The Queer Body

Crystal and Jason walk the walk and teach us through word and modeling how to be a collective. Explore with us the topic of creating a community and chosen family moving beyond the carceral state and seeding dreams of abolitionism. We then talk about how to be in the system and break it at the same time. Learn about the creed of commons and a frank conversation about money and holding your values and dreams as the north star. At the 40 min mark, Crystal leads us in a dreaming process and Jason and Crystal call us to action by inviting us to share our dreams with others. "We carry each other's dreams and if you can't imagine it, you can't create it."Treeofchange.netCrystlmason.netQueerlycomplex.com"Queerartsschool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us today as Nick explains his journey as a gay man who did not feel he fit in the gay male culture, his work life, and his family and embraced his weirdness through the exploration of his being a queer human.He explains that on this journey he realized that many of the things that others were doing did not appeal to him, clubs and partying, making lots of money as a definition of success, being more introverted and spiritual, and thatallowed him to expand into a life that embraced and celebrated his "weirdness". This queer identity expanded into his work life as his psychotherapy practice embraced alternative forms of understanding oneself.Nick utilizes hypnotherapy, shamanism, sound healing, and neuro effective touch to help individuals reclaim their own sovereignty. He also explains Shamanism as he practices it and leads us on a short shamanic journey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us as we discuss how different communities influence our queer identity. Being a partner of a trans man things are not always what the appear to be. Straight communities assume we are straight, queer communities can question our right to be in queer spaces. There are so many assumptions about other identities and really, it's nobody's business. In the healing section Alex discusses creating space for people to get comfortable to work with themselves. She than leads us in exercise of the basics of the 100s and how we can begin practice at home.Alex is a comprehensively trained Pilates- Movement Teacher with over two decades of teaching experience & a lifetime of being a performer (band& musical theatre) & athlete. She has been lucky enough to forge a space for folks to safely delve into what this conversation looks & feels like through their virtual & private home studio space in Oakland, CA (USA). Alex's previous 13+ year full time career centered around Public Health/Non-Profit/Low Income Advocacy both on the micro & macro levels. Thankfully, the combination of her passion, education & clinical advocacy work has coupled well with her movement life & has morphed into where she finds herself today. Not only is Alex a Pilates & Movement teacher but also the CEO/Pet-Pro/Vet Tech Assistant at Mister Beever's Paws & Claws; the Bay Area's Finest Vet Tech Provided Pet Care & Animal Training. Alex & her partner Sen (i.e., Mister Beever) took a big leap 11 years ago & opened up this business together in Oakland, CA (USA). It has been a very rewarding experience. Alex is also a certified PEMF practitioner for humans, livestock, Equine & small animals. The combined academic, hands-on human, movement & animal backgrounds seamlessly mesh to provide an educated & customized wellness experience, for all in her care. In addition to holding Pilates movement space for her fellow LGBTQI + community, other Pilates teachers, Equestrians, Athletes, Seniors & Rehab bodies (i.e. ALL BODIES WELCOME!); Alex works closely with the Animal-Pro community & will be volunteering her time with them this May by holding a complimentary weekly virtual Pilates class. It's far too easy to get lost in acts of service work for others & Alex is working to cultivate a space of self-care for other fellow professionals. It promises to be a fun & informative class with the goal of creating better self-awareness & care habits. Last but definitely not least, Alex is a horse parent to Ricky, Cooper & Ladybug, along with 4 dogs: Sophie, Moxie, Bella & Dozer AND a 26-year-old kitty, named Monkey (aka Satan). Alex definitely practices what she preaches by continuing to be an ongoing Pilates student, as well as a newish Equestrian student. If you are interested in learning more about Pilates /Movement exploration, taking a private/ Duo/Trio virtual or in person session OR just want to see some cute animal photos, please visit Meetyourcorepilates.com to reach Alex directly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us as Trinity describes how her spiritual practice has helped her to examine the fluidity of masculine and feminine energies. By stepping out of the dominant paradigms understanding of Masculine and feminine she talks about how we can create ourselves with just the right blend in each situation. In the second half, we explore her work as a Kundalini Yoga instructor and working with challenged youth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Willi Queer identity and dominant culture. How we are sculpted. Looking at where we are shaped in a dominant culture and how do we unhook from it in Western culture and society, there are boxes where we can check off how people are supposed to be: male/female, straight/gay, and the praxis is moving into the variety and breadth the queer community has to offer. Willi that talks about how in Indigenous American culture where some languages are more verbs based so there is more fluidity. There is always going to be a horizon to queerness beyond where we are now so it keeps evolving. How do we set the conditions that allow us to make space for the creation which we have not seen or know into perpetuity? What does it mean to think outside of the conditions, norms, patterns?Willi then leads us in a somatic practice of centering, a way of being in this moment and broadening it to what is to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us as we explore these definitions and the broadness of the queer term and its interconnectedness to nature. " Nature has been one of SJ biggest allies in learning about sexuality and their queerness. They would observe the features and shapes and characteristics of nature and realized the dynamic characteristics reflected their dynamics and of themselves beyond the limitations of cultural conditioning. "The more I unbind myself then I can see someone else." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joy, Beauty and disolving of barriers of difference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ursula Goulet Ursula Goulet is a somatic coach, bodyworker, ceremonial cacao facilitator, and ritual herbalist on a mission of liberation and healing through erotic awakening. In this episode, we explore the power of reclaiming our pleasure just for the joy of it as well as a transformational process to liberate life force and unwind cultural myths. There are so many amazing quotes and scintillating conversations that I urge you to listen to this episode no matter where you are in your erotic discovery.Topics covered: Stepping out of fear and shame, cultivating erotic vitality, moving beyond scripts, leisurely connecting with yourself, and creating sustainable daily practices for a life of pleasure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Dr. Sasha T. Goldberg explores what being queer and butch identity means. Over the years her relationship has evolved from the militant stage, which felt more like a response to the world to be more centered on self in the world. In the past 15 years, she has come to the place of not using the term queer as it feels more potent to center on her female-identified butch identity. We explore how linguistic conditioning in queer spaces, for all the liberation it offers, can push female-identified butches to the outside again. For many butches she has interviewed, there is a lot of pressure to conform to a non-female identified masculinity or pronouns.. She asks us to consider: “What would happen if we learned about each other something other than gender first?” “Tell me who you are without using pronouns or gender.” “How could we then see each other face-to-face with authenticity and integrity?”“What would you like me to know about you so I can stand with you in solidarity?””Are you ready for me when I walk in the door?” She invites us to lead with good intentions, to be expansive, and to make sure there is butch representation on the planning committee in solidarity with other crucial diversifications.Embodiment practice: When you see a butch in the world make some eye contact, and give some acknowledgment. Know and appreciate the hyper visibility of butch women in our history and the ways butch women have taken it on the chin for our queer community.Dr. Sasha T. Goldberg is a professor, researcher, author, and oral historian who holds a Ph.D. in Gender Studies from Indiana University and a Masters degree in Judaism from the Graduate Theological Union. Her work centers Butch women, female masculinities, and lesbian specificity; she also specializes in grief, loss, and pastoral care. In her previous life, she ran intergenerational LGBTQ and Jewish non-profits. Her scholarship is therefore interdisciplinary by design, intersectional by dedication, and fueled by the pursuit of access, justice, and equity. Dr. Goldberg has lectured internationally on gender, sex, and sexuality, and consults across a broad spectrum on all things DEI-oriented. She lives in Oakland, California with her wife Lynn and their favorite four-pawed troublemaker, Phinneas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Health Justice Commons' Founding Director, Mordecai Cohen Ettinger (they/them), joins me on this podcast episode to discuss the meaning of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). The Health Justice Commons offers a biannual Political Education Series about the MIC so we can learn and build our community of visionary resistance together. The curriculum digs deep to expose the historic roots of the MIC, supporting participants to understand the interconnections of healthcare institutions with governmental bodies, Big Pharma, health insurers, and agribusinesses, and providing a foundation to understand and critique the role of systemic racism, sexism, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism within the MIC. Mordecai has nearly 30 years experience as a multi-sector social justice activist and organizer, holistic healer, radical scholar, and educator. In addition to being the Founding Director of the Health Justice Commons, they also co-founded the TGI Justice Project, served as an Interim Co-Director at Justice Now, and as Interim Executive Director at Caduceus Outreach Services, a radical mental health organization. They are adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Their field is critical science, technology, and medicine studies. Mordecai's research spans environmental health and toxicology, to the workings of the Medical Industrial Complex, to the neurobiology of the social nervous system, and its implications with regard to collective and historical trauma, healing, resilience and social change. The next cycle of the HJC's Pol Ed Series starts Sept. 29th, 2022! You can learn more about it and enroll today by visiting their website: https://www.healthjusticecommons.org/upcoming-events Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this follow-up episode, Staci and I discuss the definition of Somatics and Embodiment and move right into 20 minutes of practice. Please note we originally planned three practices but decided that for this interview to do a deep dive on the body scan and centering practices. After doing the deeper dive we invite you to modify the practice and join us in daily practice for the next 90 days. Staci has written two spectacular books! The Politics of trauma @ thepolticoftrauma.com Healing Sex and has a website launching in the summer of 2022 at stacihaines.com You can also work with her in class through: https://strozziinstitute.com/staff/staci-k-haines/ https://www.theembodylab.com/embodied-social-justice-summit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for an amazing conversation on how music heals. What it is like to traverse living in a world as a plus-sized femme and ssocial activism in her first album Enough. She then tackles mental divergency in her second album glimmer and is currently working on a third album where she discusses consent.. Please note this might be a difficult conversation for some to listen to. Heather is a role model for blowing up stories on how to live and create your own story. Lastly, she discussed living with her partners in a queer polyamorous relationship to find out more about her please go to: https://www.heathermaemusic.com/ https://www.patreon.com/heathermae Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do we keep healing and transforming and changing the social conditions? Staci and I discuss how Somatics is defined as a living organism of our wholeness and embodied transformation is knowing that transformation occurs when our visions and values align even under pressure. Staci continues to work in somatics because she notes that the soma profoundly moves towards light and reconnects the individual and the collective. We then discuss how in times of inequity and chaos we can resource ourselves and each other daily, monthly, and yearly given age stage and condition. In the second half of the interview, we discuss how it is to raise a queer family without the legal acknowledgment of being a parent and the backlash of gay marriage on both our middle school boys. Additionally the joys and challenges of being in a non-dominant trans and poly family. Staci has written to spectacular books! The Politics of trauma @ thepolticoftrauma.com Healing Sex and has a website launching in summer of 2022 at stacihaines.com You can also work with her in class through: https://strozziinstitute.com/staff/staci-k-haines/ https://www.theembodylab.com/embodied-social-justice-summit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as Kinfolxz in living time, models how to create community-based healing at the Queer Healing Arts Center in Oakland, CA. " Because self-care is a collective effort: we are not intended to be alone." She helps us see that one of the ways we can create this is by asking the right questions of the communities we serve. such as " What is it you Deserve?, What do you need? What are your dreams/ Visions?" It is through the answers to these questions and partnering with other members of the community that the center has created an interdisciplinary approach that helps the LGBTQ community at risk develop skills to be employable through coding, help achieve safe housing, create food justice, and support other realms of healing and art. Creating a living community that answers the question of how we can show up with compassion and be responsible to our community through giving and receiving. Both are integral to the healing of all creatures. Lastly Kinfloxz invites us to practice decolonizing our language by using the term dark and black in positive ways and not negative ways for ourselves and future generations. https://www.queerartscenter.com/ https://www.queerartscenter.com/sponsorship-form Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for a delightful conversation with Shauna about how to listen to your body and its wants and needs without worries about getting it right or embaressment. We talk about what somatic coaching is and what an individual somatic sex education appointment looks like. Shauna Farabaugh is a certified Somatic Sex Educator and Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) provider in San Francisco, CA, US who fiercely believes in the right to sexual expression for every body and is committed to making sex education more “sexcessible.”  She is particularly passionate about exploring the intersection between sexuality and life transitions of all kinds—both how life change impacts our sexual identity and expression and how we can connect with our sexuality in times of transition as a source of strength, resilience and wisdom to guide us through change.  Shauna has been a professional sex educator since 2007, with certifications from San Francisco Sex Information, The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, and the Somatic Sex Educators Association.  She serves as adjunct faculty at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education and is an Advisory Board member for Ignite Collective, Inc, an agency providing individualized services for PWD in California.  She published a book on pelvic pain (and pleasure!) in 2017 with mentor and colleague Caffyn Jesse. Reverently irreverent, Shauna brings a profound sense of play to both her group classes and one-on-one work with students of all genders, sexualities, and sexual lifestyles…because sex really is supposed to be fun! Learn more about Shauna at www.sexualityintransition.com.  farabaugh.shauna@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luke Lintott talks about reprograming your mind and body so that you can be who you want to be and who you are becoming. He discusses his journey as a bisexual and bi-cultural man and finding the beauty and accepting his fluidity and moving out of the binary and embracing his whole being. "Be exactly who you are!" How are we treating our bodies and minds? Luke talks about how fitness and mindset coaching transformed his problems with insomnia, and anxiety with coaching and fitness. Learning to work with emotions through breath practices, journaling, and creating affirmations that work. Lastly, he helps us learn how to work with negative social influences to find our own strength. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as Skeeter truly lives and practices the art of allowing each human to come to terms with their own autonomy on the mat as a reflection of how they bring themselves to their lives. As a yoga teacher who did not fit in with her "butch/ MOC tattooed" white woman Skeeter has created a space that changes the White washed idea of a skinny white woman in tight yoga pants. She states, " Deferring to each person's individual experience. Not making assumptions about what anybody else needs." We discuss that this relationship with ourselves at any given time is evolving with each practice and each day. So one day just showing up and sitting on your mat may be enough for that practice. Skeeter may be found @ Email: Skeeteryoga@gmail.com,https://www.facebook.com/skeeterbarkeryoga/,https://www.instagram.com/skeeteryoga/?hl=en Note to the listeners MOC= Masculine of Center Savasana= A meditative yoga posture in which one is typically laying on their back. Apologies for using the dated term "differently-abled" I have been gratefully educated that more people prefer the term person with disabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Peg talks about creating safety in our bodies so that we can organically value and bring forward that safety in our relationships with others. She does this by, examining the nervous system and patterns that the nervous system chooses to protect. This can inform how we respond to life, express our emotions and un-consciously runs the patterns of safety caping how much we can expand. By, creating a space where people can practice embodiment and acknowledging that lack of safety allows for expansion. Expansion not just for the individual but for our communities. Creating safety in each human so that the hard conversations can be had to move forward. Next, she discusses, what does it look like when we "shut down". How do we work with that in a short time and overtime? How being different as a practitioner creates a view that creates newness and pushes the edge of the dominant paradigm. The joy of creating something different in unique in the world is really needed to assist people to bridge where they are to where they want to be, particularly when communities are not recognized in other offices. "Poke a hole in the defense where something else can emerge." This is also done beyond the moment of words, There is a lot we are registering in each other's bodies, and healing can be done when we create a space where something is more available. A self-awareness practice is shared at the end. Evolvewellnessstudio.com, 831 420 1212, dr.peg.capers@ instagram, Facebook: Evolvel wellness studio dr.Pegcapers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join as we explore what is somatic and embodiment practices and how they create changes in our daily life and create change in the larger world. What happens when we connect to places of ease in our body and how does that create repercussions in the world around us? Learned that the magic of body-based practice is that our bodies already know how to move towards wonder and innate connection. How the alternative vantage point of being queer feels like being home and how that difference encompassed all the different parts of identity and embodiment practices. This episode ends with a somatic practice for you at home Find Teresa Lau @https://lab.vibrantbodywellness.com Instagram@vibrantbodywellness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lev helps us understand how and why we introduce ourselves with titles of privileges and or ways we are oppressed. We then discuss the power of naming our suffering so it can be acknowledged and given voice and care to. Next, we discuss how to be compassionate and loving with ourselves and others. Fresh explains how Queer is outside the box, and the norm and being open to human experiences spiritually, scientifically, physically, and sexually, Integrating the whole person. Our take-home practice is on compassion. Fresh Lev White https://affirmativeacts.org/ Coach-Diversity Training- Meditation Teacher-Dismantling Micro Aggressions in the workplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as we explore what it means to be queer and how has the definition has changed from the late 80s to the present time. Sandi and I explore the queer femme identity and ideas of invisibility and erasure and how to create identities with power and choice. Next, we discuss how her calling as a homeopath helps people find out who they are as their most authentic and free selves while holding the premise that we all know how to heal ourselves. This episode ends with a grounding practice. Sandi Kaplan, CCH, PCH Divine Monkey Homeopathy 415 359-6284 www.divinemonkeyhomeopathy.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Laura Polak shares her intention with her podcast, The Queer Body, and what listeners can expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices