The Creative Soul Collective

Audio version of blog post, The Lost Vagina at www.thecreativesoulcollective.comExplorations of cultural appropriation, Tantra, Gujarati culture, erotic energy and life in the WestThe Erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos and power of our deepest feelings. It is the internal sense of satisfaction to which once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. Once having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognised its power, in honour ...

How to navigate your blackness your healing, your agency and your value…Profound, informative and deeply spirited chat with a fellow Ghanaian sister, Jocelyn Yeboah-Newton. Jocelyn is a Gender consultant, founder of art/healing organisation Our Naked Truths, and The Communion Podcast. She is a protector of intersectional black femininity, and an explorer of the mental health issues that come with that intersection. Jocelyn is also training to become a therapist herself. We unwrapped...

An inspiring and enlivening chat with facilitator, storyteller and community worker; Sola Adebiyi. Sola kicks the episode off with some Djembe drumming and a story called The Golden Seed.Then we talked about our dreams for the new world, the gift that creativity brings us, intention for engaging in art/storytelling, experiences of childhood and education influenced by ethnicity, and the world as the inheritance of the African people. Sola calls us to our empowerment, imagination and connectio...

A short n' to the point chat. Shola and I talked about recognising yourself in the divine, Ancient Egyptian deities and their connection to yoga, the influence of African spirituality in the world, and experiencing the world through energy.Shola's new Chakra Empowerment cardsOpening to SpiritMore of Shola's offeringsIG: @sholasays

Insightful chat hopping all over the shop! Safiya and I talked about food, intersectionality, African American culture, learning to love yourself, how to form a less oppressive food future, finding role models, and how to write your own story when history doesn't give it to you right. BUY CHILDREN OF THE YAM, black healing handbook by Safiya RobinsonIG: @girlholdmybeadsIG: @sisterwomanveganSafiya's websiteVertamae Smart-Grosvenor, vibration cooking https://www.globalgeneration.org.uk/abo...

Healing the mother wound w/Rev. Chelle👁.@revchelle is a Metaphysical Minister, Family Constellation Facilitator & Clinical Hypnotist. She specialises in helping individuals heal their relationship with their mothers- on an energetic and/or physical level. Our chat was insightful and flowy.👁.Chelle’s personal story was so inspiring to me.We spoke about -how this work doesn’t always end up in a “fixed” face to face relationship with our mothers-the value of connection with our ancestors-the...

Another awesome conversation of truth and fire. I am so grateful to be able to do this and connect over important issues with love. Nadia is a writer, yoga teacher and outlier of injustice and oppression of marginalised groups. We chatted about cultural appropriation, the roots of yoga, being South Asian in the industry and yoga's western outfit.Here are some links that came up in conversation.Back to Black by Kehinde AndrewsOf Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Some- Ancestral teachingsKemetic...

I LOVED this chat with Data so much!Through her work, Data serves to heal and reconnect humanity with spirituality from an African perspective.We talk about...-Spiritual awakening/depression-The patterns in reality and sacred geometry-The ancestral African archives that have been burned by colonialism-African spirituality and it's deities (one being Atete- an East African Goddess of fertility). Data's depiction of her is shown here.Check out Data's work!Enjoy this episode and subscribe for fu...

Tania is an Art therapist and community worker. She works with refugees and asylum seekers, nourishing their creativity and artistic expression. She started up The New Art Studio in in order to do this."We exist to give refugees and asylum seekers a space to overcome trauma and rebuild their lives."I really genuinely loved this conversation and connecting with Tania. In this episode we discussed art as a spiritual practise and an act of rebellion, the danger of isolation (SO pertinent right n...

Naala is a singer, musician and producer.In this episode we discuss feeling into the history of music, making yourself as an authentic creative and living and growing in a white supremacy culture. Naala's spirit is vibrant. It is such a joy to be around her, especially magic for me as we are first cousins!Check out the links below (some mentioned in the episode):Lotus Videosplintered window - spotifyBellatrix- Bad Dancing (her most recent EP)