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Welcome to The Queer Body! We are redefining the edges of queer identity and healing. The show is hosted by Dr. Laura Polak, Somatic Healer and Chiropractor.Join us as we talk about how we define what Queer means and shapes the healing work we do for ourselves, our community, and as part of social justice." 'Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with ( that can be a dimension of it), but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to inven ...
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Queering Dreams with Crystal Mason and Jason Wyman
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Crystal and Jason walk the walk and teach us through word and modeling how to be a collective. Explore with us the topic of creating a community and chosen family moving beyond the carceral state and seeding dreams of abolitionism. We then talk about how to be in the system and break it at the same time. Learn about the creed of commons and a frank…
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Celebrating Difference! Nick Venegoni on being Queer, Therapy and Shamanism
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Join us today as Nick explains his journey as a gay man who did not feel he fit in the gay male culture, his work life, and his family and embraced his weirdness through the exploration of his being a queer human. He explains that on this journey he realized that many of the things that others were doing did not appeal to him, clubs and partying, m…
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Alex Ricci Queering Pilates and Unboxing Queer Identity
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Join us as we discuss how different communities influence our queer identity. Being a partner of a trans man things are not always what the appear to be. Straight communities assume we are straight, queer communities can question our right to be in queer spaces. There are so many assumptions about other identities and really, it's nobody's business…
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The Queering of Masculine and Feminine Energies
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Join us as Trinity describes how her spiritual practice has helped her to examine the fluidity of masculine and feminine energies. By stepping out of the dominant paradigms understanding of Masculine and feminine she talks about how we can create ourselves with just the right blend in each situation. In the second half, we explore her work as a Kun…
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Willi Queer identity and dominant culture. How we are sculpted. Looking at where we are shaped in a dominant culture and how do we unhook from it in Western culture and society, there are boxes where we can check off how people are supposed to be: male/female, straight/gay, and the praxis is moving into the variety and breadth the queer community h…
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Aurveyda and the exploration of queer and gay.
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Join us as we explore these definitions and the broadness of the queer term and its interconnectedness to nature. " Nature has been one of SJ biggest allies in learning about sexuality and their queerness. They would observe the features and shapes and characteristics of nature and realized the dynamic characteristics reflected their dynamics and o…
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Joy, Beauty and disolving of barriers of difference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ursula Goulet Ursula Goulet is a somatic coach, bodyworker, ceremonial cacao facilitator, and ritual herbalist on a mission of liberation and healing through erotic awakening. In this episode, we explore the power of reclaiming our pleasure just for the joy of it as well as a transformational process to liberate life force and unwind cultural myths…
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Butch Lesbian Identity and the Queer Umbrella
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In this episode, Dr. Sasha T. Goldberg explores what being queer and butch identity means. Over the years her relationship has evolved from the militant stage, which felt more like a response to the world to be more centered on self in the world. In the past 15 years, she has come to the place of not using the term queer as it feels more potent to …
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Staci Haines- Part 2 ,Practices for Resilience
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In this follow-up episode, Staci and I discuss the definition of Somatics and Embodiment and move right into 20 minutes of practice. Please note we originally planned three practices but decided that for this interview to do a deep dive on the body scan and centering practices. After doing the deeper dive we invite you to modify the practice and jo…
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Mordecai Cohen Ettinger - Understanding the Medical Industrial Complex
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The Health Justice Commons' Founding Director, Mordecai Cohen Ettinger (they/them), joins me on this podcast episode to discuss the meaning of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). The Health Justice Commons offers a biannual Political Education Series about the MIC so we can learn and build our community of visionary resistance together. The curri…
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Join us for an amazing conversation on how music heals. What it is like to traverse living in a world as a plus-sized femme and ssocial activism in her first album Enough. She then tackles mental divergency in her second album glimmer and is currently working on a third album where she discusses consent.. Please note this might be a difficult conve…
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Staci Haines- Somatics/Climate Change/and Social Justice
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How do we keep healing and transforming and changing the social conditions? Staci and I discuss how Somatics is defined as a living organism of our wholeness and embodied transformation is knowing that transformation occurs when our visions and values align even under pressure. Staci continues to work in somatics because she notes that the soma pro…
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KinFolkz: Queer Healing Arts for LGBTQ Community and Allies
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Join us as Kinfolxz in living time, models how to create community-based healing at the Queer Healing Arts Center in Oakland, CA. " Because self-care is a collective effort: we are not intended to be alone." She helps us see that one of the ways we can create this is by asking the right questions of the communities we serve. such as " What is it yo…
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Join us for a delightful conversation with Shauna about how to listen to your body and its wants and needs without worries about getting it right or embaressment. We talk about what somatic coaching is and what an individual somatic sex education appointment looks like. Shauna Farabaugh is a certified Somatic Sex Educator and Tension and Trauma Rel…
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Luke Lintott talks about reprograming your mind and body so that you can be who you want to be and who you are becoming. He discusses his journey as a bisexual and bi-cultural man and finding the beauty and accepting his fluidity and moving out of the binary and embracing his whole being. "Be exactly who you are!" How are we treating our bodies and…
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Join us as Skeeter truly lives and practices the art of allowing each human to come to terms with their own autonomy on the mat as a reflection of how they bring themselves to their lives. As a yoga teacher who did not fit in with her "butch/ MOC tattooed" white woman Skeeter has created a space that changes the White washed idea of a skinny white …
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Peg Capers: Being Queer and a Chiropractor
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Dr. Peg talks about creating safety in our bodies so that we can organically value and bring forward that safety in our relationships with others. She does this by, examining the nervous system and patterns that the nervous system chooses to protect. This can inform how we respond to life, express our emotions and un-consciously runs the patterns o…
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Teresa Lau: Somatic Explorations for Transformation of Systems of Oppression
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Join as we explore what is somatic and embodiment practices and how they create changes in our daily life and create change in the larger world. What happens when we connect to places of ease in our body and how does that create repercussions in the world around us? Learned that the magic of body-based practice is that our bodies already know how t…
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Fresh Lev White: LGBTQIA /Anti Racism with Compassion and Love
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Lev helps us understand how and why we introduce ourselves with titles of privileges and or ways we are oppressed. We then discuss the power of naming our suffering so it can be acknowledged and given voice and care to. Next, we discuss how to be compassionate and loving with ourselves and others. Fresh explains how Queer is outside the box, and th…
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Join us as we explore what it means to be queer and how has the definition has changed from the late 80s to the present time. Sandi and I explore the queer femme identity and ideas of invisibility and erasure and how to create identities with power and choice. Next, we discuss how her calling as a homeopath helps people find out who they are as the…
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Dr. Laura Polak shares her intention with her podcast, The Queer Body, and what listeners can expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Dr. Laura Polak, D.C : LGBTQI, Healing
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