Infinite Earth Body Podcast

Infinite Earth Body Podcast

By Maya Tokunaga JensenAlternative HealthHealth & Fitness
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Infinite Earth Body Podcast episodes

  • Inclusive Body Work, Fat Liberation, and Care Work from Beginning to End of Life, with Mercedez

    In this episode, I interviewed Mercedez, who's mission is to create a safe space for massage that's accessible in all the ways she can make it: compassionate, understanding, trauma informed, consent based, queer, and all gender friendly, body positive, and disability friendly.

    Mercedez aims to to make receiving bodywork a priority and not a privilege as a woman of color, a person who has experienced trauma, body shaming and queer phobia herself.

    We talked about:

    • her journey as a massage therapist
    • how she makes her work accessible
    • how body work can help heal trauma
    • fat liberation
    • the importance of care work through all of life seasons, from birth, post-partum, child care, elder care, and end of life care

      • You can connect with Mercedez at:

      https://www.massagebymercedez.com/

       

      Follow us to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey:

      http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody

      http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/

       

      Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: 

      https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective

       

      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/producing!

       

      00:00:00 Opening & Intro

      00:04:00 How Mercedez got into massage therapy

      00:05:00 What Mercedez has learned through her journey as a body worker

      00:06:00 How Mercedez tries to make her bodywork sessions accessible to all genders, bodies, and abilities?

      00:09:30 Healing through giving and receiving body work

      00:12:40  What healing has looked like for Mercedez

      00:14:00 Mercedez’s experiences in fat liberation activism

      00:17:50 Care work with all ages, from birth to end of life

      00:22:00 Mercedez’s experience with end of life care for her Grandma

      00:28:00 Mercedez’s story from childhood growing up with fat positive family experiences, then facing fat phobia in school

      00:31:00 Exploring questions of gender identity and sexuality as a young queer child and coming into more comfort in her body in a young adulthood through the support of community

      00:33:00 How body work can change your experience in your body, even feet!

      00:34:00 How grief can change how you feel in your body

      00:37:00 Feeling in awe of what the body can do despite injuries and changing abilities

      00:38:00 Feeling pleasure in your body through community, getting your heart rate up, eating, being in water, decadent baths

      00:43:00 How to connect with Mercedez to book or sponsor a massage

      00:45:00 Closing

       

      46 min
    • How Embodiment Can Heal Trauma & Unlock More Pleasure, with Maya

      For our first episode, my friend selma interviewed me and helped me introduce the podcast!


      We talked about the cycle seasons of our bodies and the wild journey of embodiment. 


      We explored how trauma patterns like disassociation, fight, flight, freeze, fawn are part of the genius of our bodies in helping us survive, but can be patterns that we’re stuck in that can cut off access to pleasure and joy.


      I shared about my experiences with anxiety, depression, reprogramming my nervous system, and learning how to be in better relationship with my body through auto-immune symptoms, and chronic health issues.


      Our bodies are incredible fascinating universes of consciousness, our cells, our unique fluid bacterial microbiomes, water, and space.


      Our bodies are interconnected with nature. Our healing has to happen individually and collectively, on the spiritual and physical dimensions. 


      Tune in if you like talking about bodies, healing, pleasure, and expanding through our connection to our bigger earth body.

      1 hr 10 min

    About Infinite Earth Body Podcast

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    The Infinite Earth Body Podcast, where we talk about bodies, healing, pleasure, and share stories of embodiment on earth.