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Devsig PodcastIndia's Got LatentIndia's Got Latent was an Indian Hindi-language talent show hosted on YouTube by Samay Raina, which provided a platform for contestants to showcase their talents. The show was inspired by Kill Tony and the international Got Talent franchise. It premiered on June 14, 2024, and was removed from YouTube on February 12, 2025, due to controversies.Format: The show followed a format similar to other shows in the Got Talent franchise and Kill Tony, where contestants performed in front of a panel of judges who evaluated their acts. A unique aspect of India's Got Latent was its contestant rating system...2025-02-1513 min
Devsig PodcastIndia's Got LatentIndia's Got Latent was an Indian Hindi-language talent show hosted on YouTube by Samay Raina, which provided a platform for contestants to showcase their talents. The show was inspired by Kill Tony and the international Got Talent franchise. It premiered on June 14, 2024, and was removed from YouTube on February 12, 2025, due to controversies.Format: The show followed a format similar to other shows in the Got Talent franchise and Kill Tony, where contestants performed in front of a panel of judges who evaluated their acts. A unique aspect of India's Got Latent was its contestant rating system. Contestants rated themselves before...2025-02-1513 min
Everything Belongs with Madison MorriganSensual Sovereignty & Creating Conditions for Full Self Expression with Sonali DeepikaI’m Dr. Sonali Deepika, a lifelong learner who’s lived across the globe. After practicing psychiatry for many years, I decided to pursue my passion for holistic healing. My work delves into the root-cause of discomfort, disharmony and dis-ease. I found the greatest journey to be that of truly coming home to the subtle sensations of my body. It is there where I have become aware of the conditioning affecting me as a Woman or Color and Culture. My heart-centered calling is to guide others on this transformative path – to connect to the sacred ground within and around them w...2024-08-121h 21
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Noticing Whiteness in our Bodies: A Journey to Awareness with Tony ChaviraTony Chavira is dedicated to fostering profound transformation and healing within communities. As a relational therapist, sociologist, somatic abolitionist, and committed brother, Tony's work centers on radical healing and the power of connection. He emphasizes the importance of safety and connection through actively loving and nurturing grounded relationships. Tony's mission is to dismantle the limitations that restrict love in our communities, encouraging a collective journey towards deeper, more authentic connections.
Tony's work highlights the transformative potential of relational healing. By embracing safety and connection, he invites us to join in breaking the barriers that hinder our ability to love one...2024-06-141h 19
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Shedding Boxes & Cultivating Deep Time: A Conversation with Karine BellKarine Bell, MSc, SEP, is the founder and co-dreamer for the Rooted Global Village. She's a bi-cultural Black woman, a speaker, somatics educator, practitioner, somatic abolitionist, and scholar-activist in training focused on deepening an understanding of the impacts of trauma and oppression on our lives, and liberatory and decolonial frameworks and traditional/indigenous approaches to trauma healing and community building.
Karine's emphasis on living authentically from the heart, embracing curiosity, wonder, and research, reflects a holistic and grounded approach to her work. Her love and dedication to her children further fuel her commitment to making a difference both personally and...2024-05-1753 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦From Duality to Deep Well: Somatic Abolitionism in Action with Saumya Kaup DavisSaumya founded The I AM Project in 1998, driven by a passion to nurture children's self-awareness through somatic exploration and playful contemplation. Transitioning from a career in architecture and urban policy in 2003, she redirected her focus towards a path aligned with her deeper calling. As a Licensed Mental Health Therapist and seasoned meditation/yoga teacher, Saumya specializes in addressing inter-generational and racialized trauma, drawing upon her extensive knowledge of Hindu/Buddhist principles.
With a lifelong dedication to mindfulness practices, Saumya integrates embodiment techniques to facilitate healing and self-exploration. Her mission is to cultivate inclusive and healing communal spaces where individuals feel...2024-04-1252 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Heart's Awakening: Reclaiming Ourselves Through Somatic Abolitionism with Aneissa Rosas-SanchezAneissa (she/her/ella) is a Xicana/Mexican American therapist, mother, wife, and relative to many loved ones. Her *known* people come from the colonized states of Sonora and Zacatecas, Mexico, the modern day Southwest, and Yaqui Nation (Yoeme) descendants. She centers social justice and the decolonization of psychotherapy in her work and strongly believes in mutual aid and self-and-communal care as a means of healing and liberation for all.
Aneissa brings over 20 years of post-graduate clinical experience, specializing in racial trauma. She underwent training with Resmaa Menakem as a Somatic Abolitionist Therapist in 2021 & 2022, fostering an abolitionism community for antiracist...2024-03-2247 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Surrendering to Possibility: A Conversation with Erin Trent-JohnsonErin Trent Johnson is a conscious Black mama, trauma-informed and embodied freedom coach, writer, speaker, facilitator, and explorer who helps Black women and non-binary folx remember their inherent worth and wisdom and their ecosystems spread generational health. Erin curates sacred care spaces that inspire healing, sharing, transformation, and Black joy.
Erin is the Founder and Co-Creator of BlackMamaBody, a social wellness technology company committed to building ecosystems of generational health. Erin's values, skills, and pleasure meet at the intersection of expressive art, spirit, and earth-honoring, body-based healing traditions. Ask Erin about Black women's fugitive wellness and viral imagination!
In this...2024-03-1030 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Tempering the Vessel: Finding Purpose and Reclaiming DignityGeordee Mae Corpuz (she/her/hers) is a Bay Area-based coach, organizer, and facilitator. With a deep understanding of systemic oppression and intergenerational trauma, Geordee recognizes how society invisibilizes different aspects of individuals, causing pain and fragmentation. Through coaching, she helps clients cultivate self-awareness and self-love to integrate all parts of themselves into their lives. With a decade of grassroots organizing experience, Geordee is dedicated to supporting leaders fighting for liberation in Black and Brown working-class communities. She serves as the Program Director at the Center for Empowered Politics and is the Board Chair for Filipino Advocates for Justice. In...2024-03-0154 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Embracing Change: Breaking Boxes, Aging, Identity Shifts, and GenerativityKim Fowler, a Black woman residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Elder in the Somatic Abolitionism community, brings a rich tapestry of experience to her roles as a coach, writer, singer, and nature lover. Growing up in Chicago, she witnessed firsthand the dynamics of racial segregation before settling in a city marked by a history of Native land appropriation and racial disparities.
Through her work and advocacy, Kim confronts internalized oppression and advocates for a deeper understanding of racial dynamics, urging both white and Black individuals to dismantle ingrained supremacist ideologies. Her recently recognized memoir, "All Will Be...2024-02-1650 min
Come Back to Care[BONUS] Why I Love Working with Parents & Young ChildrenIn this episode, you’ll hear about how I started social justice organizing back in 2007, how I’ve learned to love and trust myself in the world that simply hates that I exist and look fabulous, and what made me fall in love with serving young children, parents, and families aka you.** This episode is originally published as an interview from the Burn the Box with Dr. Sonali Deepika Podcast.*** I’m still on a season break and returning for Season 5 in March 2024. Thank you so much.---------------------------Get full show notes a...2024-02-1338 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Breaking Boxes, Building Bridges: Somatic Abolitionism & Healing with Mariya Javed-PayneOn this enlightening episode, we delve into the world of transformative therapy with Mariya Javed-Payne, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Certified Brainspotting Trainer, and Consultant.
In her clinical practice, Mariya specializes in somatic psychotherapy, brainspotting therapy, and psychedelic assisted therapy. As the owner of Awaken Consulting Services and co-owner of the Institute for Integrative Therapies, Mariya is at the forefront of integrating innovative therapeutic approaches to foster healing.
Currently, Mariya is gearing up for an upcoming ancestral healing workshop and exploring the realm of ketamine assisted psychotherapy with groups, particularly focusing on racial trauma—a...2024-02-0335 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦"I Am Not Your Guru" - A Conversation of Racial Reckoning with Resmaa MenakemIt is a true pleasure to share this episode with a beloved teacher on this path. Embodied provocateur, multiple-levels thinker, and structural paradigm- shifter Resmaa Menakem (MSW, LICSW, SEP), is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As the originator and leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied antiracist practice for living and culture building, Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute, and is an educator and coach. Working at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing...2023-12-2138 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Liberating Voices: Evvie Ormon on Cult-Survivorship, Healing, and Embracing LiberationIn this episode, our guest is Evvie Ormon, a dedicated advocate for the well-being of gender-expansive, neuro-magical, Black, Asian, and Bodies of Culture. Evvie shares their commitment to dismantling coercive control, supporting trailblazers who leave coercive groups, and navigating challenges in a coercive society. With expertise in UX Design, virtual facilitation, herbal medicine, and cultural healing, Evvie discusses creative practices and emphasizes the importance of community support.
Explore the intersectionality of coercive control, personal growth, and liberation from authoritarian paradigms. Evvie's experiences in project management, somatics, astrology, and trauma healing provide valuable insights. Learn about Evvie's mission...2023-12-2156 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Breaking Chains: Nat's Inspiring Journey from Decolonized Therapy to Parenting LiberationIn this episode, we welcome Nat Vikitsreth, a passionate dot connector and advocate for social justice in parenting. As the founder of Come Back to Care, Nat guides parents on a transformative journey from autopilot to decolonized, embodied, and intergenerational parenting.
Join us as Nat shares her insights on healing, emphasizing the vital role of addressing inner child and internalized oppression wounds within a supportive community. Dive into Nat's vision of a world where parents, having reconciled with their past, authentically engage in parenting and community organizing. Nat's academic achievements include a graduate degree from the Erikson Institute’s Social Wo...2023-12-0835 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Embodied Liberation: Navigating Contractions and Expansions for a Pleasurable JourneyIn this episode, our guest is Oceana Sawyer, a grief and liberation explorer in the liminal spaces of life and death. She is currently working in the realms of embodied grieving, deep ecology and liberatory praxis. Trained as a facilitator, sensuality educator, and in integral counseling, rooted in earth-based spirituality and an intensive study in the expressive arts, she brings a compassionate presence to her work with groups. You can follow her on her website, Patreon, and now on Substack.
Her first book, Life, Death, Grief and the Possibility of Pleasure is available at Kizzy’s Books and More and Am...2023-11-2951 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Re-Grounding and Reclaiming: Unraveling the Impact of White Body SupremacyIn this first episode of "Burn The Box," host Dr. Sonali Deepika is joined by her dear friend, colleague and brother on this path, Tony Chavira. Sonali is a lifelong learner who's lived across the globe. After practicing psychiatry for many years, she decided to pursue her passion for holistic healing. Her work delves into the root-cause of discomfort, disharmony and dis-ease. She found the greatest journey to be that of truly coming home to the subtle sensations of her body. It is there where she has become aware of the conditioning affecting her as a Woman or Color and...2023-11-2242 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Bridging Freedom Movements: Evan's Journey to Healing and ActivismIn this episode, we dive into the inspiring journey of Evan Milligan, an Interstate 10 baby born in Houston, TX, and raised in Montgomery, AL. Evan’s life has been shaped by a deep commitment to healing and the pursuit of Black freedom. Raised by activist/artist parents and surrounded by empowering mentors, Evan’s path led him to a pivotal moment in historic voting rights litigation, culminating in the oral argument of Merrill v. Milligan (later Allen v. Milligan) at the US Supreme Court.
This last June, the Supreme Court published their ruling in favo...2023-11-0848 min
Burn the Box! 🔥📦Trailer EpisodeBurn the Box captures the sacred rebellion of the Global Majority as we embrace our collective power. Hosted by Dr. Sonali Deepika, this is an emergent space to bring awareness to the oppression that we are holding in our bodies and to reclaim our life force energy. This first season centers around a community of Somatic Abolitionists who have been in space together for over 2 years. Witness what emerges between Bodies of Culture who are committed to cultivating awareness of what they are holding in their bodies practice while prioritizing an embodied state of liberation.
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The Pleasurehood PodcastSensual Sovereignty and Pleasure, with Dr. Sonali DeepikaIn this episode I have a conversation with one of my favorite people, my dear friend, the sensual alchemist herself, Dr. Sonali Deepika!
Dr. Sonali Deepika is a holistic sensuality coach and integrative physician, passionate about guiding people to honor the sacred nature of their bodies and to connect to the deep wisdom which lies within. She spent nearly 20 years in Chicago studying and practicing conventional medicine, specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. Her path eventually led her to find her heart-centered calling to serve as a Sensual Alchemist to Women/Femmes of Culture, guiding them...2022-10-2458 min
Sublime Soul SurrenderWhole and CompleteCosmos, MD and Dr Sonali Deepika (both doctor and coaches) share their thoughts for the last of a three part mini-series to explore how medicine has shifted over the years. The care of the whole person has moved to care of parts which has become traumatic and incredibly difficult for people to navigate. Join them in a journey through their own experiences (can you find the excerpt that relates to Sliding Doors) and share the in thoughtful consideration of what Medicine always intended to be. Listen, rate, comment and subscribe to be a part of the...2022-01-3029 min
Sublime Soul SurrenderSexual LiberationCosmos, MD and Dr Sonali Deepika have an honest discussion about what it means to be people of color serving the world as coaches and doctors around the subject of sexual liberation. Why is this type of conversation important? What does it mean to be able to connect with your body and experience pleasure? What has stopped us from talking about it until now? How does culture play a role in stopping us from speaking up and how can we change it? Those are some of the questions we will explore in this segment of Sublime Soul Surrender! L...2022-01-2331 min