In this episode, Rupa and Chetna talk about: How her upbringing supported and didn’t support her creativity Being in a fallow period with music-making Processing grief with the lives lost and fundamental shifts after Covid The artist process, with music and healing, being one of sitting and listening, integrating and express at the edge of the unknown The Deep Medicine Circle’s landback work, evolving with questions that challenge the bounds of imagination within structures of capitalism and ideas of private property Insisting upon listening and living into the questions, even without answers as a way to be with the realities of the planet Bringing elders into the work to discuss and interrogate with Questions around both settler and native communities’ responsibilities in landback initiatives Moving beyond purity politics to be with the questions to think and be differently in urgent times Talking to the land and ocean, giving gratitude to them for the children and the songs, as a way of being receptive and living in relationship to the being informing her Being in relationship with the land and beings around her, she hears music everywhere Integrating the practice of being in relationship with the land into her art of medicine and healing with folks; situating them in the space they’re in beside the mountains and bay, and building compost piles with frontline workers Transforming trauma that’s triggered and inflamed by crises like Covid, with making something beautiful out of rotten material Frontline workers experiencing less resources and more burnout Sitting with the wisdom of liminal spaces Rupa’s vision for the practice of Western Medicine in the U.S.; the low-bar as health care for all, and the high-bar is creating inclusive systems of care “Medicine” overall as everything that makes you feel good… “Art” as lived practice… Decolonizing medicine as undoing the structures of colonialism, and engaging in political education How Rupa navigates education away from social media with her children The world requiring a kind of creativity that will expand our ways of knowing and learning, and not letting anyone reduce us to being just one thing other that our multiplicity Find: Rupa’s website and her multi-disciplinary work The Deep Medicine Circle Rupa and Raj’s book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice Chetna on IG @mosaiceye and the podcast @creationforliberation The podcast to watch on youtube Other offerings: Organizational Wellness: bring a mindful and expressive arts engagement to your people Upcoming Events: Boundaries for Peace, Embodied Compassion, Creative Somatic Alchemy, SA Femme Disruptors Reflection Group Work 1:1 with Chetna for creative reclamation and authentic expression

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