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Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun SermonsRestorative Practices for Conflict Transformation: What does Restorative Justice have to do with my life? - Rev. Jessica JamesRestorative Practices for Conflict Transformation: What does Restorative Justice have to do with my life?Susan Raffo says: “There is no essential ‘right way’ to do anything. There is only relationship, connection, being present with what is happening and then, even if that relationship is with disconnection, determining the next step.”Our relationships are complex and many are with disconnection. Conflict is everywhere. There are conflict zones, government shutdowns, political strife, family tension, work disputes, and traffic jams. How does your jaw feel after reading that sentence? Where are your shoulders? Conflict can feel stressful. How do w...
2025-11-1626 min
SIGNS of breanaLEARNING 2 LABOR LESSbreana talks labor, picking your battles, that's still too many battles --where do we labor consentually or without consent?how do we find balance in how we labor for a dollar, for our beloveds, for ourselves?what is the power of being inconvenienced for the humans we adore?//breana mentions the experimental project Relationships Evolving Possibilities out of the Twin Cities, Susan Raffo (author of Liberated to the Bone) and Buddhist minister/authorized Lama, Spiritual Abolitionist, and Southern Queen Lama Rod Owens.
2025-01-0912 min
The InterPlay PodcastAt the Intersection of Dance and Climate Justice with Sophie SpiralEco-dance practitioner Sophie Spiral joins host Tere Zorich to talk about embodying climate justice & their own spiraling path that led them to an eco-dance practice that centers decolonial action & building relationships with our plant allies. Sophie Spiral Schultze-Allen (they/she) is a dancer, dance researcher, InterPlay facilitator, and dance studies PhD candidate at the Free University Berlin. In these spaces, Sophie explores ways in which we can deepen our connection to Earth and build reciprocal, regenerative relationships. Sophie became a certified InterPlay leader in 2017 after completing the Arts & Social Change for Millennial Leaders training. ...
2024-06-131h 07
Basic FolkLeyla McCalla's Joyful Rebellion: Sun Without Heat and the Freedom of Play, ep. 259Singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla and her band (bassist Pete Olynciw, drummer Shawn Meyers and guitarist Nahum Zdybel) join us onboard the Cayamo cruise to go through their incredible, righteous and fun new record Sun Without Heat. It is a Leyla McCalla solo album but no solo artist is an island! Once we saw Leyla perform with her band, with whom she has collaborated for the past six years, we had to get the whole collaborative outfit in on the interview.The sounds on the album are inspired by Afrobeat, Haitian Music, folk music, indie music, Americana music, Brazilian...
2024-05-021h 21
Twin Cities Theater ChatS2E3 Mainstage: Passage at Pillsbury House + Theatre and Exposed Brick TheatreOn this episode, Jill Schafer of Cherry and Spoon and Carol Jackson and Julie Jackson of Minnesota Theater Love are joined by Suzy Messerole, the Co-Artistic Director of Exposed Brick Theatre and Signe V. Harriday, the Artistic Producing Director of Pillsbury House + Theatre. We had a great time chatting about Passage, an upcoming co-production between Exposed Brick Theatre and Pillsbury House + Theatre of which Suzy Messerole and Signe Harriday are co-directors. They talk about their respective theaters, the power in collaboration, why they're optimistic about...
2023-09-1937 min
We As NatureCultivating collective power through tending to individual healing with Susan RaffoBodyworker, cultural worker and author of “Liberated to the Bone”, Susan Raffo, shares her personal story of discovering the intrinsic connection between individual healing and our collective power to shape the systems we live in.In this episode, Susan highlights the impact of the histories held in our bodies, and with passionate and hopeful energy, offers the possibility of leaning into our aliveness as an act of social and ecological repair.In Susan’s We As Nature story, she shares:The impact of being raised in a political family and her childhood awaren...
2023-07-0334 min
Transforming TraumaCommunity Wellness and Collective Liberation with Susan RaffoSusan Raffo is a cranial therapist, esteemed writer, and cultural worker, sharing her heart's wisdom with the NARM community and the motivation behind her latest book, Liberated To The Bone. Susan's professional approach combines NARM's trauma-informed framework with the nuances of her ancestral lineage as both colonizer and the colonized. In her conversation with NARM Senior Trainer Brad Kammer, Susan explores the "intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations" and working towards the end of white supremacy and settler colonialism while preserving the memory of her grandfather's native line. About Susan R...
2023-06-281h 01
Listen To The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Spellbinding!Liberated to the Bone by Susan RaffoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/32672to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Liberated to the Bone
Series: Emergent Strategy, Book 7
Author: Susan Raffo
Narrator: Kitty Sipple
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 04-19-23
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 6 ratings
Genres: LGBTQ+ Studies
Publisher's Summary:
The newest title in the Emergent Strategy Series, Liberated to the Bone, addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations which are shaped by violence. Bodyworker and cultural worker Susan Raffo addresses intergenerational trauma, social justice, organizing, and how all of these things are relevant to our bodies. The book...
2023-04-198h 58
The Numinous PodcastTNP168 Somatics for White-Bodied Folks Recovering Ancestral Wisdom with Marika HeinrichsMarika Heinrichs is the granddaughter of German Mennonite, British, and Irish settlers to the part of Turtle Island colonially known as Canada. She is a queer, femme, somatics practitioner and facilitator whose work focuses on the recovery of ancestral wisdom through body-based ways of knowing, and challenging the appropriation and erasure of Indigenous knowledge in the field of somatics. Marika resides on Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe territory (a.k.a. Guelph, Ontario).
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Susan Raffo's Piece on the origins of craniosacral therapy
Susan Raffo's piece on acknowledging the lineages of healing p...
2022-06-211h 03
Long Body PrayersBeing in the Awkward, Longing for the Slowness, Conversation with Susan RaffoWhen I invited Susan to be a guest on this newly sprouting podcast. I said the subject of the episode would be about "Choice," exploring layers around "sovereignty, ability to modulate connection, discernment, just right amount, literacy around tracking the felt sense, dissociation especially from low body, impact and relationship betrayal, consent." I think that many of the themes from this original intention did find their way into this podcast, but sideways, implicitly in the relational space between us. So much of this conversation was about us trying to find the rhythm, to navigate the messy awkward terrain of...
2021-10-021h 24
Our Dirty LaundryThe Haters: Eugenics Conversation with Cara Page and Susan RaffoSend us a textWe are joined by Cara Page and Susan Raffo for a conversation about eugenics: where we fit into the deeply embedded and continuing history of eugenics in politics, reproductive rights, legal systems, education, settlement, climate change...truly, truly everything around us is so intricately connected with the ideas we've been discussing in this series. We are grateful to Cara and Susan for helping us process this and encourage you to look more into their work. Register for the Dismantling Eugenics Convening and head to the Healing Histories Project to dive deeper and do...
2021-09-171h 23
The Word Is ResistanceTWIR 7.25.21 God of the LeftoversRev. Margaret Ernst looks at Jesus’ feeding of the 5000 through the lens of mutual aid, and in a cautionary tale about supremacy in the guise of hospitality, unpacks Susan Raffo’s essay about how white, Christian women from the North moved on from abolition work to become staffers of Indian boarding schools - becoming arbiters of cultural genocide.
For Susan’s essay, “the lineages healers have to contend with.... working with ancestors of purpose” see: https://www.susanraffo.com/blog/the-lineages-healers-have-to-contend-with-working-with-ancestors-of-purpose
To take action, see resources for churches from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/healing/fo...
2021-07-2932 min
Long Body PrayersLong Body Prayers: ContactYou can learn more about this podcast and my practice at my website: www.earthpoetedgeweaver.com
This podcast is also available in video format on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFrG5_SwNokyJAN7zBZkXMg
Gratitude for listening and blessings to you and all the beings you are in relationship with.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I want to name that I am speaking from an entangled root system of animist somatics that will have aspects of my teachers and collaborators voices in my own words. What I speak is a transmutation...
2021-06-2529 min
conscient podcaste38 zenith – art as medicine to metabolize chargeArt is the medicine that actually allows us to metabolize charge. It allows us to metabolize trauma. It takes the intensity that's left in the system, and this goes all the way back to ritual. Art, for me, is a sort of a tributary coming off from ritual that is still sort of consensually allowed in this reality when the direct communication with nature through ritual was silenced.shante sojourn zenith, conscient podcast, May 4, 2021, MinnesotaShante’ Sojourn Zenith is an animist somatic practitioner creating Edge Rituals to tend the wounds of her kin’s unmetabolized ancestral trauma and de...
2021-06-1140 minLong Body PrayersLong Body Prayers: RuptureIn this episode, I channel the spirit of Rupture, a root spirit from which stems colonization and whiteness. I begin to play with relating to that energy within my own body and I talk about the way that energy of rupture is a part of the dynamic unfolding of life that became stuck as a pattern of relating within the lineages of my European kin. I explore the relationship between rupture and developmental trauma, and the longing of an individual part of a system to know itself in relationship to the wider system it is embedded in.
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2021-05-2024 minLong Body PrayersLong Body Prayers: LongingIn this podcast I explore longing, in its various permutations as relationship to body and land, a dance of aliveness and harmonics, and play with energies bigger than myself. I speak about the ways that my european lineage kin have become immersed in a perception of self that is cut off from the wider ecosystem of entangled relationship. And I explore the necessity of contact and support with wider bodies to begin the process of coming back from dissociation to risking a sensate relationship with body and earth.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I want to name that I am speaking...
2021-05-1510 min
Long Body PrayersLong Body Prayers: InvocationThe introductory episode for Long Body Prayers, a podcast exploring animist ritual and embodiment practice. Long Body Prayers is a flexible jam space to play with the themes I’m exploring in my practice of animist somatics and also a container within which I can invite conversation with other practitioners doing resonant work.
TRANSCRIPT FOR "INVOCATION":
So just take a minute to feel where you are—if you know the place name of where you are—just to greet the land, and to greet your body here. And this is a really tangible way to just i...
2021-05-1503 min
From What If to What Next20 - What if we Addressed the Trauma that Lies Beneath the World's Problems?Today we are exploring the question of trauma, and I must confess that recording this conversation rather blew my mind, as it will no doubt blow yours. I had to lie down afterward and digest it for a while. I am joined by two amazing thinkers for this conversation. I hope you love it. Susan Raffo is a bodyworker, cultural worker and writer. For the last 15 years she has focused her work through the lens of healing justice with a particular interest in supporting individual and collective practices of safety and wellness. This also means attending...
2021-05-051h 04
conscient podcaste38 zenith – art as medicine to metabolize chargeArt is the medicine that actually allows us to metabolize charge. It allows us to metabolize trauma. It takes the intensity that's left in the system, and this goes all the way back to ritual. Art, for me, is a sort of a tributary coming off from ritual that is still sort of consensually allowed in this reality when the direct communication with nature through ritual was silenced.
shante sojourn zenith, conscient podcast, May 4, 2021, Minnesota
Shante’ Sojourn Zenith is an animist somatic practitioner creating Edge Rituals to tend the wounds of her kin’s unmetabolized ancestral trauma and de...
2021-05-0440 minconscient podcaste38 zenith – art as medicine to metabolize chargeArt is the medicine that actually allows us to metabolize charge. It allows us to metabolize trauma. It takes the intensity that's left in the system, and this goes all the way back to ritual. Art, for me, is a sort of a tributary coming off from ritual that is still sort of consensually allowed in this reality when the direct communication with nature through ritual was silenced.
shante sojourn zenith, conscient podcast, May 4, 2021, Minnesota
Shante’ Sojourn Zenith is an animist somatic practitioner creating Edge Rituals to tend the wounds of her kin’s unmetabolized ancestral trauma and de...
2021-05-0440 min
The PsychedologistHealing Justice with Dr. Diana QuinnDr. Diana Quinn, naturopathic physician, ceremonialist, and end of life doula comes on the show to talk about healing justice, nature, connection, language, and finding the way forward.
Diana Quinn ND (she/her) is a licensed naturopathic doctor and healing justice practitioner specializing in integrative mental health, grief and end of life care, and decolonized healing modalities. A queer mestiza Xicana, her work centers Black, Indigenous, and people of color, and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. She offers monthly psychedelic integration circles for BIPOC and queer folks, entheogenic support for individuals and groups, and psychedelic education for healthcare professionals. Sh...
2021-03-3054 min
Rob HopkinsEpisode Twenty: What if we addressed the trauma that lies beneath the world's problems?Welcome to Episode 20 of From What If to What Next. This feels like a bit of a landmark for us, our twentieth episode! Thank you for joining me on this journey. Do tell your friends to come join us... Any reflections on how you're finding the journey so far are most welcome. Seems like a good moment for that.
The good news is that we have saved one of the very finest episodes to mark this moment. Today we are exploring the question of trauma, and I must confess that recording this conversation rather blew my mind, as it will...
2021-03-091h 04Rob HopkinsEpisode Twenty: What if we addressed the trauma that lies beneath the world's problems?Welcome to Episode 20 of From What If to What Next. This feels like a bit of a landmark for us, our twentieth episode! Thank you for joining me on this journey. Do tell your friends to come join us... Any reflections on how you're finding the journey so far are most welcome. Seems like a good moment for that.
The good news is that we have saved one of the very finest episodes to mark this moment. Today we are exploring the question of trauma, and I must confess that recording this conversation rather blew my mind, as it will...
2021-03-091h 04
FortificationAbolition in Covid-Times: Weaving Strategies for Healing Justice & Transformative JusticeThis conversation features co-hosts Cara Page and Caitlin Breedlove in conversation with organizers Shira Hassan, Mia Mingus and Sonali Sadequee. The conversation came out of the urgency of Black Lives Matter uprisings in Minneapolis, and across the US, to respond to the police murder of George Floyd and this moment of movement building to interrupt white supremacy, policing & state violence, and anti-Blackness. Many of us had reached out to each other, reflecting on the questions; what can abolition, survival and transformation look like in these Covid-Times? This podcast episode is the result; a reflection on the intersection between healing...
2020-08-251h 24
La CuraFortifying in Covid TimesBeautiful conversation with, long time bodyworker, healing justice practitioner, activist Susan Raffo on collective care, tending to ourselves and meaning making in this global pandemic moment.
Based in Minnesota, Susan works towards ending the medical industrial complex and lifts up practices and traditions that have been co-opted or forced into disappearance. She is fiercely committed to the work of ending white supremacy systems, cultural and somatics change.
You can learn more about her work and read here powerful blogs at https://www.susanraffo.com/
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2020-08-1528 min
How to Survive the End of the WorldGuest Podcast: FortificationAs our summer break continues, we're so excited to feature an episode from our friends at the Fortification podcast.
Future: Spiritual and political mandates for our future
The conversation began with these questions: Where is this present moment taking us? What can we radically imagine for our future survival knowing what we know now? In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas become imaginable. What does or might the economy of healthcare, the collective practice of care, look like on the other side of this? What is your best and worst case scenario? What is the s...
2020-07-081h 12
The Craniosacral PodcastCST 143 - Susan Raffo - Healing Justice for Minneapolis and the Greater WorldSusan Raffo practices craniosacral therapy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has studied with Hugh Milne, The Upledger Institute, and Body Intelligence. While cranial work is her primary modality for individual healing work, she largely sees the world through the lens of social justice. Of special interest to her is the exploration of where systems of power and oppression are held in the tissues of the body. She also facilitates groups and organizations in matters of conflict support and cultural change, and is passionate about healing justice for all people of color. In this episode I ask Susan to share with...
2020-06-1000 min
FortificationPast: Rooting in Histories; We Have Been Here BeforeThe conversation began with these questions: How do historical harms and abuses of the state and the medical industrial complex elevate the ways in which communities are criminalized? What are the historical roots and wounds of disease-based capitalism in the U.S.? What has community dreamed and manifest based on these pasts? What do we need to know or pay attention to as this disease- and disaster-based economy uses this pandemic to fuel policing, surveillance, and eugenic ideas? To what end will COVID19 be used by the state against marginalized communities? Learn more about the guests. Find a...
2020-05-011h 12
FortificationPresent: What is emerging in COVID times?The conversation began with these questions: What is the present economy of care and the economy of healthcare and what is being disrupted in this economy? Where are the fractures? Where are there new connections among different healthcare and healing systems and practices? What are you seeing that’s generative and transformative in the present moment? What was already there on the ground that is deepening? What are you seeing that’s transformative along and between borders? Learn more about the guests. Find a transcript of the conversation. This episode is part of a series in co...
2020-05-011h 12
FortificationFuture: Spiritual and political mandates for our futureThe conversation began with these questions: Where is this present moment taking us? What can we radically imagine for our future survival knowing what we know now? In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas become imaginable. What does or might the economy of healthcare, the collective practice of care, look like on the other side of this? What is your best and worst case scenario? What is the spiritual mandate of this new time? What is our charge moving forward? Learn more about the guests. Find a transcript of the conversation. This episode is part o...
2020-05-011h 12
Living in this Queer BodyTo be in the middle of what is here: Susan RaffoIn this episode, recorded in the midst of a global pandemic, we explore, with such tenderness and fierceness, what it means to be in the middle of what is here. Susan talks about mutual aid initiatives as "collective nervous systems" and emphasizes the importance of acknowledging what is unfinished in us (intergenerational trauma or other complex traumas that many of us hold in our bodies) while we work towards shared liberation. Susan and I talk about how death rests right alongside our embodied aliveness and much more.
Susan Raffo is a queer bodyworker with ancestr...
2020-04-0658 min
FortificationSusan Raffo - Part twoWe're back and we are so excited to be bringing you part two of this juicy conversation to launch our third season between Caitlin Breedlove and Susan Raffo. See our first part of the conversation in the May 1 episode. More about Susan: I am a queer woman on the other side of menopause who was raised white and uses she/her pronouns. My ancestral lineages represent the colonizer and the colonized. I am descended from southern and western european people and from people native to this land. I have experienced early and deep grief and loss and I...
2019-05-0844 min
FortificationSusan Raffo - Part oneWe're back and we are so excited to be bringing you this juicy conversation to launch our third season between Caitlin Breedlove and Susan Raffo. More about Susan: I am a queer woman on the other side of menopause who was raised white and uses she/her pronouns. My ancestral lineages represent the colonizer and the colonized. I am descended from southern and western european people and from people native to this land. I have experienced early and deep grief and loss and I have experienced different kinds of violence directed towards my body as well as...
2019-05-0156 min
????Season 1 Reflection, pt 3: Visioning the Future (Marcia Lee, Zach Meyer & Kate Werning)Welcome to part 3 of our 3-part Season One reflection series. You're joining host Kate Werning, practitioner Marcia Lee of Healing by Choice (episode 18), and our sound designer Zach Meyer. We reflect on this year, explore accountability and hope, and ask big questions followed by quizzical "duck face" (you'll have to listen to Marcia explain what that is herself!).
You also will hear us invite you into a meaningful opportunity to share your voice and help us shape the future. You can do that here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpsurvey
Tune in to parts 1 & 2 of our reflection series to explore vulnerability and voi...
2018-08-2152 min????08 Practice: Build a Grounding Altar or Sacred Space with Cara PageJoin us for a practice to build an altar or sacred space to ground you with Cara Page. You’ll need 10-15 minutes in a space where you’d like to build it: your home, your workplace, the place you’re staying right now. This can be done individually for you or collectively as a group.
For your reference as you go collecting your objects as you listen along… Cara asks:
Who or what do you honor that keeps you connected to ancestors? Do you have any objects or pictures that you can gather to create a space that helps you to h...
2017-12-2110 min????08 We Moved Like We Needed Each Other: A Lineage Of Healing Justice — Cara Page & Susan RaffoIn this episode, healing justice leaders Cara Page and Susan Raffo join host Kate Werning for a conversation about the origins of the contemporary framework of healing justice, stories and learnings from early collaborations in the South and at the Atlanta and Detroit US Social Forums, how nothing is just an issue - everything we care about deeply ties to our embodiment, the importance of safety, and the fine lines between ownership, appropriation, co-optation, and trust.
PRACTICE: Download the next episode for instructions for a grounding practice of building an altar or sacred space, led by Cara Page. (We release...
2017-12-191h 13