Spellwork Somatics

Embodying and Expressing Anger with Jade Chung and Anabel Khoo

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 [https://www.yourpiece.art/]!  Listen to Part 2 of our conversation on Jade's podcast Creativity + Soul [https://open.spotify.com/show/4jakVSL9ined4JEjjhKzup?si=376f7c567e664340]!  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! [https://yourpieceart.mykajabi.com/offers/t5QZRcFf/checkout] 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   Stay in touch with all KAI YIN Spells & Skills updates by signing up to my newsletter [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/]on my website, and following me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaiyinspellsandskills] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077056551363]! I love hearing from you; let me know [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/get-in-touch] what you’d like to learn more about in future episodes! 🐉 Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993467/support]

Play as Collective Liberation with Ryookyung Kim

On this episode, we’re chatting with Ryookyung Kim [https://partynoodles.life] 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 [https://www.instagram.com/party.noodles/] Website: https://partynoodles.life [https://partynoodles.life/]   Stay in touch with all KAI YIN Spells & Skills updates by signing up to my newsletter [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/]on my website, and following me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaiyinspellsandskills] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077056551363]! I love hearing from you; let me know [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/get-in-touch] what you’d like to learn more about in future episodes! 🐉 Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993467/support]

Stories as Altars for the New World Paradigm with Shaunga Tagore

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 [http://www.shaungatagore.com/]  IG: @otherworldly.giants [https://www.instagram.com/otherworldly.giants/] || Otherworldly Giants Storytelling School [https://www.facebook.com/groups/otherworldlygiants] on facebook  Check out season one on the Divination Channel (podcast): Grief, Love & Buffy: http://shaungatagore.com/season-one [http://shaungatagore.com/season-one]  Learn more about PLUTO, Shaunga's ancestrally guided play in progress: http://shaungatagore.com/creation-company [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/ [https://shaungatagore.com/self-study-courses/]   Stay in touch with all KAI YIN Spells & Skills updates by signing up to my newsletter [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/]on my website, and following me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaiyinspellsandskills] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077056551363]! I love hearing from you; let me know [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/get-in-touch] what you’d like to learn more about in future episodes! 🐉 Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993467/support]

Yin Water Rabbit Lunar Year: The path from fear to connection

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.   Stay in touch with all KAI YIN Spells & Skills updates by signing up to my newsletter [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/]on my website, and following me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaiyinspellsandskills] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077056551363]! I love hearing from you; let me know [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/get-in-touch] what you’d like to learn more about in future episodes! 🐉 Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993467/support]

Soul-care in Leadership with Danielle Gilmore

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 [https://www.instagram.com/dani_publiclyspeaking/] and reach her via email at daniellefgilmore@gmail.com!   Stay in touch with all KAI YIN Spells & Skills updates by signing up to my newsletter [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/]on my website, and following me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kaiyinspellsandskills] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077056551363]! I love hearing from you; let me know [https://kaiyinspellsandskills.com/get-in-touch] what you’d like to learn more about in future episodes! 🐉 Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993467/support]