My statement to counter and correct the contortion and misrepresentation of who I am and my work especially as a guest on an 11/12/2025 podcast episode. It is rife with multiple racialized transgressions and is the very example of exploitation, extraction, and erasure of Indigenous people, culture, and wisdom. I do not consent to being used as a token or instrument for someone else’s platform.
Tag: grounded spirituality
The ultimate qigong, or, spirit of the sensuous
I had a dance/somatic teacher who’d often share that his qigong teacher called dance the “funky qigong”—well, isn’t dance the ultimate form of qigong? To channel pure life force energy through one’s body in movement? To drop into one’s senses and allow the spirit of energy, breath, music, gravity, heart, soul—qi— inform them? To allow READ MORE »
The Wisdom of Fear
Popular healing culture will give you advice to use your mental will to overcome fear. Applied generally and without grounded understanding, this is advice that is in opposition to our human nature, dissociating us from our own body wisdom. The clearest and deepest empowerment is rather to be 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 with the life force energy wisdom READ MORE »
Grounding
What actually is grounding? I have people who come to me seeking ground, sometimes without even realizing it, and sometimes with a feeling sense of having missed a piece of the puzzle—because they find “they can’t do it” where their attempts fall short of the results they are reaching for. Sometimes they are creating a READ MORE »