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Born CreatorsBefriend Your Inner Critic, Break Generational Cycles with Chetna MethaTo become someone we've never been, we have to do things we've never done. And that is when our inner critic gets very, very LOUD.
Chetna Mehta, a multidisciplinary artist, alchemist, and creativity doula, shares profound wisdom on how to connect with the inner critic instead of fighting against it, allowing us to experience true creative freedom and end generational cycles. In this powerful conversation, we explore what it takes to shift from being on autopilot to living as conscious, embodied creators.
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01:35 Meet Creativity Doula, Chetna Mehta
02:54 A Full Circle Moment
2025-04-2451 min
Creation for Liberation PodcastE26. What Does Liberation Look, Feel, Sound, Smell and Taste Like to You, Today?In this final episode of Season 2, Chetna talks about what liberation looks, feels, sounds, smells and tastes like to her, on the day of recording the episode!
She names the importance of realizing our freedom here and now on our collective creation and liberation.
She calls back and weaves in various gems from some of the conversations during this season of the pod, and invites you as the listener to reflect on the embodied and sensory knowing of liberation that’s available to you.
Find more:
On the Mosaiceye Col...
2024-07-0520 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE25. More Will Be Revealed & the Making of an Ancestral Instrument with Sara GhebremichaelIn this episode, Sara and Chetna talk about:
What liberation smells like, sounds like, feels like for Sara
All of our energetic pathways as music, and the unblocking of those pathways bringing music and liberation to the world
Chetna’s journey with the Bansuri and the permission to make music
Sara’s relationship with the banjo as a way to soothe her soul as she’s in relationship to the instrument
The krar as it relates to the banjo and how it’s different
Sara’s ancestral connection...
2024-05-2343 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE24. The Liberation of “No Choice,” Surrendering & Radical Love w/ Lama Rod OwensIn this episode, Lama Rod and Chetna talk about:
What liberation smells like, sounds like, feels like and looks like for Lama Rod from both an abstract and embodied experience
Contentment and acceptance alongside the wrongness, suffering and crisis of the world
The subtle practice of “holding the chaos and crisis, instead of the chaos and crisis holding you”
Holding space for everything that’s arising is still feeling the chaos and tension, feeling our hearts breaking and enraging, and also still being connected to the space that’s holding us and ever...
2024-04-2351 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE23. Trusting the Muse in Creative Practice with Feroza CayetanoIn this episode, Feroza and Chetna talk about:
The creative process being a spiritual one, and how honoring that is transcending the inner critic that says “you’re a fraud”
Feroza’s relationship with her creative muse
Creativity rising up in her like water that have to be poured out based on experiencing a lot of emotions
Creativity also rising up in her when her muse comes gently knocking
Developing a relationship with her muse where there is a trust and patience
Honoring her body’s request to make mu...
2024-03-2544 min
Tender Being with Harriet Hamid-CollettEpisode 2: Spring Equinox 2024Dear Tender Being, Thank you so much for joining me for a second episode of the podcast! And for the first Celtic Wheel episode. I hope you enjoy it and would love to connect with you further. I’ve included the prompts, as well as some additional ‘shuttles’ in case you’d like these to help you keep weaving the thread of your responses. Prompts:* Where am I noticing signs of growth already?- I have grown…- I am growing…- I am becoming…* Wh...
2024-03-2417 min
Bold JourneyBuilding a More Compassionate, Inclusive WorldWe’re so lucky to have some great guests with us today to discuss building a more compassionate, inclusive world and so much more. The panelists are also content partners. Content partners help Voyage in so many ways from sponsoring our mission, spreading the word about the work we do and collaborating with us on content like this.Ashley Kruse | Entrepreneur, Creative Business OwnerIntro: I bring ideas to life for clients, businesses, and myself.Voyage Story: http://voyagedenver.com/interview/meet-ashley-kruse/Cherry Griffin | Journalist/Po...
2024-03-121h 07Creation for Liberation PodcastE22. Hope, Peace and Solidarity with Ameera and Noa of Tomorrow’s WomenIn this episode, Ameera and Noa talk with Chetna about:
What life is like lately for each of them at the time of recording this conversation at the end of February, around 140 days after October 7th
What “peace” means to each of them today, alongside the violence that they’re actively threatened by daily
How Ameera holds the human need to defend and protect against violence while working for peace
Why each of them are committed to the work and mission of Tomorrow’s Women
Ameera’s background in joining th...
2024-03-1245 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE21. Inquiries Beyond Binaries About Peace in These Times ft. HawaH KasatIn this episode, Chetna shares:
The Chetna Unfolding newsletter where she’s been publishing more recently about longing and depression as portals, second arrow suffering, the addiction to binary thinking, and more
Ahimsa and nonviolence, and the confusing contemplation about what peace means today
The day count and loss of 30,000 Palestinian lives, 1,400 Israeli lives, and uncountable plant and animals lives taken by genocide
An introduction of Hawah Kasat, an award-winning educator, community organizer and yogi among other things
HawaH talking about “negative peace” and “positive peace”
How the negativ...
2024-02-2628 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE20. The Role of the Artist and Channeling Divine Illumination with James McCraeIn this episode, James and Chetna talk about:
Art as alchemy and permission to be bold and expressed
The importance of leaning into creativity during these times of violence, multiple genocides and divisiveness
How art is often born out of suffering, and how James’ creativity is fueled by grappling, pain and what feels hard to make sense of
Turning the pain, the lead, into beauty or gold; releasing or purging sadness through liberating art
Art as a service to ourselves to transmute, and offering a light to others who ne...
2023-12-1448 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE19. Longing is a Portal to PurposeIn this episode, Chetna talks about:
Some of Chetna’s recent longings
The pain and ache of longing, and the inevitability of it as humans
The distinction between the content of our longings and Longing itself
The human tendency to chase after the longings, as symbolized by hungry ghosts
The clarity, awe, love and truth that comes with being with longing, especially in community
How contemporary and ancient mystics, from Rumi and Hafiz to John O’Donohue and Michael Mead have recognized the power and portals of longi...
2023-11-1524 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE18. The Great Joys in Partnership, Care & Purpose with Madame GandhiIn this episode, Kiran and Chetna talk about:
Kiran’s partnership being a space where she could be her full, queer, androgynous self in her vulnerabilities and wins
Morning meditation with Deepak Chopra and Oprah as a way to reset, start the day positively, take responsibility for her self-rhetoric, and get herself ready to step out into the world
The practice in partnership of separating behavior that’s not loving from the deeper truth of care and love for you
A reframe on projection as a space to learn when we can...
2023-10-2051 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE17. Freedom, Indigeneity and Multi-Dimensionality in Therapy with Luis CornejoIn this episode, Luis and Chetna talk about:
Luis’s journey of sharing more of himself in his work, claiming himself as a model, playing with make-up and being free
Going from a stable and “successful” job at Kaiser to a queer-centric and indigenizing therapeutic practice
Sharing himself authentically in room as a therapist with his clients
Luis’s journey of identifying as an indigenous person through the shame, taboo and grief
The messages and stories in his family about what it means to be indigenous, the othering of indigenou...
2023-09-151h 00
I'm Awake! Now What?Re-Release: Chetna Mehta - Mixed media artist discusses the convergence of spirituality and creativity Ep. 258This week I sit down with mixed-media artist, wellness consultant and creator of MosaicEye Chetna Mehta. She shares a significant experience that changed the direction of her professional and personal life. She discusses the similarities between spirituality and creativity, noting the first being--getting out of ones own way. She shares the intention of her artwork is to normalize vulnerability and create resonance in the eye of the observer. To find out more about Chetna, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @mosaiceye and subscribe to her Moon Times Digest here. Podcast Production: Written, directed...
2023-09-0342 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE16. Reclaiming Our Story and Welcoming All Our Parts (and Money) with Ruthie LindseyIn this episode, some of what Ruthie and Chetna talk about:
Ruthie’s soul’s work and dharma to welcome and love all the parts of us, including those that have been shamed or rejected
Ruthie’s story of being hit by an ambulance, being hospitalized for a month and getting a wire implanted in her spinal cord infusion
Growing up as a sweet Southern girl and her doing everything she had to do for belonging and love
Her being disassociated and numbing with food and screens, as a way to stay o...
2023-08-3155 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE15. Magic Beyond LogicIn this episode, Chetna shares about:
The safety of relying on logic
The willingness to be open to possibilities beyond logic
A practice that allows us to consult with our mind and our heart wisdom
The inner critic living in the mind
The importance of movement (getting the heart rate up) to be able to consult with the heart
The ancient intelligence of the heart
Examples of folks moving through hard things like death/loss, breakups, betrayal and other transitions with the guidance and connection to heart wisdom, intuition and grace
Spaces for collective...
2023-08-2119 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE14. Mixed Identity & Possibility with Dance with Megan LoweIn this episode, Megan and Chetna talk about:
What dance means to Megan, a way to relate to the world, to space and other bodies, and self-express beyond what people assume
How in her body and Asian identity, she’s explored her physical strength through movement practices
Breaking through walls of expectation through exploring movement through the body
Going beyond the rigid way of what “dance” is commonly looked at within performance, production or a certain body type
Megan’s emphasis on individual bodies and the histories, modalities and passions that each individual has, as opposed to doing it a cert...
2023-08-0139 min
Queer Magic PodcastDecolonizing CreativityWe are all innately creative as human beings. Yet, something happens during our transition from childhood into adulthood. Creativity shifts and changes for many of us. Often times it gets shrouded and shaped by systems of oppression that dictate and capitalize on creativity. Join me and my special guest Chetna Mehta (she/they) as we talk about decolonizing creativity.
About my guest:
Chetna Mehta (she/they) is a granddaughter of Indian and South African diasporas. She works and plays as an educating artist, alchemist, facilitator and founder of Mosaiceye LLC, a therapeutic pr...
2023-07-1243 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE13. Authenticity, "Ugly" Art, and Sharing Online with Hana ShafiIn this episode, Hana and Chetna talk about:
Resistance and activism through frizzy hair
Creating new worlds through visual art; drawing what we want to see in the world, from cool fashion to authentic femininity
Clothes as wearable art yet co-opted by capitalism that make it seem frivolous
The paradox in Hana’s art between colorful and vibrant and dark and creepy
The power in what is deemed as “ugly”
Showing the unpleasant parts of humanness, like squeezing zits!
Hana’s fear of clowns and drawing...
2023-07-0647 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE12. Living the Questions in Decolonizing Art, Medicine & Landback Movements w/ Rupa MaryaIn 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 w...
2023-06-0839 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE11. Decolonizing & Interdependent Belonging with Kelsey BlackwellIn this episode, Kelsey and Chetna talk about:
What “decolonizing” means to Kelsey
Holding the both/and of being a settler and belonging on a particular land
Cultivating belonging within oneself and with the larger earth community
Honoring the truth of interdependence as a way to fostering belonging
Practices of connecting with the earth and “offering breath” and care
Kelsey’s tree friends and how she never feels lonely
The loss that comes with birthing our publishing a creative project like a book
Allowing our art to be for us first, savoring the process as a way to t...
2023-05-0554 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE10. Ego & Control in Creative Process with Amit PagedarIn this episode, Amit and Chetna talk about:
Putting ourselves in roles or boxes with the labels and identifiers we use to introduce ourselves
How the ego relates to over-identification and control
Defending our ideas and needing to protect them as a cause of suffering
The ego’s need for security and its nature of insecurity
Compassion for the ego and how it tries to help us be secure
Finding security and connection beyond the ego by discovering what wants to come through us in this life...
2023-04-0544 minCreation for Liberation PodcastSeason 2 is ComingYo! Peace and warmth good people. It’s about to be Season two/dos/be/do/due of the Creation for Liberation podcast!
I’m really leaning into the process of experimentation here, which is what I see creativity as. And in this season, we’re centering conversations with creators and liberators at the intersections of art, education, medicine, yoga, spirituality, science, somatics, social justice and more.
Stay tuned for our first episode and conversation of the season coming out with April full moon. Follow us on IG @creationforliberation, on youtube @mosaiceye and on your favori...
2023-03-2301 min
Creation for Liberation PodcastE9. Decolonizing Creativity is Being in Right RelationshipWelcome to the final episode of season 1 y'all! What fun experiment this podcast has been and we're ending with some quality conversation and wisdom from two new and lovely friends, Hitoko Okada and Inez Inok't.
Some of what we get into:
Hitoko's background as a lineage craft and textile artist and community arts facilitator
Inez's background as a muralist, mother and indigineous activist
Decolonizing as a living and breathing practice of being in right relationship with everything
Colonial history as it relates to textiles, cotton and the transatlantic slave trade
Indigo dying as a spiritual practice...
2022-07-3141 min
Creation for Liberation PodcastQuick update: Checking in with y'allJust checking in with y'all on a few updates since we've been away from the podcast for awhile. Thanks for listening to the unfolding of the Creation for Liberation pod, y’all. So cool! Stay tuned within the month for the final episode of season 1.
We love you!!!
Upcoming events:
Our series of IG LIVE conversations on funk and love, liberation through birthing, compassionate art, and rejection and resilience among others
MOSAICEYE EVOLUTION CELEBRATION! Virtually this Saturday the 25th @ 10am PT and locally in Berkeley on July 17th
We’re meeting up at PRIDE SF, j...
2022-06-2209 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE8. Excavating Our Creativity is a Social ResponsibilityIn this episode, we get into:
The inspiration of folks fasting for Ramadan and increasing their God consciousness
The intention of sharing and inviting you into the 3-Month Abundant Creativity Excavation Program
When the program began and how it’s grown to 200+ alumni across the globe
How we use language to open up new worlds for ourselves
The definition of “creativity” and how problematic it is
What creativity is, beyond being intellectual, “original” or for production
Aluma, Toni shares about her journey out of the corporate world and claiming her title of “creative”
Alumna, Samidha acknowledges how we aren’t educate...
2022-04-1826 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE7. My Heart (Not My Mind) is My MasterIn this episode, we vibe on:
How in the midst of crisis and violence, it’s pertinent to take the time to love on and uplift the people around you, to check-in on them and know that that too is activism
Heart intelligence from a yogic and ancient Egyptian perspective
Research on the heart organ and it’s impactful communication with the brain
The heart’s “little brain”
Alyssa’s perspective of not shaming the mind’s tendency to overthink and giving the mind another role
How putting the mind in the back seat helps Alyssa show up more fully in...
2022-03-0435 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE6. I Don't Know and In That, I'm FreeIn this episode, we get into:
The inspirations of Morning Pages and Evening pages and its effects on sleep and mental clarity
The inspiration of the Devotion Chart and the Aluna Method by Juliana Luna
How “knowing” provides us with safety, control and security
The type of “knowing” that’s valued in our colonial culture
Some history of human rationalism and its effects today
How “knowing” doesn’t serve us, our curiosity, collaboration or presence
A trip that resulted in Chetna realizing how much she doesn’t know without guilt or shame
Questions about the possibilities that we may access if we al...
2022-02-0233 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE5. Reclaiming Discipline Reinforces My Self-TrustIn this episode, we get into:
Gratitude for you as a listener, reviewer, giver of your valued attention to this podcast, thank you!
The western definition of “discipline”
How Yoga sees discipline
How Kung Fu sees discipline
The balance and yin/yang of empowered discipline
Reclaiming discipline as an empowering practice versus a punishing practice
Using words that resonate with us
Taking the struggle out of our practice
Realizing how and what we ARE actually disciplined toward so we can CHOOSE what we want to be disciplined toward
Approaching our discipline with playfulness
The discipline/devotion chart tool for...
2022-01-0432 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE4. My Inner Critic Has a Back Seat OnlyIn this episode, Chetna talks about:
Two indigenous women-lead organizations that offer important resources for native and non-native folks: Spirit of the Sun and All My Relations Podcast
What the inner critic is...
Five traits and tendencies of the inner critic: 1. black or white thinking 2. motivating but actually invalidating 3. highly triggered by uncertainty 4. internalizing of oppressive value systems around us 5. hyper-protective based on the past
Ways in which we respond automatically to the inner critic: fight, flight, freeze and appease
The bold and uncertain nature of creative practice being a triggering space for the inner critic
Two conscious...
2021-12-0839 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE3. Intuition is an Embodied CollaborationIn this episode, we ponder on:
The inspiration of Diwali and the new moon
What intuition is from cognition and indigenous perspectives
Knowing through “implicit knowledge”, “energetic sensitivity” and “nonlocal intuition” according to the HeartMath Institute
Interconnection with nature as a way to tap into intuitive wisdom
Mel Vargas sharing her ancestral dream and lifestyle rooted in intuition
How intuition is an embodied experience
Zamo Mji sharing her story of listening to the intuition of her body
The significance of heart wisdom and intuition
Systemic and personal barriers to intuition
Intuition manifesting in the creative process
Gigi Mascarenas sharing her...
2021-11-0442 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE2. Self-Compassion Fosters CreationIn this episode, we get into:
Supporting initiatives like the Sogorea Te' Land Trust to return indigenous land to indigenous people
The relationship between self-compassion practices and creativity according to Chetna's experience
The pillars of mindful self-compassion according to Kristin Neff and Chris Germer (mindfulness, self-kindness and common humanity)
Mindfulness in creative practice with our critical inner voices, the systemic and colonial influences on our relationship to creativity, and the ways in which creativity exists all around us
Self-kindness and how it can show up in creative practice
Austin's perspective on the power of supportive community and space-making
Our comm...
2021-10-0629 minCreation for Liberation PodcastE1. Creative Expression Soothes the DepressionIn this very first episode of the Creation for Liberation podcast (!), we get into:
The divinely-timed inception of the podcast
Reaching out for community support as a source of inspiration
Depression as it relates to swimming in the insane soup of oppressive social systems / separation as a cause for depression
Seasons of depression in Chetna’s life when creativity played an important role in connection and meaning-making
Eutimia’s wisdom on the causes of depression within colonization and according to indigenous and Chinese medicine
Grief and loss associated with Chetna’s immigration
Creativity defined as the flow of life force en...
2021-09-2226 minCreation for Liberation PodcastIntroducing the Creation for Liberation podcast!We’re so excited to launch this project! Our first episode comes out with the autumn equinox on September 22nd 🌑
Stay tuned in the meantime on: mosaiceyeunfolding.com/podcast
2021-09-0600 min
IndiaPodcasts: We Hear What You Want to SaySucheta Dalal | Financial Journalist & Author | On Media & Harshad Mehta Scam | On IndiaPodcastsOUT NOW | Mask Media | EPISODE 5 | Sucheta Dalal is a renowned business journalist , Managing Editor of money life & Author of 'The Scam : Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away'On the The Harshad Mehta Story,’ which was the biggest financial scam in 1992.She shares her views on Financial Journalism & Harshad mehta Story On IndiaPodcasts With Anku Goyal.Sucheta Dalal , was conferred Padma Shri for journalism in 2006, the Chameli Devi Award instituted by the Media Foundation, and Femina’s Woman of Substance Award for her zealous work in journalism and all that she has achieved in the field.She...
2021-01-0725 min
IndiaPodcasts: We Hear What You Want to SayHansal Mehta Talks About The Harshad Mehta Scam 1992 & Chalaang | On IndiaPodcasts | With Anku GoyalOUT NOW: Hansal Mehta, nationally acclaimed Director, National awardee who wears many success feathers on his hat with recent record making series of Harshad Mehta Scam 1992 & his recent release Chalaang . He shares his experience, vision in making of his movies and his creative instincts only IndiaPodcasts with Anku Goyal Show Edit by Ashish TripathiMotion Graphics Karan KapurGraphics Chetna Chauhan Distribution Anurag TripathiHe made some remarkable movies like Shahid Citylights Aligarh & Omertà, that depict social and political realities in deeply polarized and troubled times & received National Award for his F...
2020-12-1018 min
Black Girl In Om#62 Creativity as a Spiritual Practice with Chetna MehtaIn this episode, Black Girl in Om Founder Lauren Ash explores the belief of creativity as a spiritual practice with mystic and mixed media artist, Chetna Mehta, creator of @mosaiceye. Through the lens of wisdom she has gained from lived experience and studying psychology, Chetna explains how practicing self-compassion can not only expand our capacity to connect with others, but also opens the floodgates of our divine creativity. Chetna encourages us to connect to and lean on our spiritual support system as a way to cultivate a deeper relationship with ourselves and subsequently the world around us. She offers...
2020-12-0151 min
I'm Awake! Now What?Chetna Mehta - Mixed media artist discusses the convergence of spirituality and creativity Ep. 119This week I sit down with mixed-media artist, wellness consultant and creator of MosaicEye Chetna Mehta. She shares a significant experience that changed the direction of her professional and personal life. She discusses the similarities between spirituality and creativity, noting the first being--getting out of ones own way. She shares the intention of her artwork is to normalize vulnerability and create resonance in the eye of the observer. To find out more about Chetna, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @mosaiceye and subscribe to her Moon Times Digest here. Podcast Sponsor: Saged i...
2020-11-2942 min
SEASON 3 - REWIRE LIFE IN 1 1/2 MINUTES WITH HIRA MEHTASEASON 2 - EPISODE 7 - ALL ABOUT PLAYBACK THEATRE - CHETNA MEHROTRA, FOUNDER OF RANGBHUMI – A HAPPY PLAYGROUNDALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEATRE WITH CHETNA MEHROTRA, FOUNDER OF RANGBHUMI – A HAPPY PLAYGROUND, DRAMA BASED LEARNING FACILITATOR, THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED FACILITATOR, PLAYBACK THEATRE ARTIST, WARDROBE & ETIQUETTE CONSULTANT.
2020-10-2637 min