Spellwork Somatics

On this episode, Anabel Khoo chats with Jade Chung, co-facilitator of their upcoming collaborative workshop, Accessing Your Anger, for Asian folks seeking to safely embody and express anger/rage.

We go deeper into our relationships to anger/rage in our upbringing, childhood, and our personal journeys to have more a compassionate and authentic relationship with our anger and our selves.

Jade Chung is an art therapist, coach, and healer who helps her clients heal their trauma, rediscover their creativity/soul, and learn to live an embodied life of authenticity and expression. You can find out more about Jade and her services at yourpiece.art! 

Listen to Part 2 of our conversation on Jade's podcast Creativity + Soul! 

ACCESSING YOUR ANGER WORKSHOP

This will be a live, interactive, and intimate (max. 16 participants) 3-hour workshop on Sunday December 3, 2023 at 12-3pm PST // 3-6pm EST.

Tickets are $66 USD and spots are limited!

Register for the Accessing Your Anger workshop here!

WE'LL BE COVERING:

• Deep perspectives on why we feel anger/range, what they really are as emotions, and why they feel so uncomfortable and sticky sometimes
• How to healthily and gently process both anger and rage on your own
• A somatic therapy practice to help you tune into anger/rage held in the body
• An expressive art therapy practice to release these emotions you've held within

 YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH:

• Being able to witness, identify, and hold your experience of anger/rage
• Knowing how to move through moments of anger/rage safely on your own
• Having really tapped into any repressed or unexpressed anger/rage, and released it from your body and energy

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On this episode, we’re chatting with Ryookyung Kim of Party Noodles, on creating sacred space for play as medicine and a key ingredient for collective liberation. 

Ryookyung (they/them) is an alkemist and co-creator of divine ceremonies, rituals, and celebrations. You can often find them in a transition of sorts, liminal spaces of (un)becoming, and supporting other humans whose very existence disrupts the status quo.

They journey with folks in coming home to their Selves by way of remembrance and play—with disobedience, wonder, and unreasonable delight being some of the flavours they bring to their spaces.

Ryookyung Kim’s offerings and updates can be found here:

Instagram @party.noodles
Website: https://partynoodles.life

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On this episode, I am chatting with my magical friend Shaunga Tagore. In our conversation, we talk about her most recent podcast episode, “RED: A love letter to the chosen ones (and Christina Yang)”, that is a deep journey into healing cycles of intergenerational trauma as non-normative people and ancestral connection through the body. We also hear more about Shaunga’s play in progress PLUTO, her experience with spiritual communication with animals, and how we can study stories to build new world paradigms!

Shaunga describes herself as a queer, prizmatic theatre artist, writer, speaker, cat mama and Buffy enthusiast. Shaunga is Artistic Director and Lead Visionary of OTHERWORLDLY GIANTS: Creation Company, Storytelling School & Divination Channel.

She has spent the last decade working as an astrologer, cosmic coach, producer and performer, primarily in queer, racialized, survivor and disability justice oriented communities.  

LINKS:

Website: www.shaungatagore.com 

IG: @otherworldly.giants || Otherworldly Giants Storytelling School on facebook 

Check out season one on the Divination Channel (podcast): Grief, Love & Buffy:

http://shaungatagore.com/season-one 

Learn more about PLUTO, Shaunga's ancestrally guided play in progress:

http://shaungatagore.com/creation-company 

Self study course/memoir on grief available on her website “Let Loss Make You Warm”:

https://shaungatagore.com/self-study-courses/

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In this episode, I share some reflections on this new lunar year, the Yin Water Rabbit year, along with a prompt for working with the emotion of Fear and the practice of Connection. Every emotion has something to teach us, and every emotion exists to guide us. So maybe this year isn’t about drowning in fear, but somehow learning how to respond to it?  Here are some reflections on what we can learn from: the Rabbit, Yin energy, and the element of Water this year.

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In this episode, I speak with Danielle Gilmore on what she calls "soul-care": tending to the parts of us still developing, the depths of grief and loss, and the power of relationships and community. 

Danielle is a leadership educator, meditation practitioner and tree hugger. Danielle’s practices use wellness principles and modalities to support self-leadership. Graduating with a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Indiana Institute of Technology, she works to make leadership irresistible. Danielle makes space for those often most marginalized and offers practical tools for Black women and community to engage in transformative community building. 

In her journey of making leadership accessible, she presented at the Oxford Women’s Leadership Symposium in 2015 on Black women’s wellness. During the day she works with young Black professionals in building their capacity as change makers in the city of Toronto. Danielle founded Activated Activists Consulting in 2018 and travels to organizations across North America providing wellness centred leadership education, rooted in collective healing.

She is also a long time meditator who facilitates meditation sessions for beginners and is always open to connecting with other meditators. 

You can stay in touch with Danielle Gilmore on Instagram at @dani_publiclyspeaking and reach her via email at [email protected]!

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In this episode, I go over what "survival strategies" are, how to start to understand ourselves more by knowing what our personal survival strategies are, and how to begin to approach our trauma with self-compassion.

As I mention in this episode, you can download my guide on survival strategies for BIPOC called Moving Beyond Survival with Self-compassion for free!

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In this interview with my friend and somatic therapist Camille Djokoto, we explore the concepts of balance, flow, alignment, and yielding, and our journeys navigating racial oppression and re-connecting to ancestral and intuitive wisdom through the body.

This episode includes a guided somatic practice by Camille Djokoto who leads listeners through a practice to sense into alignment in our beings however that may be showing up for you in this moment.

For more info on Camille Djokoto, please visit https://camille-djokoto.com!

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On this first episode I’m introducing myself and the podcast, and sharing a bit about the vision behind KAI YIN Spells & Skills, my multidimensional portal of offerings to support sacred wellbeing and also to create profound and sustainable avenues to shift systemic oppression. 

I get very personal immediately and share a bit about myself and my hopes and dreams for the podcast (and the world), and finally I invite you to share your thoughts on what you would like to hear in future episodes!

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