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S2 Ep3: Orgasmic Yes

Release Date: 08/10/2021

S3 E5: Forgiveness as a Breathing & Somatic Self-Pleasure with Lady J

Emergent Liberation Collective

Join T. Aisha Edwards and Kaila June Keliikuli in this special release and the closing episode of Season 3. Season 3 is a year long exploration with the experience and force of forgiveness. In this conversation, we talk about rhythm changes, fractals of the Mother Wound, what it means to be a good ancestor, forgiveness over lifetimes and how ELC slow podcasting is becoming a breathing space. The episode includes a listener contribution from Lady J who is an autistic, queer, non-binary artist, activist and parent. They offer a story, poem and somatic practice collectively called: A...

S3 E4: Expanding Autism

Emergent Liberation Collective

Aisha and Kaila expand on the discussion about neurodivergence begun in episode 3. We discuss neurodivergent diagnosis, affirmation, trauma healing, disability justice and cultural inclusion. Aisha also intimately explores the impact of autism in xer own family. Topics Kaila and Aisha give a life update Aisha gives more information about the DSM diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and how it differs for AFAB, gender variant and BIPOC folks Aisha gives information about the Spectrum Circle as a affirming diagnostic tool What is masking? How does it...

S3 E3: A Spectrum of Rupture and Repair

Emergent Liberation Collective

In this special episode, ELC partners with the SquarePeg Podcast, hosted by Amy Richards. Square Peg gives autistic adults the opportunity to hear the lives and stories of other autistic adults. In her conversations, she explores life, love, work, health and relationships with later in life diagnosed folks identifying as femme, trans or nonbinary. Aisha and Amy explore Aisha’s own story of being diagnosed autistic and exploring how this has shaped xer own experiences of rupture and repair. TOPICS: Aisha talks about the process of xer diagnostic experience The moving of grief post...

S3 E2: Somatic Unwinding for Rupture and Repair

Emergent Liberation Collective

This brief episode is a follow up for episode one. In it, Aisha shares a poem inspire by an encounter with a hummingbird and offers a somatic practice for working with the activation of rupture. LINKS: ELC Patreon Page Aisha Edwards Kaila June

S3 E1: Introducing Forgiveness

Emergent Liberation Collective

Kaila and Aisha return for another season of ELC, sharing ELC’s changes over the hiatus. introduce the seasonal theme for 2022 Forgiveness. Together the two somatic educators explore the anatomy of forgiveness, foreshadowing the topics addressed throughout Season three. Return after a long hiatus and continuing slow podcast Goodbye to Chris Introduction of the theme of forgiveness and why Presence in the multiplicity of right now Surprise! Aisha is autistic!! What does that mean? Kaila’s architecture shift Anatomy of forgiveness - Rupture and repair, process, belonging,...

S2 Ep6: Healing Traditions - Part Two

Emergent Liberation Collective

In part two of Healing Traditions Devan Williams, a proud indigenous woman of the Squamish Nation, shares cultural and traditional history and the impact of residential school for the indigenous people of Canada. She asks us to learn the true history of Canada as a first step to creating positive change for the next generations. You are doing just that by listening to ELC's episodes Healing Traditions parts one and two. Thank you. If you are so inspired, please take yet another step, by sharing these episodes with others and/or by learning more. You’ll find links for learning and...

S2 Ep5: Healing Traditions

Emergent Liberation Collective

In part one of this two part episode Devan Williams, a proud indigenous woman of the Squamish Nation, talks with Chris about her family’s resistence & resilience in post confederaion Canada. She tells of the healing and hope that they bring in keeping cultural traditions of the Squamish nation alive. Next full doula and body based trauma treatment specialist, Amy Hoare Nassare joins the ELC murmations as our first contributer. Amy shares lessons from flowers about impermance, resilience and the container that allows fruition. This episode was was recorded just weeks before...

S2 Ep 4: Fractals of Desire w/ YaliniDream and Adaku Utah

Emergent Liberation Collective

In this conversation, Aisha explores following embodied pleasure as the rhythm that agitates for wider social change with YaliniDream and Adaku Utah, two brown queer justice-focused, body-centered transformers of community.

S2 Ep3: Orgasmic Yes

Emergent Liberation Collective

Summer 2021 theme on ELC is Desire. We weave this somatic concept throughout each conversation, practice and exploration for this season. In this episode,

S2 Ep2: Generative Creation

Emergent Liberation Collective

Summer 2021 theme on ELC is Desire. We weave this somatic concept throughout each conversation, practice and exploration for this season. In this conversation, Aisha, Kaila and Chris attempt to reclaim desire as a concept associated with hedonism and mindless sexuality as western culture defines it. Together, we create a new working somatic definition for desire with range and nuance that invites the plurality of its light and shadow aspects.

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Aisha reads from xer blog essay, The Orgasmic Organismic Yes. The essay explores the nuances of a blended YES-NO, the state when our sense of embodied pleasure becomes disorganized by obligation and pain. Xe explores how to cultivate unblending the two, supporting the possibility of embodied pleasure again. After the reading, Kaila guides a somatic practice to discover the felt-sense of pleasure and embodied yes.

TOPICS:

Gestalt Therapy Theory
Trauma physiology and the disembodiment of embodied YES
Safety as the baseline for a clear YES and a clear NO
Blended YES-NO patterns
Follow the sparkles
The value of “I Don’t Know”
Explore your embodied yes

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