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Today I have the great good fortune of being in conversation with Ki Martinez. Ki received their training in the UK at the Sea School of Embodiment in 2020, becoming a Certified Embodiment Coach as well as a Certified Sexological Bodyworker. Ki is a member of the worldwide Association for Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB). Today, they specialize in working with growth-oriented people of all genders, erotic explorers, creatives, helping professionals, adults with anxiety, + folks suffering from the effects of trauma.

Ki is also a Somatic Anti-Oppression Practitioner + Educator, teaching courses on Somatics for Social Justice with Both/And Collective.

Prior to this work, Ki was a community organizer + facilitator in leadership development. Their focus was coaching social change makers + creatives looking to lead value-driven lives. Even in that work, they encountered the importance of embodiment + somatic practice for creating real change.

Ki holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Loyola University in Chicago.

Follow Ki’s work on IG:

@pleasureactive

@bothandcollective

Websites & Newsletters:

embodiedki.com

https://both-and.org 

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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY 

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shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series 
tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops

Blog post for this offering (with kitty pic!)

a little perspective

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I had the great good fortune of being in conversation with Suzette Clough. We had an epic convo about Visual Medicine, creativity + spirituality, her unique painting process + many more things!

Suzette Clough has been painting for 53 years. She originally trained in painting at Sydney College of the Arts in Australia, where she was born + grew up. While at art school, she had what used to be called a psychotic breakdown. In an attempt to heal from this experience, alongside a growing desire to use the insights that had begun to show themselves through her paintings, she wanted to work with people using creativity as a spiritual healing process. She moved to London + began training as a psychotherapist at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy. This was a radical + life changing 5-year training in somatic embodied psychotherapy. As well as an intensive hands-on practitioner training, Suzette entered into long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy. 

She has run art therapy groups at psychiatric hospitals, used art-making with clients with eating disorders + other addictions. She worked at a radical hospice for people with HIV + AIDS, alongside various healing projects where she has used Visual Medicine with women who have experienced the criminal justice system + those with mental health issues stemming from the pernicious effects of patriarchy on our collective nervous system. 

Her experiences also allowed her to develop Visual Medicine—a teachable creative practice, with psyche-logical understanding informed by the Unconscious + Materiality that is situated within an oracular earth-based gynocentric spirituality. The continuing evolution of Visual Medicine is a vibrant collaboration between her amazing students + clients, her own creativity, the Ancestors, the Unseen, the Invisible Ones, the Creation Devas, + the loving fields of Original Pattern Ancestor Beings that surround us.

Suzette Clough Paintings

Visual Medicine

Suzette on Robyn Love’s Small Things Brought Together

music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY

shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series 

tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops 

Welcome to In Conversation With, my new series where I get to talk to my favorite artists, esotericists, writers, organizers, spiritual + creative workers + people who I think are doing really interesting shit in the world. 

Today I have the great good fortune to be in conversation with Roberta Aylward, an artist living in Portland, OR. Roberta was born in Elgin, Illinois in 1969 + creative expression is essential to her understanding of the world + where she finds her clearest voice. She credits her high school art instructors, Martin Davis (Tucson, AZ) + Milton Harley (Nanaimo, B.C.) for providing a strong foundation for valuing art in her life. She received a BFA with a concentration in painting from The College of Santa Fe in New Mexico in 1991. 

Roberta lives in Portland, OR with her husband, their 13-year-old son + their cat. She works in her home studio + practices drawing, collage + photography in service of her painting. Roberta exhibits her art on her website + in person, opening her studio to the public twice a year. Her work is included in many private collections + has been part of group exhibitions at The Painting Center in New York, Tacoma Art Museum, Oregon College of Art + Craft, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Umpqua Valley Arts Association + The Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery at Chemeketa Community College.

Roberta’s website: www.robertaaylward.com

Roberta’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/robertaaylward

Sign up for exhibition + Open Studio updates: www.robertaaylward.com/contact

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music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY 

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shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series 

tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops 

Today, I had the great good fortune of speaking with Brett Barry. Brett hosts + produces Kaatscast from Silver Hollow Audio, in the heart of the Catskills. He teaches podcasting + audio production in the Digital Media & Journalism dept. at SUNY New Paltz. Brett graduated from Syracuse University’s television, radio & film program + worked as an associate documentary producer for several years before launching a career in voice-overs in 2002. He returned to Syracuse 10 years later for a graduate degree in television-radio-film. Brett is represented in NYC by Access Talent for television + radio commercials, audiobooks, promos, + narration. He’s the host of public radio’s "Sound Beat," was the longtime voice of India’s English-language network, Zee Café, + the last announcer for the iconic soap opera Guiding Light. He has narrated more than 125 audiobooks + is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. 

Kaatscast podcast: http://kaatscast.com/

Silver Hollow Audio: http://silverhollowaudio.com/

Brett’s Voice: http://brettsvoice.com/

shea’s favorite kaatscast episodes:

Dowsing for Water with Bill Getz: https://www.kaatscast.com/dowsing-for-water-with-bill-getz/

Indigenous Catskills 101 with Justin Wexler:

https://www.kaatscast.com/indigenous-catskills-101/

“Listening To Taylor Swift In Prison” by Joe Garcia: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/listening-to-taylor-swift-in-prison

music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY 

shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series 

tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops 

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Today I’m In Conversation With Laetitia Barbier. Laetitia is an intuitive counselor with a great passion for the human soul. She studied art history at the Sorbonne, and has been working professionally in the arts for over a decade. She had her first tarot epiphany at the age of 11, when she bought her first Marseille Tarot deck at a Parisian tobacco shop. A passionate and experienced tarot reader, Laetitia is a firm believer in the cards' empowering nature. Beyond their use as a fortune telling oracle, she views tarot as a visual tool that helps us bring clarity to the complexity of life, providing information and insights on decisions we’re facing, or shining a light on options that we might not have considered. Laeti is also an independent scholar + teacher. She has worked with Morbid Anatomy since 2011 as a programming director, head librarian, + occasional curator + shares her interest for antique divination cards and esoteric iconography via her popular instagram account @laetitia.cartomancy. Laeti’s gorgeous book Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Laetitia’s website: https://www.laetitiacartomancy.com/ 

Laetitia’s book—Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/books/2d60hukqya5ejy6oydsq7i7d1c1k7l

Laetitia’s amazing IG account: https://www.instagram.com/laetitia.cartomancy/

Morbid Anatomy: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/ 

Morbid Anatomy’s patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morbidanatomy 

music: Wii music but hip hop by Lundstroem, Free Music Archive, CC BY 

shea in the catskills: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/ 

book a reading: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/book 

Tarot as Questions: the book: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-as-questions-book 

study tarot series: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/study-tarot-series 

tarot workshops: https://www.sheainthecatskills.com/tarot-workshops