we live in

• The invitation be with our longing, to look beneath the content of our longings, and let it inform and illuminate the way, and to do so in community

• How now is the urgent time to be in alignment with our values and purpose. To center our heart wisdom and guiding principles amidst all the darkness and suffering in the world.

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In this episode, Kiran and Chetna talk about:

• Kiran’s partnership being a space where she could be her full, queer, androgynous self in her vulnerabilities and wins

• Morning meditation with Deepak Chopra and Oprah as a way to reset, start the day positively, take responsibility for her self-rhetoric, and get herself ready to step out into the world

• The practice in partnership of separating behavior that’s not loving from the deeper truth of care and love for you

• A reframe on projection as a space to learn when we can own it; the person we project on is illuminating something within us that we need to look at

• Being aware of our menstrual cycles, moon cycles, etc. to take responsibility for our moods and feelings

• Leading with the underlying assumptions of the great joys of love, care, and growth mindset

• Modeling the behavior in relationship that you seek

• The art of asking for what you need, and the art of giving it or not if it’s not within capacity

• Experiences that might have contribute to us not being able to ask for our needs; others receiving those needs as something bad, or feeling shame after asking for your needs from someone who was misaligned

• We’re teaching other people how to care for us by asking for our needs

• Being in the practice of meeting our own needs, and tapping our communities for care also

• Speaking your needs and giving the other person the opportunity to rise to opportunity to win, the ask, and the invitation to give 

• Some of Kiran’s daily practices that help her stay on the path of purpose: making her bed, morning meditation, making a matcha, morning pages

• Self-respect through discipline and showing up

• The necessity and importance of taking the time to connect to ourselves, especially in the world where there’s so much that takes us away from ourselves

• The healing opportunity in people who are different or expressing themselves in big ways; showing us what’s possible!

• Being accessible in her self-expression through empathy, shared leadership, warmth, and awareness of others through eye contact, thoughtful conversations, meaningful engagements with presence

• “Bad habits” being a way to cope or get a deep need met; i.e. smoking tied to easing the mother wound, for nourishment, sustenance, and connection which feels more accessible than connecting with people. 

• “Bad habits” coming from a deeper need for care, but in a way that aren’t beneficial for us or others

• Music as an audio timestamp of emotion, amplifying sincerity in music-making

• Some of Kiran’s “bad habits” like eating badly, drinking too much, etc.

• Her desire to meet the root cause without the distractions by eliminating alcohol, being plant-based, and meditating

• Understanding the depth of the pain as a way to amplify the joy

• Emotions as currency that we can create from, feed ourselves from, etc.

• The self-respect of restraint (like bumper lanes on a bowling alley), boundaries, and what you do when no one is around

• Her work as healing; finding her way into healing by doing her work of service and purpose

• Her attraction to people who are strong in their feminine, a divine mother queen despite gender, and learning this from gay men and trans women

• Her going on tour doing a strong feminine show that is her dream show that she’s always wanted to watch 

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In this episode, Luis and Chetna talk about:

• Luis’s journey of sharing more of himself in his work, claiming himself as a model, playing with make-up and being free

• Going from a stable and “successful” job at Kaiser to a queer-centric and indigenizing therapeutic practice

• Sharing himself authentically in room as a therapist with his clients

• Luis’s journey of identifying as an indigenous person through the shame, taboo and grief 

• The messages and stories in his family about what it means to be indigenous, the othering of indigenous people of Oaxaca while using aspects of their culture

• Bringing his background into therapy, the complex grief around identity and reclamation

• The universal practices of humming as nervous system regulation

• Bringing in Quitapenas or “worry dolls” as an offering in his therapy practice with relevant clients despite his initial doubts and fears of what’s “ethical” or “valid”

• The lack of acknowledgement and co-opting of indigenous culture, art and practices, even with “evidence-based” modalities

• The intimate act of discovering ourselves, coming out as ourselves, being seen and allowing ourselves to not be seen

• Being ‘out of hiding” is a daily practice, and how “hiding” sometimes is for protection

• How Luis protects his inner child as he lives out and proud and freely authentic

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In this episode, some of what Ruthie and Chetna talk about:

• Ruthie’s soul’s work and dharma to welcome and love all the parts of us, including those that have been shamed or rejected

• Ruthie’s story of being hit by an ambulance, being hospitalized for a month and getting a wire implanted in her spinal cord infusion

• Growing up as a sweet Southern girl and her doing everything she had to do for belonging and love

• Her being disassociated and numbing with food and screens, as a way to stay on the planet early on

• Doctors putting Ruthie on the highest level of narcotics to cope with pain that they later discovered to be a broken wire piercing her brainstem 

• Living in a bed for 7 years in debilitating pain and addiction until her husband left and her father passed away

• Her gratitude for a breakdown that happened and got her out of bed to start living again in 2013

• A period of time when Ruthie was wanting to die due the debilitating pain she was always living with

• Her work now is inviting and welcoming pain when it visits, affirming with others that “it’s not the end of your story”, that transformation and healing is possible

• Grieving who she thought she was and what she thought her life would be like, including having many children, which is not part of her current reality

• The practice of “being with”, with whatever pain or pleasure comes up, all of it getting to be here without being denied, then it transmutes and transforms, and love gets to drive

• Choosing love, forgetting and then remembering, and choosing love again

• Ruthie saying “the pain is visiting me” versus “I am in pain”, to acknowledge that the pain comes and goes

• The parable of the 2nd arrow: the first arrow being the circumstances and realities of our lives, and the 2nd arrow being the shame, resistance and judgment of the first arrow

• Ruthie sharing Dr. Hilary McBride and her framework of 7 core emotions (anger, disgust, excitement, desire/sexual excitement, joy, fear, sadness)

• The “inhibitory emotions” we create (shame, anxiety and guilt) to keep us from feeling any “bad” core emotions, that are “check- engine lights” giving us information about what needs to be felt

• Then we numb our inhibitory emotions with additions to avoid feeling those

• Social anxiety coming up as a “check-engine light” for Chetna saying that she’s trying to be like others or match the energy of others

• Noticing how we feel certain emotions in our bodies through noticing its sensations, temperature, textures, colors and the emotions underneath the sensations

• Being in our bodies allows us to be here now, connected to the oneness of everything around us, how embodiment will change the world because you can’t hate another when you’re in love and in your body

• Ruthie going beyond the pain story into her excitement for remembering and reclaiming our divinity because we exist!

• Her obsession with studying sacred sexuality, reclaiming pleasure, and challenging purity culture and patriarchy!

• Her passion about money consciousness and getting more money in conscious women’s hands!

• Giving money and energy of blessing, welcoming and stewardship 

• Ruthie sharing her learning with Kate Northrup about how lack stories and welcoming money is about regulating the nervous system

• Honoring and blessing the small things to show the universe that she’s capable of honoring and blessing the bigger things that could transform the world

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In this episode, Chetna shares about:

• The safety of relying on logic

• The willingness to be open to possibilities beyond logic

• A practice that allows us to consult with our mind and our heart wisdom

• The inner critic living in the mind
• The importance of movement (getting the heart rate up) to be able to consult with the heart
• The ancient intelligence of the heart
• Examples of folks moving through hard things like death/loss, breakups, betrayal and other transitions with the guidance and connection to heart wisdom, intuition and grace

Spaces for collective practice, play and alchemizing:

In this episode, Megan and Chetna talk about:

• What dance means to Megan, a way to relate to the world, to space and other bodies, and self-express beyond what people assume 
• How in her body and Asian identity, she’s explored her physical strength through movement practices
• Breaking through walls of expectation through exploring movement through the body
• Going beyond the rigid way of what “dance” is commonly looked at within performance, production or a certain body type
• Megan’s emphasis on individual bodies and the histories, modalities and passions that each individual has, as opposed to doing it a certain way
• Contact improvisation as a way to connect to one’s own body and other bodies
• The importance of deep listening and asking for communication, making invitation in contact improv dance
• Deep listening with living and inanimate objects is part of Megan’s practice
• A way to develop this deep listening, even today, is noticing how your body interacts with the space and objects around you, noticing what it’s like to send your energy into an object, whether it’s your laptop or phone, or the trees outside, the seat your in
• Taking movement classes and contact improv help with this deep listening of your body and your surroundings
• The intimacy of deep listening with dance, to oneself- into me I see- and those in shared space
• Megan’s practice of building intimacy with her collaborators by prioritizing relationships full of respect, generosity, gratitude, trust in her dance-making
• Megan’s “Gathering Pieces of Piece” project being a culmination of her contemplations in her life thus far about the liminal space of being mixed Chinese and Irish
• Her tattoo with half of the Chinese symbol for “peace” being a mark of her identity
• The ways we mark our identities with tattoos, how we dress, our rituals and routines, etc.
• The experience of liminality that Chetna has experienced as a third culture kid; one being between a beautiful artist retreat with folks feeling comfortable being naked at her lake swimming together, and living at home with her South Asian parents
• Contact improv being a way to meet the primal need of platonic and attuned touch 
• The importance of moving the body as a way for expression and creation

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In this episode, Hana and Chetna talk about:

• Resistance and activism through frizzy hair

• Creating new worlds through visual art; drawing what we want to see in the world, from cool fashion to authentic femininity

• Clothes as wearable art yet co-opted by capitalism that make it seem frivolous

• The paradox in Hana’s art between colorful and vibrant and dark and creepy

• The power in what is deemed as “ugly”

• Showing the unpleasant parts of humanness, like squeezing zits!

• Hana’s fear of clowns and drawing jester archetypes

• Going to various phases of mediums in art-making

• Hana’s love for Shakespeare and the value of the wise fool 

• Making art that scares us is channeling our disruptor/tricker energy

• How Hana’s has drawn from her mental illness in her drawing, from literal depictions to more dualistic expressions

• The paradox and appeal of upbeat or vibrant art that’s also speaking to deeper issues like addiction and mental illness

• The importance of art that reflects multiple realities

• Creating art for yourself to validate your own experience and being in community with your own art 

• The acceptance that not everyone is going to be a masterpiece, it’s okay to experiment with different artistic mediums or processes

• The struggle of performativity on social media

• The proverb of “if a tree falls and no one hears it, did it really fall” and how it applies to our art-making practice

• Recognizing that we are being witnessed by more than the human world, but by the trees and bees and life all around us, including ancestors, spirit, etc… and that can be enough!

• The significance of art that takes a long time to create, unlike AI art, it’s more than “content creation”

• Sharing from a place of safety and generativity, versus pressure or obligation

• Being mindful with how we consume art, and how we’re consumed from to avoid being extractive in how we consume art or expect from artists

• Letting ourselves have an eb and flow with our mediums, without adhering to “consistency” if that isn’t happening

• Francisco Goya as a muse in shifting our vibe and energy in our works as artists

• Cycling through styles and mediums of art-making is normal and natural

• The creativity within you is worthy to be expressed and freed!

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In this episode, Rupa and Chetna talk about:

• How her upbringing supported and didn’t support her creativity
• Being in a fallow period with music-making
• Processing grief with the lives lost and fundamental shifts after Covid
• The artist process, with music and healing, being one of sitting and listening, integrating and express at the edge of the unknown
• The Deep Medicine Circle’s landback work, evolving with questions that challenge the bounds of imagination within structures of capitalism and ideas of private property
• Insisting upon listening and living into the questions, even without answers as a way to be with the realities of the planet
• Bringing elders into the work to discuss and interrogate with
• Questions around both settler and native communities’ responsibilities in landback initiatives
• Moving beyond purity politics to be with the questions to think and be differently in urgent times
• Talking to the land and ocean, giving gratitude to them for the children and the songs, as a way of being receptive and living in relationship to the being informing her
• Being in relationship with the land and beings around her, she hears music everywhere
• Integrating the practice of being in relationship with the land into her art of medicine and healing with folks; situating them in the space they’re in beside the mountains and bay, and building compost piles with frontline workers
• Transforming trauma that’s triggered and inflamed by crises like Covid, with making something beautiful out of rotten material
• Frontline workers experiencing less resources and more burnout 
• Sitting with the wisdom of liminal spaces
• Rupa’s vision for the practice of Western Medicine in the U.S.; the low-bar as health care for all, and the high-bar is creating inclusive systems of care
• “Medicine” overall as everything that makes you feel good…
• “Art” as lived practice…
• Decolonizing medicine as undoing the structures of colonialism, and engaging in political education
• How Rupa navigates education away from social media with her children
• The world requiring a kind of creativity that will expand our ways of knowing and learning, and not letting anyone reduce us to being just one thing other that our multiplicity

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In this episode, Kelsey and Chetna talk about:

• What “decolonizing” means to Kelsey

• Holding the both/and of being a settler and belonging on a particular land

• Cultivating belonging within oneself and with the larger earth community

• Honoring the truth of interdependence as a way to fostering belonging

• Practices of connecting with the earth and “offering breath” and care

• Kelsey’s tree friends and how she never feels lonely

• The loss that comes with birthing our publishing a creative project like a book

• Allowing our art to be for us first, savoring the process as a way to take the outcome off a pedestal

• Sharing art as a love language, as a way to give gift, and letting those who want it to receive it (and those who don’t to not)

• Cycles of nature and creativity in the excitement of inception, the pain of the fallow period, and the stretching of sharing

• Self-compassion in the writing process, and other practices that worked for Kelsey to show up day after day in her writing

• Encouragement to write a book if you have the longing to write a book

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In this episode, Amit and Chetna talk about:

• Putting ourselves in roles or boxes with the labels and identifiers we use to introduce ourselves

• How the ego relates to over-identification and control

• Defending our ideas and needing to protect them as a cause of suffering

• The ego’s need for security and its nature of insecurity

• Compassion for the ego and how it tries to help us be secure

• Finding security and connection beyond the ego by discovering what wants to come through us in this life

• Amit’s concept of “drift” as our inclinations/instincts and to practice it with devotion

• Self-forgetfulness and transcending ego

• The practice of collaborating with (rather than controlling) flow as a way of decolonizing creativity

• Listening as an essential part of creative process, and honing our sensitivity to get to the subtlety of experience

• Perfectionism versus self-defined excellence

• The art of the subconscious as intuition and intuition in the body

• Ego’s tendency to what to “know” and “understand” as a way of control

• Creativity even as an expression of play without knowing or understanding, without trying to control it

• The balance of trying less versus forcing, and the yin/yang of showing up to try less

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Yo! Peace and warmth good people. It’s about to be Season two/dos/be/do/due of the Creation for Liberation podcast!

I’m really leaning into the process of experimentation here, which is what I see creativity as. And in this season, we’re centering conversations with creators and liberators at the intersections of art, education, medicine, yoga, spirituality, science, somatics, social justice and more.

Welcome to the final episode of season 1 y'all! What fun experiment this podcast has been and we're ending with some quality conversation and wisdom from two new and lovely friends, Hitoko Okada and Inez Inok't.

Some of what we get into:

• Hitoko's background as a lineage craft and textile artist and community arts facilitator
• Inez's background as a muralist, mother and indigineous activist
• Decolonizing as a living and breathing practice of being in right relationship with everything
• Colonial history as it relates to textiles, cotton and the transatlantic slave trade
• Indigo dying as a spiritual practice of surrender and collaboration
• How being in right relationship with money, for example, is being in right relationship with cotton and seed
• How "the revolution will not be televised" relates to decolonization not being a performance, show or perhaps even a metaphor

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Just checking in with y'all on a few updates since we've been away from the podcast for awhile. Thanks for listening to the unfolding of the Creation for Liberation pod, y’all. So cool! Stay tuned within the month for the final episode of season 1.

We love you!!! 

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In this episode, we get into:

• The inspiration of folks fasting for Ramadan and increasing their God consciousness
• The intention of sharing and inviting you into the 3-Month Abundant Creativity Excavation Program
• When the program began and how it’s grown to 200+ alumni across the globe
• How we use language to open up new worlds for ourselves
• The definition of “creativity” and how problematic it is
• What creativity is, beyond being intellectual, “original” or for production
• Aluma, Toni shares about her journey out of the corporate world and claiming her title of “creative”
• Alumna, Samidha acknowledges how we aren’t educated in this way to challenge the definitions of creativity for liberation
• Alumna, Iara talks about giving the inner critic space
• Samidha reflects about the program’s education around the inner child and teen was trauma-informed
• Toni shares how liberating her inner child and teen through the program
• Iara reflects about how the inner nurturer relates to self-trust and intuition
• Excavating our creativity is a social responsibility that we are individually responsible for while we practice in community
• Iara and Samidha reflect on what the community has meant to them
• Toni and Iara share about what it’s like to be in alum and engaged in the mastermind groups for continual support and collective accountability

In this episode, we vibe on:

• How in the midst of crisis and violence, it’s pertinent to take the time to love on and uplift the people around you, to check-in on them and know that that too is activism
• Heart intelligence from a yogic and ancient Egyptian perspective
• Research on the heart organ and it’s impactful communication with the brain
• The heart’s “little brain”
• Alyssa’s perspective of not shaming the mind’s tendency to overthink and giving the mind another role
• How putting the mind in the back seat helps Alyssa show up more fully in conversation or conflict
• Communication between the heart and mind as it relates to intuition
• The tendency of hyper-intellectualization and how it’s a safety strategy
• How hyper-intellectualization is reinforced in our western society
• Kalya’s story of listening to her body and clarifying what’s right for her
• Kayla recognizing the distinct experiences of when the mind is overpowering and when she listens to her body and makes space for her blooming intuition
• Moving out of the “gerbil wheel” by 1. Noticing when the mind is taking over, and how the practices of mindfulness and meditation are significant 2. Taking action by moving our body, creating something, focusing on others in curiosity, or taking one small step toward a dream
• Being kind and compassionate with ourselves as we engage in this practice and radical way of being by moving at the pace of our bodies as opposed to the social norms around us

In this episode, we get into:

In this episode, we get into:

• Gratitude for you as a listener, reviewer, giver of your valued attention to this podcast, thank you!
• The western definition of “discipline”
• How Yoga sees discipline
• How Kung Fu sees discipline
• The balance and yin/yang of empowered discipline
• Reclaiming discipline as an empowering practice versus a punishing practice
• Using words that resonate with us
• Taking the struggle out of our practice
• Realizing how and what we ARE actually disciplined toward so we can CHOOSE what we want to be disciplined toward
• Approaching our discipline with playfulness
• The discipline/devotion chart tool for colorful, tactile inspiration and feedback
• How discipline/devotion/commitment puts us in the driver’s seat of our lives
• How discipline/devotion/commitment fortifies our inner nurturer/parent

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In this very first episode of the Creation for Liberation podcast (!), we get into: 

• The divinely-timed inception of the podcast 
• Reaching out for community support as a source of inspiration 
• Depression as it relates to swimming in the insane soup of oppressive social systems / separation as a cause for depression 
• Seasons of depression in Chetna’s life when creativity played an important role in connection and meaning-making 
• Eutimia’s wisdom on the causes of depression within colonization and according to indigenous and Chinese medicine 
• Grief and loss associated with Chetna’s immigration 
• Creativity defined as the flow of life force energy 
• The fine line between creative genius and “coocoo crazy” 
• The mason jar metaphor for creating space within our vessels through creative expression 
• The role of cultural ceremony and ritual for connection in Chetna’s upbringing  
• Eutimia’s perspective on the power of plaza, ceremony and movement in her upbringing 
• Creativity as a portal to medicinal connection 

Questions for reflection: 

• What have you been separated or fragmented from that your spirit is longing to reconvene with? What ancestral ways, however accessible now, can you creatively tap into? 
• How is creativity flowing for you already? 

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