The Embodiment Project

The Embodiment Project

By Danellia ArechigaEducationSelf-Improvement
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The Embodiment Project episodes

  • Ep 102 // Our Origin Stories w/ Corrine Arechiga
    This episode is dedicated to Ronnie Aragon Jr. and Lucille Lopez.
    Our theme this month is REBIRTH. In this episode Danellia chats with her mother Corrine as they explore their origin stories, upbringing, ways that they have gone through their own rebirths, and how their childhood impact their own parenting journeys. This episode is #intergenerationalhealing in action! Medicine for the soul! 
    Listen through to the end of the episode for a sneak peak of our unreleased song Mother written by Danellia and her daughter Corrie and performed by The Corner House. 
    Let's Connect!
    Connect with Danellia at www.DanelliaArechiga.com or on IG @themultidimensionalmami
    Learn more about Danellia's book, GLOW UP!: Voice Journaling for Self-Compassion
    Follow the podcast IG @theembodimentproject.podcast
    Follow The Corner House on IG @thecornerhouselb and find us on Spotify, Apple Music and anywhere else you stream for more music!
    Resources:
    Adult Children of Alcoholics
    Compassionate Friends
    1 hr 14 min
  • Ep 114 // Raising Free People with Akilah S. Richards
    We close out the first season with a very special interview with Akilah S. Richards. Akilah is founder of Raising Free People Network and host of Fare of the Free Child podcast. Her work utilizes audio and written mediums to amplify the ways that unschooling in particular, is serving as healing grounds and liberation work for Black, Indigenous/Native, and People of Color communities. She is also the author of the book Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work which examines the ways that her relationships to blackness, decolonization, and healing work all combine to form relationships and enable community-healing strategies rooted in an unschooling practice. In this episode, Akilah shares how her experience as a mother has helped her reframe her own experiences and how she creates more healthy, consent-based, intergenerational relationships. Danellia and Akilah also talk about how they rethink discipline and learning.  Connect with Akilah online at raisingfreepeople.com or on Instagram @fareofthefreechild To purchase her latest book, Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work, click here.
    31 min
  • Ep 113 // Homeschooling as Activism w/ Marlha Sanchez
    When you think about activism, is homeschooling something that comes to mind?
    Listen in on Danellia's conversation with Marlha Sanchez, mother, community organizer, and founder of Unidos Homeschool Cooperative, in Santa Ana, CA. In this episode, Marlha shares how Unidos has grown from a couple of families in Santa Ana into a worldwide community of folks who are doing their part to change the world by teaching their children the real history of the US and to break down barriers caused by all the oppressive  -isms in the world. 
    Danellia and Marlha also talk about:
    -Bringing into awareness a shift of consciousness in their families and communities around education. 
    -The importance of finding a community as a home/un/deschooler and how a community can even be online or virtual. 
    -How the homeschooling community they are part of gives them and their children a glimpse at what a sustainable and safe educational space can look and feel like and how you can too. 
    Connect with Marlha!
    Online at www.unidoshomeschoolcooperative.com
    On Instagram @unidoshomeschoolcooperative
    Donate to Unidos Homeschool Cooperative
    Resources: 
    Protect Puvungna
    48 min
  • Ep 112 // Infiltrating Academia with Dr. Renee Lemus and Dr. Cristina Rose, Las Doctoras
    We're back! After a short hiatus The Embodiment Project is back with a very special episode. In this episode, Danellia speaks with her comadres Dr. Renee Lemus and Dr. Cristina Rose—hosts Las Doctoras Podcast. Dr. Cristina Rose is mother, artist, and full time lecturer in Women’s Studies at CSU, Dominguez Hills. She received her PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and a VONA (Voices of Our Nation's Arts) sister and has publications of pieces such as “Sacred Heart of Mango” and “mumbling of prayers (at the basilica of la virgen)” in spaces as distinguishable as Regeneración Tlacuilolli, Label Me Latina/o, and Verses Typhoon Yolanda. Dr. Renee Lemus—the academic bruja—has a PhD in Ethnic Studies and works as a college professor at Cal State Los Angeles and in the Los Angeles Community College District. She is also a certified yoga instructor specializing in prenatal yoga, and yoga for bodies of all shapes and sizes.
    On their podcast, they create spaces for important conversations about the oppressive social dynamics that impact our world. Grounded in a connection to ancestral wisdom, they discuss ways to heal from the wounds of generational trauma.
    In this episode, we'll discuss decolonizing education and the challenges of creating a space free from Westernized societal hierarchies. Plus, we'll examine the emotional toll that comes along with dismantling the hierarchy. 
    Learn more about Dr. Renee Lemus and Dr. Cristina Rose's work at https://lasdoctoras.net/
    Enjoying this podcast and want to support it's production? Buy me a coffee! www.buymeacoffee.com/danellia
    1 hr 3 min
  • Ep 111 // Reparenting is Remembering w/ Leslie Priscilla of @latinxparenting

    In this episode, Danellia speaks with her comadre Leslie Priscilla from @latinxparenting.  Leslie Priscilla Arreola-Hillenbrand is a first generation non-Black Xicana with Rarámuri lineage. She is a mother to three biracial children and a certified Parent Coach with over 13 years of experience. Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally and internationally via Latinx Parenting. Leslie’s vision is of a movement rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families towards liberation. Danellia and Leslie talk about how crisis schooling (coined by Akilah S. Richards of Fare of the Free Child) is forcing many parents to reevaluate their parenting and their education choices for their children. They discuss how they, themselves have been extremely triggered by their own children during the pandemic more than ever before and how to work through those triggers.  

    Learn more about Leslie's work with Latinx Parenting at www.latinxparenting.org 

    Enjoying this podcast and want to support it's production? Buy me a coffee! www.buymeacoffee.com/danellia  

    To find the friend's mentioned in this podcast click below: Karissa M Raya Marlha Sanchez Crystal Domi Selisa Loeza

    58 min
  • Ep 110 // Parents Aren't Supposed to Bury Their Kids w/ Corrine Arechiga
    *Trigger Warning: This episode contains a detailed recollection of a death experience. Listen at your own capacity. Take care of your heart.
    My mom, Corrine is back with another episode on this month's theme, grief and loss. As someone who was exposed to death at an early age, Mom shares her experience finding her son (my older brother) Ronnie, dead on her birthday nearly 6 years ago.  She retraces the days leading up to her first born son's sudden death and the impact that loss has had on her life. She also shares her experience as a bereaved parent who has found support and comfort in community with others who are also bereaved parents and family members through an organization called The Compassionate Friends. Mom shares her experience as a newly bereaved parent and how her grief has fueled her inspiration to hold space for other bereaved parents throughout the years. 
    Listen and let us know what you takeaway from this emotional episode. 
    Register here for Danellia's FREE Self-Love Webinar on January 24th, 2021 at 11 AM PST. 
     Resources:
    Compassionate Friends
    Music:
    Homeless Soul by Fleurs Douces Enjoying this podcast? By the creator a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Danellia
    52 min
  • Ep 109 // California Grieving w/ Paulina Isabel Almarosa, LCSW of @latinxgrief
    It's January 2021! 
    As much as we want to celebrate a new year, many of us are still grieving 2020 and beyond. 
    This month’s theme is grief and loss. 
    In this episode, Danellia speaks with Paulina Isabel Almarosa, LCSW of @latinxgrief. Paulina is a bilingual, Licensed Clinical Social  Worker (LCSW) in the state of California. She was born in Morelos,  Mexico and immigrated to the U.S at a young age. Paulina lived a  significant period of her life in the U.S. undocumented. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Welfare from UCLA and has  over 10 years of experience in the mental health field. Paulina is the  founder of Latinx Grief, a space dedicated to grief awareness &  education via storytelling, music & art. Paulina is an avid writer, a  mother and creative. Danellia and Paulina break down a few details about grief including what grief is, how different people experience different types of grief, how we can be there for people experiencing grief, and so much more.  
    Connect with Paulina!  
    On IG @latinxgrief  
    Resources
    It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine
    Send your questions,  requests, and concerns to [email protected] 
    Music: Closure (What I Want) by Snake City
     The World Is A Smaller Place Now by Craft Case  Enjoying this podcast? By the creator a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Danellia
    1 hr 5 min
  • Ep 108 // Sex Workers Are Survivors w/ Angel aka La Muxer Diosa
    Have you ever been to a strip club? 
    Watched porn?
    If so, you have benefitted from the work of sex workers. 
    In this episode Danellia sits with Angel aka La Muxer Diosa. Angel, also known as La Muxer Diosa is an aerialist, yoga guide, hard femme, poet, Queer, neurodivergent Latinx artist. She is devoted student of the plants, professional tease, content creator, crochet artist and porn actress. 
    Danellia asks Angel how we can support sex workers in an ethical way. From strip clubs to cam rooms how can we be ethical consumers of sex work and still prioritize our own pleasure? How is sex work changing the conversation around what sex can look like versus what we see in mainstream porn? Where does consent come into play within sex work? Racial fetishization, censorship, exploitive systems? These are just a few questions that were answered in this compelling episode. 
    Connect with La Muxer Diosa!
    Online at  https://solo.to/lamuxerdiosa
    For show notes and resources, please visit www.danelliaarechiga.com/podcast
    Music: 
    777 (Instrumental Version) by Nbhd Nick
    Homeless Soul (Instrumental Version) by Fleurs Doces
    52 min
  • Ep 107 // Ethical Non-Monogamy w/ Jhoselyn Thomas

    This episode may leave you questioning everything you know (or think you know) about monogamy and polyamory. Romantic relationships are hard! Can you imagine having more than one at the same time? If you're polyamorous, you can! In this episode Danellia speaks with her friend and mentor Jhoselyn Thomas of La Vida Divine about her journey with polyamory otherwise know as ethical non-monogamy which is when someone chooses to be in an open, romantic relationship with more than one person at the same time. Danellia and Jhoselyn explore the common misconceptions about ethical non-monogamy and debunk a lot of the myths they've heard about it.  Jhoselyn is a Licensed Registered Nurse with over 16 years of experience, a Secret Sexuality guide,  Sexual Health Advocate, and Certified Tantra Practitioner. She is a Shaman in training with the indigenous Shuar culture of her native land of Ecuador, a plant medicine retreat facilitator, and intuitive healer. She has worked with clients of all ages, genders, and background sin both Spanish and English. She finds joy in sharing her medical and holistic knowledge about health, healing, and leading an emotionally balanced life.  Connect with Jhoselyn! Online at www.lavidadivine.com On Instagram @lavidadivine Or join her Facebook group: La Vida Divine Resources: Sex at Dawn by Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan Music Credit:  Farra by Lu-Ni Qiero Ser by Lu-Ni

    49 min
  • Ep 106 // Cultivating a Sex Positive Cultura w/ Cindy Luquin

    What does a sex positive cultura look like to you?


    Listen in on my conversation with Cindy Luquin. She is a Certified Sex Educator, Scholar Activist, Reiki Practitioner and Speaker. As a first generation Salvadoran-Guatemalan, daughter of immigrants, she has survived domestic violence, and battled depression. She marries the concepts of reproductive rights and social justice with her work in reproductive education and reproductive justice. In this episode Cindy shares about how she's cultivating a sex positive cultura that normalizes healthy conversations about sex, that understands the racist and oppressive history of modern day gynecology, and that prioritizes the sexual health and wellbeing of every person, especially BIPOC who are often left out of those conversations. 

    Connect with Cindy!

    Online at www.howlatthewomb.com
    On Instagram @howlatthewomb

    Resources:  

    This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa

    Music Credit:

    It Takes Two to Tango by DJ DENZ The Rooster

    Perreo by Lu-Ni

    1 hr 2 min

About The Embodiment Project

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This is a podcast for day dreamers, rule breakers, and paradigm shifters who are “too weird to live, too rare to die”. Here, together, we are changing the narrative. We no longer accept the systems that tell us we can’t be ourselves and that we can’t have everything we’ve ever dreamed of. In fact, we can, and we already do! Not in spite of who we truly are, but because of who we are. Truly believing this and living into this truth starts with one important question…