In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my beloved friend and embodiment teacher, MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo. MawuLisa is a community based healing midwife, somatic bodyworker, embodiment coach, song weaver, lover of nature & Spirit, a lifelong student of the Healing Arts, and an initiated Diviner & Orisha Priest.

We talked about:

• Healing as coming into wholeness
• Trauma healing through somatics
• Maintaining joy & self-care through holding space for others and trauma healing work
• How individual and collective healing and liberation movement work are interconnected
• How earth based spirituality is part of social justice work
• Seeing the sacred and holy in all things, in ourselves and everything around us
• MawuLisa’s path as a spiritual midwife
• The power of song and music as medicine and part of movements for liberation
• Ways MawuLisa finds pleasure in her body

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:06:00 What does healing mean to MawuLisa

00:08:00 MawuLisa’s personal journey of healing through decolonizing spirituality

00:10:00 What embodiment means to MawuLisa

00:13:00 How MawuLisa’s work as a healer began with running rape crises centers

00:19:00 Working with trauma patterns at the level of the body

00:20:00 Working with Generative Somatics

00:22:00 Working with the gut brain and the heart in addition to the head brain

00:23:00 How MawuLisa maintains self-care and joy through doing trauma healing work

00:29:00 How everyone is impacted by the trauma of colonization and being disconnected from our bodies and nature

00:33:00 Honoring our trauma patterns as part of our body’s wisdom through parts work

00:37:30 How individual healing and collective healing and movements for liberation are completely connected

00:40:00 MawuLisa’s understanding of the what Somatics means

00:42:00 How earth based spirituality is part of social justice work

00:48:00 Learning from the wisdom of nature, including learning strategy from ants

00:51:00 How we can all tap into seeing what is holy and sacred all around us and honor the divinity in oneself and everything

00:53:00 What it means to MawuLisa to be a spiritual midwife

00:58:00 The power of repetition and practice

01:02:00 The importance and power of song as medicine for MawuLisa

01:06:00 How music is connected to the movement for liberation

01:10:00 Ways that MawuLisa finds pleasure in her body

01:17:00 MawuLisa sings the ancestor song